s. Posted on 10/03/2021 6:25:41 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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The officer was using a handheld radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the town of Kingsville and was suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour and climbing.
The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and then… It suddenly went dead. Immediately a deafening roar over the Mesquite treetops on Hwy 77 revealed that the radar had in fact locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet which was engaged in a low-flying exercise near its Naval Air home base location in Kingsville.
Actual pictures of a F-16 caught by a Highway Patrolman
Back at the Texas Highway Patrol Headquarters in Corpus Christi, the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the US Naval Base Commander in Kingsville for shutting down his officer’s equipment.
The reply came back in true USMC style:
“Thank you for your letter…. You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down. Furthermore, an Air-to-Ground missile aboard the fully-armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipment’s location.
Fortunately, the Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defence system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position on the side of Hwy 77, south of Kingsville.
The pilot suggests your officer covers his mouth when cursing since the video systems on these jets are extremely high-tech.
Sergeant Johnson, the officer holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar. It appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster.”
LOL!
May not apply in military operating areas, but civilian aircraft have to slow down upon descent.
funny stuff...
Would be funny if it had an ounce of truth.
............been in that exact location at least a hundred times and can tell you that there is absolutely NOTHING but cattle, rattle snakes, mesquite and oil rigs under that airplane other than Highway 77 that splits it running north/south.
A few miles to the East of this location is the Gulf of Mexico.
Various versions have been making the rounds for 20 years. Even snopes got this one right - a phrase not often seen.
MOA’s are UnControlled Airspace, the FAA Has Authority or Control and there are No Limits operating in the MOA
Fake news, plus there are NO F/A-18’s based at NAS Kingsville.
Good fun buzzing speed traps.
How would Burford t justice have responded back to the usmc!!! 🤣
A speed trap!
“There are speed limits for aircraft. 250 knots below 10,000 feet.”
That’s barely over final approach speed for the T-38 that I used to ferry folks from Edwards to LAX. Even at that snail pace, approach control was constantly redirecting us around civilian traffic.
Vapor rings happen a little under Mach so no.
I was driving in an interstate near cherry point north Carolina when suddenly everyone’s (mine included) radar detector went off. Brake lights came on and everyone slowed down. Two f4 fighters were flying low level following the highway. Flew right over at a few hundred feet. That was before the days if Waze and Google maps.
I talked to a radar guru that worked for one of the local defense contractors many years ago when he was buying some plane parts.
The topic eventually landed on police radar. Apparently in the old days anyway, the PD radar units regularly got smoked by aircraft radar because the aircraft was so much more powerful than the PD and there was no filter to keep it from being overfed.
That got him to thinking that “if I was to build a transponder and put it in my car...”
He said it was amusing blowing by PD as the officer banged on his radar gun with his hand wondering why it just died.
I asked the boss and he confirmed the story.
Nice nose-down attitude at 100 feet off the deck!
Quick & painless sterilization thrown in for no charge.
The cloud in this photo is a Prandtl–Glauert singularity, which only can occur if the aircraft is at very nearly the speed of sound, which is about 760 mph. So either that cop's radar gun is WAY out of calibration, or this photo is a fake.
Used to drive the UFO highway (Rachel NV)
Got ‘boomed’ all the time by the hotshots blowing down the road heading to the EW range at Cedar Pass — at the speed of heat.
Didn’t always end well for them
https://www.dreamlandresort.com/info/crash_sites.html
cleaned up a few myself while an active zoomie...
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