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Posted on 07/28/2025 9:04:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
Pro tip: Planes can't fly in water.
Hoy en el Festival Internacional AĂ©reo de GijĂłn podĂa haber ocurrido una desgracia, si no es por la pericia del CapitĂĄn Botana a los mandos del F18 Superhornet. đđ»
Se comentaba que algĂșn pĂĄjaro pudo haber tenido la culpa. ÂżQuĂ© opinĂĄis?@GijonAirshow @A3Noticias @lanuevaespana pic.twitter.com/PkzU07kxU3â VISUAIR (@Visuair) July 27, 2025
I'm glad Captain Botana was able to recover that spin at the Gijon Sir Show on Sunday, but holy moly that was close.
Another angle:
Gijon Airshow, Spain F-18 low pass yesterday.
Anyone want to share what they believe happened here?
đč: u/FirebirdWS6dude pic.twitter.com/4mE6mMYG39â Turbine Traveller (@Turbinetraveler) July 28, 2025
It's one thing if the Blue Angels do it:
Check out the photographer who had the coolest Blue Angels shot of all time
I once had a Blue Angel pilot give me a salute from his F-18 while I was providing security as a Civil Air Patrol cadet at a local air show. NOTTHEBEE.COM
https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-the-photographer-who-had-the-coolest-blue-angel-experience-of-all-time But I'm not so sure about the Spanish Blue Angels...
(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...
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As a pilot I think he might have hit some wake turbulence which continued his roll and went with it all the way around. Happened to the In and Out CEO’s plane on final into John Wayne Airport except they nose dived into the ground. Wake turbulence is a nasty thing for pilots at times.
He spotted ‘chicks’...................
At least the F18 pilot kept his head and knew how to fly inverted.
Agreed. Some rather unorthodox positioning...
âPULL UP. PULL UP. PULL UP.â
Not if you’re upside down!..............
I think he was going to do a low altitude barrel roll, and as he did it, realized he wasn’t going to maintain the needed altitude and would have plowed in and...he bailed out of the maneuver.
As a pilot performs that maneuver at low altitude, unless it is flown correctly (and deliberate flight surface inputs from the pilot to prevent losing altitude are absolutely needed) the aircraft will lose altitude in in the middle of the maneuver and will hit the ground.
I don’t think it is more complicated than that.
At least he didn’t auger in.
ridiculous
sounds correct
except aileron roll not barrel roll
Not sure-if it were an aileron roll, it seemed kind of a sloppy one. And who wants to be that sloppy that close to the ground at that speed?
If I understand it, a barrel roll is a corkscrewing motion in the x-y-z plane, where an aileron roll appears to be strictly on one axis and the wings rotate around that single axis.
But I am not a pilot, so I admit I could be off-base on this.
“Teniente DomĂnguez, venga a los aposentos del CapitĂĄn!”
Yes, it’s door number two )
Anyway, glad he didn’t plow in. I’ll bet he wished he were wearing his brown pants, though!
Ok mr pilot
I saw a Canadian F-18 do a dirty barrel roll gear down flaps down, right after takeoff. Super slow full afterburner. Nearest thing I ever seen at an airshow. F-18s have some major power.
It has been a great design, especially the F-18 E/F. Excellent. A classic airframe.
Aviation enthusiasts have a saying: “If it looks good, it will fly good.” I tend to agree with that, but it is also true that “fly by wire” and software can make up for a lot of that.
At least until you take bullet or shrapnel through a CPU!
I think not. I would have loved to hear the debriefing. I would suspect it went like this, "do not blow smoke up my ass captain, but it was a hell of a recovery."
âIâm not happy that our f-18 hornets will all too soon be in the hands of Muslims who will run Spain.â
Theyâll be scrap metal in less than a month.
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