Posted on 04/11/2008 11:40:34 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair
Looks like it was just a barrel roll behind the formation, not much to get excited about.
Just bled energy in a High angle of attack maneuver. They do it all the time
Being someone trained in the field of aviation, I must bring up - as I usually do when I see a news report concerning aviation - that these newsies don’t know Jack Squat about aviation. The more I read the news, the more I think the same about every other subject concerning the news media.
My favorite part of the story is when they grabbed the experienced fighter pilot out of the Fenway crowd and asked for her expert opinion on the maneuver.
Did the pilot act inappropriately in executing that maneuver below 5000 ft? According to his commanding officer, he did. That’s the only opinion that matters in his case.
Nice move! Now he’s got to go to a military version of defensive driving school.
Not in front of a crowd, apparently.
“So I went ‘Whoaaaaa’ and we both went ‘Whoaaaa’.”
Whoaaaaaaaaa - DUDE! Where’s my car??? So dude, you went whoaaaaaa, the other guy went whoaaaaaa and now I’m going like whoooaaaaaaaaaa man, whoaaaaaaaaaa!
This phrase was uttered by me after my car had been towed by Fry’s Towing of Boston. My friend said, “Park here, they can’t tow an ENTIRE lot of cars.”
Well, Fry’s towing towed an entire lot of cars!
That was the most expensive night out I had had EVER!
Any other Boston people been towed by these friendly guys?
On March 10, 1994, Holland commanded a single-aircraft training mission to the Yakima Bombing Range to provide an authorized photographer an opportunity to document the aircraft as it dropped training munitions. The minimum aircraft altitude permitted for that area was 500 feet (150 m) AGL. During the mission, Holland's aircraft was filmed crossing one ridgeline about 30 feet (10 m) above the ground. Fearing for their safety, the photography crew ceased filming and took cover as Holland's aircraft again passed low over the ground, this time estimated as clearing the ridgeline by only three feet (1 m). The co-pilot on Holland's aircraft testified that he was forced to grab the controls to prevent Holland from flying the aircraft into the ridge while the aircraft's other two aircrew members repeatedly screamed at Holland, "Climb! Climb!." Holland responded by laughing and calling one of the crew members "a pussy".
Yeah all we get is level flight and a 3g turn. I like to see yankin’ and bankin’ while lighting the fires...
Another way of saying he got his peepee whacked. Not a dangerous or unusual manuever for fighters but should not be done that low over an urban area.
As Bobby Knight said, most of us learn to read and write in elementary school and move on. Journalists, apparently not.
And drunk before the National Anthem was even over. Impressive.
Fenway Park full of drunks? Im shocked......not
Drunk by 1:00PM, just another opening day at Fenway.
Nothing to it. If speed brakes won’t slow you down enough to join the formation, a barrel roll over the top will. I think the pilot deserves kudos.
Which highlights a particular peeve of mine.
When did the various conjugations of the verb 'to go' suplant the words 'said', 'say', and 'says'?
Listen for it and it will drive you mad. You'll even hear it from supposedly educated people;
So, he goes, "My father said..."
Then I went, "I don't care..."
As nails on a chalkboard to me.
Awesome. He did a classic “barrel roll’ maneuver”. Boelke would be proud....
If that was a perfect V, someone needs to improve their penmanship.
Yep,we all learn that slogan as we learn to fly for sure..
but what about Chuck Yeager and lots of others that disprove that??/ Congrats to them!!!
As a flight surgeon in the AF, I rode in the back of an F4E for my flight time. The pilots used to gauge how good a job they were doing in getting our attention by looking in the rear view mirrors at the top of the cockpit and seeing how dilated our pupils were.....
No comparison.
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