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75-year-old pilot explains encounter with F-16s
AP ^ | Fri, Aug 5, 2011 | DON BABWIN

Posted on 08/07/2011 5:01:32 AM PDT by stevie_d_64

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To: stevie_d_64
Well now, Is the great Oh Bam A skeert of a little old lady in a 70 year old plane, or can he man up and call off the dogs?

Tune in next week...

21 posted on 08/07/2011 6:12:44 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: stevie_d_64

I want to be like this lady when I’m 75!


22 posted on 08/07/2011 6:54:12 AM PDT by Fire_on_High (Stupid should hurt.)
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To: stevie_d_64
"She is sooooooo screwed..."

Bump. To bad, I thinks she is pretty cool and still a babe at 75! Bet she was a 10 at 35.

23 posted on 08/07/2011 7:05:46 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: stevie_d_64

Patience is a virtue.


24 posted on 08/07/2011 7:27:20 AM PDT by dools0007world (uestion)
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To: stevie_d_64

“There’s really no excuse for not knowing”

Light Col. Mike Humphreys is an arrogant insufferable jerk who probably hopes his fascistic attitude will fast track him to full bull colonel before Obama is kicked out in 2012.

I flew through, not over, downtown Chicago once in a UH-1H. We checked NOTAMs and maintained radar contact (the only possible criticism of this pilot; radio and transponder are basic for flight safety) and there was no problem as we noodled past the Sears Tower with people waving down at us from the observation deck.

“$9,000.00 per flying hour”. That’s a BS charge; those hours are going to be flown anyway just doing training task iterations and the F-16s being diverted for a real interception is merely an added training benefit.

And I still don’t see where this flyboy gets to pass judgement on the actions of a private citizen.


25 posted on 08/07/2011 7:36:54 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport Muslims. Nuke Mecca. Death to Islam. Freedom for mankind.")
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To: toothfairy86
Remind me to go out and buy some more Rose brand Canadian bacon. It’s good stuff!

Rose is a fine company...during and after my years in the cold storage business, I got to know many of their people quite well........class act, and super baby backs too.

26 posted on 08/07/2011 7:39:21 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: stevie_d_64

Her plane’s name is “Winston”.

Hussein’s SS probably has standing orders against anything within 100 miles of him having anything to do with that name.


27 posted on 08/07/2011 7:39:57 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Tzfat

I feel exactly the same way you do.

The Imperial trappings of this POSOTUS piss me off more and more with each passing day.

Private flying is a rich person’s pastime, anyway. We need to tax it to death, bury it under regulation and otherwise try in every way to suffocate it or kill it. It is the only “fair” approach to such a thing.

(Do I need to add the /S there?)


28 posted on 08/07/2011 7:45:20 AM PDT by rlmorel ("When marching down the same road, one doesn't need 'marching orders' to reach the same destination")
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To: equaviator
Can an F-16 fly slow enough to keep up with a 1941 Piper Cub?

For a while by standing up at about a 45 degree angle and adding a LOT of power. It's a stunt that is displayed during most Thunderbird/Blue Angel air shows.

29 posted on 08/07/2011 7:53:46 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: stevie_d_64

“fighter jets” ? LOL. Is that different than a “fighter prop”. Wow.


30 posted on 08/07/2011 9:12:40 AM PDT by The Toad
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To: Haiku Guy

As stated earlier, an F-16’s stall (minimum) speed is above 90. Poor journalism. The fighters would have had to circle the plane.


31 posted on 08/07/2011 9:15:25 AM PDT by The Toad
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To: stevie_d_64
Ballad of Serenity

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me

Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me

There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me...

32 posted on 08/07/2011 9:20:38 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (New gets old. Steampunk is always cool)
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To: thesearethetimes...; Tijeras_Slim; FireTrack; Pukin Dog; citabria; B Knotts; kilowhskey; ...

AVIATION PING


33 posted on 08/07/2011 10:44:05 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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75-year-old Pilot Explains Encounter With F-16s

VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9DD70nb5FM


34 posted on 08/07/2011 12:06:32 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: The Toad

That makes more sense than anything else.


35 posted on 08/07/2011 1:28:20 PM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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