75-year-old pilot explains encounter with F-16s

AP ^ | Fri, Aug 5, 2011 | DON BABWIN

[Smokin' Joe]

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...

[Fire_on_High]

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

[jpsb]

"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.

[dools0007world]

Patience is a virtue.

[elcid1970]

“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.

[ErnBatavia]

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.

[treetopsandroofs]

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.

[rlmorel]

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?)

[trebb]

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.

[The Toad]

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

[The Toad]

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

[Oztrich Boy]

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...

[KeyLargo]

AVIATION PING

[KeyLargo]

75-year-old Pilot Explains Encounter With F-16s

VIDEO:

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

[equaviator]

That makes more sense than anything else.