Navy Blue Angels to highlight Selfridge Air Show

Macomb Daily ^ | 02/06/14 | Norb Franz

[RckyRaCoCo]

Selfridge used to put on a great show back in the 70's...especially with the Confederate Air Force.

...was there in ('77?) checking out one of their classics when some idiots threw red paint-filled balloons at the B-29(FiFi)to protest "the glorification of war"(or something).

[cyclotic]

Go the day before and watch practice at the Walmart parking lot. It’s awe inspiring. The noise inside the store is staggering.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Beautiful Aircraft. We had RF4’s stationed in Birmingahm with the Alabama Air National Guard from 1971 until after the first Gulf War. A few flew missions in the first Gulf War. They were like this one.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[Rodamala]

Love how the latest Android update turns F/A-18s into F-111s. Facepalm.

[central_va]

My primary instructor said he did it in an F-4 and the air speed indicator was moving clockwise, albeit very slowly in a vertical 90 deg angle climb with afterburners on. I don’t think it would be possible without after burners.

[central_va]

He said the ASI needle was moving very slowly, ok it was probably hardly moving at all. But he said it moved clockwise during the climb. I guess he was BS-ing me.

[central_va]

I’m not saying rocket acceleration in the vertical, I am just saying holding current airspeed with a slight increase in AS.

[equaviator]

“holding current airspeed with a slight increase in AS”

How much would a sustained straight-up climb depend on the altitude at which the AB’s are applied? I’m thinking it would indeed make a difference.

[Hot Tabasco]

I’m only about 7 miles west of Selfrige and while I’ve heard the jets in the show, I’ve never gone over to watch it.

[central_va]

Ok the truth, I have never come close to pulling a 90 degree climb. But what I think happens is this; what ever airspeed you enter into this steep climb is going to initially go down. Even on AB. At some point, if the the thrust ratio is high enough you will stop losing AS. If the aircraft has enough thrust the AS will actually start to increase again, not very rapidly but increase none the less.

I wish a pilot with high performance jet experience would let us know what really happens....

[equaviator]

Then you'd probably remember being aware of the F-16's of the 191st FG and the 127th TW between 1990 and 2009? I remember some of their drill weekends being almost like impromptu air shows. No barrel rolls or any of the more aerobatic maneuvers but plenty of high-speed passes, touch and go, 2 and 4-ships in the pattern over the lake, visiting F-15's and A-7's...Sometimes they'd be out there at night on a weekday doing full-afterburner take-offs and touch and go. Day or night, there were always people pulling their cars onto the shoulder of Rosso Hwy at the north end of the runway to see what was happening. While the drills and actual missions are "rain or shine" events at the base, the air shows are mostly weather-dependent. It was cool to see it with the naked eye knowing that it wasn't just a show and that we weren't seeing what used to be called "Weekend Warriors" in action.