fly 45deg up their fairly blind azz and then hit them with a full power RADAR shot from as close as you think you can get... 8^)
Posted on 08/09/2007 1:45:57 PM PDT by blam
Geeeeee thanks, I'm flying to Taiwan end of the month...
Thanks. You beat me to it. It’s an impressive airplane. Not as technologically impressive as a B-2 nor as pretty as a B-1B, but not bad. And, just like the B-52, it is still doing what it was intended to do and more.
I had a friend that was an F-4 pilot in the mid 70's who had been stationed in Iceland where he regularly intercepted the Bears. He said that the USSR didn't have anything similar to "Playboy" magazine in those days, so their big laugh was to hold up a centerfold so the guys in the gun blisters could see it. Apparently there was a lot of smiling and waving going on when they did.
The Bear is a loud beast. My F-4 buddy said he could hear the bear from inside the F-4 past the ear protection in his helmet.
Actually, the *reporter* said they flew over the island.
We all know how accurate reporters are.
Buzzed.
By a turbo prop.
Okay.
Pictures of my great grandma in cleats running past me as fast as her walker will take her come to mind.
Can’t wait to see another test of their new submarines ability to launch cruise missiles too.
That last show of force went pretty well as I recall. Some of the crew got a good case of swimmer’s ear.
Because Mustangs and Corsairs don't have enough speed or range, and can't be refueled in flight. The Bear is likely the fastest propeller driven production aircraft with a top speed of 575mph. They're so fast because they drive the props supersonic, which is why the thing is so bloody noisy.
The fastest lap times at Reno with WWII piston fighters is just over 500mph, and that's with tricked out engines turning twice their original wartime power, light airframe and tweeked airframe aerodynamics.
I wouldn't worry about the Russians - thats Wong Wei's sector.
Next time, send up some Global Hawk drones with ATA missiles hanging from the hard points.
That will have the Bear pilots crap their flight suits.
Gosh, you’re just one big frickin’ ray of sunshine, aren’t you???
;^P
fly 45deg up their fairly blind azz and then hit them with a full power RADAR shot from as close as you think you can get... 8^)
we see them when they take off... 8^)
They’ve gone insane.
This amounts to a declaration of a new Cold War.
It is my understanding that some military maneuvers involving 3 aircraft carriers and other warships, plus Air Force and Marines are going on around Guam right now.
A good explanation for this incident.
They're loud because what you're hearing is the sonic boom of those props...they going faster than the speed of sound.
Back in 1948 there was a big controversy in the new DOD about future need for aircraft carriers when the B-36 was supposed to be able to do it all. Navy wanted a fly-off to demonstrate that their latest F4Us could go up and nail the B-36. Officially I don't think it ever happened, though.
I’ll see your Global Hawk drones and raise ya a the legendary 94th Fighter Squadron, which, BTW, is getting re-muscled with F-22 Raptors.
whole lotta buzzin goin’ on out dere (lately).
Return the favor. Swarm B-52s all over their frontiers and let them shit nickels for a while.
Any updates about Wong Wei’s widow?
Has the Navy left Keflavik yet? If so, I guess escort duties from that area no longer are possible.
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