This video ROCKS!!

[jwilliams3]

http://media.putfile.com/Supersonic--F14--flyby

 

[RandyHamilton]

One of the things I miss is the Air Shows put on by the Air Wing on the way back from Overseas Deployments. . We also used to solicit spur of the moment fly-by's from the fighter and attack guys. As long as they had the time and the gas they were almost always willing to give us lowly squids a cheep thrill! Oo.



On of the coolest things I saw from an F-18 was a very slow fly by, where the Hornet kicked his nose up about 45 degrees from level and "strolled" by about 80 knots. He had to have been below stall speed but I guess his thrust kept him in the air. . Only saw it once but it was pretty cool.....

 

[EricBu12]

80 knots? yes hell that is below stall!!



60 or so is like a cesna..... But yeah the thrust on those is amazing. Now wait til the F-22's come out and they hover around the carrier like a fly.



I live in Salt Lake city and one in a while we have an airshow here... ... not as much as like at Miramar NAS in Sandiego where I used to live but they are sure alot of fun to watch...

 

[RandyHamilton]

80 knots? yes hell that is below stall!!



60 or so is like a cesna..... But yeah the thrust on those is amazing. Now wait til the F-22's come out and they hover around the carrier like a fly.



I live in Salt Lake city and one in a while we have an airshow here... ... not as much as like at Miramar NAS in Sandiego where I used to live but they are sure alot of fun to watch...

That's MCAS Mirimar now!!! The Navy moved everything, including the Top Gun School to Nevada a few years ago!!



I am just estimating the speed but it was really slow, slower then I would have believed possible while maintaining a steady altitude of 200 ft or so. .



I spent 16 years living in SD, well, actually Lakeside, but when my time in the Navy was done, I was ready to move on. .

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Well dang I'll give my side of the stories.



First, the 14 doing the fly by is way too cool. The first time I got to see that was coming back from San Francisco on the good ole' USS Ranger back in 92', but he wasn't finished there because as soon as he went by he pulled it vertical till he was out of sight.



When they do it you cannot imagine the over pressure it creates. Also liked watching them drop bombs in the water too... ... wall of water.



The F-18 story is very true, they get so slow you can actually see the computer making flight control changes to keep that high pitch attitude.



Ah, Miramar! Spent my first tour there in Hanger 2 from 92' to late 95'.



Randy, I've spent a day or two in Lakeside also. Always felt like it was a tiny bit like home on the farm that I left behind.



Jim

 

[JApol]

The manuver that the -18 did was called Walking the Dog. I saw that one at an airshow in England, Courtesy of the USN Except this one was a Spanish model and he had little to no airspeed. Then he kicked into afterbrner and literally LAUNCHED off the runway.

At the same airshow there was a couple of MiG-29's. Of the pilots has a couple of screws loose. He would go straight up, stall like a prop plane and fall backwards stalling his engines. He would flip it bach nose down, two pufs of black smoke meant the engines came back online and off he would go. Somewhere I have a pic of me sitting in the cockpit of that same airplane

 

[RandyHamilton]

Well dang I'll give my side of the stories.



First, the 14 doing the fly by is way too cool. The first time I got to see that was coming back from San Francisco on the good ole' USS Ranger back in 92', but he wasn't finished there because as soon as he went by he pulled it vertical till he was out of sight.



When they do it you cannot imagine the over pressure it creates. Also liked watching them drop bombs in the water too... ... wall of water.



The F-18 story is very true, they get so slow you can actually see the computer making flight control changes to keep that high pitch attitude.



Ah, Miramar! Spent my first tour there in Hanger 2 from 92' to late 95'.



Randy, I've spent a day or two in Lakeside also. Always felt like it was a tiny bit like home on the farm that I left behind.



Jim

Ahh Yes,, The Danger Ranger!!! The only Carrier I know of that was able to force a Soviet Sub to the surface! Of course, the sub tried to surface when the Ranger was still over top of them!!!

Ever attend the Lakeside Rodeo Jim? Voted best IPRA rodeo for many years. I missed very very few of them while I was out there.

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Ever attend the Lakeside Rodeo Jim? In 95' after I came back from the Connie Cruise.



Those guys that fly the migs are nuts, they do some cools stuff but then they will put one in the dirt every once in a while. Saw a vid of one doing that yesterday... ... plowed it in at a show.



Jim

 

[HoleshotHolset]

That was sweet!



Every year that I go to Oshkosh, WI for the EAA AirVenture show... I keep hoping that they'll do a supersonic fly-by. Wussies! :-laf



Matt

 

[Jim Fulmer]

That was sweet!



Every year that I go to Oshkosh, WI for the EAA AirVenture show... I keep hoping that they'll do a supersonic fly-by. Wussies! :-laf



Matt

They will never do it over land like they do on the water, it would blow every window out for 2 miles from over pressure... ... . no kidding, it's brutal.



Jim

 

[HoleshotHolset]

... yeah, that's the downside to supersonic flight.

I've got to hear a sonic boom in person one of these days...



Matt

 

[JApol]

When I was growing up in central WA we would hear sonic booms about 2-3 times per week. Sometimes if the aircraft was flying in the right spot you could see the contrail WAY!! up there as he streaked across the sky.

 

[TowPro]

We used to ride dirt bikes in this place in PA where they could come in doing practice bombing runs (with flares or smoke bombs). When we were up on the top of the mountain we could look straight across and look into the plane. At times they would even be lower then we were. Pretty cool.

 

[Spooled-up]

A good buddy of mine down the street has a brother who is a fighter pilot on the carrier USS Ronald Reagan. He just informed me of an opportunity he got from his brother to do a "Tiger" cruise. He gets to take a ride from Hawaii to San Diego this summer on a reposition cruise where all non-essential personnel are off the ship. Relatives of crew members are allowed on for the cruise and they do flight ops off of the carrier and he'll get to see some stuff like the video above. I'm thinking of changing my name to get on that boat!! Oo.

 

[Jim Fulmer]

They do that every cruise and it's well worth it to go. You get to do everything from shooting guns with the Marine security force to watching the air show and the practice stuff like dropping bombs on the water ect... ..... if you get a chance go.



P. S. It's really crowded with that many people on board.



Jim

 

[HoleshotHolset]

I'd donate my right kidney to go on a cruise like that... :--)



Matt

 

[AfterBurner]

if you go to military.com, they have a vid of an F-14 doing a fly by then exploding about . 5 klick from the ship. Now that's an impressive video. both pilots ejected in time. In my aero engineering class, we get to see a lot of videos of design flaws. talk about some serious wrecks (most fatal) and sobering videos, reminds us that it aint all fun up there...

 

[AfterBurner]

cool pic, great camera timing!

 

[Spooled-up]

Navy promotional spot:



http://objflicks.com/SeaPower.htm