Kickass Low stuff
We have been somewhat remiss for not having a kickass low level flying video in a while. Now, this particular video contains some images of fliers that we don't normally highlight on our site. In addition to fighters, there's some low flying helicopter, civilian and even UGH! GACK! GULP! (excuse me, I had to swallow a littler vomit)* tanker stuff. There's even one of those guys in a soaring suit.
All our favorite videos contain kickass flying and kickass music and this video is no exception. This video is backed up with some stuff from Ozzie and if you're not head banging pretty quick then you might want to check your heart because you're already dead. Yes, you've seen some of these shots before but not with Ozzie.
If you don't say, "HOLY SHIT!!" more than once watching this video then don't even try to get out of your chair because rigor mortis has already set in. There are some crazy, ballsy people here. The French Mirage guy doing an aileron roll fifty feet over the water is particularly note worthy.
OK, let me get out of the way. Prepare to say "HOLY SHIT!!"
*(That vomit thing was all in jest. We love and need the tanker guys and they do awesome work.)
I doubt there was a bigger grin on my face ever!!!
Bless you!!!
Just remember this NBKAWTG NOBODY KICKS ASS WITHOUT TANKER GAS!!!@!!!
GIVE ME A FAST HORSE AND A STEEPLE CHASE.!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZvWoK8mbqw
Let me guess, you're not a fighter pilot?
Jolly
Nice flying guys, I am glad your on our side..
Ben Wha OUT..
Question ?? Do the pilots children have heath care ??
Or is it a seat of the ..... deal
MY GOD!!!
TGB, Colonel, USAF, Retired
About all you super stud fighter pilots... I was a Trash Hauler in Nam and Gas passer after that. I started passing gas to the Black Bird.... those were truly the best pilots in the AF.
But I can also tell you this. I never met a fighter pilot who was too proud to stick his nose up under my tail.
and you should have seen them suck up to me somewhere out over the pond when there was a cloud within about 100 miles.
As far as low flying, I led a two ship of KC-135s into Diego Garcia (south of the equator in the Indian Ocean) a long time ago..... we went in flying finger tip formation, did a pitchout to a 360 landing.... we got away with it because the Navy that operated the air field didn't know that SAC (yes this was back in the days when SAC ruled) would have court martialed us for doing unapprove manuvers....
Tanker pilots did a lot more things and had a lot more balls than fighter pilots ever gave us credit for.... and if we didn't, there would be a lot less figher pilots.
Blake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfzHu4TWm2M
Kickass!!!!!!!
Anyway....it's fun to them...with of course a lot of special "SKILL" !
than 40 feet. There is no one that won't duck or "hit the deck" when that happens !!! happens
way at about 225 mph at San Pedro Sula, Honduras,
with a steep climb to gear down speed, gear down and
land. Almost as good as an orgasm.
Holy Shit!
However, what you had was fantastic. I do miss 880 KIAS at 200 feet above the ground. Did that at Red Flag many years ago, and the jet was ready to go faster, but my right seater and I were already at our personal "limits!"
Remember the B52 flypast that went wrong in the 90"s. More carnage and waste of innocnt lives and taxpayers money to fuel Dickheads with Big Egos.
My high school friend's fighter pilot brother was killed on Holloman AFB "clowning", flying low at high speed, in the 1960s. Mistakes aren't tolerated.
The poster complaining about video/music stopping/starting simply had too low an internet bandwidth. That said, I would like to see a high res version of it!
Pretty neat, to think they used to warn me about flying below 500' in a Cessna 152.
Ist Boat.. Lady Lexington... 2nd Boat... Constellation...
Aviation Electronics Tech... Saw missle launches, fly by's of all sorts...
Butt... Never saw a sonic wave on the water till Now...
Kick Ass Video... Love Ya... Sending to my Brother who is CFIG @
Hood River Airport, in Oreygon... Mike Allen
Great- sub-bridge invert- nice stick & rudder!
Then "explain this cowboy!"
Go ahead and joke about the tanker all you want. Ignore us at the bar, that's ok. But when we're out over the Pacific with no divert field for 2000 miles, you're suddenly my butt-hole buddy?
an RVN pilot in a Loach. I had to look up to see tree roots.
I reely mis it ??
Thank you
Homhyar
King Bostrom, Captain, USMC
The part going wrong in this thread is the mistaken idea heard from the
Tankers that they weren't appreciated by the fighter guys. They SAVED my
ass more than once by breaking all the rules, coming straight across Laos
to meet me when I was OUT of fuel coming out of N. Vietnam. Coasting into
the tanker as the (single) F-100 engine started to wind down is the ultimate
pucker. Hats waay off to the Gas Passers.
Stump.
MISTY 22
were near stall. Story was that occacionaly during refueling an engine would fly off. They went off and so fast that they would miss the plane being refueled.
Consider this training for the real thing.
Semper Fi
Gordon
they had been in F-4's so I would feel at home. Love flying that bird !!!
LOVED IT!!!!!!
THANKS!!
TEXAS
HuuuuuRah !!!!!!
Semper Fi
bitchin
I am glad to see that they are able to blow off some steam and have fun
displaying their increadable skills!
Enjoyed reading the posts of former pilots too - Thanks to all for your service!
I probably logged 500 hours under 25 feet and probably another
100 hrs under 5 feet. Occasionally we would do rooster tails in
the cheo reo river and fly under the bridge at kontum which
had about a 40 foot clearance. Nothing like coming back to base with
tree branches in the skids. You put a big smile on my face. thanks.
and Cornell and the other boo birds..,.you are in desparate need
of a blow job. :)
325 in a heavy is damned exciting, for a while; at least as exciting as 650IAS @ 100' in a T-38.
If we never explore the flight envelope, how do we know what the bird can do IF we need it!
I'd sleep in my plane if I had one. LOL
The video of fun low flying you sent takes me back to the 'good old days' when it was routine. In the old Willy Victors (EC-121's) we would be tooling along somewhere between 6 and 12 thousand feet keeping track of ships and planes for NORAD, when every once in a while we would pick up a Soviet radar on our ECM gear. We would have discovered a Soviet Elint ship or a Submarine. We would get three bearings for triangulation. We would be reporting this by radio to DER pickets and Charlie Whiskey (CW) to Argentia, Norfolk and NORAD in Colorado. Immediately a P2V would take off from the nearest base, Iceland, Argentia, Moncton, etc. Upon getting the third bearing we would shut down all communications along with our APS-20 surface search radar and our APS-45 height finder and dive down to about 50 feet off the deck to get below any surface radars. We then run right above the North Atlantic Ocean for about 100 to 150 miles to a point where we figured they should be. The puckering effect of moving at over 300 miles per hour that close to some of the most notorious seas in the world made for a very subdued atmosphere inside the plane. Our crew caught one Soviet sub, one British sub and several Elint vessels. Usually the Soviet subs would be deep or snorkeling, the one on the surface must have had a mechanical problem. Obviously the Brits had to be embarrassed. I was looking out a porthole once when we startled the Russian crew on one of the Elint vessels. You could tell what they were because some were pretending to be fishing trawlers but they were way to clean and the crews were too military looking. They also had some big Elint ships that were covered with antenna so they did not try to fake them. In any case the P2V's would be dropping sonobouys all over the place and they would track them until they headed back to the Soviet Union. Back then we had VP squadrons all the way from Rosie Roads to Iceland.
Funny thing is I am sure some Russian sailors think back on their tense times too !
I AM A FORMER PILOT MYSELF, AND LIVE NEXT DOOR TO NAS CORPUS CHRISTI, GOT THE OPP. TO SEE THE BLUE ANGLES UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL, RECENTLY@ NAS CC AIRSHOW.
THANKS FOR THE THRILLS
G-SPOON
I WAS GOING UP A STEEP HILL AND AS I NEARED THE TOP - AN 18 WHEELER WAS COMING FROM THE OTHER DIRECTION.
AND WE CAME FACE-TO-FACE AT THE TOP OF THE HILL!
I HAULED BACK HARD AND MISSED HIM!
I NEVER DID THAT AGAIN
LOL
SRW) inTopeka KS. Man was that cold! No colder place on earth than a flight line in winter. I sold the BSA once I got to college and was still amazed
this guys mom came over and wrote out a $500 check for the bike. Man, making maybe $120 a month as an A2C I was impressed! Anyway, I
took the $500 and took the University of Oklahoma's Private Pilot course during the summer of 1963. We learned in 90 hp Aeronca Champs and
when you got that tail off the ground you had to get on the rudder quick or you started heading off the runway. After flying just about every day
at OU I got my ticket and then nothing! Bummer! I saw an ad in the Norman Transcript for an Aeronca 11 AC Chief with a fresh overhaul on the
Continental 65 hp engine. Unfortunately, it had been in the hanger at Madill OK and some kids had slashed the fabric on the fueselage. I gave
the man $500 and went to pick it up in Ada OK. When I first saw it in the hanger with a flat tire and bird droppings all over it my heart sank a
bit. The FBO helped me clean it up, aired up the tire, and helped me tape the fueselage. The Chief was side by side seating with a whopping 15
gallon fuel tank. Never flew a plane with a wheel befor but it was no problem. With FAA Ferry permit in hand I flew it VFR by pilotage to a
mechanic in Guthrie OK to have it recovered. In the meantime I sold three 1/4 shares for $250 each, paid the mechanic $700 for the new fabric job, and flew it home to Norman OK. Cheapest flying I ever had and so much fun. I had always wished to be a fighter or any kind of military pilot but it was
not to be. To start the Chief I perfected the art of swinging the prop by hand. Some of my most vivid memories are of flying low on the South
Canadian River and rounding a bend and seeing a bridge coming up. I flew so low I would sometimes return to Max Westheimer field with weeds in my wheels. In flying under a bridge just stay low and keep her there. I do remember in low flying there is a "point of no return" when if you lose your nerve and pull up you will buy the bridge. I once flew the Chief back from Lynchburg VA with no radio. Did IFR (I Fly Roads) by using a state highway map and flying low enough to read the road signs. Yes, flying low is an adreniline rush but you still must be careful and pay attention. As the saying goes "There are old pilots and bold pilots but no old bold pilots" Well maybe a few! Thanks for the great footage. Remember: Aviate, Navigate, then Communicate.
You can bet your sweet ass that's where our tax dollars go. Without people and machines like this, we wouldn't have the air supremecy we have. I'de damn site rather give my tax dollars for this than to AIG executives.
(msg from Jolly --- you write em, we post em. Take cover my friend. Boyz---fire for effect)
This is a really cool video of the Minnesota Air Show.
And yes for the complainers its a horrible waste of their egg money but I am sure their Creator dosesn't mind.
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/12/minnesota...
If the url doesn't come thru google "Minnesota Air Show 'ducks'
some other videos of this kind are here: http://www.queentorrent.com
enjoy!