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That aint fast. THIS is fast.
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:26 pm
by Sisyphus
Found this while entertaining my 3 y.o.
Kinda makes me want to fly.
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:43 pm
by Maccs
Nom.
Nom. Nom.
Ar. Arrraaaahhh!
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:45 pm
by piccini9
Balls of solid steel.
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:47 pm
by SomeMook
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:13 pm
by Zim
piccini9 wrote:Balls of solid steel.
Yeeouch! No way... balls of hollow titanium. Or CF. Much less stretching when pulling negative g's.
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:39 pm
by MATPOC
Zim wrote:piccini9 wrote:Balls of solid steel.
Yeeouch! No way... balls of hollow titanium. Or CF. Much less stretching when pulling negative g's.
Nut sacks must be carbon fiber, the balls are solid brass!
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:43 pm
by erosvamp
Dad had the motorcycle growing up...
Grandpa had the airplane.
I spent every Sunday in the air for years.
Right out of high school, I almost joined the marines just to fly the harrier. Great plane.
I miss flying.
When i finish school and start making "real" money, i plan on getting my pilots licence.
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:39 pm
by DerGolgo
When I was little, and the family was on vacation in Scotland, we drove along a road on one side of a valley when there was some sort of military convoy on the other side of the valley. Maneuvers or some such. And there were two jump jets lounging about. Off in the distance, one was just hovering over a hill-top. We were all looking at that when another one came out of nowhere and did
that (only slightly more altitude) over the road. Actually "filled the sky" as they say. The noise was something fucking else.
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:56 am
by calamari kid
I was riding over White pass on hwy 12 when I heard an odd noise, hmmm nope, not the bike must be something coming up behind me, nope, nothing in the mirrors, what the fu...Holy Shit Mother Of God!!!! An EA6 buzzed through the pass at no more than a couple hundred feet. Scared the bejesus out of me. I've worked a number of tower sites up in the cascades and it's not unusual to see them running through the passes. Cool stuff.
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:31 am
by MATPOC
When I was young I spent summers with my grandparents outside the city and there was a military base near by, you can guess where this is going, but only difference it that in Communist Russia (early 80's) they had no sonic flight restrictions or at least they weren't enforced. Over the ten years I summered there at least once a sonic boom took out a bunch of windows when a fighter plane passed overhead, many more were heard over the years in a distance...
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:57 pm
by bndgkmf
Growing up in West Texas we have a "relationship" with the USAF. There is a radar bombing range about 10 miles outside of my hometown. Some days the B-52 pilots would come in at about 100 feet over the interstate. Now that was enough to "suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro".
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:07 pm
by DerGolgo
bndgkmf wrote:Growing up in West Texas we have a "relationship" with the USAF. There is a radar bombing range about 10 miles outside of my hometown. Some days the B-52 pilots would come in at about 100 feet over the interstate. Now that was enough to "suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro".
"Fry the chickens in the barnyard", wasn't it?
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:38 pm
by Rock
General "Buck" Turgidson: If the pilot's good, see, I mean if he's reeeally sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low... oh you oughta see it sometime. It's a sight. A big plane like a '52... varrrooom! Its jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard!
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:18 pm
by srg
a semi-related video. theme song to Area 88 (anime), which i find to be cool.
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also, dont forget kenny logans classic; Highway to the Danger Zone
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:08 am
by Rabbit_Fighter
calamari kid wrote:I was riding over White pass on hwy 12 when I heard an odd noise, hmmm nope, not the bike must be something coming up behind me, nope, nothing in the mirrors, what the fu...Holy Shit Mother Of God!!!! An EA6 buzzed through the pass at no more than a couple hundred feet. Scared the bejesus out of me. I've worked a number of tower sites up in the cascades and it's not unusual to see them running through the passes. Cool stuff.
I had a similar experience going over North Cascade Highway once.
My family has property on Lake Chelan, which is basically a big canyon. Every now and then pilots buzz the lake. One time an A6 (presumably out of Whidbey) flew by our property may 50 feet over the lake. It was amazing.
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:03 pm
by Mental
Those planes are OK....
but real aircraft have a rotating dome...
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:31 pm
by bndgkmf
DerGolgo wrote:bndgkmf wrote:Growing up in West Texas we have a "relationship" with the USAF. There is a radar bombing range about 10 miles outside of my hometown. Some days the B-52 pilots would come in at about 100 feet over the interstate. Now that was enough to "suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro".
"Fry the chickens in the barnyard", wasn't it?
I was quoting Spies Like Us but I guess the Strangelove one is more appropriate. It was always rumored you could go out there in the fields and find fried critters from the radar waves.
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:46 pm
by Sonic Rob
The last time I went to Nellis there were a couple of F-22s maneuvering over the place as I drove in. The speed didn't kill me so much as the maneuverability. They were flitting around like leaves in the wind, flipping end over end faster than it takes to say it.
They're not kidding with those things.