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Incredible photo of an F-18 zooming through the Golden Gate bridge
sploid ^ | 10/13/14 | Rick Shelton

Posted on 10/22/2014 5:27:47 AM PDT by do the dhue

Rich Shelton loves airplanes and San Francisco, which shows in all his beautiful photos. He was able to take this incredible image of a Blue Angels' F/A-18 zooming through the Golden Gate bridge at Fleet Week in San Francisco.



TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: blueangles; fleetweek; goldengate; photo
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To: do the dhue

Old School....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsg_SZ6wkzQ


21 posted on 10/22/2014 5:47:12 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: do the dhue
GREAT!

Check out 13/32 at the link. I am fascinated by the head angles of the pilots and WSOs.

22 posted on 10/22/2014 5:47:59 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: tanknetter

Richard Bong and 3 other P-38 pilots were reported to have looped the loop around the Golden Gate bridge in 1942. For that, and flying down Market Street below rooftop height, and a few other unauthorized bits of flying fun, Bong missed deploying to England with his unit, and eventually went to the Pacific where he became the top U.S. ace of WWII, with 40 victories.


23 posted on 10/22/2014 5:48:54 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Joe 6-pack

I like the music too!


24 posted on 10/22/2014 5:48:57 AM PDT by do the dhue (WARNING: this site is not liable for the things I say)
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To: SatinDoll

Yeager used to do the same thing under the Charleston, WV bridges too.

Back in the day when he could just sign out an F-80 or F-86 for a weekend trip home.


25 posted on 10/22/2014 5:50:53 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: kinsman redeemer

that would make nice wallpaper, in my house too. :-)


26 posted on 10/22/2014 5:51:39 AM PDT by do the dhue (WARNING: this site is not liable for the things I say)
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To: do the dhue
Unimpressed.

The picture below is Fairchild Hall at the Blue Zoo.Now imagine that peculiar structure in the middle of the gap towards the right end of the building not there.

Now imagine one of the Thunderbirds flying an F-4 through there.

Inverted.

Below the roofline.

I don't have to imagine it; I've seen it.

27 posted on 10/22/2014 5:53:48 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

that would be awesome to see


28 posted on 10/22/2014 5:54:59 AM PDT by do the dhue (WARNING: this site is not liable for the things I say)
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To: Joe Boucher

Not sure whether I buy that or not. Carrier pilots deploy for 6-8 months every two years or so. The rest of the time is spent flying from land bases.

Friday nights hanging out in Virginia Beach can be really neat with all the F/A-18 traffic (formerly F-14 traffic. *sob*) in and out of Oceana.


29 posted on 10/22/2014 5:55:03 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Enlightened1

Hope he had his burner’s on...


30 posted on 10/22/2014 6:00:23 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: kinsman redeemer
Thanks for the link. tThat photo you reference has a fascinating thing: one of the canopies holds 2 people, and the others only have one person in it.

Is that extra guy the supervisor?

31 posted on 10/22/2014 6:01:27 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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To: Excellence

I used to commute down the ‘old’ 5 Freeway, past the now closed El Toro U.S.M.C. Air Station. Even though I knew they were coming, and I love the heck out of our Marines, the noise that a pair of FA-18’s made, just overhead, would scare the life out of me.


32 posted on 10/22/2014 6:03:01 AM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: tanknetter

Read the book as a kid and watched the move AGAIN three or four weeks ago on TCM.


33 posted on 10/22/2014 6:03:38 AM PDT by MisterArtery
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To: jttpwalsh

Back in the 60s I commuted down Texas 3 (Old Galveston Road) to my job at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Depending on the wind, the road was at the end of the take-off run for the F105s based at Ellington. They weren’t known as Thunderchiefs for nothing.


34 posted on 10/22/2014 6:11:43 AM PDT by MisterArtery
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To: glorgau

No problem - just start your high speed camera when you see it coming, then pick the one frame that has the jet centered.


35 posted on 10/22/2014 6:14:13 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: DuncanWaring

Cool - I once asked some A-10 pilots for a bubble check and one flew between the radar and an HF-Antenna, below the line of sight of the two, and inverted...not an F-4, but still impressive.


36 posted on 10/22/2014 6:14:56 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: DuncanWaring
Best thing in flight I ever saw was an two Ospreys and an American Eagle. I was on a golf course in Florida and I watched a Osprey dive into the water and pull a big fish out. He/she had a wing man and they flew off. The Eagle enter the picture like a fighter jet. The wing man tried to knock the Eagle off course but it made it under the Osprey with the fish and flipped upside down. The Eagle flipped upside down swiped at the fish with its talons and the Osprey moved just in time and the Eagle missed. The two Osprey flew away and the Eagle returned in the direction it came. It was pretty cool to see.
37 posted on 10/22/2014 6:18:01 AM PDT by do the dhue (WARNING: this site is not liable for the things I say)
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To: MrB

That’s cool. I’m not a photographer, but now I see how he did it. thanks


38 posted on 10/22/2014 6:20:09 AM PDT by do the dhue (WARNING: this site is not liable for the things I say)
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To: T-Bone Texan
one of the canopies holds 2 people, and the others only have one person in it. Is that extra guy the supervisor?

Nope. That one is for observer and incentive flights. The Angels let reporters and maintenance crews fly from time-to-time for publicity. It also is used for training.

39 posted on 10/22/2014 6:22:04 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: MisterArtery

That must have been very cool. My hat is off to those fellows, what brave men! Thanks for your reply.


40 posted on 10/22/2014 6:26:08 AM PDT by jttpwalsh
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