Posted on 02/24/2007 1:09:53 PM PST by buccaneer81
I thought this was interesting.
http://p-38online.com/phantom.html
Are you talking about Al Gore???
You'll note that they couldn't bust him for flying below the 1000 AGL limit for populated areas, just for going too fast. If an F-16 pilot can't fly 1000 feet AGL, then he should be grounded.
I think I remember the ski tram incident, and I believe he wasn't "buzzing" the car, but was on a low altitude route and got lost. Such flying is normal fighter stuff, but he was in the wrong place.
Dangerous and immature was when Richard Bong flew between the buildings in downtown San Francisco while waving to the secretaries in the windows. Dangerous was when he looped his P-38 around the Golden Gate Bridge. Scaring the populace was when his propwash blew a ladies washing off the clothes line and he was ordered to go to her house and do her laundry the next week.
Oh, yes. He went on to be the top ace that the United States ever had, or probably ever will have.
#85 was for you....
LOL no, I wasn't talking about Algore. I was refering to the C-5. You know, that huge transport plane that looks like it is barely moving.
One of the earliest memories I have is seeing one of those planes flying over our house when we lived in Ft Knox, Kentucky. My Dad was in the Army and I must have been about 3 or so. It was during WW2.
Military aviation should be exempt from those rules. The FAA shouldn't have jack-shiite to say about this.
fso301, War Eagle :)
The pilot was just looking for a bridge to fly under.
"Time Magazine Monday, Apr. 18, 1949
Last fall Chuck Yeager was asked to help dedicate an airport in West Virginia, his home state. Flying down from Wright Field in an F-80 jet fighter, he found the Kanawha River at Charleston crowded with a motorboat regatta. Chuck roared down the river, 20 ft. above the boats, at almost 600 m.p.h., shot under a highway bridge, did two slow rolls, and zoomed out of sight."
I've seen the pictures of this event. If you have skills you use them.
One of the most comforting sounds I ever heard was when a pair of F-16's flying CAP flew low over my house on the morning of Sept. 12, 2001.
-ccm
Do all fighter pilots do this at some point? One of my high school friends nearly got a court-martial for doing the same thing to our hometown in an F-16.
My old man was a Spitfire and P-51 pilot in WW2. He once caused an air-raid alert by dropping empty pop bottles over fields at the edge of town on a night training flight. They nicely simulated the whistling of falling bombs. For sure he would have been cashiered if he'd been caught.
Another guy I know, who is now an airline pilot, nearly lost his $200k+ part-time job by buzzing his hometown airport in an MD-11 on a dead-head ferry trip. (He had the permission of the tower, but definitely not his boss).
I guess I'm glad we have you crazy guys out there defending our country, but you sure are a bunch of damn fools.
-ccm
In Chuck Yeager's autobiography, Yeager, he tells of a West Virginia friend who needed some trees topped; therefore, Yeager kindly obliged the man by roaring over the man's land and topping the trees with his prop. With every generation, it seems that the rules of correctness get more stringent.
Subject aircraft had a defective radar altimeter as well.
I know, just funnin' buddy. I remember many a summer driving down to Dover and seeing those magnificent freighters at Dover AFB
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