Thunderbirds and Blue Angels
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wrote on 2 May 2020, 18:04 last edited by 89th 5 Mar 2020, 00:40
Taken from my rooftop:
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wrote on 2 May 2020, 18:06 last edited by
Great shots!
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wrote on 2 May 2020, 18:38 last edited by
One of my partners has two sons in the Navy. He and his wife are huge Navy fans. I sent him this a couple of days ago. Oh, and yeah, great shots indeed!
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wrote on 2 May 2020, 18:52 last edited by
George ha! But to be fair, they are all wearing masks!
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wrote on 2 May 2020, 23:46 last edited by
Northern Virginia got the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds.
Southern Virginia, the Navy sent over a student pilot in a helicopter.
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wrote on 3 May 2020, 00:41 last edited by
Yeah but you can play golf and buy clippers at Target!
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 01:55 last edited by George K 5 Apr 2020, 01:56
Yeah - go full fucking screen!
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 02:17 last edited by
That is a nice view of the relative movement of the planes. They are just an inadvertent twitch away from disaster.
One of the instructors I worked with used to command the Thunderbirds, flying the #1. He told me he had to fire a guy for looking at the ground. You just can't take your eye off the guy in front of you.
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That is a nice view of the relative movement of the planes. They are just an inadvertent twitch away from disaster.
One of the instructors I worked with used to command the Thunderbirds, flying the #1. He told me he had to fire a guy for looking at the ground. You just can't take your eye off the guy in front of you.
wrote on 4 May 2020, 02:21 last edited by@Copper watching these videos always makes me wonder about the tolerance standards that are beyond the pilot's control. You can see them bouncing up and down, getting closer and farther from the guy next to them.
A gust of wind can make it all get "interesting."
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 02:41 last edited by
It's just plain cool, that's it.
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 02:57 last edited by
These things give me the heebie jeebies. I was at an airshow, watching them and thinking 'it looks so dangerous, but it must actually be safe', and then one of the jets crashed. The poor guy died. I'd just said goodbye to wife and son, who were driving home near where the plane went down, so I had a rather stressful couple of hours waiting to hear from them.
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 16:23 last edited by
Very cool video!! Amazing the pilot skills they have!
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wrote on 4 May 2020, 22:34 last edited by
Nice!
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topic:timeago-later,10 days
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wrote on 14 May 2020, 22:57 last edited by
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wrote on 15 May 2020, 01:48 last edited by
Wow thanks for sharing! Yeah no joke about the ending...... I actually told my friends I might "fly my drone up to them" but obviously was kidding. Kinda cool to see what it would've looked like.
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wrote on 15 May 2020, 01:50 last edited by
They did a flyby over Chicago a couple of days ago. Sadly, our home was not under any of the flight paths, and I could see them only when they flew about 3 miles north of my home. It lasted 15 seconds or so.
By the way, it costs about $20,000 per hour (fuel and maintenance) to fly an F18, or $120K per hour for this flight.
That's a lot of masks.
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wrote on 15 May 2020, 01:57 last edited by
Part of the military pilot's standard practice is to rehearse flying over a target at a precise time, altitude and speed.
This is one of the ways they justify fly-overs, a standard practice flight.
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wrote on 15 May 2020, 01:58 last edited by
I don’t think the funding to make masks is an issue. I enjoyed the sight and thought it was a nice patriotic display of honor for the frontline workers.
