so sick.
Am I the only one that was re-enacting scenes from top gun in my head while watching this :rofl
i wonder how many times he destoyed that thing trying to land it.
Pretty sweet!
I’ve killed a couple due to equipment failure, other than that I’m a fuckin’ boss when it comes to flying ducted fan jets.
pretty cool, id rather have a F-14 myself. Navy fighters > Airforce fighters.
I’ve got a Blue Angels F-18c ducted fan jet, flys beautifully.
Really? Thats awesome. I remember going to the air field in Syracuse or Utica as a kid and seeing the Blue Angels. The F/A-18 Hornet has forever been my favorite jet.
i used to see the Blue Angels fly everyday when i lived in Florida. it was pretty cool to see the low level stuff.
Yup.
Also have this still sitting in the box:
ill tell ya, they are a maintainers dream, the F/A18-E/F and the E/A-18G
the old legacy F/A-18 A-D are a bit old these days.
overall greatest war bird is the F-14B/D Tom Cats. they were just beasts all around. but a wee bit old, many were 30+ years in service. the airframe was tired.
Grumman Ironworks > Lockheed-Martin!
Well who doesnt love swept wing goodness? :lol As cheesy as it sounds, I really think seeing those jets, also the ThunderBirds F-16, at such a young age, I have forever loved jets and the idea of flying.
the swept wings, and the “kneel down” that they do on the catapult make is look dirty.
the other thing ive always like about the tomcat was the fact it was built for the sole purpose of carrying the AIM-54/C “Phoenix Missile” they planned to use during Vietnam(which had never been used in combat during the tomcats’ entire existence)
the whole “rules of war” thing where it states that you cannot shoot at a target that you cannot see kind of killed that idea off.
Used to own a few planes myself and have flown a couple ducted fan jets too. Want one of my own just another thing to add to the list of “no time to do” right now.
I like the video camera that pans. I have no audio on this PC, but I wonder what it’s hooked to for movement. Be sick if it was hooked to a helmet cam the operator wears with an optic set that allows first person visuals from that camera input based apon where the operator actually turns his head… You could literally fly it as though you’re sitting in the thing :excited
Cute stories, kids-let’s talk about some real aircraft now
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A-10 shell from my personal collection-
F-15 is pretty nasty, but man, if its not launching off a Carrier, its weak.
Heh. It’s natural to be partial to our prior enlistments, but we all do/did our part to be the strongest military on the planet:bowdown
OT, but you want to know what sucks the most about working on aircraft for a living? Not the work, but the people you work with. In general, A+P/avionic/sheetmetal ‘techs’ are the biggest group of fucking whiners/complainers that you’ll ever come across. Ashame-I would not trust a significant amount of people that I’ve worked with to change the spark plugs on my Corolla.