Tornado drivers got balls. Just sayin'.
Tornado drivers got balls. Just sayin'.
Some of those have a screen on top of the stick to display topographical maps and they're relatively easy to control, they're meant to fly below radar.
Interesting related vid, some rich dudes hooning their toys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHHw1VSrGRM&feature=fvwrel
For the original video, I have seen something like this before.
If I remember correctly, in Wales, there is some day each year (or so) where they do a bunch of fly-by's through the hills for people to watch.
I remember seeing a video where there were all sorts of jets that flew by (one at a time), I just don't remember exactly what they were :P Kind of like an airshow, but just fly-by's.
Pretty neat stuff.
Probably as close as we could get to feeling what it's like to be a bird darting around close to the ground ;D
Jets are so depressing. I know that no matter what car I build or where/how I drive it, my ride will NEVER be as cool as that.
lastsnare wrote:
Looks like a loggerhead shrike....they act more like Vlad the Impaler than they do like a canine.
Here's one eating a snake after a successful hunt. (Barbed wire fences FTW!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfHxylSQT2Q
Here's his cousin (great grey shrike) using a thorn bush to dispatch a mouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq8MAEBP8Ac
The narrated nature show version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=RPXDouwQFFs&NR=1
If you want a more gruesome version, here's a pet one (wearing jesses), struggling to kill a mouse because it doesn't have a way to impale it. He gets the job done, but it takes a while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqhKLeLIgFE&feature=related
I had an A-10 crest over a mountain where I work. It was a bit of a surprise, but being a nut about anything related to aviation it was cool to see. Won't likely ever be as close to one in flight again. I'd hate to be the bad guys in an area where those things are stationed.
Had this fly about 300ft over my house once:
http://www.xairforces.net/galleryd.asp?id=76&galleryid=571
Made a pretty interesting noise.
Anybody else hear this in their head when they watched that jet video?
Appleseed wrote: Tornado drivers got balls. Just sayin'. Eye level jet
Looks like the Mach Loop. It's frequently used for training and is very popular with aviation buffs.
A YouTube search will keep you entertained for a long time.
Hadone of these almost hit my tree. 
These used to constantly go vertical over my apartment. 
And these like to go over occasionally. Quite a few others as well... 
Amy aircraft pushing the limits is impressive.
N Sperlo wrote: Amy aircraft pushing the limits is impressive.
What an Amy aircraft pushing the limits might look like:
sachilles wrote: I had an A-10 crest over a mountain where I work. It was a bit of a surprise, but being a nut about anything related to aviation it was cool to see. Won't likely ever be as close to one in flight again. I'd hate to be the bad guys in an area where those things are stationed.
A-10s used to be stationed at Myrtle Beach AFB. I worked a research farm about 60 miles from there. They would appear just above tree line of my field without any warning. Scared me every time. They always flew in pairs and apparently somewhere around my field was a turning point since thay came over so often.
In reply to dculberson:
LOL. Oops.
sachilles wrote: I had an A-10 crest over a mountain where I work. It was a bit of a surprise, but being a nut about anything related to aviation it was cool to see. Won't likely ever be as close to one in flight again. I'd hate to be the bad guys in an area where those things are stationed.
They fly over my place everyday.....I'm assuming they're going from the base in Ft. Wayne to Crane SW of Indianapolis.
When they are bored they'll do mock runs on houses, barns, and farm equipment in the fields around here.....
I loved it when my dad was stationed at Myrtle Beach. The A10 is a bad ass. Talking to the pilots that were deployed in desert shield, and hearing of em flying home with half the tail and an engine missing was great. Made me sad when they retired them. Got to see a B-1 go vertical over the runway at the last air show there before they closed the base, it set off car alarms for miles. Was in the tower and the pilot requested a fly by with an immediate right and permission to climb to something like 20k feet. Dad ok'd it, next thing out of dads mouth was holy E36 M3 I didn't know they could do that! as he went vertical.
The B1 is perhaps America's least known bomber.
I had a micromachine B1 with fold out wings, that's the only reason I know of it. I just knew it was supersonic long range bomber, not stealth (like the B2).
I've known of em since I was little. As it was the first model I built without dads help. But I didn't know about that part. Grins for days is all I can say.
yamaha wrote: The B1 is perhaps America's least known bomber.
And the loudest manmade object I've ever heard. They did a full afterburner flyover with one of these at the Selfridge airshow several years back and it would make a monster truck sound like a sewing machine in comparison. It was the kind of noise you feel as much as hear.
Oh, and I believe its actually subsonic. The initial prototypes were supersonic, but the production (B-1B) is officially subsonic, IIRC.
yamaha wrote: The B1 is perhaps America's least known bomber.
When I was stationed at Eglin I had the opportunity to enter both a B-52 and a B-1. The difference between the two was dramatic. The cockpits were like comparing a 55 Chevy to a late 90's Corvette. The B-52 still rocks.
The B-1B is capable of ~Mach 1.2 at altitude, but was designed for a low-altitude, high-subsonic mission profile. The original prototypes were envisioned more for the supersonic, high altitude role.
Spinout007 wrote: Made me sad when they retired them.
Now you can be happy knowing they are still flying sorties.
The_Jed wrote: Anybody else hear this in their head when they watched that jet video?
Iron Eagle...
No?
Fine, I'll go over here and be weird now...
LOL I still live that movie, even though its even cheesier than Top Gun.
As for A-10s still flying, yeah it makes me happy. It's the zav of the airspace. Seems like they had the middle east in mind when they built it. The B2 got all the glory in desert shield for precision air strikes, but the A10 is responsible for chewing up and spitting out a large number of tanks over there.
N Sperlo wrote: These used to constantly go vertical over my apartment.
Had many of those plus the rest of the air wing take off and land 10 feet over my head. In that pic, my rack would be just to the left of the opposite catapault track (that being cat 2 in the photo, cat 1 is to the right) and a few feet short of the water brake at the end. I learned to sleep through anything LOL!
A previous cruise, our berthing compartment was aft between the #2 and #3 arresting gear engines. Wonder where my tinnitus came from 
when i was a kid, AC130 transport planes used to fly a few hundred feet directly over my house.. i think i lived right on the flight path from their takeoff point at the Minneapolis/St Paul airport and Camp Ripley way up by Brainerd.. they were always heading northwest- never saw any going the other way, so i think they took a different route back.
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