I'm at work across from Daytona International Speedway. We just heard a couple of jets doing low passes over the track, which is just a couple hundred yards away.
We ran outside in time to see two silver F16s doing a pass. The of the nurses just moved here, the others are telling her welcome to Daytona. There's a race Sunday, so the Thunderbirds will be doing a performance.
They were all excited, asking how fast they were going (just enough to stay airborne), so when we got back inside, I pulled up LA speed check on YouTube so they could put it in perspective.
Was there supposed to be something embedded there?
And, I just gotta say that I miss my childhood days living near an AFB. It was routinely cool and at air show time it was AWESOME
EDIT: oh there it is. Took a minute. Ear to ear grins =)
This last year was the first time that I watched the Blue Angels over San Francisco Bay from a boat. Just phenomenal. The speed, the power, and the insane levels of precision.
In reply to Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) :
When I was in Korea working on A10s our pitot static tester broke so we borrowed one from the F-16 squadron nearby. Pitot tests air speed and static tests attitude. You use that tester to make sure your systems are good with indications and no leaks. You generally test to aircraft limits. We were very surprised to see what their tester was set to. Let's just say it was way above the publicly published limits of the F16 at the time.
In reply to Stampie :
Does an F-16 pitot tester even go low enough to test a Hog? I mean, they get bird strikes...from behind.
In reply to Appleseed :
LOL ... funny enough it was the same tester. Just set it different.
In reply to JAGwinn :
I always love seeing that because I have an idea of what that crew chief went though. He/She probably stole a door off the can bird and then spent lots of hours painting it in their off time before switching doors. I always loved a crew chief's pride in their plane.
