The Cool Jet pics thread

Looks like the Airstrip in that one James Bond Movie. I think Goldeneye.

 

Has anyone ever seen the picture of the fighter jet swooping low over a lake; with a giant rooster tail spraying up behind it? I would love to get a copy of that......................

 

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The B-1 (Bone) swooping in over the lake is Dru Blair's classic 'Power'

He does some great stuff.
www.drublair.com

While the Bone guys would say that it is a fighter jet, for a more classic fighter try Dru's F-14.
I like 'em all.
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I was at the Ft. Lauderdale Air & Water show a few years ago and the Blue Angels did a pass low enough to draw a spray off the ocean. Really cool.

 

HAHA. Nice picture of the Tomcat though w/o the skier. Also like that A-10 warthog picture.

 

Very nice! That does it...Air Force after college for me

 

http://movies.lazyeights.net/a319_start.mpeg
This pilot is crazy.

 

Wow...thats a new one to me. Im actually impressed how the A319 appeared to handle through that. Must have been an ex figher pilots first airline flight?

 

Thats what my friend (who goes to college to fix airliners) thought. I guess the pilot thught he was in an F16.


Now heres a vid of the F16 that crashed at an airshow. Pilot ejected less than one second before impact.
http://movies.lazyeights.net/movies/usaf/TBirdCrash_Radiutside.wmv

inside view- man you can really see the pilot get launched by the ejection seat-
http://movies.lazyeights.net/movies/usaf/T-Bird_Inside.mpg

 

Tim,

The only XB-70 to crash was the second prototype built. That one was onvolved in a midair collision with an F-104 that was drawn into the XB by a wake vortex. This crash happened after the program was canceled and NASA had taken over the program. The only surving one is at the AF museum in Dayton, Ohio all i can say it for a plane that big it is easy to miss since it sits so high off of the ground. But it is a awsome piece of Aeronautical Engineering.

Rob

 

Are those Cessna T-37's? Eh, well i guess canada never has to worry about getting attacked anyway and they sure as hell arent going to attack anyone else.

 

Those are actually single engine Canadair trainers of the CAF 'Snowbirds' formation team (quite good). Sure does look like a T-37. Of course, when it comes to fighting, the CAF also flies CF-18s.....

The only time I ever flew under a bridge was ## years ago in a CF-18 from Bagotville on the St Laurance waterway in a back seat fam ride as visiting USAF lowly T-33 guy. What a plane!! Incredible nose authority and control surface effectiveness at high AOA. Canadians are great aviators and good friends.
Let me tell you, obtw, Bagotville/Chicoutime knows how to party.

 

Opossing solos helmets at Nellis AFB (Snowbirds, Blues, Thunderbirds)

 

A friend of mine was one of the solos. The two solos always wore T-shirts under their flightsuits that said, "Hated by seven, loved by millions".

 

The greatest Canadian plane ever made. What is it?

 

Reminds me of the noise abatement departure at SNA.

 

Mule, what part of Alaska are you from?

I live in Anchorage.

 

Anchorage (15th and Lake Otis area, near Merill Field). Hope to move back next year.

 

LOL!!! Gotta love it though

 

There was only 1 crash of the XB-70, when a GE photo-op went terribly wrong, and a mid-air collision occured. The problem that the Valkyrie faced was that it no longer had a role to play in the great scheme of thing in the cold war. Originally, we were concerned that the russkies would send bombers over the pole, and so that we would not have a "Mineshaft Deficit", we built bombers to send over the pole to bomb them. We just thought that if we could do it at M3, that the speed would protect the plane and crew from interception and we would be able to complete the mission. A lot of money was spent to keep this "balance", and a huge and incredible engineering feat called the Dew Line was built to allow us and our Canadian buddies to see these russian interlopers before they would have a chance to nuke us. All of this became obsolete with the advent of the ICBM, and the need for the (appropriatley painted) white elephant XB-70 was negated. The 1st one is at the USAF Museum in Dayton, and if you get the chance, check it out. it is HUGE.
Lee

 

I have a pic of an F-15E which suffered this exact problem. Port main gear did not rotate out properly, and the plane pulled hard to the left upon touchdown. The plane was destroyed, and unjuries were incurred, but thankfully no one was killed.

Lee