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Post by FLCardinalFan on Feb 11, 2022 18:37:18 GMT -7
And this one:
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Post by Drachir on Feb 11, 2022 19:46:36 GMT -7
That's funny stuff. When I was in the Marine Corps pilots were told not to sonic boom because of the G force. A lot of times they ignored it and would just go straight up as fast as they could. When they landed this pilots would be in trouble.
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Post by End Zone on Feb 12, 2022 6:48:23 GMT -7
Okay, I will take the bait and hook. I cannot help myself! These videos are fun entertainment for high-speed aircraft enthusiasts. Geez, almost nothing is more thrilling than watching a modern jet flash by at Mach-plus and wavetop level, and then feeling a shockwave crush your lungs and the sound pierce your eardrums. The thing that beats the ground-based entertainment experience is flying in the aircraft that caused the shockwave. Been there, done that in the Navy's trusty F-14 Tomcat. My highest speed was 910 mph, full afterburner throttle, just above San Clemente Island, SOCAL. I read a Quora article written by a former F14 RIO that said he test flew in a slick (no rails, no tanks) Tomcat on a PMCF (post maintenance check flight) and the jet hit 2.34 Mach (max Grumman design specs) at 40K altitude and was still accelerating when the pilot backed off the throttles (afterburners) due to fuel nearing Bingo state--need to return to base or air-refuel. Truth be told, there is no difference between subsonic and sonic flight inside the cockpit, except that the earth's surface is going by really fast. One tiny stick error, mechanical malfunction, or bird strike can doom the aircrew in a microsecond. Fighter jet ejection seats may not function at Mach speed and if the seat does function, there is a guarantee that the pilot will suffer severe injury or death. I think the old X-1 test aircraft ejection seat was designed for up to Mach 3 speed. That seat was the exception. At that speed, the wind blast on the pilot would feel like a hitting a solid wall. Air friction would cause flight suit fabric to burn or melt and exposed skin and muscle to just peel off. Also these videos represent grossly out-of-date weapons technology. Hypersonic missiles are in development by US, Russia, and China manufacturers and now filling weapons inventories. The hypersonic missiles can hit speeds up to 10 times faster than the world's fastest jets, up to Mach 27 for Russia's newly deployed conventional and nuclear "Avangard" missile. At Mach 27, the human eye probably will not see the missile. Defenses have problems detecting hypersonic missiles at speeds above Mach 5. Lasers might beat some hypersonic missiles inbound maneuvers; dumb bullets have zero chance. For now, expect the hypersonic missiles to mostly hit their targets. Then the party is over. Saw this ad for a parachute. Interesting.
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Post by Drachir on Feb 12, 2022 8:55:16 GMT -7
Okay, I will take the bait and hook. I cannot help myself! These videos are fun entertainment for high-speed aircraft enthusiasts. Geez, almost nothing is more thrilling than watching a modern jet flash by at Mach-plus and wavetop level, and then feeling a shockwave crush your lungs and the sound pierce your eardrums. The thing that beats the ground-based entertainment experience is flying in the aircraft that caused the shockwave. Been there, done that in the Navy's trusty F-14 Tomcat. My highest speed was 910 mph, full afterburner throttle, just above San Clemente Island, SOCAL. I read a Quora article written by a former F14 RIO that said he test flew in a slick (no rails, no tanks) Tomcat on a PMCF (post maintenance check flight) and the jet hit 2.34 Mach (max Grumman design specs) at 40K altitude and was still accelerating when the pilot backed off the throttles (afterburners) due to fuel nearing Bingo state--need to return to base or air-refuel. Truth be told, there is no difference between subsonic and sonic flight inside the cockpit, except that the earth's surface is going by really fast. One tiny stick error, mechanical malfunction, or bird strike can doom the aircrew in a microsecond. Fighter jet ejection seats may not function at Mach speed and if the seat does function, there is a guarantee that the pilot will suffer severe injury or death. I think the old X-1 test aircraft ejection seat was designed for up to Mach 3 speed. That seat was the exception. At that speed, the wind blast on the pilot would feel like a hitting a solid wall. Air friction would cause flight suit fabric to burn or melt and exposed skin and muscle to just peel off. Also these videos represent grossly out-of-date weapons technology. Hypersonic missiles are in development by US, Russia, and China manufacturers and now filling weapons inventories. The hypersonic missiles can hit speeds up to 10 times faster than the world's fastest jets, up to Mach 27 for Russia's newly deployed conventional and nuclear "Avangard" missile. At Mach 27, the human eye probably will not see the missile. Defenses have problems detecting hypersonic missiles at speeds above Mach 5. Lasers might beat some hypersonic missiles inbound maneuvers; dumb bullets have zero chance. For now, expect the hypersonic missiles to mostly hit their targets. Then the party is over. Saw this ad for a parachute. Interesting. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> That reminds me of an old wise tale. “If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving isn’t for you.”
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Post by FLCardinalFan on Feb 12, 2022 17:34:00 GMT -7
Okay, I will take the bait and hook. I cannot help myself! These videos are fun entertainment for high-speed aircraft enthusiasts. Geez, almost nothing is more thrilling than watching a modern jet flash by at Mach-plus and wavetop level, and then feeling a shockwave crush your lungs and the sound pierce your eardrums. The thing that beats the ground-based entertainment experience is flying in the aircraft that caused the shockwave. Been there, done that in the Navy's trusty F-14 Tomcat. My highest speed was 910 mph, full afterburner throttle, just above San Clemente Island, SOCAL. I read a Quora article written by a former F14 RIO that said he test flew in a slick (no rails, no tanks) Tomcat on a PMCF (post maintenance check flight) and the jet hit 2.34 Mach (max Grumman design specs) at 40K altitude and was still accelerating when the pilot backed off the throttles (afterburners) due to fuel nearing Bingo state--need to return to base or air-refuel. Truth be told, there is no difference between subsonic and supersonic flight inside the cockpit, except that the earth's surface is going by really fast. One tiny stick error, mechanical malfunction, or bird strike can doom the aircrew in a microsecond. Fighter jet ejection seats may not function at Mach speed and if the seat does function, there is a guarantee that the pilot will suffer severe injury or death. I think the old X-1 test aircraft ejection seat was designed for up to Mach 3 speed. That seat was the exception. At that speed, the wind blast on the pilot would feel like a hitting a solid wall. Air friction would cause flight suit fabric to burn or melt and exposed skin and muscle to just peel off. Also these videos represent grossly out-of-date weapons technology. Hypersonic missiles are in development by US, Russia, and China manufacturers and now filling weapons inventories. The hypersonic missiles can hit speeds up to 10 times faster than the world's fastest jets, up to Mach 27 for Russia's newly deployed conventional and nuclear "Avangard" missile. At Mach 27, the human eye probably will not see the missile. Defenses have problems detecting hypersonic missiles at speeds above Mach 5. Lasers might beat some hypersonic missiles inbound maneuvers; dumb bullets have zero chance. For now, expect the hypersonic missiles to mostly hit their targets. Then the party is over. Saw this ad for a parachute. Interesting. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> Can you explain the warping of light? In the one video The 1st video talking about the SR 71 FLCF's Fav plane
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Post by thomas cat on Feb 12, 2022 19:34:54 GMT -7
Those two videos about a sonic boom are very cool. I thought I would add a couple of sonic booms videos that one may not think about...I once had a car almost this fast....well....maybe not.....lol And this one is even weirder... A couple things about sonic booms... Some people think it's a single boom when something goes from sub sonic to supersonic. It is not. Once something goes supersonic, it's a continuous boom. It only seems like a single boom because you are stationary, and you hear a momentary boom as it passes by you. The continuous boom is still being made, it's just that it has move past you. The boom will be heard as long as the plane is supersonic, and you are in its path. It's not about when it went supersonic, but the shockwave it generates as long as it is supersonic. "Truth be told, there is no difference between subsonic and supersonic flight inside the cockpit"
This is something I aways wondered about. I can understand that inside the cockpit, you would not hear the boom since...well you are traveling faster than the speed of sound, so the boom is always slightly behind You. This is what I wonder about. When you go from supersonic to subsonic, does the boom catch up with you? One other thing. For the first time in maybe decades, I heard a sonic boom right here in Illinois. From my local newspaper
The thing is many people had no idea what it was and was freaking out. From youth, I remembered when it was somewhat common to hear these booms and while not certain, I was not alarmed, it sounded exactly like I remembered.
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Post by End Zone on Feb 13, 2022 7:44:15 GMT -7
Okay, I will take the bait and hook. I cannot help myself! These videos are fun entertainment for high-speed aircraft enthusiasts. Geez, almost nothing is more thrilling than watching a modern jet flash by at Mach-plus and wavetop level, and then feeling a shockwave crush your lungs and the sound pierce your eardrums. The thing that beats the ground-based entertainment experience is flying in the aircraft that caused the shockwave. Been there, done that in the Navy's trusty F-14 Tomcat. My highest speed was 910 mph, full afterburner throttle, just above San Clemente Island, SOCAL. I read a Quora article written by a former F14 RIO that said he test flew in a slick (no rails, no tanks) Tomcat on a PMCF (post maintenance check flight) and the jet hit 2.34 Mach (max Grumman design specs) at 40K altitude and was still accelerating when the pilot backed off the throttles (afterburners) due to fuel nearing Bingo state--need to return to base or air-refuel. Truth be told, there is no difference between subsonic and sonic flight inside the cockpit, except that the earth's surface is going by really fast. One tiny stick error, mechanical malfunction, or bird strike can doom the aircrew in a microsecond. Fighter jet ejection seats may not function at Mach speed and if the seat does function, there is a guarantee that the pilot will suffer severe injury or death. I think the old X-1 test aircraft ejection seat was designed for up to Mach 3 speed. That seat was the exception. At that speed, the wind blast on the pilot would feel like a hitting a solid wall. Air friction would cause flight suit fabric to burn or melt and exposed skin and muscle to just peel off. Also these videos represent grossly out-of-date weapons technology. Hypersonic missiles are in development by US, Russia, and China manufacturers and now filling weapons inventories. The hypersonic missiles can hit speeds up to 10 times faster than the world's fastest jets, up to Mach 27 for Russia's newly deployed conventional and nuclear "Avangard" missile. At Mach 27, the human eye probably will not see the missile. Defenses have problems detecting hypersonic missiles at speeds above Mach 5. Lasers might beat some hypersonic missiles inbound maneuvers; dumb bullets have zero chance. For now, expect the hypersonic missiles to mostly hit their targets. Then the party is over. Saw this ad for a parachute. Interesting. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> Can you explain the warping of light? In the one video The 1st video talking about the SR 71 FLCF's Fav plane Yes. The light (photon track) is compressed, scattered, or distorted between the source and camera lens. The severe air shock wave caused by Mach-plus speed causes the light to change direction. Think about a mirage and heated air changing a photon track. The principle is the same. Another example is light from a distant star passing by a Black Hole body before striking earth. The Black Hole gravity is so intense that the light (photon) track is bent, or distorted as it passes. Sometimes the distortion can magnify a light source. This is called lensing. The new Webb telescope is going to amaze us with its images and subsequent astrophysicist's analysis. The Webb telescope will be fully operational this summer in the IR (infrared) light spectrum.
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Post by End Zone on Feb 13, 2022 7:58:50 GMT -7
Those two videos about a sonic boom are very cool. I thought I would add a couple of sonic booms videos that one may not think about...I once had a car almost this fast....well....maybe not.....lol And this one is even weirder... A couple things about sonic booms... Some people think it's a single boom when something goes from sub sonic to supersonic. It is not. Once something goes supersonic, it's a continuous boom. It only seems like a single boom because you are stationary, and you hear a momentary boom as it passes by you. The continuous boom is still being made, it's just that it has move past you. The boom will be heard as long as the plane is supersonic, and you are in its path. It's not about when it went supersonic, but the shockwave it generates as long as it is supersonic. "Truth be told, there is no difference between subsonic and supersonic flight inside the cockpit"
This is something I aways wondered about. I can understand that inside the cockpit, you would not hear the boom since...well you are traveling faster than the speed of sound, so the boom is always slightly behind You. This is what I wonder about. When you go from supersonic to subsonic, does the boom catch up with you? One other thing. For the first time in maybe decades, I heard a sonic boom right here in Illinois. From my local newspaper
The thing is many people had no idea what it was and was freaking out. From youth, I remembered when it was somewhat common to hear these booms and while not certain, I was not alarmed, it sounded exactly like I remembered. In the 1950s and ’60s, Americans filed some 40,000 claims against the Air Force, whose supersonic jets were making a ruckus over land. I used to hear sonic booms every week in Illinois and Missouri near AF bases. People feared the boom noise was damaging property and health. Then in 1973, the FAA banned overland supersonic commercial flights because of sonic booms caused by British Air, Air France, and a very few other highspeed air carriers. In recent years, the US government has removed supersonic flight restrictions for certain national security activities. Overland sonic booms are rare but happen. Here in SE Virginia, I occasionally hear a far-off sonic booms coming from the direction of the Atlantic Ocean and Navy training ranges far out to sea, usually over 25-50 miles away. If the wind is from the SE, the sonic boom noise sounds like big-gun artillery. You know the dogfights are intense.
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Post by FLCardinalFan on Feb 13, 2022 9:16:08 GMT -7
Can you explain the warping of light? In the one video The 1st video talking about the SR 71 FLCF's Fav plane Yes. The light (photon track) is compressed, scattered, or distorted between the source and camera lens. The severe air shock wave caused by Mach-plus speed causes the light to change direction. Think about a mirage and heated air changing a photon track. The principle is the same. Another example is light from a distant star passing by a Black Hole body before striking earth. The Black Hole gravity is so intense that the light (photon) track is bent, or distorted as it passes. Sometimes the distortion can magnify a light source. This is called lensing. The new Webb telescope is going to amaze us with its images and subsequent astrophysicist's analysis. The Webb telescope will be fully operational this summer in the IR (infrared) light spectrum. Thanks, For the insight and knowledge about the light distortion, I was standing at Cape Kennedy when the moonshot went up I have never heard something so loud and earth shaking as that Saturn rocket taking our men to the moon. That kind of stuff fascinates my mind. I will be looking for that telescope info when it comes out,'' Enjoyed your comments
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Post by End Zone on Feb 14, 2022 6:13:48 GMT -7
Yes. The light (photon track) is compressed, scattered, or distorted between the source and camera lens. The severe air shock wave caused by Mach-plus speed causes the light to change direction. Think about a mirage and heated air changing a photon track. The principle is the same. Another example is light from a distant star passing by a Black Hole body before striking earth. The Black Hole gravity is so intense that the light (photon) track is bent, or distorted as it passes. Sometimes the distortion can magnify a light source. This is called lensing. The new Webb telescope is going to amaze us with its images and subsequent astrophysicist's analysis. The Webb telescope will be fully operational this summer in the IR (infrared) light spectrum. Thanks, For the insight and knowledge about the light distortion, I was standing at Cape Kennedy when the moonshot went up I have never heard something so loud and earth shaking as that Saturn rocket taking our men to the moon. That kind of stuff fascinates my mind. I will be looking for that telescope info when it comes out,'' Enjoyed your comments Back at you, FLCF! Musk's new "Starship" reusable rocket is much bigger than NASA's former Saturn V one-way rocket, bigger by dozens of feet taller and many tons heavier. Starship launches will routinely happen if all goes according to his Moon and Mars city plans and retired folks in RVs should prepare for plenty more booming and shaking at the Canaveral National Seashore. Enjoy the fascinating space events.
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Post by FLCardinalFan on Feb 14, 2022 17:05:10 GMT -7
Thanks, For the insight and knowledge about the light distortion, I was standing at Cape Kennedy when the moonshot went up I have never heard something so loud and earth shaking as that Saturn rocket taking our men to the moon. That kind of stuff fascinates my mind. I will be looking for that telescope info when it comes out,'' Enjoyed your comments Back at you, FLCF! Musk's new "Starship" reusable rocket is much bigger than NASA's former Saturn V one-way rocket, bigger by dozens of feet taller and many tons heavier. Starship launches will routinely happen if all goes according to his Moon and Mars city plans and retired folks in RVs should prepare for plenty more booming and shaking at the Canaveral National Seashore. Enjoy the fascinating space events. Imagine this PT, A couple of hundred years from now or sooner. Some neighbors ask where you going for the Summer Clark? Ah well the missus and me thought we would take another Mars ultimate excursion. Where ya heeded when you get there? Well it may takes us a few months but we wanna see Olympus Mons. We have some friends who have a Summer home over by Hadley Crater. Great place for rock climbing. So we will stay with them. Temperature is 72 year round there. With the Atmospheric converter they have its is always like spring, friend: Olympus Mons is the size of Arizona Clark No problem, I got that covered with my new radar guided Martian Solar Powered Utility vehicle. It has a 3 year recharge cycle. Next year they will have the 5 year recaharger for sale You just pull up to the docking station and It vacuum attaches right in. You dont have to even pull off the old unit. friend How far you gonna go into it? Clark At least a few miles into the volcano. The Dietallic Shroud i bought as an option allows you to do that. Friend Is it safe? Clark Never have ever had a Shroud failure they said in 115 years. I'll Crypto Light photos to you when we get there Friend Cool just like being there Nothing like a 5D image. Just a few FLCF thoughts LOL
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Post by End Zone on Feb 15, 2022 10:49:05 GMT -7
You know your Mars geography! You get an A+ on the quiz. Few know that Mars is the 4th rock from the Sun, and even fewer know that Mars is considerably smaller than the Earth (2106 miles radius v. 3959 miles radius). About that Olympus Mons volcano, that hill is the largest shield volcano known to exist in the solar system, measuring in at approximately 72,000 feet in elevation, or about 3 times the height of Mt Everest! Pack a lunch and plenty O2 if you plan to drive or hike the summit in the future. Also, Olympus Mons is so big and so heavy that it causes Mars to wobble slightly as the planet rotates on its axis. Some theorize that Olympus Mons slowly moved to the equatorial region during many millions of Martian years. That slow trek would have occurred back when Mars had a molten basalt mantle. Mars crust is now locked forever.
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Post by Drachir on Feb 15, 2022 11:32:49 GMT -7
Those two videos about a sonic boom are very cool. I thought I would add a couple of sonic booms videos that one may not think about...I once had a car almost this fast....well....maybe not.....lol And this one is even weirder... A couple things about sonic booms... Some people think it's a single boom when something goes from sub sonic to supersonic. It is not. Once something goes supersonic, it's a continuous boom. It only seems like a single boom because you are stationary, and you hear a momentary boom as it passes by you. The continuous boom is still being made, it's just that it has move past you. The boom will be heard as long as the plane is supersonic, and you are in its path. It's not about when it went supersonic, but the shockwave it generates as long as it is supersonic. "Truth be told, there is no difference between subsonic and supersonic flight inside the cockpit"
This is something I aways wondered about. I can understand that inside the cockpit, you would not hear the boom since...well you are traveling faster than the speed of sound, so the boom is always slightly behind You. This is what I wonder about. When you go from supersonic to subsonic, does the boom catch up with you? One other thing. For the first time in maybe decades, I heard a sonic boom right here in Illinois. From my local newspaper
The thing is many people had no idea what it was and was freaking out. From youth, I remembered when it was somewhat common to hear these booms and while not certain, I was not alarmed, it sounded exactly like I remembered. In the 1950s and ’60s, Americans filed some 40,000 claims against the Air Force, whose supersonic jets were making a ruckus over land. I used to hear sonic booms every week in Illinois and Missouri near AF bases. People feared the boom noise was damaging property and health. Then in 1973, the FAA banned overland supersonic commercial flights because of sonic booms caused by British Air, Air France, and a very few other highspeed air carriers. In recent years, the US government has removed supersonic flight restrictions for certain national security activities. Overland sonic booms are rare but happen. Here in SE Virginia, I occasionally hear a far-off sonic booms coming from the direction of the Atlantic Ocean and Navy training ranges far out to sea, usually over 25-50 miles away. If the wind is from the SE, the sonic boom noise sounds like big-gun artillery. You know the dogfights are intense. When I worked at VMAT-102 these pilots were often forcing sonic booms and getting in trouble. That T at the end stands for training squadron. Yuma, AZ is where all the Marine Pilots trained. The instructors were the worse because when they had sonic boom we would have to check the A-4's over thoroughly for stress fracture cracks on the metal. Well it didn't really affect me because we were into destruction being an A-4 ordnance-man. LOL. Not many civilian jobs for those in armament. I mean when was the last time you seen a commercial jet loaded with ordnance? Theoretically, I guess the fuel could serve as armament since that is what Napalm is made out of JP5.
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Post by End Zone on Feb 17, 2022 5:21:28 GMT -7
In the 1950s and ’60s, Americans filed some 40,000 claims against the Air Force, whose supersonic jets were making a ruckus over land. I used to hear sonic booms every week in Illinois and Missouri near AF bases. People feared the boom noise was damaging property and health. Then in 1973, the FAA banned overland supersonic commercial flights because of sonic booms caused by British Air, Air France, and a very few other highspeed air carriers. In recent years, the US government has removed supersonic flight restrictions for certain national security activities. Overland sonic booms are rare but happen. Here in SE Virginia, I occasionally hear a far-off sonic booms coming from the direction of the Atlantic Ocean and Navy training ranges far out to sea, usually over 25-50 miles away. If the wind is from the SE, the sonic boom noise sounds like big-gun artillery. You know the dogfights are intense. When I worked at VMAT-102 these pilots were often forcing sonic booms and getting in trouble. That T at the end stands for training squadron. Yuma, AZ is where all the Marine Pilots trained. The instructors were the worse because when they had sonic boom we would have to check the A-4's over thoroughly for stress fracture cracks on the metal. Well it didn't really affect me because we were into destruction being an A-4 ordnance-man. LOL. Not many civilian jobs for those in armament. I mean when was the last time you seen a commercial jet loaded with ordnance? Theoretically, I guess the fuel could serve as armament since that is what Napalm is made out of JP5. When I was assigned to USN Air Wing TWO, CVW-2, NAS Miramar, CA, 1989-1991, I was offered a backseat ACM (air combat maneuver) flight in an A-4 Skyhawk with to the aggressor squadron VC-8 "Bandits." The Bandits pilots were all Vietnam air combat veterans and trained new Topgun fighter pilots. Everyone was a 'Maverick' type in these Navy squadrons! Anyway, I refused the sortie. Why? I took a spin in the A-4 flight trainer and did not like the touch and feel. And, the Skyhawk cockpit felt way too tight for me, a 6'2" 210 lbs stud. A guy named CDR John "Bug" Roach offered the ACM flight. He was a fun guy and we shared a few afternoons in the Miramar Naval Air Station O'Club bar. In many ways, Bug and I were alike: age, looks, swagger. Bug died on October 2, 1991, when during a SOCAL sortie over the Pacific, his A-4 single engine jet experienced engine failure. Bug radioed base ops at NAS Coronado that he was ejecting and then signed off. I learned later from the accident investigation that Bug's chute had malfunctioned. The A-4 ejection seat impacted the jet's windscreen which had blown off a micro-second earlier. Bug likely died instantly. His career story is below. Interesting reading for those who love to fly. www.findagrave.com/memorial/27393437/john-james-roachA-4 "Bandit"
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Post by Drachir on Feb 17, 2022 9:56:25 GMT -7
When I worked at VMAT-102 these pilots were often forcing sonic booms and getting in trouble. That T at the end stands for training squadron. Yuma, AZ is where all the Marine Pilots trained. The instructors were the worse because when they had sonic boom we would have to check the A-4's over thoroughly for stress fracture cracks on the metal. Well it didn't really affect me because we were into destruction being an A-4 ordnance-man. LOL. Not many civilian jobs for those in armament. I mean when was the last time you seen a commercial jet loaded with ordnance? Theoretically, I guess the fuel could serve as armament since that is what Napalm is made out of JP5. When I was assigned to USN Air Wing TWO, CVW-2, NAS Miramar, CA, 1989-1991, I was offered a backseat ACM (air combat maneuver) flight in an A-4 Skyhawk with to the aggressor squadron VC-8 "Bandits." The Bandits pilots were all Vietnam air combat veterans and trained new Topgun fighter pilots. Everyone was a 'Maverick' type in these Navy squadrons! Anyway, I refused the sortie. Why? I took a spin in the A-4 flight trainer and did not like the touch and feel. And, the Skyhawk cockpit felt way too tight for me, a 6'2" 210 lbs stud. A guy named CDR John "Bug" Roach offered the ACM flight. He was a fun guy and we shared a few afternoons in the Miramar Naval Air Station O'Club bar. In many ways, Bug and I were alike: age, looks, swagger. Bug died on October 2, 1991, when during a SOCAL sortie over the Pacific, his A-4 single engine jet experienced engine failure. Bug radioed base ops at NAS Coronado that he was ejecting and then signed off. I learned later from the accident investigation that Bug's chute had malfunctioned. The A-4 ejection seat impacted the jet's windscreen which had blown off a micro-second earlier. Bug likely died instantly. His career story is below. Interesting reading for those who love to fly. www.findagrave.com/memorial/27393437/john-james-roachA-4 "Bandit" View AttachmentWOW that was impressive. I went to high school with a guy named John Roach but he died my Senior year from electrocution. We had three people die horrible deaths in 3 days. John from electrocution, another fell in a hot oil pit several feet deep and another got ran over and crushed on a back of a hay trailer. I never trusted those packing the chutes for the A-4 or the F-5 for that matter. I seen them pack em and and arm with 2 cads (cartridges use to fire them off.) I also can appreciate the flight deck and the short landing strip on a carrier. Not for me to trust a tail hook on what looks like a giant rubber band.
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