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Subject: Fly-by's Thought you might enjoy watching this one! The first 10 seconds shows a clip from the "Top Gun" movie when Tom Cruise does a fly-by of the control tower. The rest shows actual LOW PASS FLY-BYS. Total time: 3:29 Pay attention to the last one. It is numbered (#1) and it happened during a Blue Angels event over San Francisco. It was the pilots' last show and he had nothing to lose. Many of the boats lost windows to the sonic blast. Some of these planes were probably no more than 10 feet off the ground. There is a name for the effect shown with the 'halo' of water surrounding the A/C but I swear I cannot recall what it is. http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=19448* Lord, give me patience 'cuz if you give me strength I'll need bail money!! 'TrapperP' | ||
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That was pretty F'n cool! I kinda liked 3,2, and 1.  Aut vincere aut mori | |||
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Super kewl! Thanks for posting it! “What day is it,?" asked Pooh. "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh.” | |||
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No argument from me here! If the French pilots haven't changed since the sixties they were one wild and crazy bunch - even got to help pull one out of the Med once upon a time when he lost his 'ride' and punched out - strangely enough, he wouldn't tell us what happened. I believe the A/C was a Dassault Étendard IV(M) - not 100% sure of the designation anymore. And on another subject - the only A/C we ever encountered that we could not have shot down with a missile was French navy pilots flying WWII Corsairs! They would come up the wake of the ship so low to the water they could not be picked up out of the sea return in time to get range lock and resolution for a shot - the guns would have made short work of them [we hoped!] I don't know for sure how long the French flew the Corsair but this was in the early sixites and they sure had them then. Lord, give me patience 'cuz if you give me strength I'll need bail money!! 'TrapperP' | |||
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Yeah, but no. 6 and, most importantly, numero uno are executed by USN F & A 18s. Blue Angels. No. 1 was at Fleet Week in San Francisco a few years back. How this one never made the cut I'll never know. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrDWYOlLA-w
I don't know the name either. Does it need a name? That's just the shock wave shedding from the aircraft as it's about to transistion through the speed of sound.  You get used to seeing it during Carrier Strike Group (formerly Carrier Battle Group) firepower demonstrations. It's when you know, if you havn't already figured out, to stick your fingers in your ears, because a big boom is coming when the airplane leaves it behind. | |||
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Edmund, it's nothing new .The celebration in Paris of the WWI victory included a huge march of all the military units - except the pilots. As the troops went through the Arc de Triumphe one angry pilot flew his plane through the Arc !!  I've seen the film so it's probably somewhere on YouTube. | |||
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The best one is not on tape, fortunately for the involved... The second day after the St Louis Arch was opened, a friend from NYC flew a Stearman under it. Rich | |||
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The absolute best one was the three SAA 747's with the wild painted one in the lead in a low pass over the stadium in I believe Pretoria. I have never seen a more impressive low pass. Tried to get the video but was never able to get one. I also remember driving along the Interstate in south Texas about 15 years ago and a B52 came over at zero altitude running I figure flat out and followed VERY closely by a B1 in full swept back configuration. Directly over my head and gone before I had time to jump. The 747's were still the most memorable. SCI Life Member NRA Patron Life Member DRSS | |||
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Godefroy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIZzkq5Y8q0 | |||
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Looks like a tradition of the Aéronavaleto fly planes long after they have been retired everywhere else, Corsair, Crusader.. The Super Etendard M have flown really late as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFTfQaFzQWQ | |||
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I was always partial to this one..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDDDKnNhuE ...as well as the opening scene from the movie "Always"...a chick flick, but with great flying scenes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...TvYzc&feature=relmfu | |||
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It's caused by Transonic shock wave separation from the airframe. Most often referred to as a shock wave Halo or transonic condensation. What ever you want to call it, IT LOOKS COOL!! | |||
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My all time favorite! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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always remember the time when i was hunting elk in the gila in new mexico. was about 2/3 the way up the mountain when a f16 came by about 30' underneath me. scentlock clothes wouldn't have helped the hunt a bit after that | |||
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Good 'un, but that ain't a "float plane." That's a P Boat. (PBY-5A). Near and dear to my heart. | |||
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