MAYDAY! MAYDAY! I'M ON FIRE! I'M OUT! MARK!

[DemoTex]

Amazing video of a mid-air collision during high-speed air combat maneuvering -- taken from INSIDE one of the F-15s on 3/17/2003. During training operations at Nellis AFB, Nevada, two F15 pilots collided in midair. One pilot ejected shortly before his plane crashed, the second pilot landed safely.



http://www.simradar.com/Feature/2830/F15_Mid_Air_Collision.html

[Cush]

1. wow

[havocmom]

2. Damn, Mac, thought maybe you were taking bad risks to keep warm!

Don't scar me like that! Pictured your pant leg going up in flames from some portable heater!

I'll send the link along to a youngster I know who is learning to fly :evilgrin:

[DemoTex]

4. Well, my pants have been flaming this afternoon ...

.. but that was due to the red beans and rice for lunch.

[trof]

3. When I was in pilot training, in aerodynamics class,

they showed us a video of the famous F-100 "Sabre Dance" as an example of what happens when you get behind the power curve.

We were still just in academics, and hadn't started aircraft training yet.
I had some serious second thoughts about what the course I was about to embark upon.
I'll see if I can find a clip.

[DemoTex]

5. I remember the "Sabre Dance."

More like the Danse Macabre.

[trof]

7. Can't find a clip, but got a bit of a nostalgia trip...

Looking at something about my old bird, the F-84.
Specs:
"Crew: Pilot
Number of engines: 1"

Them wuz the days.

[DemoTex]

9. The F-84, a ground-loving whore ... right?

That just pops into my mind. Probably from one of your old posts.

On edit: That also reminds me of summer-time departures from Stuart, Florida (5000' runway), in a JetStar II headed for Houston. We called it the "PINE-CONE 3 DEPARTURE." First time I flew left seat out of Stuart, the old codger in the right seat - a seasoned L-1329 captain - looked over at me as we began advancing the four power-levers and said, very distinctively, "V-1!". I knew exactly what he meant.

[slutticus]

6. Damn

That guy sounded like he stayed in the plane for a while.

I would have ditched that plane immediately

Fighter pilots have some balls man.

[trof]

8. Most of us carry them in a wheelbarrow.

Oh jeez.
Just could not resist.
<hee>

[DemoTex]

10. Indeed, sir!

I was not a fighter pilot .. you were. But I know all about fighter pilots. I watched the F-100 "Misty" fast-FACs in Vietnam, the RF-4C recce birds on the trail, the F-8 Mig-Masters from the boats, the legandary "Wild Weasels," and my favorite, the "Sandys" in their old A-1s providing close-air support for the many shoot-downs in my AO, the Ho Chi Mihn Trail in Laos. I'll carry your helment bag any day .. hell, I'll push your wheelbarrow. I know that you were Alabama Air National Guard, but the "Mistys" were a guard unit too. You never knew where you might end up in those days (unless you were GWB). Thanks for your service, Butch.

Mac