Anna Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 Nothing to do with climbing but....there are two F-15's doing low passes over the Eugene runway right now....BEAUTIFUL! What I wouldn't do for a ride in one of those! Quote
Anna Posted March 28, 2003 Author Posted March 28, 2003 If you are near the airport, I don't know how you could have missed them. They did three passes in formation about 150ft above the runway them broke out toward the north in sync...what a site! Quote
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 Yegads! The Red Baron is going to shoot down Snoopy's Sopwith Camel! LOOKOUT! Quote
sk Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 Anna said: Nothing to do with climbing but....there are two F-15's doing low passes over the Eugene runway right now....BEAUTIFUL! What I wouldn't do for a ride in one of those! I SAW THEM it's a damn good thing I spent summers arround an airforce base when I was a kid or I would have thought the house was comming down Quote
JoshK Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 Lucky, that's sweet. Reminds me of the summers here, when the blue angels rattle everything up. My personal favorite is the F-16, I'd love a ride in one of those Quote
iain Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 They're patrolling Mt. Pisgah for non-paying violators. Quote
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 As if anyone could evade the boys at the fee station! Quote
freeclimb9 Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 Do the fighter jets still roar through Joshua Tree? I remember many timesin the 80s getting way rattled on route when one ripped through at eye level. Quote
iain Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 I think some of them got in trouble for scaring animals off cliffs and stuff at some test ranges. Quote
sobo Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 I really love the F-15, but I think the coolest aircraft/climbing interaction I ever had was standing atop the Gendarme at Seneca Rocks, WV (before it fell down), belaying my partner up, and pondering the roaring sound that was growing in my ears. A split second later, I saw the exhaust from an ANG A-4 barrelling down-valley right towards me, below ridge level. He roared past, and just as he passed in front of and below me, he pulled a hard g wingover and headed up and out of the valley. He was so close to the rock I could clearly see his goggles on his face. My partner, on the back side of the Gendarme and not yet topped out, nearly shit his pants, thinking the whole pinnacle was coming down (it did, several years later, tho)! ...sobo Quote
iain Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 Similar experience hanging out in northern England out on the moors as a kid, a RAF tornado barreled right over a hill. It was totally silent until it was right on top of us and then it was deafening. The thing was hauling too, probably was doing laps around the island or something Quote
Anna Posted March 28, 2003 Author Posted March 28, 2003 You guys crack me up! Those butes where so close, so loud, so fast, so powerful....I got goosebumps! I could see the dudes in the cockpit, they were so close..... Quote
Dru Posted March 29, 2003 Posted March 29, 2003 Back around 1988 or 89 some pilot from CFB Cold Lake was taking a CF-18 to Vancouver Island and decided he'd show the plane off to his Mom in west van. well he brought it in over the North Shore at Mach 1.3 and broke some windows with the sonic boom. Hee hee. I was in high school at the time, one of our teachers wigged out, she thought the Russians were attacking. Quote
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted March 29, 2003 Posted March 29, 2003 Dru said: Back around 1988 or 89 some pilot from CFB Cold Lake was taking a CF-18 to Vancouver Island and decided he'd show the plane off to his Mom in west van. well he brought it in over the North Shore at Mach 1.3 and broke some windows with the sonic boom. Hee hee. I was in high school at the time, one of our teachers wigged out, she thought the Russians were attacking. Psh ... women! Quote
fern Posted March 29, 2003 Posted March 29, 2003 I went to a summer camp at CFB Cold Lake and got a tour of those CF-18s, and I learned that they are made of plastic and can easily be taken down with a bow and arrow . The person who did the best in the other part of the camp that I was not at even got a joyride in one as a prize ... lucky! Quote
Eastsider Posted March 29, 2003 Posted March 29, 2003 I had a backseat ride in an F-15 about 15 years ago. It was the best time I've ever had with two pairs of pants on!! I even got to fly it in the pattern a little bit (stick and rudders anyway). Damn, that was fun! Quote
sobo Posted March 29, 2003 Posted March 29, 2003 Shit! How'd ya pull that one off? Were you in the Air Force or something? ...sobo Quote
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