Don't Flinch!!!
 

Nah, you wouldn't flinch either ..........

aye! CRANK your volume.

YouTube - VERY low Harrier ("I won't flinch..")


YouTube - Spitfire Fly LOW over reporters head.


AND you GOTTA love an awesome tank killer aircraft that is built AROUND the 30mm gattling gun. Friggin aye, those are 1 1/4" rounds.

YouTube - LOWASS A-10 FlyBY!! HighQuality.

YouTube - A-10 Gatling Gun Test

YouTube - A10 Run Against Taliban Hideout


Damn I'm on a roll.

You have to love the inter-web.

YouTube - Blackbird Low Fly-by

Lucky bastards that got to film those. The first one was really funny, "I'm not going to flinch!" Hah, he didn't flinch, he crapped his pants.

I've seen the one with Alan DeCadenet before, it cracks me up every time. Just imagine how that engine sounded as is flew over

I bet that A-10 flyby was pretty darn scary, and I suspect the pilot flew extra low for the camera man. Amazing planes, but not nearly as amazing as having a blackbird buzz you.

You guys need to see things from the other way around... from the cockpit!

Must be absolutely thrilling to fly low level like that.
Some guys have all the fun - not fair.
I'd liked to be buzzed again by a low level A1E Skyraider Sandy. :eek:
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Douglas A1E Skyraider take off and landing
YouTube - Douglas A1E Skyraider take off and landing

Wright 3350 Radial Engine
YouTube - Wright 3350 Radial Engine

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Don,

A very good friend of mine flew "Sandy's" during the early part of Viet Nam. He was in the Wright Patt Air Force museum a few years back (was there with him) and he saw a BU number that rang bells. He returned home and sure enough, the A-1 Spad at WP was one that he flew in 1964/65 with the Air Commando's in Viet Nam. Its in Dayton because its the very same airplane that Bernie Fisher flew when he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

A-1 Skyraider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Douglas got this airplane right the first time!

Joe A

Okay Joe, so show it like it is from the first person perspective..............

what's the cockpit and flight deck under your seat?

That one with the Spitfire is funny, the one with the SR-71 is pretty crazy; that had to have been one of the most ahead of its time machines ever.

I think I even ducked a little....

Great links, thanks!

One of my co-workers flew F-102's and OV-10's out of Japan a long time ago....he was telling me about the SR-71's there. What a rush. The Japanese called it the Habu.

One of my other bud's does airshows in his Pitts...i'll see if I can dig up some of his vids.

btw: all of these vids can be downloaded here:

Aviation Videos - bandwidth courtesy of the Alexis Park Inn & Suites

Joe, have you read Richard Drury's "My Secret War"? If not, nab a copy somewhere... you will be very glad you did... mixed in with all the politics and BS of Nam, there is a lot of beautiful descriptive writing by a guy who obviously "got" the romance of being up in the sky all alone.

(Just tried to paste in the Amazon link... not working)

This one has to take the price if you ask me


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Wish I could. When I was flying fun planes the video camera's were too big to hand hold and fly at the same time. Am as well still pissed at myself for not getting any videos of my parents before they passed, so really wished I had a video camera at many times in my life.

Some of the most fun I ever had was flying cropdusting and fire fighting aircraft years ago early on in my career. We had lots of old WW2 aircraft from the P2V Neptune and B-26's. Also had B-17's but I never got to play with that one. Back in the early 1970's WW2 aircraft were still everywhere and not expensive. Also gas was well under .50c a gallon, so you could afford to fly them.

HnT,

Yes have read the book and its a very good one. There are several other excellent books about this time frame.

Joe