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fr Offline Whoey

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silly spectators...
on: May 12, 2016, 07:31:49 PM
I like watching planes flyby too, but putting yourself in the path of an incoming plane is just stupid, even if you aren't on the actual runway, there's too many variables that can go wrong (as we see here)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw7--I9kOSM

taken from: http://worldwarwings.com/c-160-pilot-makes-huge-mistake-nearly-wipes-out-family?a=mk&var=ww2-dumb-dumb
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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #1 on: May 12, 2016, 07:43:35 PM
You should see some rally videos from the eighties
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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #2 on: May 12, 2016, 08:00:29 PM
You should see some rally videos from the eighties
and more recent than the 80s.  :facepalm:
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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #3 on: May 12, 2016, 09:10:03 PM
In high school I was cycling along a road that went along the end of the runway at the local military base just as a C-130 came down for a landing.   It was still a hundred or so feet above me but the vibration and prop wash was still enough to almost knock me off my bike.

I don't want to think of what is like to actually be on the runway when it comes in!

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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #4 on: May 13, 2016, 04:27:39 AM
You wouldn't catch me at Maho Beach St Maarten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlTNj6IWey4#t=249.831305
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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #5 on: May 13, 2016, 01:17:55 PM


I couldn't find better pics. We've had some car accidents near Eleftherios Venizelos Athens airport because drivers got distraught or distracted by an airplane rolling on the brigde above them to get to the terminal.
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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #6 on: May 13, 2016, 01:26:56 PM
I think I might be a bit concerned too, with a jumbo jet rolling along right over my head!    :ahhh

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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #7 on: May 23, 2016, 03:31:09 AM
Try driving a forklift on a service road that's close to the runway, when a C-17 is taking off! :ahhh   When you're focused on the load, and all of a sudden that thing is roaring right beside you, it really gets the heart pumping!!


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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #8 on: May 23, 2016, 03:39:57 AM
I'll bet that's a highly effective way to wake up in the morning!

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Reply #9 on: May 24, 2016, 06:50:04 PM
I'll bet that's a highly effective way to wake up in the morning!

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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #10 on: May 24, 2016, 07:02:00 PM
I wasn't driving a forklift at the time but had flyovers with CF-18's in the past...

not nearly as much joy as this classic gives...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvIJvPj_pjE

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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #11 on: May 24, 2016, 11:04:12 PM
Great video.  Always a classic!

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Reply #12 on: May 25, 2016, 12:57:22 AM
That was brrrrrrrreath taking.

Yep...going to hell for that one.  :D
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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #13 on: May 25, 2016, 02:45:08 AM
Yes.

Yes you are.

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Re: silly spectators...
Reply #14 on: May 25, 2016, 06:47:19 AM
I used to ride my bike around the flightline on Scott AFB. There were lights on the road that told you to stop if there was an incoming plane. I had one day when I was going around and a C-17 was parked at the end of the runway, no warning lights on, so I rode on. Then it throttled up and i got what felt like a 70mph jet wash knocking me over.

Another time, we were coming back to base after a lunch out somewhere, and were on this little hill outside of base when a B2 buzzed about 40 feet over our heads. I think we all browned out shorts. We heard absolutely nothing till it crested that hill.

When I was sent to tech school, we were put in the third floor of a dorm that had no air conditioning. It was Keesler AFB, in Biloxi Mississippi, in July. Opening the windows just let the sounds of the A-10s doing touch-and-go's on the flightline in. That's one of those sleeping conditions that was so miserable that it's hilarious... now. And it could have been worse. A10's turbofans are pretty quiet compared to the F15 or F18.

Mostly on Scott, there were AMC planes, so transports. But there were a fair number of F-18s that'd land for fueling, and those motherfrackers will shake you out of your bunk when they throttle up and hit the afterburner when they leave. SMURF THEM SMURFING A-HOLES! I swear to God they just did it to screw with everyone on the ground.

It's funny, thinking back on it now, how used to the sound of big aircraft I got.


 

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