Aircraft pics

[kwhizz]

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Me thinks someone is in a bit of trouble?

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I had they had "Proof" of Insurance......LOL

Ken

[Judgeinator]

I found this picture by all of my old flight books in the basement. This is a Gee Bee R-1 which was flown by many daredevil pilots for the Thompson Trophy. One of these pilots was the famed Jimmy Doolittle of the Doolittle Raid on Japan in 1942. This plane was the fastest plane in 1932, flying at a speed of 476 KPH. It must have been amazing to fly...

[nuch_ss396]

Talk about an engine with wings.....

Nuch

[427TJ]

Delmar Benjamin built an exact replica of the Gee Bee (Granville Brothers) and disproved all the myths about how dangerous the airplane was. The Gee Bee was a very hot ship for its day and men like Doolittle mastered it only through careful piloting and experience. Benjamin proved that the Gee Bee, like any airplane, is only as dangerous as the experience level of its pilot. If you were lucky enough to see Benjamin's aerial demonstration with his replica Gee Bee then you know that it suffered decades of misunderstanding by the myth-makers. You might try YouTube to see if someone posted any of Benjamin's Gee Bee performances--they are spectacular.

[kwhizz]

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Me thinks someone is in a bit of trouble?

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I had they had "Proof" of Insurance......LOL

Ken

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It was supposed to say "I HOPE they had proof of Insurance".............Duhhhhhhh!!!

Ken

[427TJ]

Got this from a pilot buddy. Caption said that this happened at an airshow in KS in 1990. The pilot misjudged his altitude as he came down the back side of a loop and saw that ground impact was imminent. Looks like he dropped the wing flaps as he pulled hard on the stick to avoid ground impact and almost certain death. Tail supposedly dug a 12-inch furrow on the field. Aircraft is a surplus Russian/Soviet MiG-17, one of two MiG types that gave American pilots fits over Vietnam, the other being the MiG-21. (The earlier, non-afterburning MiG-15 fought in Korea in 1950-53.)

[47Hammer]

Wow! The pucker factor must have been at an all time high there, "10" pushing cloth!

[427TJ]

Yes Bart, that is a perfect example of a VERY HIGH pucker factor. Realize too that in the photo the jet is traveling parallel to the ground. The pilot has pulled hard aft on the stick and the jet's angle of attack (angle of the wing to the line of movement, parallel to the airfield surface in this shot) is very high. If he had anything in his bowels and bladder it undoubtedly made a hurried exit into his flight suit during this maneuver/recovery. He is what pilots call a "lucky bastard."

[ANDY M]

Roger that!

[m22mike]

F22 Raptor Video

http://www.f22-raptor.com/media/vide...ow_Langley.wmv