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And quite emotional Steve was at the end there, I would be too after such a profound experience, in fact I'd be crying like a baby. 

9+ G he pulled and got some stick time himself. 

 

 

 

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A little different and just as exciting...almost.  But if I had a choice I'd rather fly with Tom Cruise and do some mountain flying through the peaks and valleys.

Noel

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Who is this guy Stevio? Did a google search and got lots of different hits. Is he some type of celebrity?

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2 hours ago, cmpbellsjc said:

@martin-w

Who is this guy Stevio? Did a google search and got lots of different hits. Is he some type of celebrity?

He may mean Stevio1kinevo who flies the TBM (has a channel on Youtube where he flies the TBM around...mostly Florida).

Not to be confused with the Steve-O from Jackass.

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52 minutes ago, Mace said:

He may mean Stevio1kinevo who flies the TBM (has a channel on Youtube where he flies the TBM around...mostly Florida).

Not to be confused with the Steve-O from Jackass.

https://www.youtube.com/c/steveo1kinevo  This guy!

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Posted
17 hours ago, birdguy said:

A little different and just as exciting...almost.  But if I had a choice I'd rather fly with Tom Cruise and do some mountain flying through the peaks and valleys.

Noel

 

That would be fun Noel but not me. I would trust a highly trained Thunderbirds pilot more than an actor who likes planes. And in the Thunderbirds F16, you get to fly at 600 knots at 50 feet over the runway and pull 9.3G! 😲 You can't do that with Tom.

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I'd take either one, but with Tom it would be more exciting.

I've flown in the back seat of an F-100F fighter when I was stationed at Hill AFB.  We were going to out to the range on the other side of the Great Salt Lake and fire rockets at revetment bunker doors for tests on different kinds of aircraft revetments.  That was pretty exciting.

When I was going for my commercial rating I mentioned to me flight instructor I never suffered from motion sickness.  He bet me a bottle of Jack Daniels he could make me sick in an airplane.  He took me up in a Citabria and turned that airplane every which way but loose.  I won the bottle of Jack Daniels.

While much slower that Citabria flight was quite a bit more exciting than the F-100 flight.

Watching the video of Tom flying the Mustang and that jet trainer through the mountains at low altitude I trust him as much as I would trust a Thunderbird pilot.  Don't forget all the Thunderbirds augered in at the Nellis practice range when they followed the leader straight into the ground.

At Hamilton AFB in California when they were flying F-105s one of them blew up during a public demonstration flight.

Anytime you step into an airplane you taking a risk.  But that's not the point.  The level of excitment is the point.  I think I would get that with Tom more than I would the Thunderbirds.

Noel

  

The tires are worn.  The shocks are shot.  The steering is wobbly.  But the engine still runs fine.

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1 hour ago, birdguy said:

I've flown in the back seat of an F-100F fighter when I was stationed at Hill AFB. 

 

Now that's a scary aeroplane. Little baby wings. 

 

1 hour ago, birdguy said:

Don't forget all the Thunderbirds augered in at the Nellis practice range when they followed the leader straight into the ground.

 

Worst accident was 1982 when two pilots were killed, so I'm not sure which accident you are talking about.  

They are still better trained than an actor. Unless your tax dollars are wasted on your military pilots? They have accumulated millions of miles in hundreds of different airframes over 50 years. Accidents are inevitable over that time frame.

Having said the above... we all know that The Red Arrows are the bestest in the whole wide world.  😁 

 

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28 minutes ago, martin-w said:

Worst accident was 1982 when two pilots were killed, so I'm not sure which accident you are talking about. 

The 1982 accident killed all four diamond pilots. They were performing a line abreast loop. Aircraft 2, 3 and 4 were guiding on the leader, not watching the ground. Due to a pitch actuator failure in the lead aircraft, he was unable to pull out at the bottom of the loop. All four aircraft hit the ground simultaneously.

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41 minutes ago, JRBarrett said:

The 1982 accident killed all four diamond pilots. They were performing a line abreast loop. Aircraft 2, 3 and 4 were guiding on the leader, not watching the ground. Due to a pitch actuator failure in the lead aircraft, he was unable to pull out at the bottom of the loop. All four aircraft hit the ground simultaneously.

 

Oh yes. Wikipedia Thunderbirds page says four dead two solo pilots survived.  

 

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    18 January 1982: The "Diamond Crash", the worst training crash in Thunderbird history, occurred when Maj Norman L. Lowry, Capt Willie Mays, Capt Joseph N. Peterson, and Capt Mark Melancon were killed while practicing a diamond loop during training at Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field in T-38s. Only two Thunderbird pilots survived. Both Thunderbird Numbers 5 and 6, the solo pilots.[1][6][7][8]

 

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1 minute ago, martin-w said:

 

Oh right. Wikipedia said two dead two survived.

Which Wikipedia page? The one I linked above says all four died.

Either way, I wouldn't turn down a flight with Mr. Cruise or the Thunderbirds. Snowbirds would be better though...

One of the best flights I have ever had was with Sky Combat Ace out of Vegas. Got to do almost all of the aerobatic flying myself, and then the Sky Combat pilot took over for the low level flying through some hills on the way back to the airport. Not sure which was more fun, the aerobatics or the low level.

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1 minute ago, goates said:

Which Wikipedia page? The one I linked above says all four died.

Either way, I wouldn't turn down a flight with Mr. Cruise or the Thunderbirds. Snowbirds would be better though...

One of the best flights I have ever had was with Sky Combat Ace out of Vegas. Got to do almost all of the aerobatic flying myself, and then the Sky Combat pilot took over for the low level flying through some hills on the way back to the airport. Not sure which was more fun, the aerobatics or the low level.

 

I edited my reply. Misread, it was 4 dead 2 survived. 

 

For me it would be The Blue Angles I'd take a ride with. 7.5G 600 knots overhead break, no G-Suit. Most celebrities and deserving members of the community they take up pass out at that point.  

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8 minutes ago, martin-w said:

no G-Suit.

Blue angels cannot wear G-Suits because the FA/18 is a center stick aircraft whereas the Thunderbirds F-16s are side stick aircraft.

The Blue Angels have to rest their forearms and wrists on their laps to maintain precise control.  G-Suits inflating and deflating would interfere with that.  No such problem with the side stick F-16.

Noel

 

 

The tires are worn.  The shocks are shot.  The steering is wobbly.  But the engine still runs fine.

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