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An Oh shit! moment...
JackN
<font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
Working on a tune up for the Geo Metro today was interrupted by the sound of a low flying jet coming my way...
My first thoughts were an immenent plane crash, and then to my astonishment I had an X-Files moment.
A Stealth B2 flew directly over head no more than 500 feet above my house. Was flying slow for that kind of plane...
I learned later that there was an air show to the North...
:D
All I can say was WOW! ;)
My first thoughts were an immenent plane crash, and then to my astonishment I had an X-Files moment.
A Stealth B2 flew directly over head no more than 500 feet above my house. Was flying slow for that kind of plane...
I learned later that there was an air show to the North...
:D
All I can say was WOW! ;)
Comments
flying slow in a plane like that is easier than most people think... its amazing what you can do with a bajillionbytes of processor power. The flight control adjustments are something like 25,000 times a second... pilots say that piloting either of the US's two major stealth assets is positively spooky, they effectively have NO quirks or odd behaviours or jiggles, the system reacts so fast it even cancels out the majority of little buffets and lumpy air. They fly like the veritable magic carpet.
I learned later that there was an air show to the North...[/QUOTE]
That's just what they [B][I]want [/I][/B]you to believe...
I didn't have a camera available or I would have certainly taken a photo, but this is about the right height reference of what I saw...
Still amazing to have your home in a flight pattern for various military aircraft...
:)
[QUOTE=JackN;165217]Was flying slow for that kind of plane...[/QUOTE]Would you have preferred B-1 doing low altitude max speed?
Without payload flying very slow shouldn't be problem because of all that wing area...
Actually minimum approach speed looks nice.
[url]http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b-2-specs.htm[/url]
I didn't have a camera available or I would have certainly taken a photo, but this is about the right height reference of what I saw...
Still amazing to have your home in a flight pattern for various military aircraft...
:)[/QUOTE]
That exact thing happened to me at school about nine years ago. Same plane, same low height. Probably for also an airshow, now that you mention it, but I never looked it up
Big f**king planes come through here I tell ya! :D
Won't forget that, ever :D
Tune up? For a Geo Metro? That's like trying a turbocharge a snail .. what ... are you adding a motor into that? No more bicycling .. *hih* :D
Won't forget that, ever :D[/QUOTE]
Had a similar encounter whilst on a coach to London a few years back - three Hercules transports flying low (and I mean [i]low[/i]) over the countryside to our left about 500 yards away in succession. Spectacular flying.
Seeing the Red Arrows practising up over Filton Airport last week was brilliant as well. :)
weather baloon
nothing to see here
move along
flying slow in a plane like that is easier than most people think... its amazing what you can do with a bajillionbytes of processor power. The flight control adjustments are something like 25,000 times a second... pilots say that piloting either of the US's two major stealth assets is positively spooky, they effectively have NO quirks or odd behaviours or jiggles, the system reacts so fast it even cancels out the majority of little buffets and lumpy air. They fly like the veritable magic carpet.[/QUOTE]
It actually is quite amazing how you can make a mostly aerodynamically unsound and nearly unflyable design and make it stay perfectly steady. I believe thats how the F-117 got its nickname of the woblin goblin. Two early prototype's crashed before the fly by wire systems were implemented.
He had been one of the first to crew the F117s while they were still under wraps. As part of the breifing, they had been shown the renderings of the plane. He said the general consenous of the mechanics in the room was that it wouldn't fly. Of course then they walked ot the hanger, and there it was, ready to go.
Jake
Way better then the show at Edwords AFB.