777F VERY low pass in Texas

MikeD said:
Yup. It would be perfectly fine to do a flyby down the runway in machines like this at 500 AGL+ with a wing dip, mild banked turn or regular climb. Trying to turn these types of jets into fighters, which they are not, maneuvering them far beyond their normal envelope, leads to the most exciting part of their show being a smoking hole in the ground. The risk just isn’t worth the reward.

In the late 1980s, Strategic Air Command wanted a demonstration team to be like Tactical Air Command’s Thunderbirds. The Thunderhawks were created, that would consist of a KC-135 and a B-52 putting on a show of a series of flybys with loose formation and a simulation of air refueling. During practice at Fairchild AFB (same place the bottom picture of the Holland crash was taken), in 1987, the KC-135 was maneuvering to the six o’clock of the B-52 to rejoin with them and take lead from them. The KC-135 hit the wake turbulence of the B-52 at low altitude while in a turn to parallel their course, Rolled in the wake and impacted the ground, killing all four crew onboard and one person on the ground. In an amazing irony, twist of fate, and Finial Destination-esqe occurrence, the guy on the ground who was killed, was the boom operator of that KC-135 demo team bird. This boom operator had called in sick for that flight and was replaced by another boom operator. The first boom operator was driving around the runway perimeter road headed to the base clinic for an appointment after being taken off the flight, when the KC-135 doing the practice hit the wake turbulence, and rolled into the ground, impacting the prior boom operators car and killing him along with everyone else on the plane.
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Back when the Air Force was cool.


View: https://youtu.be/hvvoKch5gAI?is=zjCCQzbkVGbCACln

Reminds me of a certain change of command in 2009…..


View: https://youtu.be/GbgKydEjoSc?is=idIa3Sw38EJ4X9D3
 
A300Capt said:
Yea, it looks cool and would probably be a lot of fun to do and we all dream of doing it,
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Kinda surprised hearing this from you.

Noppity nope x 1000…
MikeD said:
Never get why pilots do this kind of stupid stuff in these kinds of planes. It’s a fatty airplane. There is absolutely nothing exciting, interesting nor remotely tactical about a fatty airplane. Trying to turn a boring-as-designed fatty airplane into something it is not, through unnecessary maneuvers it’s not optimized for and which have little room for error, is a dangerous fools errand.
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Exactly my sentiment. This isn’t some agile military craft. It’s a large 121 airliner. Boxy and stable. I don’t see anything “cool” about this. It’s stupid and reckless.
 
knot4u said:
Galloping Ghost. Why bring that up? Are you like Todd and think aerobatics and air racing should be verboten?
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I’d suggest maybe a visit to the optometrist, take a look at my avatar then reconsider your assumptions about my views of aerobatics.
 
CFI A&P said:
I’d suggest maybe a visit to the optometrist, take a look at my avatar then reconsider your assumptions about my views of aerobatics.
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I always looked at your avatar and thought it was the tail boom from an MD520. My apologies, I had no idea I was witness to divinity.
 
knot4u said:
I always looked at your avatar and thought it was the tail boom from an MD520. My apologies, I had no idea I was witness to divinity.
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Yes, exactly. The similarities are striking.

(not my photo, copied from a listing on TAP)

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It's all just different levels of 'tism functionality

Incels: F tier. Never used their gift of rational thought. Masks with the worst people. Never seen real genitalia except their own.
Dweebs: C tier. Basic social functionality. Employed mostly full time. Gets pity sex once or twice during their life.
Dorks: B tier. Not much for fashion sense, interacts normally until you say Pee-Wee's word of the day, then info dump on said subject
Geeks: A tier. Can mask relatively well. Came to terms with their existence, has job, possibly long term relationship
Nerds: S tier. Have successful careers, likely DM/GM a steady D&D group, procreates (in the weirdest/most creative ways possible)
 
DropTank said:
It's all just different levels of 'tism functionality

Incels: F tier. Never used their gift of rational thought. Masks with the worst people. Never seen real genitalia except their own.
Dweebs: C tier. Basic social functionality. Employed mostly full time. Gets pity sex once or twice during their life.
Dorks: B tier. Not much for fashion sense, interacts normally until you say Pee-Wee's word of the day, then info dump on said subject
Geeks: A tier. Can mask relatively well. Came to terms with their existence, has job, possibly long term relationship
Nerds: S tier. Have successful careers, likely DM/GM a steady D&D group, procreates (in the weirdest/most creative ways possible)
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You have the “ranking things” ‘tism
 
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