Roger,
I was at Jackson naval air station sitting at the arresting gear
mechanism in the dead of night waiting for the ride home when I head the
distinctive whine of a C-5a on final, sans running lights shooting for
my runway, thankfully he hit the ground about 150 meter in front of me
and I did get nothing more than a hurricane gust. Whew, If I'd known
then what I know now........

all the best
Sean Trost

Roger Halstead wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:52:43 -0500, Russell Kent
wrote:


Dan wrote:


It appeared to me he was under the right wing tip by about a good fifty feet.
Still too close.

"Fifty" ? As in 50 (not 15)? It's difficult to tell because the aircraft leaves
the frame as it passes overhead, but I'd estimate that the aircraft is within a
half wingspan of the ground. So in the case of a Spitfire (wingspan = 36 feet)
we're talking about 18 feet. Entirely too close for the unsuspecting, but then
the cameraman and reporter shouldn't have been walking around on an active
runway. :-)


I've been walking down active taxi ways and had to step over to let
A-10s and F-16s by. I was about 3 to 4 feet from the wing tips. OTOH
Some where around here I have a photo of Joyce just a few feet to the
side of the taxiway holding her fingers in her ears.

I'd never get under the wing of a transport, or any other plane for
that matter....Although I did have the wing tip of a B-2 pass over the
Deb at Oshkosh one year. They had us stop and the B-2 taxied by on a
crossing taxiway to get to 27.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

Russell Kent