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Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport
This weekend I kinda got a private demo by a f18 Blue Angle Hornets visit to our
airport. I'm based at Waukegan Airport (KUGN) in Waukegan Illinois. I didn't see him land on Friday, 12/2 but here is an account from someone in the club that was the Ranger 4 (callsign used) reports field in site and request 360 break to land. Performs the coolest 360 degree circle mid field and land perfectly. Longest runway is 600ft. Parks at DB aviation. Jet sits there for the weekend. Plane is painted in Blue angles colors except no team number on the tail. Sunday, I just came in from flying around a bit and noticed the canopy was opened on the f18. So a bunch of us watched, pulled out the binoculars and checked out the pilot. Had Bright yellow helmet same color as Blue Angles trim. Fires up the engines and taxis out. Taxied out to end of runway 23, and receives clearance for 10,000 ft. Starts takeoff roll and is flying in ground effect down the runway. Then near the end of the runway, he lights up the afterbunners and goes vertical. Jet blast leaves a big swirlling cloud of snow (we got 3 inches the night before). The runway was cleared to perfection too! Buildings shook and windows rattled. A few students and instructors where in the pattern when he took off. All they could say was wow! Anway he put on a very nice show for us. Just wanted to share this experience. Kevin Kubiak - PP-ASEL Stick & Rudder Flying Club |
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Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport
Just fixes a few typos. See I'm still excited about it.
Kevin Kubiak - PP-ASEL Kevin Kubiak wrote: This weekend I kinda got a private demo by a f18 Blue Angle Hornets visit to our airport. I'm based at Waukegan Airport (KUGN) in Waukegan Illinois. I didn't see him land on Friday, 12/2 but here is an account from someone in the club that was the Ranger 4 (callsign used) reports field in site and request 360 break to land. Performs the coolest 360 degree circle mid field and lands perfectly. Longest runway is 6000ft. Parks at DB aviation. Jet sits there for the weekend. Plane is painted in Blue angles colors except no team number on the tail. Sunday, I just came in from flying around a bit and noticed the canopy was opened on the f18. So a bunch of us watched, pulled out the binoculars and checked out the pilot. Had Bright yellow helmet same color as Blue Angles trim. Fires up the engines and taxis out. Taxied out to end of runway 23, and receives clearance for 10,000 ft. Starts takeoff roll and is flying in ground effect down the runway. Then near the end of the runway, he lights up the afterbunners and goes vertical. Jet blast leaves a big swirlling cloud of snow (we got 3 inches the night before). The runway was cleared to perfection too! Buildings shook and windows rattled. A few students and instructors where in the pattern when he took off. All they could say was wow! Anway he put on a very nice show for us. Just wanted to share this experience. Kevin Kubiak - PP-ASEL Stick & Rudder Flying Club |
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Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport
The Blue Angels park at my homebase whenever they do the Jones Beach, NY
show in May. They used to give a pretty extensive show but around 2001 or so, they scared the bejesus out of the neighborhood because of a couple of low-level, full afterburner maneuvers and less-than-widespread notification (a debatable issue it seems). Living 1/4 mile from the longest runway, my neighborhood was in the middle of the controversy. All this equates to no more impromptu shows over the airport *sigh*. Marco Leon "Kevin Kubiak" wrote in message ... Just fixes a few typos. See I'm still excited about it. Kevin Kubiak - PP-ASEL Kevin Kubiak wrote: This weekend I kinda got a private demo by a f18 Blue Angle Hornets visit to our airport. I'm based at Waukegan Airport (KUGN) in Waukegan Illinois. I didn't see him land on Friday, 12/2 but here is an account from someone in the club that was the Ranger 4 (callsign used) reports field in site and request 360 break to land. Performs the coolest 360 degree circle mid field and lands perfectly. Longest runway is 6000ft. Parks at DB aviation. Jet sits there for the weekend. Plane is painted in Blue angles colors except no team number on the tail. Sunday, I just came in from flying around a bit and noticed the canopy was opened on the f18. So a bunch of us watched, pulled out the binoculars and checked out the pilot. Had Bright yellow helmet same color as Blue Angles trim. Fires up the engines and taxis out. Taxied out to end of runway 23, and receives clearance for 10,000 ft. Starts takeoff roll and is flying in ground effect down the runway. Then near the end of the runway, he lights up the afterbunners and goes vertical. Jet blast leaves a big swirlling cloud of snow (we got 3 inches the night before). The runway was cleared to perfection too! Buildings shook and windows rattled. A few students and instructors where in the pattern when he took off. All they could say was wow! Anway he put on a very nice show for us. Just wanted to share this experience. Kevin Kubiak - PP-ASEL Stick & Rudder Flying Club |
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Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:48:39 -0600, Kevin Kubiak wrote in
: ... Taxied out to end of runway 23, and receives clearance for 10,000 ft. Starts takeoff roll and is flying in ground effect down the runway. Then near the end of the runway, he lights up the afterbunners and goes vertical. ... Anway he put on a very nice show for us. Cool story! Thanks for sharing it. Reminds me of a sad story about a military pilot trying to do that kind of airshow takeoff with his mother watching from the terminal. He must have gotten disoriented in the clouds because he looped over and came straight back down. Marty |
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Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport
What was especially nice was it was crystal clear out so we actually saw him
leveling off once at 10000 ft. It didn't take him long to get there either may a couple of seconds. Kevin Martin X. Moleski, SJ wrote: On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:48:39 -0600, Kevin Kubiak wrote in : ... Taxied out to end of runway 23, and receives clearance for 10,000 ft. Starts takeoff roll and is flying in ground effect down the runway. Then near the end of the runway, he lights up the afterbunners and goes vertical. ... Anway he put on a very nice show for us. Cool story! Thanks for sharing it. Reminds me of a sad story about a military pilot trying to do that kind of airshow takeoff with his mother watching from the terminal. He must have gotten disoriented in the clouds because he looped over and came straight back down. Marty |
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Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport
"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" wrote:
Reminds me of a sad story about a military pilot trying to do that kind of airshow takeoff with his mother watching from the terminal. He must have gotten disoriented in the clouds because he looped over and came straight back down. This sounds like the F-14 crash in Nashville, TN, back in 1996. Killed three on the ground and both the pilot and rio in the aircraft. -- Peter |
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Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport
I've told this story before but it warrants retelling... Decades back,
the early 70's, the Thunderbirds were coming to Selfridge airbase for a Sunday airshow... I was invited down to see them arrive on Firday afternoon... Standing at the flight line the 'announcer' kept telling everyone how they were so many minutes out over the lake and coming from the east (over Lake St. Clair), then it was two minutes, then one minute, "and keep a sharp eye out folks"... For whatever reason I got suspicious and turned around and there they were coming from the west in a battle line, tree top high and pedal to the metal... As they flashed onto the airbase they lit the afterburners (F4 Phantom), and went supersonic out over the lake, then stood on their tail and went up out of sight through the cloud base... There were some really rattled folks standing around and quivering for several minutes after their pass... The concussion was strong enough it broke some windows on the base, and you felt like someone had punched you in the chest... The warm, kerosene wind blew paper and dirt all over the base... I loved it.. That evening at the banquet the Major in charge of the base officially welcomed them, said he had over 200 phone calls from Mt. Clemons homeowners angry about their houses being rattled, " . . but it was worth it! ." He got a standing ovation... denny |
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Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport
My kinda dood!
Would liked to have been there, for the show AND the banquet! Dave On 5 Dec 2005 14:14:14 -0800, "Denny" wrote: I've told this story before but it warrants retelling... Decades back, the early 70's, the Thunderbirds were coming to Selfridge airbase for a Sunday airshow... I was invited down to see them arrive on Firday afternoon... Standing at the flight line the 'announcer' kept telling everyone how they were so many minutes out over the lake and coming from the east (over Lake St. Clair), then it was two minutes, then one minute, "and keep a sharp eye out folks"... For whatever reason I got suspicious and turned around and there they were coming from the west in a battle line, tree top high and pedal to the metal... As they flashed onto the airbase they lit the afterburners (F4 Phantom), and went supersonic out over the lake, then stood on their tail and went up out of sight through the cloud base... There were some really rattled folks standing around and quivering for several minutes after their pass... The concussion was strong enough it broke some windows on the base, and you felt like someone had punched you in the chest... The warm, kerosene wind blew paper and dirt all over the base... I loved it.. That evening at the banquet the Major in charge of the base officially welcomed them, said he had over 200 phone calls from Mt. Clemons homeowners angry about their houses being rattled, " . . but it was worth it! ." He got a standing ovation... denny |
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Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport
I told this story before, but it's worth repeating.
The Thunderbirds were at Hansom Airforce base (BED, in MA) , in ythe late 60's or early 70's. I had a handheld av band receiver with me, we watched them do the walk, mount their airplanes, start up, and pull out, all very impressive of course. Then I heard "Uh, Hanscom Ground, Thunderbird One." "This is Hanscom Ground, go ahead, Thunderbird One." "Uh, Hanscom Ground, how do I get to Runway two three?" "Left turn, Thunderbird One, then . . ." and he guided them to the runway. Of course, the best part was when they took position on the runway, and we heard "Hanscom Ground, Thunderbirds are going to Tach 1 frequency now." "Frequency change approved," the tower said. And then we learned again what precision flying was all about. BTW, they did not need directions back to the tiedowns, either. That was one of my two best airshow experiences. |
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Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport
As they flashed onto the airbase they lit the afterburners (F4 Phantom)
Just saw a Discovery Channel's show about a company that's rebuilding the F4 Phantoms back to flying cnodition and than installing autopilots in them just so they can be used to test A toA and G toA missiles. What a watse... I'd give my left b*lls (I mean my front tire off of my car) to get that's been rebuilt. |
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