A Rhino air show at Salinas, California.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBuIidllusc[/youtube]
All this and a tanker too.
Amazing.
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That’s fantastic.
And it looks like so much fun!
Excuse me, please, while I wash this funny green colour off my face.
I coulda been a contender … I coulda been a fighter pilot!
That’s the great thing about the hornet – you can go as fast as you possibly can and not have to worry about going through the number.
Good demo, made even better by favorable air conditions.
Shame on me for living an hour away from Salinas and have never (yet) made it to their air show.
If’n I was a Rhino jock I might be inclined to take offense at a Hummer pilot chippin’ on my airframe for not bein’ fast enough.
Having spent my time in A-models and Chucks though, I just savor the irony
That’s cute. Almost an airplane.
Whattya say Nose? Just a couple more pieces of vertical tail surface and a couple props — you’ll be in business.
I didn’t really understand how the pilot created that cone of vapour. Could someone put up an explanation about that?
This might help, Phantasee.
Michelle-
That’s T/A/F pilot- tanker-attack-fighter pilot- in that order!
b2
The stall was very cool. I kept waiting for it to slip backwards
great video
Scott,
Wasn’t a stall. Rhino won’t stall.
Nose
Regarding the stall, the announcer mentioned the whole “hit the brakes and he’ll fly right by” meme like in Top Gun. I’ve always wondered if that is a valid maneuver or is it just for show and movies? I mean, it was impressive, just wondering how feasible it is.
Generally speaking, it’s OK to get slow in the classic “knife fight in the phone booth” so long as you’re more or less neutral and your adversary is slow as well. But getting slow while he’s behind you usually means that he overshoots your flaming wreckage.
Feasible, but unwise.
That’s okay b2.
Snark away.
I’ll settle.
This year the humidity was too low for much vapor making, but the flying was great.
Four Super Bugs flew in from Lemoore (and an F8F and Corsair to fly formation with one of them), along with the Blue Angels and Snowbirds. Not to ignore the cast of…um…dozens of other flying demonstrations. And a jet-powered Kenworth.
I’m ready for next year.
Saw this demo at Miramar last Sunday..
Awesome !!
Gives this ‘old tincan sailor’ goosebumps..
Lex,
How disgusting was that display? Showing off that you jet guys get to have so much fun while the rest of us mere mortals have to accept the tepid excitement of going from greater than 800 feet below the surface of the ocean to the surface in a few minutes time. Must be like kissing your sister in comparison. You guys should be “ashamed” of yourselves, making the rest of us feel inferior.
Absolutely disgusting display of macho excess, and frivolous use of jet fuel.
And I bet it was a helluva lot of fun too. (After all, that is why we all joined up and studied for the profession of arms. To serve while getting to play with the neatest toys our society can provide.)
I’m teasing you of course. Can’t help but envy you gents your ability to proficiently and successfully jockey your steeds through those impressive maneuvers and through a medium which is so thin you can’t even feel it unless the wind is blowing over 20 mph. Looks like fun. I’m just envious and feeling left out.
Carry on, boss.
Subsunk out.
I’m amazed at the hovering ’18. Amazed because, well, wings are known as airfoils for a reason and that’s mainly because they don’t work without air going over them. Yet here’s a guy balanced on his jet exhaust, wings doing nothing of any significance.. He has to prop the thing to the correct AOA, let it slow, and adjust throttle until he’s hovering for all intents and purposes.
It’s like riding a unicycle. On bananna peels. On ice.
– Max
Most definitely unicycle on banana peels on ice.
But Lex, that last link on the post you linked doesn’t work. Which is to say, I’m still not enlightened.
It’s kind of dark down here, on the ground, ya know?
*sigh* I miss airshows.
Oh well. Someday.
Hmm. It worked for me. Basically, as an airplane approaches the speed of sound, air molecules – which would prefer to remain subsonic – collide with one another at the front of the jet causing a pressure boundary increase that we call the “transonic drag rise.” It’s cone-shaped and the pressure in front is greatly higher than that behind. That differential causes suspended water molecules to appear in a vapor state.
As the air mass accelerates over the wings and fuselage, eventually the pressure boundary will detach entirely – when it does, you hear the characteristic “sonic boom.”
that billowy cone shape kinda looks like a ballerina’s tu-tu. cute plane.
The whole hit the breaks thing was demonstrated on “Dogfights”. For some reason an F-4 Phantom was stinking in my mind and Duke Cunningham. Can’t recall exactly which episode.
MajMike, that last comment nearly caused me to spray liquid all over my screen. Fighter pilot/ballerina makes a great visual image…