Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
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"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
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Sorry, must have missed something. Was there a problem?
I hate it when those snot-nosed RC pilots to a fly-by at over 400 knots!
I WANT SOME BUTTS!
Hey, wasn’t that Biff?
Fore!
YouTube has some pretty comical RC jet vids. One guy’s jet exploded shortly after takeoff, and you could hear the crowd laughing. Maybe he said something funny.
Another guy had his jet go down in some trees. He asked if anyone saw where it went down…”Dude, ya see the fire in the trees?” “Oh, there it is. Oh…”
Those were some remarkably alert and reactive spectators, to my eyes. Wonder if any of them served on a flight deck?
There’s another YouTube video of the arresting cable breaking, I believe. One of the deck apes jumps the thing two or three times as it snaps back and forth. To see it, I’m amazed at the reflexes, body-eye coordination, and situational awareness that man had.
I used to be young, in shape, sharp of eye and wit. Huh? I wonder what happened?
– Max
Why, exactly, was the operator standing in front of the airplane he was launching?
Sort of like looking down the barrel of a pistol to see how it works.
That was pretty classic.
Reminds me of the vid of this biiiig B-52 model that these guys spent months and big $$ building that they tell you all about. . .then they crash it first flight and have to douse with fire extinguishers.
Well, since in a previous post Lex mentioned Air Medals for the guys operating UAVs or UASs or pilotless planes or whatever the buzz word, maybe this guy rates a citation for “superior airmanship in the face of daunting spectators….”. either that or find some out of work air bos’ns and flight deck crew and get a proper launch.
LOL at “Court-Marshal”
Heh. Just proof that if you apply enough power… anything will fly!
“… Sorry”
Funny. Especially that one guy who had to jump into the dirt.
Given our humble scribe’s predelictions, I would have expected the title of this post to be “F-14s”.
Wait for it……
Read it out loud if you have to.
But grass is easier on the tires…and you don’t have all that pressure to keep it on the painted centerline
I think it’s cooler to build an indoor model that weighs maybe a gram, spanning maybe a meter, with the rubber wound to several thousand turns, and have the thing fly for an hour.
I went to the World Indoor Champs at East Tennessee State U. in 1988, and it was just amazing. I was yelled at for walking near the airplanes at normal walking speed. Those airplanes fly at the speed of a veerrryyy slow walk, the prop turning at about 30-40 RPM. Most amazing experience I’ve ever had. I still remember the smell of the God-awful cigarettes smoked by the Polish Team. Jim Richmond, the American, won with his variable-diameter prop, to take full advantage of the energy in the rubber
Foul line? What foul line?
I’ve seen that waddling view off the angle before somewheres near the A/G and LSO platforms.
Hee hee hee.
Did you hear the sheepish “sorry” afterwards? I actually cackled out loud. Too funny.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV-zeYkQrXA
I worked for a guy who was a pilot and had RC AC as well. He did aerobatics with the RC craft, and routinely crashed it. We teased him about strapping one on and doing it. He would come back and say “I won’t do that S___ with my butt aboard.” We laughed at him for his lack of courage.
Last time I saw him fly his RC craft, he crashed it and it took him 9 months to put it back together. It may have been a good idea not to “strap one on.”