dropdeded 0 #1 May 10, 2005 Hope this link works. This was sent to me today. Turn up the speakers and dig THIS!! http://www.rapp.org/wp-content/032805-haute_voltige.wmv dropdeded------------------------------------------ The Dude Abides. - Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #3 May 10, 2005 ClickySky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ConSequence 0 #5 May 10, 2005 One of these types of flyers was at an air show last summer in my hometown. Did a hammerhead stall and never recovered, went in right across the runway from the crowded stands. My co worker's daughter was traumatized for weeks------------------------------------------------ Just a Wanker Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zee 0 #6 May 10, 2005 Simply badass...... I always thought it would be fun to go for a ride in a high performance aircraft like that, or maybe even a fighter jet - then I read this Below is an article written by Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated. He details his experiences when given the opportunity to fly in a F-14 Tomcat. If you aren't laughing out loud by the time you get to "Milk Duds," your sense of humor is broken... "Now this message for America's most famous athletes: Someday you may be invited to fly in the back-seat of one of your country's most powerful fighter jets. Many of you already have -- John Elway, John Stockton, Tiger Woods to name a few. If you get this opportunity, let me urge you, with the greatest sincerity ... Move to Guam. Change your name. Fake your own death! ... Whatever you do, do not go. I know. The U.S. Navy invited me to try it. I was thrilled. I was pumped. I was toast! I should've known when they told me my pilot would be Chip (Biff) King of Fighter Squadron 213 at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach. Whatever you're thinking a Top Gun named Chip (Biff) King looks like, triple it. He's about six-foot, tan, ice-blue eyes, wavy surfer hair, finger-crippling handshake -- the kind of man who wrestles dyspeptic alligators in his leisure time. If you see this man, run the other way. Fast. Biff King was born to fly. His father, Jack King, was for years the voice of NASA missions. ("T-minus 15 seconds and counting ..." Remember?) Chip would charge neighborhood kids a quarter each to hear his dad. Jack would wake up from naps surrounded by nine-year- olds waiting for him to say, "We have a liftoff." Biff was to fly me in an F-14D Tomcat, a ridiculously powerful $60 million weapon with nearly as much thrust as weight, not unlike Colin Montgomerie. I was worried about getting airsick, so the night before the flight I asked Biff if there was something I should eat the next morning. "Bananas," he said. "For the potassium?" I asked. "No," Biff said, "because they taste about the same coming up as they do going down." The next morning, out on the tarmac, I had on my flight suit with my name sewn over the left breast. (No call sign -- like Crash or Sticky or Leadfoot -- but, still, very cool.) I carried my helmet in the crook of my arm, as Biff had instructed. If ever in my life I had a chance to nail Nicole Kidman, this was it. A fighter pilot named Psycho gave me a safety briefing and then fastened me into my ejection seat, which, when employed, would "egress" me out of the plane at such a velocity that I would be immediately knocked unconscious. Just as I was thinking about aborting the flight, the canopy closed over me, and Biff gave the ground crew a thumbs-up. In minutes we were firing nose up at 600 mph. We leveled out and then canopy- rolled over another F-14. Those 20 minutes were the rush of my life. Unfortunately, the ride lasted 80. It was like being on the roller coaster at Six Flags Over Hell. Only without rails. We did barrel rolls, sap rolls, loops, yanks and banks. We dived, rose and dived again, sometimes with a vertical velocity of 10,000 feet per minute. We chased another F-14, and it chased us. We broke the speed of sound. Sea was sky and sky was sea. Flying at 200 feet we did 90-degree turns at 550 mph, creating a G force of 6.5, which is to say I felt as if 6.5 times my body weight was smashing against me, thereby approximating life as Mrs. Colin Montgomerie. And I egressed the bananas. I egressed the pizza from the night before. And the lunch before that. I egressed a box of Milk Duds from the sixth grade. I made Linda Blair look polite. Because of the G's, I was egressing stuff that did not even want to be egressed. I went through not one airsick bag, but two. Biff said I passed out. Twice. I was coated in sweat. At one point, as we were coming in upside down in a banked curve on a mock bombing target and the G's were flattening me like a tortilla and I was in and out of consciousness, I realized I was the first person in history to throw down. I used to know cool. Cool was Elway throwing a touchdown pass, or Norman making a five-iron bite. But now I really know cool. Cool is guys like Biff, men with cast-iron stomachs and freon nerves. I wouldn't go up there again for Derek Jeter's black book, but I'm glad Biff does every day, and for less a year than a rookie reliever makes in a home stand. A week later, when the spins finally stopped, Biff called. He said he and the fighters had the perfect call sign for me. Said he'd send it on a patch for my flight suit. What is it? I asked. "Two Bags." Action©Sports Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsled92 0 #7 May 10, 2005 BEAUTIFUL!_______________________________ If I could be a Super Hero, I chose to be: "GRANT-A-CLAUS". and work 365 days a Year. http://www.hangout.no/speednews/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
likvidskaj 0 #8 May 10, 2005 Svetlana Kapanina (Russia) in Su-31 & Peter Beseney (Hungary) in Extra 300! Masters of the flying art. Fantastic! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amanduh 0 #9 May 10, 2005 I was offered a ride in a F-16...I was out doing promo's at an airshow for the DZ I jump at. I was checkin out the different aircraft back where all the pilots hang out and get ready to fly, just as a couple F16's did a pass. This guy(HOT-TIE!!) introduced himself to me (after talking about why I was there; skydiving stuff; aviation convo; etc) he asked if I had ever been in one (F16). I told him no and he then told me to come back later once things slowed down and he'd take me up..he actually flew them! Well, it got too hot outside and I left mid afternoon without even saying goodbye to him...just left...lol For some reason, when I got back to the DZ, everyone was telling me I passed up the chance of a lifetime....naaaaaaa...I'll go back next year Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #10 May 10, 2005 For a ride in an F-16!!!!! I'd almost go out with the guy. Jeez, Amanduh, you shouldn't have blown that guy off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darius11 12 #11 May 10, 2005 . Dude that was a funny story.I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amanduh 0 #12 May 10, 2005 QuoteFor a ride in an F-16!!!!! I'd almost go out with the guy. Jeez, Amanduh, you shouldn't have blown that guy off. Uhhh...yeah. Go for it dude. In the back of my mind I was thinking "uhh...what will I have to do after the ride?" Dont think so...I'll pass! lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kid_Icarus 0 #13 May 10, 2005 Dude. Dude, that was baaaaaaaad Asssssssss ________________________________________ "What What..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsled92 0 #14 May 10, 2005 QuoteSvetlana Kapanina (Russia) in Su-31 & Peter Beseney (Hungary) in Extra 300! Masters of the flying art. Fantastic! HA! I love the name Svetlana (ever since I was in Sarajevo.) Yet ANOTHER hottie/pilot. We have a few Hottie/pilots here as well._______________________________ If I could be a Super Hero, I chose to be: "GRANT-A-CLAUS". and work 365 days a Year. http://www.hangout.no/speednews/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zee 0 #15 May 10, 2005 What were you thinkin'? You missed your chance to approximate life as Mrs. Colin Montgomery Action©Sports Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sum1mom 0 #16 May 10, 2005 Admit it Amanduh: YOU ARE A CHICKIN!!!! BAWK BAWK BAWK!! Like the sucker I am I did it on a dare: I went in an aerobatic plane once and it was freakin fun....funnny, then ummm I wanted a cold wash cloth, a bag, and a pillow The loops, hammerheads, barrel rolls were amazing - I lasted a while (30 mins), but almost didn't make it down to the ground without barfing. The video was good, but brought back pukie memories. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amanduh 0 #17 May 10, 2005 Funny..... lol Shari....I just couldn't hang in the heat on the pavement all day and wait around! LOL How are your braids doing now? BWAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beerlight 0 #18 May 10, 2005 QuoteI told him no and he then told me to come back later once things slowed down and he'd take me up.. tisk, tisk, tisk......poor_poor_amanda.......Let me spell it out for ya my friend... GUL-LI-BLE I can bet he would have taken you up on something, but it wouldn't have been an F-16!!!! Bwahaaaa!!!!!!!!! Hi girly! Buck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
