air traffic controller?

[stutters]

another lame digg story i find incredibly interesting...but probably because i just woke up. disclaimer: it's not funny, not really entertaining, but quasi-interesting...if you're lame, like planes, and have nothing better to do with your time.

 

http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/video-c...20060508233.htm

 

 

dangit, i'm in trouble now. can't....stop....clicking. turn your sound up (or down if you're "working").

 

ok, and here's to reconsidering the air force/navy:

http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/video-c...20060506217.htm

 

and again, go navy. (music language warning):

http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/video-c...20060506216.htm

 

holy split second decision. please fasten your seat belts, we're experiencing some slight crosswind:

http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/video-c...20060426212.htm

 

this one is extra heavy on the lame sauce, but that pilot is about 12" (yes, inches, or about the length of 4 hockey pucks end to end for you metric loving canucks) off the ground in the first 30 seconds.

http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/video-c...20060426199.htm

[farmerisme]

I love jets. So neat. So hard to build. So powerful.

[DNA]

i think some people have the same email alet setup as SJ..:-)

[shep48]

"not really entertaining, but quasi-interesting...if you're lame, like planes, and have nothing better to do with your time. this one is extra heavy on the lame sauce, "

 

I guess im the lamest. I would give my legs and first born for that ride.

[*BiGBonES**]

"not really entertaining, but quasi-interesting...if you're lame, like planes, and have nothing better to do with your time. this one is extra heavy on the lame sauce, "

 

I guess im the lamest. I would give my legs and first born for that ride.

 

you better edit that before becca gets here shep

[stutters]

I guess im the lamest. I would give my legs and first born for that ride.

nah, i'm right there with ya. the old man used to take me to air shows every summer as a kid and i couldn't ever get enough. my idea of a good time was going to wright patterson afb in ohio.

 

the lame thing was just a fair disclaimer to the youtuber's that would expect to see one of the pilots get a pie in the face or something at the end of it.

[anonymo]

That is so unfair...

 

Thats it...I'm starting my own regime just to get to fly one of those bad boys...

 

FIGHTER JETS FOR ALL

 

(except peckles...you know why)

[Shazz]

Great find!!

[Goofus Maximus]

I love the sound of afterburners in the morning!

 

This had better be true, since we live next to an airport where the former McDonnell Douglas used to train foreign pilots on Harriers and F-18s. We had one test pilot, who was practicing for a foreign airshow, crash into a house when he did a maneuver too low, and bottomed out in someone's house, killing the pilot, and a resident, if I remember right.

 

Those things will wake you up, when they go right over your house no more than a few hundred feet over your head. The pets don't know where to run, to hide from the sound!

 

While that was a free airshow, I preferred when the WW-II aircraft would stop by for a showing, and a free ride, if you could pony up the cash! B-17, B29, a Mitchell bomber, and a Heinkle bomber, as well as a Mustang, Messerschmitt and a Thunderbolt.

 

Edit: The German planes were remarkably more cramped on the interior than the American planes.

 

Pity this all stopped since the Airport director (kind of related to me, in a divorced in-law kind of way!) was convicted of dipping into the till, and doing questionable business deals. Now nothing fun ever happens here anymore. At most, we get the Air National Guard Medical Airlift guys occasionally practicing short-field landings here, and now even they are all busy over in Iraq.

Edited May 10, 2006 by Goofus Maximus