So, they're going to try and climb over that stuff? That'll be fun.

I was more just poking at them... those are really weak rain bands. Look to the upper right and those are heavy returns. You'd think it wouldn't exactly be a smooth ride, though.

What happens if you can an engine flying over a hurricane with passengers?

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__...Deposition.jpg

Hard to say if you can an engine in a hurricane, but I can a picture of an F-14!

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviatio.../7/2152702.jpg

Standby for Buzz to say it's not a F-14. :D

Elvi, resident B1 guru, how fast would an approach be if your wings were stuck in the swept position?

That's definitely an F-14. Didn't you see Iron Eagle? That movie was filled with them... very historically accurate, too!

I got my commercial at Langley AFB and there was something I noticed there. The locals, Ferds F-15s, were relatively quiet. If there was a noise abatement procedure they must have followed it.

It was the out of towners, B-1 on rare occasion, F-16s, sometimes even F-18s, that just lit it up.
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I still think one of my favorite airplane memories was driving my pure awesomeness Ford Ranger over at Navy Norfolk and coming to a stop at a red light that I didn't realize was an active taxiway. So I'm just sitting there and then all of a sudden this E-2... I mean KC-135... comes rolling past me at a high speed while folding it's wings.

http://www.air-and-space.com/2004091...olding%20l.jpg

To a kid that was easily impressed by just about anything, especially shinny lights and objects and just about any girl within reason, that was really cool.

And I knew it was a KC-135 because it was very different from a C-141. See the difference?

http://www.enemyforces.net/helicopters/ch47_chinook.jpg

I always wondered why they called it the lizard. It really does look like one there.