Overflights
04-15-2016, 03:27 AM
#51
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Originally Posted by badflaps
They don't seem to bother the Turks anymore.
04-15-2016, 07:09 AM
#55
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Russian a/c shot down by US Presidents -
Carter - 0
Reagan - 14
Bush - 6
Clinton - 0
Bush - 5
Obama - zero
Strafing typically isn't done level. You get better bullet grouping out of a shallow dive.
Carter - 0
Reagan - 14
Bush - 6
Clinton - 0
Bush - 5
Obama - zero
Strafing typically isn't done level. You get better bullet grouping out of a shallow dive.
04-15-2016, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Sliceback
Russian a/c shot down by US Presidents -
Carter - 0
Reagan - 14
Bush - 6
Clinton - 0
Bush - 5
Obama - zero
Strafing typically isn't done level. You get better bullet grouping out of a shallow dive.
Carter - 0
Reagan - 14
Bush - 6
Clinton - 0
Bush - 5
Obama - zero
Strafing typically isn't done level. You get better bullet grouping out of a shallow dive.
We have one almost triple ace and two confirmed ace POTUS’s.
How come I never saw the red stars stenciled on the sides of one of their respective VC-25A birds?
I would have displayed them with pride.
04-15-2016, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by SayAlt
Aggressive?
Yeah, I'd say so....
Very little margin for pilot error, catastrophic failure/some freak Mx thing like what caused that P-51 to crash into the crowd line at Reno a few years back.
Which is why they call this "aggressive".
Btw, my understanding is peaceful flyovers always parallel a ship's heading, whereas an attacking (or aggressive) pass is normally(?) made perpendicular to the ship's heading.
Yeah, I'd say so....
Very little margin for pilot error, catastrophic failure/some freak Mx thing like what caused that P-51 to crash into the crowd line at Reno a few years back.
Which is why they call this "aggressive".
Btw, my understanding is peaceful flyovers always parallel a ship's heading, whereas an attacking (or aggressive) pass is normally(?) made perpendicular to the ship's heading.
04-15-2016, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by MartinBishop
They shouldn't. Neither should the US government.
back in the 1980s -- lots of fun to get a big jet down low -- had to have it washed afterwards (sea salt) -- looking up at their decks -- but got the data the higher ups wanted
04-15-2016, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Grumble
Shut up please. We do crap like this all the time off the boat, we just don't get caught.
Right. Because no one else has cameras, no one we did it too would publicly protest, and nobody...not even the UK Guardian or other major EU news source...would dare publish the pics. Shut up please, or else show me pics of US mil. aircraft doing this "all the time" in the last 8 years to a non-allied nation's warship in the last 8 years...
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