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Waaaay Cool!!! Thanks! Never got that low flying with my father in the Decatholon.

Times and rules have certainly changed. Back in the 90's, I did all the advertising and promotions for the Cayman Islands. Every June, for about 5-6 years, the FAA combined with the Coast Guard would hold an "Air Safety Week" there. The "Blue Angels" would come in to do an air show on one of those days, and it was my job to photograph it. At the morning briefing on the day of one of the shows, there was a concern about a weather pattern and we were all told that if the pattern came our way, the show would have to be cancelled. At take-off time, all was ok, but after they were up, the pattern moved our way. The show was cancelled while the planes were up and they were ordered to burn off or dump their fuel and land. Needless to say, the pilots decided to burn off their fuel, and in doing so gave us a real hot-dogging show of individual pilot performances. I was shooting my brains out. The next day when my film was processed, I had fantastic photos of a smiling pilot's head in his cockpit less than 50 feet off the runway with St.Elmo's fire going over the top of it! I was soooo proud of the pictures. When the FAA guys saw them, they had them confiscated to protect the pilot from being grounded for "breaking every rule in the book" by doing that! I was crushed!

Walter, we've had pilots from Elgin and also NAS P'cola back in the late 80's and early 90's pull some really wild stuff like swooping boats on the water while fishing offshore practicing flying manuevers. Needless to say, you never would have known what happen if it was for real. Scared the sh** out of us for sure.

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wow
you know there were some dirty pants after those man some of them were loooooooowwwwwww

I'v had planes out of NJ fly 10' over my boat at 6am. I thought it was the end of the world!

They'd have a tough time explaining that piece of greenstick in their wing.

I had a dude with a hart problem with me. I all most wet my pants!!

Brew

The guys out of McGuire and Lakehurst do that all the time.

It's pretty cool watching them come out over the bay and then once they cross the island and are out over the ocean they kick in the afterburners and they are gone.

Anyone know the burn numbers when the afterburners kick in? I figure it will make me feel better about my 454s

That's Nuckin Futs, cool stuff.

Pete the burn numbers in the F4 Phantom at full AB were 96000#/hr. Since we held 12000# internal and usually 4000# ext you didn't keep the throttles in the left corner very long. But somebody else picked up the tab

Makes you wonder about their concern for our fuel consumption on our cars. One Airbus takeoff uses a person's lifetime consumption in his car. Chasing the wrong bus?

That's 14,035gals/hr or 234gals/minute if jet fuel is 6.84lbs/gallon.
I think the 454s get a little better than that Peter!

Makes me feel better!

I was on a long final approach to a FL airport when the controller told a Swissair B747 to hold short of the active runway and expect a delay before takeoff.....a thick German accent replied "Swissair 100 holding while burning 4 gallons a second......"

UV

Exactly my point.

The average trip fuel burn rate for a C-5 Galaxy is around 25,000 PPH.That is considerably less than the burn of 96,000 listed for the Phantom.