Go for a ride wth the Blue Angels
Go for a ride wth the Blue Angels
Full throttle with the Blue Angels, go for a ride.
Try 7g's and see if you stay awake.
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/swf/bl...blueangels.swf
Try 7g's and see if you stay awake.
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/swf/bl...blueangels.swf
Last edited by onehundred80; 03-15-2010 at 10:23 AM.
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 901
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Re: Go for a ride wth the Blue Angels
Years ago in A&P (airframe and powerplant) school, an instructor told a Blue Angel story. As the story went, a Blue Angel pilot picked up a Hornet in San Diego to fly back to his base in Imperial. The Hornet was all decked with fresh paint in the Blue Angel scheme.
Now military aircraft are aerobatic and quite capable of inverted flight - for a brief time. It's rather expensive and complex to build a fuel system that can feed an engine for extended inverted flight. So even military aircraft need to right themselves or risk engine flameout. The Blue Angels, however, fly Hornets that have had the appropriate modifications for prolonged inverted flight.
Back to the story. As our intrepid pilot was tooling along he decided to practise some airshow routines and this, of course, included flying inverted. While cruising through the blue upside down the pilot's imprompto training session was abruptly interrupted by his engines flaming out. Unable to restart them, the pilot had no choice but to punch out.
It seems that even though the Hornet was painted in the Blue Angels scheme when in San Diego, the fuel system itself was never actually modified.
Now military aircraft are aerobatic and quite capable of inverted flight - for a brief time. It's rather expensive and complex to build a fuel system that can feed an engine for extended inverted flight. So even military aircraft need to right themselves or risk engine flameout. The Blue Angels, however, fly Hornets that have had the appropriate modifications for prolonged inverted flight.
Back to the story. As our intrepid pilot was tooling along he decided to practise some airshow routines and this, of course, included flying inverted. While cruising through the blue upside down the pilot's imprompto training session was abruptly interrupted by his engines flaming out. Unable to restart them, the pilot had no choice but to punch out.
It seems that even though the Hornet was painted in the Blue Angels scheme when in San Diego, the fuel system itself was never actually modified.
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Easley,South Carolina
Age: 44
Posts: 1,213
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
atdavis2
Cars For Sale - Archive
0
09-21-2015 01:25 PM
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)