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MililaniBuckeye;1897932; said:Don't know where that was taken, but breaking the sound barrier in a populated area like that bay is verbotten in the US.
Muck;1899224; said:In the transonic regime but not supersonic. The vapor cone forms well before the barrier is crossed. It just depends on the conditions (temperature, humidity etc). Now if you are someplace hot & dry and you see a vapor cone around a plane headed your way...cover your ears.
The 1:00 mark for those who don't feel like watching a bunch of nothing for a minute.The low flyover at an Iowa-Ohio State football game last November effectively ended Maj. Christopher Kopacek?s career in the Air Force. But the pilot didn?t go down without a fight, and his allies in the battle included a U.S. congressman from Des Moines.
Rep. Leonard Boswell, then a member of the House Armed Services Committee, interceded on behalf of Kopacek and defended the dangerously low flyover, according to an Associated Press report. Boswell, a retired Army helicopter pilot, wrote to the investigating officer, saying in part:
?I?ve reviewed the video footage of the flyover and see no aircraft out of formation or distressed because of the altitude. I was also informed there were other issues that the pilot had to make a quick decision to change his altitude level. We believe Major Kopacek made the most safe possible altitude change for a successful flyover.?
Meanwhile, USAF investigators found that the T-38s cleared the scoreboard by 58 feet, and the pressbox by 16 feet. They also found that the jets were flying at an altitude of 176 feet (when the ceiling for such flyovers is 1,000 feet). But hey, there were only 70,000 or so folks in the stadium, what could have gone wrong?
Entire article: http://militarytimes.com/blogs/afteraction/2011/04/14/new-twist-in-iowa-flyover-debacle/
YouTube - Flyover at Kinnick Stadium Prior to Iowa - Ohio State Game 11/20/10
ScriptOhio;1907333; said:The low flyover at an Iowa-Ohio State football game last November effectively ended Maj. Christopher Kopacek?s career in the Air Force. But the pilot didn?t go down without a fight, and his allies in the battle included a U.S. congressman from Des Moines.
we have a new entryTop 10 flybys. I am sure that a lot of you guys have seen this before.
#3 is absolutely sick.
YouTube - Top 10 Low Pass Flybys of All Time
MililaniBuckeye;1934897; said:Freeze it at the 18 sec mark and look at how close the jet's shadow on the ground is to the jet...I bet he got to within 2 feet of the ground at one point.
jwinslow;1934904; said: