I landed at the airport this morning. The VC-10 and C-17 were sitting on the tarmac. I didnt see any tornados although I saw a couple when I left last wednesday.
The Tornados were staging out of the Shell on the southwest corner of the airport. Probably no room on that ramp for 2 VC-10's and the C-17.
My favourite warplane moment was at the Abbotsford air show years ago, when the Soviet Union still sent their jets over. I think it was a SU-27 that the pilot had basically at the stalling point maybe fourty feet over the runway - just crawling along. Then he stood this thing on it's tail and let 'er rip straight up and out of sight.
The most awesome display I've ever seen, and also the loudest.
Unfortunatetly the last two times I went to the Abbotsford show they only had North American planes.
When I was a kid, my Dad took me to the Comox air base, and we'd sit and watch the Voodoo's land and take off. Good times :-)
My favourite warplane moment was at the Abbotsford air show years ago, when the Soviet Union still sent their jets over. I think it was a SU-27 that the pilot had basically at the stalling point maybe fourty feet over the runway - just crawling along. Then he stood this thing on it's tail and let 'er rip straight up and out of sight.
The most awesome display I've ever seen, and also the loudest.
Unfortunatetly the last two times I went to the Abbotsford show they only had North American planes.
When I was a kid, my Dad took me to the Comox air base, and we'd sit and watch the Voodoo's land and take off. Good times :-)
That maneuver is called the Cobra. Its a tough move to defeat, and it allows the aircraft to fire a missile at a plane in pursuit.
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My favourite warplane moment was at the Abbotsford air show years ago, when the Soviet Union still sent their jets over. I think it was a SU-27 that the pilot had basically at the stalling point maybe fourty feet over the runway - just crawling along. Then he stood this thing on it's tail and let 'er rip straight up and out of sight.
The most awesome display I've ever seen, and also the loudest.
Unfortunatetly the last two times I went to the Abbotsford show they only had North American planes.
When I was a kid, my Dad took me to the Comox air base, and we'd sit and watch the Voodoo's land and take off. Good times :-)
Aviation nation in las Vegas this year a c-17 globe master did a fly by doing 97miles / hour ... One of the most amazing things I have seen an aircraft do... Thats as well as it landed on 500 feet of runway, and parallel parked
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That maneuver is called the Cobra. Its a tough move to defeat, and it allows the aircraft to fire a missile at a plane in pursuit.
Right on. Except this was a "half-cobra" since he never put the nose back down, just leaned on the throttle and shot up to, well, I don't know how much exactly but over 10,000 feet in a matter of seconds.
That maneuver is called the Cobra. Its a tough move to defeat, and it allows the aircraft to fire a missile at a plane in pursuit.
Tough to defeat? Not so much - it destroys your speed advantage, greatly limiting what you can do in the vertical plane, and opens you up for a shot from your pursuer’s wingman.
Also, I highly doubt, and there is evidence on the web to corroborate this, that you could do it with weapons on the hardpoints, so it would be a guns only maneuver at best. If an SU-27 was guns only, I’d simply disengage and work the target with missiles from a safe distance
Now excuse me, I have a volleyball game to go play
