Although an unexpected noise like that can really spook a lot of people. Picture someone with PTSD.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thanks Zane! Yes, don’t you know some phones were ringing Friday afternoon! Sounded like Freedom to me, although for most of it all I could hear was the smooth whine of an Allison turbine
JWilsonphoto wrote:
OK boys and girls, buckle up for a short ride with my good friend Matt Byrd as he does a flyover to honor the surviving Vietnam POW's.....
Wow, the stabilization shows how little straight and level flying he did. The airframe was certainly buffeting a whole lot! Any idea what his airspeed was for the low pass?
Me too, Anthony. Only thing I'm thankful for with glasses nowadays is that the new plastic lenses come in featherweight... if I still had to wear the old glass lenses like I used to have... my lenses would be at least an inch thick. Isn't any place that can do my prescription in an hour, takes at least a week or longer.
.anthonysemone wrote: I need all the help I can get.
Thanks for sending me that Zane! I can consider that image "unclassified" at this point. I wanted The 307th and The Circle T to have dibs on the first thunder..............
This was the concept that I sent to my client................They changed the heading to 180 in the last brief. And yes, the airspace was really tight.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Chandler was eyeing the empty rear seat .........."
Yeah...well he's not the only one
I've been eyeing empty jet fighter seats ever since I can remember seeing my first T-38's at Reese AFB when I was a wee tyke. My mom used to take me out to the end of the runway after school at times just to shut me up.
HA!
That will mean a lot to him Zane, thank you! I figured, after that, it was time he had his own watermark. He did say something about how heavy all that camera gear is and how hot it was guess the AFW Air Show golf cart routine has softened him up, better make him schlep a bit more this year!
I'm wishing for a ride in the back seat, too. Only time I ever got to be in the back seat was an F-15 in 1979.
Too bad it was just the "high speed taxi"* but I did get the flight suit and strapped to the ACES II just in case. It would have been interesting if we did have to punch out, at the time my hair was down to my ankles..
*I am pretty sure there was a brief moment that the wheels left the runway.
I need all the help I can get. 
