Fun Low Level in a Hornet

[KBayDog]

I feel like every post is a graded event now...can you get an Unsat on AW?

Yes, but regression rules apply.

 

[wlawr005]

If true, I'll need to start a warmup thread for those who haven't posted in the last 7 days. After 14 days, a warmup post is mandatory.

 

[KBayDog]

If true, I'll need to start a warmup thread for those who haven't posted in the last 7 days. After 14 days, a warmup post is mandatory.

All warmup posts shall comply with AIRWARINST 3710.7A.

 

["The Brick"]

Fifteen posts. I'm surprised it took that long.

Please.....tell us all about life at 45 knots.

45 knots...ouch...that's a bit below the belt....more like 130, and yes fifteen posts. I guess I need to ratchet up my nerdery and post more!

 

[jmcquate]

AW Greenie board can't be far away.

 

[scoober78]

RADALTS beeping? Just a light that my knee blocks anyways.

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You know...like the sun.

 

[Recovering LSO]

There is a tactical need. Not going further into why.

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I can't wait to look this one up.

 

[BusyBee604]

I can't wait to look this one up.

R'LSO, unless you're cleared for COSMIC... you'll never find out the reasons for Hummer low-level nav!
BzB

 

[Recovering LSO]

R'LSO, unless you're cleared for COSMIC... you'll never find out the reasons for Hummer low-level nav!
BzB

There were foolish enough to give me a SIPR account. If I could just remember the password...

 

[danpass]

I can't wait to look this one up.

that might be what it is .... looking up.

I wonder if its space related.

/complete conjecture

 

[pourts]

Amen, very true... on the flip side, the lower you fly -the more big birds you encounter. The faster you go, the harder they hit!

We nearly lost a TA-4F in the VA-44 RAG in '69, when on a low nav over the Okeefenokee Swamp in GA, took a mallard drake hit in the rear of the canopy. Coming from the side, it shattered the canopy & the rear-seat IP's visor blinding him. Thinking they had suffered a mid-air collision at 200', the IP, badly hurt, ejected immediately. The RP stayed with the bird & calmly initiated rescue operations, then safely landed back at Cecil.

Eventially rescued, the IP (a RNZAF "hinge" exchange Pilot), recovered after lengthy hospitalization, having lost one eye and severely lacerated the other. Having been slated for command of the first RNZAF A-4 (75 Sqdn), Squadron Leader (O-4) Donaldson never could fly single-seat/engine A/C again; however, he remained on active duty, and retired from the service some 12 years later as a Group Captain (O-6), and CO of RNZAF Base, Blenheim, NZ where I visited with him in '79 after I had retired (a good friend, as I had been Sponsor Officer for Ross & family's arrival in VA-44 at Cecil).
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*Sqdn Ldr "Ross Donaldson, VA-44 Line 1969
Quite a story, I think you can read it by googling Sqdn Ldr W. Ross Donaldson ejection-bird strike 1969.
BzB

You old timers might be interested to know that all bird strike remains (aka snarge) are sent to the Smithsonian for DNA testing to identify the species and put into a database to help predict migration patterns.

 

[squorch2]

sometimes it comes back as "insects."

 

[BusyBee604]

You old timers might be interested to know that all bird strike remains (aka snarge) ...

"Snarge"... hey, great vocab! Thought you were 'wingin' it, but Wiki sez it's so!
BzB

 

[magnetfreezer]

You old timers might be interested to know that all bird strike remains (aka snarge) are sent to the Smithsonian for DNA testing to identify the species and put into a database to help predict migration patterns.

Yep, and the director of that lab is Dr. Dove (seriously, google it).

 

[Catmando]

Another long and winding thread perilously zig-zagging back and forth its dangerous trajectory... but unfortunately ever downward... and exposing some delightfully inviting targets of opportunity for a MK-82 or two, or maybe a Rockeye from some greedy and steely-eyed aviator.