BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 14:59

Username Protected wrote:

However, I saw Jack Roush this weekend and he flies his Mustang IFR on business trips all the time... Most Mustangs carry a Limited Type Certificate which allows this, unlike the Jets.

Was his Premier in the shop ?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 15:25

Username Protected wrote:

However, I saw Jack Roush this weekend and he flies his Mustang IFR on business trips all the time... Most Mustangs carry a Limited Type Certificate which allows this, unlike the Jets.

Was his Premier in the shop ?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 17:12

Doug,

There's a guy that flies an F86 every year on the 4th of July over Amelia Island, FL for an airshow. Is that you or do you know the guy?

He does an amazing job and it looks awesome. I've got some great video footage.

Jason

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 17:45

Username Protected wrote:

He has done LA to Detroit Non-stop......

my lord a new item has been added to my bucket list :sad:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 17:48

Username Protected wrote:

Doug,

There's a guy that flies an F86 every year on the 4th of July over Amelia Island, FL for an airshow. Is that you or do you know the guy?

He does an amazing job and it looks awesome. I've got some great video footage.

Jason

If he was dragging a wing in the dirt, then it is Snort Snodgrass... I know him well.

I do not fly the F86, but I would love to....

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 17:59

Username Protected wrote:

If he was dragging a wing in the dirt, then it is Snort Snodgrass... I know him well.

I do not fly the F86, but I would love to....

Yup. that's him.

I have amazing footage. Standing in waist deep water and he goes screaming by just a couple feet off the water. I could feel the heat from the exhaust I was so close. He made that pass at least a dozen times too. He's got the balls of a titan.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 18:11

Username Protected wrote:

Yup. that's him.

I have amazing footage. Standing in waist deep water and he goes screaming by just a couple feet off the water. I could feel the heat from the exhaust I was so close. He made that pass at least a dozen times too. He's got the balls of a titan.

post it or it didn't happen

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 18:18

Username Protected wrote:

He has done LA to Detroit Non-stop......

my lord a new item has been added to my bucket list :sad:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 18:24

Username Protected wrote:

What is not considered in this equation is 4+ hours of sitting on a parachute with your stomach boiling at with a 35,000 ft cabin altitude, sucking on an O2 Mask. At that altitude, you would not want to even take it off for a few moments to itch your nose... A very harsh environment to say the least.... I do lots of flying at 17,500 and that is high enough for me, thank you very much.

Makes my profound admiration and respect for our WWII guys that much deeper :bow:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 18:27

Username Protected wrote:

post it or it didn't happen

[youtube]http://youtu.be/nlU1rRcEAYw[/youtube]

Look at this video at about the 1'45' range his wing is lower than the roof of a car.....

This is not a fluke, he does it all the time, he is my friend, and I hate it.....

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 18:39

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Makes my profound admiration and respect for our WWII guys that much deeper :bow:

They did it for 8 hours.... And the bomber guys had the windows open. If your heated suit failed you simply froze for 8 hours... I have done two 2.5 hour legs in the Mustang and I had trouble standing up when I got out after the second leg. I can't imagine.....

Go to an airshow, museum, or better yet, buy a ride on a touring B-17, B-24, B-25, or P-51, and experience first hand what it must have been like. The cockpit of a P-51 on the ground can reach into the mid 100's, all dressed up in high altitude gear, they would get all sweaty on Take-off and climb, and then it would start to freeze as they got higher. O2 masks would wear their faces raw and then the sweat and blood would freeze the masks to their face...

Take some kids. They need to know.

And yet look how many people are willing to give up the freedoms these guys paid for with blood so they can FEEL safe...

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 18:39

Awesome.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 18:53

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Makes my profound admiration and respect for our WWII guys that much deeper :bow:

Yeah, and instead of a business meeting, they where doing this to have a life or death fight somewhere 1/2 way into the mission.

A lot of them died. Not necessarily from enemy action but simply from the kind of flying this required. A lot of what we know about high-altitude physiology and survival was learned through those kids.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 19:19

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A lot of them died. Not necessarily from enemy action but simply from the kind of flying this required. A lot of what we know about high-altitude physiology and survival was learned through those kids.

True. And the physical impact of the stress of battle. I've posted this before, but for a good primer on the day-to-day life in an operational squadron read Clostermann's The Big Show. These guys were young going in and were old coming out - both physically and mentally.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 Feb 2010, 20:16

Username Protected wrote:

A lot of them died. Not necessarily from enemy action but simply from the kind of flying this required. A lot of what we know about high-altitude physiology and survival was learned through those kids.

True. And the physical impact of the stress of battle. I've posted this before, but for a good primer on the day-to-day life in an operational squadron read Clostermann's The Big Show. These guys were young going in and were old coming out - both physically and mentally.

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