About 10 or 12 years ago I was doing some work on the flight line at Seymour Johnson AFB in Goldsboro, NC. F15's were doing pretty much the same maneuver on take off. The pilot would start his roll, when he pulled the nose wheel up the engines would be painting the runway with fire. As soon as the tail wheels came cleared the runway he'd slam the wheels up and shut, pull the nose straight up, climb about (I'm guessing) 1000 feet and roll of to the left inverted, horizontal to the ground. Then roll back over flat and he was gone. The whole squadron was doing it. CH
Thanks and reminds me of Lieutenant Franz Stigler's near death. He was pounced upon by 100 American fighters, so dove his jet at full throttle and was just barely able to pull it up at the last instance without crashing . He came so close that when her finally got control, the jet set a farmer's field on fire.
About 10 or 12 years ago I was doing some work on the flight line at Seymour Johnson AFB in Goldsboro, NC. F15's were doing pretty much the same maneuver on take off. The pilot would start his roll, when he pulled the nose wheel up the engines would be painting the runway with fire. As soon as the tail wheels came cleared the runway he'd slam the wheels up and shut, pull the nose straight up, climb about (I'm guessing) 1000 feet and roll of to the left inverted, horizontal to the ground. Then roll back over flat and he was gone. The whole squadron was doing it. CH
ReplyDeleteThanks and reminds me of Lieutenant Franz Stigler's near death. He was pounced upon by 100 American fighters, so dove his jet at full throttle and was just barely able to pull it up at the last instance without crashing . He came so close that when her finally got control, the jet set a farmer's field on fire.
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