Too Low

True Moocher that is why you can,t train for the unknown but you know it is there.It is a risk any pilot takes in with him when he straps in.And I meant they are the elite American team.Sure there are better Aerobatic teams out there and in any Air force they are the top of their class.And I appreciate you saying that you have seen the end result of a flight thats gone wrong.It all comes down to the maturity of the pilot and experience.But things happen that go beyond your control sometimes,thats when luck and god come into the picture.

Bye the way crackin 1st pic of the Hornet.

Over the past years I have seen better teams, they are not the elite, they are good but not the best by a long way.
As for training and training hard. You can’t train for the unknown – low fast high energy manouvers have very little room for error – emergency.
Hey what do I know, i only went to pick the broken pieces and liquidised bodies up when it all went a tiny bit wrong at “0 feet”

mick

You would lose sleep if you watch the spitfire fly over the tv presenter at dx. We know you cant train for the unknown, but no one team can say the are the best because they have all ballsed up at sometime or another. I suppose if we all stop and think of the possibilities of liquidised bodies both as spectators or pilots we wound’nt bother watchin aircraft display and no aircraft enthusiast would ever want to see an accident

I don’t see any low flying that everyone’s getting so worked up about….. :confused:

There’s a big difference between tucking the gear up and keeping it low before pulling a big rotation…..as per that Angels first shot, and flying from height down to a low,low level….
Bucc pilots could keep it lower than that after tucking up the gear 😉

I’ve lost count the numbers of times I’ve seen RAF Lightning, Buccaneer, Jag and Tonka pilots do this………..although only the Lightnings pilots had the tool for the spectacular rotation 😀

The Blue Angels train and train hard for these manouvers.They start doing them at 30,000feet and slowly bring them down slowly to earth.No stone is unturned in regard to safety with them,they are the elite and they fly as such.

Over the past years I have seen better teams, they are not the elite, they are good but not the best by a long way.
As for training and training hard. You can’t train for the unknown – low fast high energy manouvers have very little room for error – emergency.
Hey what do I know, i only went to pick the broken pieces and liquidised bodies up when it all went a tiny bit wrong at “0 feet”

mick

The Blue Angels train and train hard for these manouvers.They start doing them at 30,000feet and slowly bring them down slowly to earth.No stone is unturned in regard to safety with them,they are the elite and they fly as such.

Nothing impresive about flying an aeroplane so low at an airshow. The aeroplane is flown to show it to the public, if an aeroplane is that low, any body standing any further back than row one can’t see you. The last thing we need in airshow flying is people who have ego’s greater than their ability. All they make are smoking holes.

Well, I’d certainly NOT want to attend an airshow where I knew that a fast paraffin burner was going to be deliberately flying that close to the ground, thank you very much.

Looks like another day of flying in Texas 😎

Cheers,

Lynn

All are normal for Blue Angels flight demonstrations.

They train a lot to fly those particular profiles, and they are very good at it.