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This is funny!! These guys are stationed at DM. Also, check out some of the other cool videos on the site.

http://www.airshowbuzz.com/videos/view.php?v=eeabb63b

Thanks!

Makes my feet itch for the pedals � been 'way too long since I found myself unconciously trying to steer my pick-up with my feet or trying to leap-frog over a slow driver ahead by pulling back on the steering wheel and pushing a throttle that wasn't there.

I can sit and watch those videos all day long. Some are very inspiring for me.

I like the F-86 videos, always been one of my favorite planes. Les

� suggests another thread: "What's your favorite aircraft?"

I'd have a hard time answering that one � 'way too many favorites, in too many categories.

Yeah, have to agree with ya' too many classifications out there.

Yep, it and an early mark Hawker Hunter and the Grumman F-11 just plain look like a fighter should look. No surprise that the planes I doodled on the edges of what should have been my homework looked a lot like those!

It appears that flying an F-4 from the ground is more difficult than flying it normaly.

Glad these guys have a sense of humor about this stuff.

Easy to do when the taxpayers foot the bill.

Cool videos, thanks!

The F-4 demo team comes form the last active F-4 flying unit in the USAF. Periodically the USAF takes an F-5 form the AMARC (boneyard), "unpickles it," fits the remote control equipment to it, then send it out to be a drone. Drones can do things manned aircraft cannot, like be used for live fire exercises.

IIRC, the aviators at Davis Monthan AFB keep current in these drones primarily to check otu the unpickled aircraft and to check out drone pilots. The Heritage Flight duty is a side duty and one that I support 100%.

Isn't the hawker the one that got lit off with a cannon shell???

Isn't the hawker the one that got lit off with a cannon shell??? [/quote]

Maybe. A lot of the early jets used some sort of cartridge starting device to get things moving. The one I recall in particular was the Canberra.

There were a few aircraft that had cartridge start capabilities. We had em on KC-135's and B-52's. The cartridge was the size of a 3lb coffee can, smoked like a b!tch. All alert tankers and BUFS were started using the cartridge start system. We had a cart start on #4 engine with the tanker. Once #4 was started you ran it up to full power, started the other 3 engines simultaneously. Then someone got the bright idea to put cart start on all four engines. Not good if the wind was in the wrong direction

IIRC BUFS had a cart per wing, went to a cartridge per engine pylon.

Now there's some perfeshunals.