Caption this Photo 19DEC02

[2stony]

Here he is doing a 1-G roll over Lake Washington during the Hydro-plane races while the Boeing big wigs were entertaining airline customers. He was NOT cleared to do this, but it sold alot of 707's soon after

     Tex Johnson got into a lot of trouble for "showboating" with the 707 and almost got fired. I've been to the boat races before and there was nothing like the old boats when they ran Rolls-Merlins in them. It sounded like a P-51 race instead of a boat race. Now they all use turbines and they are boring as hell.


Stony

[SirLoin]

Movie.."Final Countdown2"

[Drunky]

Originally posted by AKDejaVu
B2 pilot to B2 co-pilot:

"Did you just fart?"

Ah hell...there's mine

[Holden McGroin]

You don't need a sonic shock wave to get the effect...  You  can sometimes see contrails from Formula 1 car wings when the conditions are right,  The phenomenon happens frequently on planes with high G loading, even at relatively low speed.

[senna]

Its  water seperating from the air due to pressure extreme differences. The effects differ of course due to aerodynamics etc... bla bla...

[DJ111]

Co-Pilot: "Hey.."
 Pilot: "Yeah?"

 Co-Pilot: "You hear something?"
 Pilot: "Nah"

[CyranoAH]

Kaptaain sirr I see somethin decloaking off the starboard bow

[emodin]

"When cottonballs attack"

[DOODY]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Thats damn near a household name in this part of the country, and military Aircraft testing cirlces...he was Boeing's chief test pilot for the B-47, B-52, commercial A/C, and several variants that never made service.

Here  he is doing a 1-G roll over Lake Washington during the Hydro-plane races while the Boeing big wigs were entertaining airline customers.  He was NOT cleared to do this, but it sold alot of 707's soon after

Read his book, its very good! Interesting life as a test pilot.
(Editted,wlfgang was right, 1 g, not 0 g. My bad)

 I've seen the whole thing on video.. not too impressive. it looked like more of a 3 mile long spiral to me.

[davidpt40]

EJECT, EJECT, EJECT!

Hahaha, the funniest by far.

[skernsk]

Originally posted by DOODY
I've seen the whole thing on video.. not too impressive. it looked like more of a 3 mile long spiral to me.

Well, if you were in a passenger plane and the pilot decided to do this would you sit there and file your nails or would you be pumping adrenaline waiting to see if the wings would rip off? Quite frankly I would have shat myself, screamed like a woman and freaked out like a Luftwhiner over a missing pixel or two.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by skernsk
Well, if you were in a passenger plane and the pilot decided to do this would you sit there and file your nails or would you be pumping adrenaline waiting to see if the wings would rip off? Quite frankly I would have shat myself, screamed like a woman and freaked out like a Luftwhiner over a missing pixel or two.

Stole my thunder!

[BlckMgk]

"BOOM, Sadam... get ready..."

But in reference to that 707, I've flown in one of those Flight Test Sim boxes... and let me tell you those, big ol planes are like my yank and bank plane at home............ SLOW.... so trying to roll one of these suckers would be a feat in itself....

[Toad]

Originally posted by skernsk
Quite frankly I would have shat myself, screamed like a woman and freaked out like a Luftwhiner over a missing pixel or two.

Classic.

Put this one in "the book".

[Vermillion]

Damn Skernsk that was good!!