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Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: cav58d on April 27, 2007, 06:05:30 PM
Photo's from NAS Pensacola as BA # 6 returns home.  Note Fat Albert flying the # 6 on her side



http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=DP&Date=20070425&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=704250804&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=1
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Mr No Name on April 27, 2007, 06:20:55 PM
 :(
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: AquaShrimp on April 27, 2007, 06:28:54 PM
Yeah, its dangerous business pulling g's at low altitude.  Not only does a pilots mind have to be in tip-top shape, but so does his body.  Who knows why a highly experienced pilot went unconscious while pulling g's when a thousand times before he didn't?  Perhaps he was fighting a cold, or got a poor nights sleep, or was even a bit dehydrated.

The Blue Angels trim their planes down, so a constant back pressure must be maintained on the stick.  Lose consciousness and let got of the stick, and your plane goes down.
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Maverick on April 27, 2007, 06:35:51 PM
Fair skies and tailwinds forever.
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Bodhi on April 27, 2007, 07:02:23 PM
 LtCdr Davis....  :(
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: LePaul on April 27, 2007, 07:04:32 PM
Thanks for the links to the images.

Aquashrimp, your sideline speculating is out of line and distasteful IMO
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Golfer on April 27, 2007, 08:13:47 PM
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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
A load of garbage


Shut up.
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Airscrew on April 27, 2007, 10:48:53 PM
"They who wait upon the Lord shall have their strength renewed. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They will run and not grow weary they will walk and faint not."

LtCdr Kevin Davis
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Seagoon on April 27, 2007, 11:26:10 PM
Very Sad. :( I'm not sure there is any sight in the world that shatters me more than a flag draped coffin.  

- SEAGOON

"For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, When it falls suddenly upon them." (Eccles. 9:12)
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: red26 on April 28, 2007, 01:03:11 AM
Fair skies and tailwinds forever. By Maverick

I can only say the same thing .:cry
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: AWMac on April 28, 2007, 07:05:47 AM
"Oh I Have Slipped
The Surly Bonds of Earth...
Put Out My Hand
And Touched the Face of God"


Peace

<<>>

Mac




*wish you hadn't posted those pics*
Is nothing sacred anymore?

A Good Read (http://www.qunl.com/rees0008.html)
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on April 28, 2007, 07:47:29 AM
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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Yeah, its dangerous business pulling g's at low altitude.  Not only does a pilots mind have to be in tip-top shape, but so does his body.  Who knows why a highly experienced pilot went unconscious while pulling g's when a thousand times before he didn't?  Perhaps he was fighting a cold, or got a poor nights sleep, or was even a bit dehydrated.

The Blue Angels trim their planes down, so a constant back pressure must be maintained on the stick.  Lose consciousness and let got of the stick, and your plane goes down.



Was this trip necessary? :mad:
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: cav58d on April 28, 2007, 01:54:49 PM
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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Yeah, its dangerous business pulling g's at low altitude.  Not only does a pilots mind have to be in tip-top shape, but so does his body.  Who knows why a highly experienced pilot went unconscious while pulling g's when a thousand times before he didn't?  Perhaps he was fighting a cold, or got a poor nights sleep, or was even a bit dehydrated.

The Blue Angels trim their planes down, so a constant back pressure must be maintained on the stick.  Lose consciousness and let got of the stick, and your plane goes down.


Your a stand up guy.  Aren't you in the Navy too?  :huh
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: AquaShrimp on April 28, 2007, 06:15:29 PM
I didnt realize this was a mourning thread till after the time limit that I could edit the thread.  

That being said, the pilot is dead.  He will never see this.  This thread is for us, and us only.  It made me feel better talking a bit about number 6.  If you are angry that I posted, so be it.  I am sure that number 6 would rather me post about flying than feel sorry for him.  I've seen him fly in 2006, I'm not sure if you all have.  He was a good pilot and served his country well.

So, #6, and you cry-babies.
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on April 28, 2007, 06:28:42 PM
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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
I didnt realize this was a mourning thread till after the time limit that I could edit the thread.  

That being said, the pilot is dead.  He will never see this.  This thread is for us, and us only.  It made me feel better talking a bit about number 6.  If you are angry that I posted, so be it.  I am sure that number 6 would rather me post about flying than feel sorry for him.  I've seen him fly in 2006, I'm not sure if you all have.  He was a good pilot and served his country well.

So, #6, and you cry-babies.


No one is crying. Almost everyone noticed you were being a pompous bloviating dipstick, though.

No one is feeling sorry for Lt Cmdr Davis either. Most were saluting him, and no one else felt they were qualified to comment on the crash.
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Masherbrum on April 28, 2007, 06:32:57 PM
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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
I didnt realize this was a mourning thread till after the time limit that I could edit the thread.  

That being said, the pilot is dead.  He will never see this.  This thread is for us, and us only.  It made me feel better talking a bit about number 6.  If you are angry that I posted, so be it.  I am sure that number 6 would rather me post about flying than feel sorry for him.  I've seen him fly in 2006, I'm not sure if you all have.  He was a good pilot and served his country well.

So, #6, and you cry-babies.


I feel a PNG coming to a town near you.
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: AquaShrimp on April 28, 2007, 06:34:00 PM
Virgil Hilts, you are a complete pompous idiot.  A gun loving, uneducated fool.  

If you would like to finish this retort, I will gladly give you my phone number.  But I bet you are coward enough not to pursue that.
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on April 28, 2007, 06:41:57 PM
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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Virgil Hilts, you are a complete pompous idiot.  A gun loving, uneducated fool.  

If you would like to finish this retort, I will gladly give you my phone number.  But I bet you are coward enough not to pursue that.


I don't want your phone number little boy, I don't want to talk to you.

Coward? Not hardly. Disgusted with you? You bet.

By the way, I fully expect for this post and the other one to be edited, by Skuzzy  or an MP. So be it.
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: DiabloTX on April 28, 2007, 06:51:16 PM
Way to completely hijack a truly heart-felt thread dedicated to one of our fallen.

#6, you will be missed.
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Masherbrum on April 28, 2007, 06:58:23 PM
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Way to completely hijack a truly heart-felt thread dedicated to one of our fallen.

#6, you will be missed.


Ditto.

<> Virgil Hilts.
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: stephen on April 28, 2007, 06:58:52 PM
thank god we live in a country where the right to choose what to say isnt covernd by the taste or distaste of others, one of many rights that I myself and millions of others have joind the military to defend,,

So just let me say that you berating aquashriump for pointing out how the angels opperate was in poor taste, and you should perhaps be less opinionated when writing thx.

 I saw the angels at Tyndall this year, nice show, this unfortunate occurance should point out that the pilot buisness will never be a safe one, and that is an uncompfortable truth...
But we dont love it because its safe...now do we?
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on April 28, 2007, 07:15:08 PM
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Originally posted by Masherbrum
Ditto.

<> Virgil Hilts.


No, I was wrong to allow myself to be baited into taking part in a hijack of the thread. I don't deserve any salute. I stand by what I said, I just shouldn't have stooped to the level of the original offender and posted it in this thread. That was wrong.
Title: Blue Angel # 6 Comes Home
Post by: Estel on April 28, 2007, 08:03:28 PM
Salute