Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Rob52240 on July 09, 2012, 10:59:30 AM
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I may have posted this before, it's not new but I've not seen it from this angle before.
5 USAF jets did a flyby for our local collegiate football team a while back and are no longer allowed to fly government property.
http://youtu.be/iCsyJas_YRE?t=10s
Coincidentally, Kinnick was an F-6 pilot during the war, but since he was also a Heisman Trophy winner they stuck him on Panama Canal patrol duty where he fatally crashed after engine failure.
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What kind of Panama Canal patrol was he flying and what type aircraft?
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Chile had p51s in the 80's i think, painted green
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Actually Kinnick was killed on a training flight off the USS Lexington in 1943. He would have deployed to the Pacific with the Lex air group had he lived. I remember reading somewhere that someone was at one point searching for the wreck of the Wildcat he went down in.
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5 USAF jets did a flyby for our local collegiate football team a while back and are no longer allowed to fly government property.
I hope their hotdogging stunt was worth losing their careers. They are called Flight RULES for a reason.
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Thanks Guppy.
I don't think it was that much of a hot dog stunt. After all it is Iowa, which is so flat that you're not allowed to hunt anything with rifles aside from coyotes.
Back to Nile Kinnick
he reported for induction three days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He wrote, "There is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely, no reason why we shouldn't suffer to uphold that which we want to endure. May God give me the courage to do my duty and not falter." Later, he added, "Every man whom I've admired in history has willingly and courageously served in his country's armed forces in times of danger. It is not only a duty but an honor to follow their example the best I know how. May God give me the courage and ability to so conduct myself in every situation that my country, my family, and my friends will be proud of me."
Kinnick had been flying for over an hour when his F4F Wildcat developed an oil leak so serious that he could neither reach land nor the Lexington, whose flight deck was in any case crowded with planes preparing for launch. Kinnick followed standard military procedure and executed an emergency landing in the water, but died in the process. Rescue boats arrived on the scene a mere eight minutes later, but they found only an oil slick. His body was never recovered.
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What a dumb way to ruin your career.
ack-ack
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There were only 4 T-38s in that fly over...
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Sweet......the armed forces spent millions on those guys and will spend the same to replace them.
That doesn't seem like a sustainable spending model.
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This aspect of Kinnick stadium might be more interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-g5lx3-mVI
Personally, I think it was a good idea.