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![]() "gpsman" wrote in message oups.com... Skywise wrote: brevity snip I can only image what those on the receiving end of a strafing run must have felt when they heard the howl of that plane bearing down upon them. I've never been fired upon by aircraft but I can offer a brief description of what it's like to have a flight of 3 F-4's come over from behind at about 300AGL and maybe 400kts... Very, very frightening. ----- - gpsman This from someone behind me at an airshow one time after the Blue Angels "Sneak Pass" and the narrator's accompanying description of low-level, high-speed tactical attack methods: "Well, we can't be dead...we heard him." In the 1940s, you could probably count on hearing the attacking aircraft on a strafing run before he fired...but today, you're dead long before you'd ever hear the jet (provided of course, the ordinance in question even required flight anywhere near the target...) Duck early, duck often. Jay Beckman PP-ASEL Chandler, AZ |
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