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"Blueskies" wrote:
"Morgans" wrote in message ... "Blueskies" wrote I LIKE that one! You wouldn't like that one, if you were flying along in CAVU, and someone else dragged and dropped a thunderstorm right on top of you! -- Jim in NC Talk about fast moving storms... Ever see the movie "The Final Countdown"? That had a fast moving time-storm vortex that came literally out of nowhere to engulf the USS Nimitz. So these things can happen! Hopefully Garmin's 596 will be able to display any time-vortices so one can fly around them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Countdown I didn't realize this bit of trivia about one of the maneuvers in the Zeros vs. F-14 dogfight, according to Wikipedia: "When the F-14s report what happened, Yelland orders them to "play" with the Zeros but not destroy them. The pilots perform amazing maneuvers like diving toward the water and pulling up at the last second, feats impossible for World War II-era planes (though in truth, when this sequence was filmed, the Tomcat pilot tried to follow one of the Zero's slow barrel rolls, but miscalculated the low speed maneuver and lost a considerable amount of altitude, far more than intended, which prompted a hasty full- afterburner recovery at the last moment)." No mention how many gees pulled during those barrel rolls. ;-) |
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