On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:20:04 GMT, "cj" wrote:

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
...
(Harry Andreas) wrote:


Once, at Geoge AFB, we had a couple of F-15s refueling while we were
prepping a cross-country flight of F-4Es. The F-15s did a "haul ass
ten
feet off of the runway, pull the gear, go straight up while rolling
until out of sight" moves.

The four F-4Es... sorta slouched off of the ground and headed the
other
way.


I was on a civilian firefighting helicopter based at George in 1981.
We were on the edge of transient parking past Chopper Ops and near the
California Air National Guard hanger. A few times we got to see the
Delta Darts go chase a blip. They would roll out of the hanger two at
a time and go vertical ASAP - very cool.

- cj

None of which is impressive compared to a cat launch :-)

Al Minyard