Snort lives just down the road from you in St Augustine. You have plenty of time to chat him up in the off season. I take it the boats are enough anymore and you're looking for more speed?
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Own a MIG-29 for $5M
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Snort lives just down the road from you in St Augustine. You have plenty of time to chat him up in the off season. I take it the boats are enough anymore and you're looking for more speed?
Brett1
Banned
You got it!!! I actually had to eject at high speed and ended my career doing so........... hurt like a beatch.
http://media.putfile.com/ejection
Holy crap, that was you? I've seen that flick a hundred times on the internet and shows like RealTV. It really does look like it hurt!
Brett1
Banned
That is me...... on the left.
Yes it is legal to own a MIG29
It must however be "demilitarized" which involves an inspection by the ATF. Getting a type rating in the aircraft involves finding someone who is rated and authorized by the FAA to give you a checkride in that experimental jet. In order to get picked up for NFO to pilot/ get an Air National Guard slot if that did nto work, I got a type rating in an Aero Vodochody L-29. That was a blast and it helped me get my #1 choice. Classic Jet Aircraft Association CJAA has some info. However, $5 million can be spent better elsewhere, fly a hornet for now.
It must however be "demilitarized" which involves an inspection by the ATF. Getting a type rating in the aircraft involves finding someone who is rated and authorized by the FAA to give you a checkride in that experimental jet. In order to get picked up for NFO to pilot/ get an Air National Guard slot if that did nto work, I got a type rating in an Aero Vodochody L-29. That was a blast and it helped me get my #1 choice. Classic Jet Aircraft Association CJAA has some info. However, $5 million can be spent better elsewhere, fly a hornet for now.
Yow, actually, in my day job I work with shock mitigation as part of providing Naval Aviation expertise to SPECWAR and in their high watercraft, we found that the shock loads at speed in sea state 3-4 are comparable to an ejection from an aircraft. Just as serious is the wear and tear on the body is even more dibilitating from subjecting it to repeated shock loads, some of which are not in alignment with the vertical axis. I have been on crutches twice in last 4 years of this effort from swollen knees....you can go a lot faster in jets and pull all sorts of G, but not suffer same type after effects nor risk the contusions, broken bones and spinal damage (assuming you don't have to eject, but even then, withing the envelope ejections in proper seat position are mostly injury free).
Maybe you can get a sponsor from one of your clients...Platinum Speed????
I can't seem to figure out why they were ejected. Care to elaborate on that video?
Zilch
This...is...Caketown!
I believe the gentleman you refer to was killed in an A-1 at the TICO Airshow a few years ago when it did a nose-over at the end of the runway. It was also the TICO Airshow where the L39 crashed just this year. I've been going to that show since I can remember, and it leaves a dark cloud over the place for a long time when mishaps occur.
Brett1
Banned
You are correct.
jride200
Member
A4s, I agree; the Bearcat is unequaled as my dream prop plane.
Just found this:
http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/N68RW Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat Spec.htm
Just found this:
http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/N68RW Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat Spec.htm
Brett1
Banned
Are you kidding?!! That is awsome. $1.5 mil is a little rich for my blood, not to mention all the Jet-A it would be thirsty for. Then again I suppose that if you can afford to buy it, you probably wouldn't be to strapped for cash to pony up for fuel.
Along those same lines, there is one guy down hear at Centennial Airport that owns an F-5 in painted with the Soviet star on it. Also, there is a crazy old man at the Jeffco airport who owns a pink MiG-17 and flys it to Centennial every now and then to put on static display.
Along those same lines, there is one guy down hear at Centennial Airport that owns an F-5 in painted with the Soviet star on it. Also, there is a crazy old man at the Jeffco airport who owns a pink MiG-17 and flys it to Centennial every now and then to put on static display.
the deadly mig 28...