The Great, Constantly Changing Video Thread...

[MasterBates]

Done 13+ in the seat before. Triple pumps when you are the only HAC not down with the flu from the flu shot.

Thankfully the hummer can only go for 10 before it has to shut down. Did that multiple times.

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[sodajones]

No rounds penetrated his body armor, and he made it home with no permanent injuries. This happened in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.

From the cameraman:
" I got a hit a total of 4 times. My helmet cam died and i made it down the mountain on my own. I was also hit in the side of my helmet and my eye pro was shot off of my face. We were doing overwatch on the village to recon and gather intel. I was point heading down the face of the hill with the LT. when we got hit. the rest of the squad was pinned down by machine gun fire. I didn't start the video until a few mins into the firefight for obvious reasons. I came out into the open to draw fire so my squad could get to safety."

"A round struck the tube by my hand of the 203 grenade launcher which knocked it out of my hands. When I picked the rifle back up it was still functional but the grenade launcher tube had a nice sized 7.62 cal bullet hole in it and was rendered useless. "

 

[Catmando]

Interesting old school video from the "70s showing early F-14, Air Combat Maneuvering (ACM) training at the then, NAS Miramar.
[Confession - I knew and flew with most of the guys in the video.]

 

[MIDNJAC]

Interesting old school video from the "70s showing early F-14, Air Combat Maneuvering (ACM) training at the then, NAS Miramar.
[Confession - I knew and flew with most of the guys in the video.]

Pretty cool video Cat. Good footage from a part of the ramp I'm very familiar with (also pretty sure I briefed in those very rooms.....with whiteboards instead of blackboards of course ). I remember seeing that someone scratched into the cement (obviously back in the day) "VF-124 Sucks", somewhere along the Shooter 26X-27X Modex line (where they keep the fugly D's)

As a side-bar, was the glove-vane on the -A only?

 

[Catmando]

Pretty cool video Cat. Good footage from a part of the ramp I'm very familiar with (also pretty sure I briefed in those very rooms.....with whiteboards instead of blackboards of course ). I remember seeing that someone scratched into the cement (obviously back in the day) "VF-124 Sucks", somewhere along the Shooter 26X-27X Modex line (where they keep the fugly D's)

As a side-bar, was the glove-vane on the -A only?

Looking at the video, those might even be greenboards instead of blackboards, which we thought meant that we were on the "cutting edge" of technology …. albeit long before whiteboards. Or the ‘Internets’, for that matter.

The glove vanes were only on the "A" model. I think they even disconnected them later on, since they weren’t needed. They were supposed to give added stability for bombing. But when the Marines didn’t buy the F-14, the bombing mission never developed for us …. Until a decade or two later.

I liked the glove vanes. They looked cool coming into the break at warp speed. And I liked the added stability they gave doing low levels on hot and bumpy days.

PS: Some interesting characters in the vid. Some made admiral, and some were quickly forced out of the Navy for reasons left unsaid. But all were awesome aviators and NFOs.

 

[Catmando]

Another very unusual F-14 video from the Iran/Iraq war...

I delivered an F-14 to Isfahan once. And one or two here on AW actually taught the Iranian pilots, before the fall of the Shah.
I will withhold my opinions and comments. I only offer the video at its face value.

 

[Catmando]

Old school SAR porn:

 

[jmcquate]

Old school SAR porn:

Jollys, Sandys, and FACs......oh my.

 

[Flying Toaster]

 

[Renegade One]

Interesting old school video from the "70s showing early F-14, Air Combat Maneuvering (ACM) training at the then, NAS Miramar.
[Confession - I knew and flew with most of the guys in the video.]

"Bless Me Father, for I have sinned...me too."

"Mauler" (the instructor in the orange bag) was my first crewed pilot in my first fleet squadron several years earlier. RIP, Mauler...
"Hand salute...ready TWO!" as well to "Rookie" (in same squadron as Mauler and I earlier...RIP as a NASA pilot), "Fang" (squadron-mate in VF-213 some years after this), "Queenie", "Pink Panther", "Ho-Chi" ( a legend for many reasons...), and the rest.

May have been the time, but Grumman was HUGE about producing great PAO films like this one, "SeaLegs", many, many others... "selling" the aircraft. Will be interesting to see if Industry today will be so fulsome on producing videos about the Lightning II as it matures.

Nice haircuts and sideburns... Those were the days.

 

[wlawr005]

Pretty slick join up.

 

[Fog]

Old school SAR porn:

Anybody notice the Sandy (A-1) pilot saying he was 50 miles out and "will be there in about 5"? That's the height of ambition if he thinks he can do 600 kts in a Spad!

 

[ea6bflyr]

Anybody notice the Sandy (A-1) pilot saying he was 50 miles out and "will be there in about 5"? That's the height of ambition if he thinks he can do 600 kts in a Spad!

He did say "about"... I always tell the wife I'll be back in a few minutes.

-ea6bflyr

 

[BACONATOR]

Not a cool video in an awe-inspiring way, but a hell of a funny/cool video... little robinson doing a "SAR" of its own:

 

[KBayDog]

Not a cool video in an awe-inspiring way, but a hell of a funny/cool video... little robinson doing a "SAR" of its own:

*Cue Harrier Dude*

I remember reading about some "principles"...5 of 'em, IIRC...