From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 06:26:07 PDT
At 6:00 AM +0000 7/12/04, dodgew200@mchsi.com wrote:
>Hehe....
>
>Well a month or so later we were conducting flight operations and this same
>Krivak was being a pain...AGAIN! This time he
>was close astern weaving back and
>forth. He caused more than one abort due to his being so close.
>
>quite suddenly the mighty FID sped up and made a
>hard turn to port. Two Turkeys
>that were on long final went to Zone 5 and broke the sound barrier right over
>the SOB's bridge at his mast height + a few feet. the resulting double sonic
>boom rattled OUR ears and we were about a mile away by this time (it simply
>amazes me at how fast 86 thousand tons can get up and boogie that fast)
Jeeze, that must have broken all the glass out of
the bridge and cracked a few people's skulls
(practically).
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Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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