Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Close Call



Wow.  The slow-motion bit is the scariest part; I missed the flying concrete in real-time.
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  1. OldAFSarge01 July, 2014 13:13

    When things are going boom, I like to be in a nice deep hole. Or behind something substantial. Not gawking like a tourist out in the open.

    I damn near wet my pants in real time, realized what a close call those folks had in slow-mo. That would have taken someone's head off.

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    1. Buck01 July, 2014 13:53

      A nice deep hole is indeed the place to be. Or in front of a teevee screen.

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  2. Craig01 July, 2014 15:09

    As Bill Cosby says, first you say it, then you do it. . .

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  3. HMS Defiant01 July, 2014 18:02

    Not one of them had any idea except this man. It reminds me of a passage in Coontz when he was flying out of the bombing range in PI back to the ship and a couple of F4's drilled through the space between him and his wingman. Closing rate over a 1000 mph and nobody else in the formation saw them. A leemer.

    We used to watch the mines detonate from a safe distance.

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  4. virgil xenophon02 July, 2014 10:53

    Shortly after I left the UK during an ORI a 4-ship from my old squadron was tanking when a two-ship from a sister squadron coming back from the range went right thru and created a mid-air that sent one of ours and one of theirs right into the drink. The 92nd bird pancaked on the canopy of the 78th bird--all four crew-members were lost.

    BTW, there is a you tube of street-fighting in Iraq a few years ago showing Army types rubbernecking from some bldg balconies waiting for an AF 1000lb to take out a position across the street. Should have seen them duck as the concrete frag pattern TOTALLY showered their "curiosity-killed-the-cat" asses, lol I also remember back in Vietnam seeing a pic on the front page of the Pacific Stars & Stripesof a bunch of grunts sitting on an M-113 rubbernecking as an AF bird put in some ordinance nearby and the frag pattern clearly flying over their heads. The headline? "Now THAT's Airpower!" The comments? Those are Idiots..

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  5. Buck02 July, 2014 11:03

    @ Craig: Cosby is/was a pretty smart guy.

    @ Curt: I'd watch mines from a safe distance, too.

    @ Virgil & Curt: One wonders why there aren't more air-to-air collisions and incidents, given how crowded the skies are during war. And Virgil... I'd be getting waaay the hell away from any potential target. All ordnance has a CEP number...

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  6. Moogie P02 July, 2014 14:28

    Man. When your time isn't up . . .

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