PLEASE FORGIVE me if it seems like i'm "hijacking" the thread, but Thogey and Shinn, i cant resist......there's nothing more i love than flight in warbirds.....just talking about combat aircraft, there's aircraft i LOVE, and aircraft i loathe.....anything russian or chinese, i loathe, loathe MIGS, Su's, and the Chinese J-series.
my love affair with the Phantom was as a teenager in Korea, laying in bunk, say 0200, and hearing a pair of F-4's take off for a night CAP, always made me feel safe....i'd watch guys get in F-111's, take off, and feel envy. (i failed that light discernment test, thats why the Navy put me in Korean language school, i wanted to drive P-3's on ASW missions....for a sailor, enemy subs are the greatest threat, and i wanted to be one of the guys that hunted them)
i LOVE the B-1...The Bone....i know, supposedly it was a big cluster-f, cost overruns, etc but in the early days after nine eleven, i noticed our paramil's, called in the B-1's to gank the haji's, so....not bad.
here's a couple of vid's for you guys, the first is a amatuer filmed take off and fly by.....i posted it, coz you can admire the lines of this airframe....its got the most bluff beautiful lines, i think i ever seen on an aircraft...they're perfect, and the second vid is a real good mini doc, i think ya'll will enjoy.....okay lets go back to the thread! (lol...sorry)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrQcT6U_F0 take off and fly by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G48i6SErbd0 mini doc....REALLY good stuff, not boring.
now...about that Freedom Girl.........