Part 2: Padded Room Special Collection Of Junk That More Than Likely Will Be NSFW

[Meadow Skipper]

Intense. Those guys are amazing pilots.

I probably would have puked up a couple bagfuls if I was sitting in back.

[strawjack]

Intense. Those guys are amazing pilots.

I probably would have puked up a couple bagfuls if I was sitting in back.

A friend is a navy pilot captain and told me that usually the shorter stocky guys were built better to handle the g forces. He's not short 5'10" but on the stocky side 210-220lbs.

[SB]

High G exercise, gotta stay awake.

[guroo270]

Looks like it takes some serious work to keep from passing out in those High g turns. That proximity flying is unreal.

I'm takes some conditioning and acclamation, but they also wear g suits to keep their internals where they are supposed to be.

Lots of dentists are cringing at all that teeth grinding.

"3 up, 3 down, what does that mean to you?!?!"

"End of an inning?"

[splat]

Cool!! Seattle. I gotta go watch next year.

SeaFair, Baby! I watched them fly those lines from the top of the Space Needle last month.

[mud]

They are based out of Pensacola NAS and practice there every Tuesday and Wednesday during the summer time.
Growing up here, it was just another thing and nobody paid them no mind until the beach show on 4th of July, but now they have 50K people showing up just for the practice flights.

I couldn't imagine what its like to have those jet screaming by and dropping bombs on you in a war.
Just hearing them overhead gives me goosebumps

[Tippster]

[mud]

[booner]

Does anyone else find themselves watching HSN for no reason but to stare at the sloppy bombs on their C grade hosts?





Sent from one of those fancy cellular telephones

[Meadow Skipper]

Does anyone else find themselves watching HSN for no reason but to stare at the sloppy bombs on their C grade hosts?

When I was a young'n we'd give kids a hard time by saying that they'd got a boner looking at the women's underwear in the Sears catalog. ^ That is the millenniums version.

[booner]

When I was a young'n we'd give kids a hard time by saying that they'd got a boner looking at the women's underwear in the Sears catalog. ^ That is the millenniums version.

yep...that's pretty fitting

[SB]

WTF, now the video imbed thingy is broken.

How can I post up a stupid utoob video of the ice spider movie trailer?!?!?

[SkiCougar]

Does anyone else find themselves watching HSN for no reason but to stare at the sloppy bombs on their C grade hosts?





Sent from one of those fancy cellular telephones

just as an fyi, some of those hosts make much better than 6 figures because they can sell crap like freaking clothes hangars, they'll take any potential crap buyer watching for any reason; if it boosts their sales for the quarter.

[SB]

I couldn't imagine what its like to have those jet screaming by and dropping bombs on you in a war.
Just hearing them overhead gives me goosebumps

Once or twice the airwing on our carrier put on a show for the ships crew, basically to releive boredom and target practice for getting rid of old ordinance out in the middle of the briney blue.

1000lb dumbdumbs do make quite the splash even 600 yds away.

I found it was more interesting to watch flight deck ops(traps and launches) but even that gets boring and the time is better spent sleeping in yor rack cause you are on port/starboard watch rotation and barely get 4 hours of sleep in a 24 hour day for months on end.

[stuckathuntermtn]

He looks like he needs some ex-lax.

They don't wear G-suits because they would dangerously effect the controls in such proximity flying. In other words, they pull some Gs, the suit inflates, and it makes you pull back on the stick or throttle or something. Even if it was just a hair, it could make you clip another plane, since they're practically touching already. So they do this thing that looks like your constipated. This is of course what I heard, but I'm pretty sure it's true. Notice how he's doing it when they go around 90 degree banks and loops.

[TomCrac]

[snoqpass]

I couldn't imagine what its like to have those jet screaming by and dropping bombs on you in a war.
Just hearing them overhead gives me goosebumps

If they are screaming by it's probably too late

[YoEddy]

They don't wear G-suits because they would dangerously effect the controls in such proximity flying. In other words, they pull some Gs, the suit inflates, and it makes you pull back on the stick or throttle or something.

g suit simply increases pressure so that the blood doesn't rush out of your head due to g forces to keep pilot from passing out. It has no effect of space or control in the cockpit

[refried]

Two of the Blue Angels flew over my house this year just before they started their practice for sea Fair, nice to see something other than the regular NAS Whidbey planes. I few years ago I was Hiking on Mount Baker and the Thunderbirds spent about an hour taking pictures, They had one plane flying with them as they flew in different formations, It was cool to get your own private air show.
They replaced the EA-6 Prowlers at Whidbey a few years ago with EA-18 Growlers, One of the "weapons" it has is it's loud sound, I've heard they like to use it to scare the enemy as they approach.

[freshie247]

Awesome photo!!!!

[stuckathuntermtn]

g suit simply increases pressure so that the blood doesn't rush out of your head due to g forces to keep pilot from passing out. It has no effect of space or control in the cockpit

http://www.popularmechanics.com/_mob...ue-angel-pilot

" Suiting Up: Fleet squadron pilots wear G-suits, which pressurize to keep blood from pooling in the lower body during high acceleration. Blue Angels can’t do that. “We rest our forearms on our legs and use our knees as a fulcrum,” Simonsen says. The inflating suit could interfere with hand movement—dangerous in tight formations. Instead, Blue Angels use the hic maneuver: bracing the legs and flexing lower body muscles to constrict the vascular system, then exhaling forcefully, causing the diaphragm to elevate blood into the upper torso. Blue Angels also eschew oxygen masks during demonstrations because they typically don’t fly above 15,000 feet."

[SkiBall]

http://vimeo.com/album/2802057/video/71926247

Embed fail.

[huckbucket]

Watch out for the shock! It's coming.

[YoEddy]

http://www.popularmechanics.com/_mob...ue-angel-pilot

" Suiting Up: Fleet squadron pilots wear G-suits, which pressurize to keep blood from pooling in the lower body during high acceleration. Blue Angels can’t do that. “We rest our forearms on our legs and use our knees as a fulcrum,” Simonsen says. The inflating suit could interfere with hand movement—dangerous in tight formations. Instead, Blue Angels use the hic maneuver: bracing the legs and flexing lower body muscles to constrict the vascular system, then exhaling forcefully, causing the diaphragm to elevate blood into the upper torso. Blue Angels also eschew oxygen masks during demonstrations because they typically don’t fly above 15,000 feet."

I satnd corrected. I should have said it "shouldn't have any effect ... Unless you're a blue angel".

[Hott Butt Mud]