One for the aviation fans... hold your breath!

[AlohaJoe]

How to keep your cool while dead-sticking an F-16:
http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/SUPERGT/3384/

 

[GardMan]

Wow... I'm sure I would have been breathing a lot heavier than that! Right up there with Sully's ditch into the Hudson in terms of "cool under fire"... there was a cockpit simulation of this with the voice recording synched to the image posted a while back... can't find it now. Here's one with and "external" view with voiceover...

 

[AlohaJoe]

Amazing... I hadn't seen that one. :shock:

 

[frankieb]

Would have had diamonds rolling down my pant legs after that :shock:

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Gardman,

Here's an interesting recreation of Lindbergh's flight.

READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW

Win Perkins, a real estate appraiser who specializes in airport properties, has posted on his Web site a video he created of Charles Lindbergh's famous and risky takeoff in the Spirit of St. Louis .. According to Perkins, this is unlike any other presentation of the takeoff footage. Perkins said he "painstakingly assembled news footage from five cameras that filmed Lindbergh's takeoff from Roosevelt Field, Long Island" and "mixed it with enhanced audio from the same newsreel sources."

Click on "CONTACT" to the left and select #1, then watch them in order, #1 through #4 (each time going back to "contact" and selecting the next one).

http://www.airportappraisals.com/

 

[GardMan]

Darryl,
Thanks for posting the Lindbergh link ... watched all parts last evening, and thoroughly enjoyed them.
Dave