Hung Start
Just the cleanup guy
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Seems he didn't get fired for the stunt, LJDRVR. Anyways, for those interested, here's a link to a story about it:LJDRVR said:PS- Hung Start: I believe Tex Ritter was an AVG P-40 guy, Sir. You'd be thinking of Alva "Tex" Johnston who, although he asserts otherwise in his self-pandering autobigraphy, lost his job as head of Boeing Flight Test for his bone-headed stunt, not to mention set a poor example that may have assisted in the demise of a Sabena Airlines 707-430 crew who, while on a training mission, attempted to emulate his stupidity with disasterous results.
LJDRVR said:When are we as a group going to quit saying "Cool!" and begin to demand some accountability and minimum acceptable standards of airmanship from our fellow aviators? Hopefully the A/C got his butt handed to him and grounded before he has the opportunity for even more ridiculous rogue behavior.
andy_paul said:Ummmmmm, Bob Hoover?
I have seen him do very impressive things with aircraft that were not meant to do so. To be honest, it scared the crap out of me to watch his routine, this was many years ago. How would he ever get there without pushing some limits???
EagleRJ said:Maybe some military pilots who have flown a demonstration at an airshow recently can tell- do military pilots get a choreographed routine to fly at airshows? I'm pretty sure they have limits to what they can do now. They're no longer told to just go up and "wring it out for 15 minutes".
mrnolmts said:Seems he didn't get fired for the stunt, LJDRVR. Anyways, for those interested, here's a link to a story about it:
http://www.historylink.org/output.cfm?file_id=390
EagleRJ said:Just eyeballing it, I'd say these guys were doing 400kts as they came down center field. Probably still around 250kts as the camera lost sight of them. I'm sure that's over the Vmo for the 757 at sea level.