Nellis AFB fighter pilot club

[jsoceanlord]

about ten years ago i was going down the colorado river in a raft (grand canyon).

there was a phone cable strung across the canyon, and our guide said that there was a club of fighter pilots who had flown under the cable.

 

[EagleRJ]

Were they stationed in Italy?

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

Were they stationed in Italy?

Good one!

 

[Eagleflip]

Club of bonecraniums, maybe... Seriously, I spent my time at Nellis and never heard of it.

I'm not a member..don't wanna be. There are plenty of ways to shine your ass as a fighter pilot that doesn't endanger people on the ground or your jet.

 

[DitchDriver]

The story I've heard was that the steel cable from guamo point got torn by a F-4 in '60s. They lost a wingtip but were able to get back to Nellis.

Cable is about 1-1/2" thick and some of it is still wrapped around the wheel at the guamo point.

There's another Phantom wreck - scattered on "Little Texas", a plateau a few miles east of there.

 

[dogman]

Hey, I heard the same story, but in my version it was an F-100 and it crashed on the North side of the rim over by Snap point.

 

[Easywithit]

Concur with Eagleflip,

It seems most of these stories end with some kind of wreckage. We (Navy) lost a T-34 (and two pilots, my old instructor) doing the same thing a year or so ago at NAS El Centro. I would rather not die in a spectacular, fiery, explosion in the middle of the desert with no one to watch. Just an opinion...

Recommendation: Don't fly under any wires.

We do low levels because they are "fun", they provide no tactical significance what so ever. Just remember the A-6's and Tornado's in the Gulf War I going low and getting their A$$'s handed to them. that being said, I can't wait for my next low level hop.

 

[VNugget]

Inverted under bridge.