Combat (high performance) takeoff. Full afterburner, gear up at 10feet until 450kts. Ground - 10,000ft in ~15 seconds. They roll inverted at the end to level out so you experience positive Gs instead of negative.
She took this like an absolute champ. I’ve seen so many of these videos and people black out and vomit pretty regularly. She was just having a good time.
Oh yeah? The climb rate in my 172 is like... well let's just say on a really hot day it takes like an hour to get to 10,000ft because we need to take a break part way up to make sure we're not overheating any of the cylinders....
I arrived late to an air show in the 90s and a friend and I just arrived to see the last F-16 take off and leave. It took off and sent straight up until we couldn't see it anymore, full afterburner. It was an incredible experience to watch, hear and feel.
have you been to one since? I highly recommend them. I've been fortunate enough to see the Blue Angels twice and the F-22 Raptor Demo Team plus a number of P-51 mustangs, F-16's and A-10's.
I've done this. It's both cool and terrifying. Especially since you have zero experience in this environment. The pilots get a real kick out of that. And when they do the 9G turn, they don't warn you so immediately pass out. 😂 They usually have a go pro like this vid recording the whole thing
ill tell you.. i was 26 in air cadets and i got to fly in an f-18 herr in canada and you realize you are basically wearing a seatbelt strapped to a rocket.. scariest thibg ive ever done
0.000000686400782563 c (fraction of the speed of light) -- at 400 knots it'd take 5.8 million years to get to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system.
Well, you'd need to be going way faster to escape the earth's and the sun's gravitational pull. So 400 knots of interstellar speed would actually require you to slow down your spacecraft. 32,270 knots is solar escape velocity (from earth). so that jet isn't getting past Pluto any time soon. Going that speed it only takes a bit over 72,000 years to get to Alpha Centauri.
I wonder if pilots practice talking like that, like how newscasters practice talking a certain way, and how doctors practice writing a scribble for their signature.
In a way they do. Pilot speak has become heavily codified over the past 100 years- even down to the order things are said and repeated, and of course phonetic alphabets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet So much of what they do is based on past experiences and disasters. See also, Tenerife disaster.
"Center controllers, whether talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna or to Air Force One, always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional tone. After years of seeing documentaries on [the] space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that. Conversely pilots always wanted to ensure that they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios."
From The Right Stuff: “Anyone who travels very much on airlines in the United States soon gets to know the voice of the airline pilot . . . coming over the intercom . . . with a particular drawl, a particular folksiness, a particular down-home calmness that is so exaggerated it begins to parody itself . . . 1/3
. . . the voice that tells you, as the airliner is caught in thunderheads and goes bolting up and down a thousand feet at a single gulp, to check your seat belts because ‘uh, folks, it might get a little choppy’ 2/3
Hand motions between big movements look natural and do not appear jerky like you would expect from a sped up clip. Also, hair movement during the roll is also what I would expect and moves fluidly between big motions. Sped up would appear more herky-jerky.
In case you're not being sarcastic, there's a solid, solid chance it isn't. From the airshows I used to go to, those type of planes can move like this. I have no idea how she did that without painting the canopy with lunch.
No slop. It has a lot of range of control deflection and some times (like top of her climb) at very low speeds it takes a lot of busy control inputs to stay on target
Ahh, good to know, thanks. Yeah the top of her climb was where it looked like she was rotating to her right but the plane didn’t seem to be responding very fast.
Being close to stall speed makes the controls less sensitive, so you gotta put in a lot of control input. I think that's an Extra300 or a Yak, which have extra big control surfaces foe this reason.
One reason for wearing a helmet in an aircraft is to reduce the chance of becoming unconscious from hitting your head on anything in the cockpit and crashing a fully functional aircraft. Similar to skydivers.
Usually, when safety concerns are cited in any practice, from motorcycles to forklift operation, it's not because it's impossible for an operator to avoid accidents, it's because consequences are so severe that you observe safety protocols anyway.
QueefMalone
I just got chills. That's amazing.
dixxienormus
I soiled my armor a second time.
MykillMetal
Combat (high performance) takeoff. Full afterburner, gear up at 10feet until 450kts. Ground - 10,000ft in ~15 seconds. They roll inverted at the end to level out so you experience positive Gs instead of negative.
Raeya10
That looks terrifying
Starbolt81
At least it's not an F-35
TCooley79
What I wouldn’t give to take a ride like that…
CaptainKipup
She took this like an absolute champ. I’ve seen so many of these videos and people black out and vomit pretty regularly. She was just having a good time.
CarpoolTunnelSyndrome
You know when you're looking at your phone in bed and hit yourself in the face with it as you pass out? Please don't let that happen here.
dsmegst
Every night...
KleptoKea
I would LOVE to try this
IAmTheMightyLeon
I threw up twice just waiting for this video to load
justplainvanilla
wheeeeeeeeeeee
That you Red John?!
DJOldguy
Try that on an aircraft carrier..that's a real punch in the chest.....hahahaaa-ggeeerrrrrccchchcchc!!!!
MyCatIsMissingAnEar
Oh yeah? The climb rate in my 172 is like... well let's just say on a really hot day it takes like an hour to get to 10,000ft because we need to take a break part way up to make sure we're not overheating any of the cylinders....
Northwindlowlander
To be fair, that's a really good climb rate for a renault clio
Crokkodrill8
If I were in her place my balls would still be on the runaway.
LadyNetrex
I arrived late to an air show in the 90s and a friend and I just arrived to see the last F-16 take off and leave. It took off and sent straight up until we couldn't see it anymore, full afterburner. It was an incredible experience to watch, hear and feel.
TurboPuns21
have you been to one since? I highly recommend them. I've been fortunate enough to see the Blue Angels twice and the F-22 Raptor Demo Team plus a number of P-51 mustangs, F-16's and A-10's.
PixelSprite64
ApplePeachPumpkinBlueberryCherryorBananaCream
Sauce: Gabriel Brown aka BlackGryph0n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFdmqVKfLM0
WrongUn
How do all these people manage to get rides in jets?? It's my literal dream to do this, do I need money, connections or be boning a pilot?
ScarletEmerald
Step 1: be attractive
5cX469Nit9JuI1MAZG5c3AdA
From a bunch of search results, looks like you just need 5-10k USD and a free afternoon.
TrippyTurtle69
I want an amusement park where I can do this
jsngray1
I have done this twice, it was AMAZING!
baronvonpoo
How does one get this opportunity? Asking for a friend.
iDrawStuff
I absolutely would not be that calm. *panic*
risqueorindecent
I've done this. It's both cool and terrifying. Especially since you have zero experience in this environment. The pilots get a real kick out of that. And when they do the 9G turn, they don't warn you so immediately pass out. 😂 They usually have a go pro like this vid recording the whole thing
TurboPuns21
how did you get to backseat it?
risqueorindecent
Fam ride for being a ground based air controller
TurboPuns21
Makes sense. I'm still envious
softballguy
Sprinx
DaravinDK
F-15s do it better.
ScarletEmerald
Hornets can do it from a boat
jsngray1
Vipers rule!
Frederf
Tunnelsnakes rule!
PixelSprite64
jpatterson45
Brrrrrrttttt
nightwolf12
Ah yes, the BZZT-Mobile
PixelSprite64
mikecaa
Looks like a blast
TurboPuns21
this is one of those experiences that I hope I'm lucky enough to get to do before my time is up.
The3rdwheel
ill tell you.. i was 26 in air cadets and i got to fly in an f-18 herr in canada and you realize you are basically wearing a seatbelt strapped to a rocket.. scariest thibg ive ever done
BigDaddysMeatWagon
You aren't wrong.
The3rdwheel
ment to say 16 .. but it still applies
dumpsterfolk
Yes cadets 13-18 I think
isthisjunkmail
400 knots = 460 mph.
justpullnpray
isthisjunkmail
...and 740 km/hr
Waytigo
That’s the pass out kicker. Or more I assume.
SomeDetroitGuy
Just over 200 m/s for metric folks
mikeatike
Hey, you are not @UnitConversionBot
wadatahmydamie
Holy fucking shit, can you imagine trying to calibrate that? Just strap yourself to the tail fins letting out a length of rope over open water
geotard
640 bannas per metric coconut
DickeyBirdie
0.000000686400782563 c (fraction of the speed of light) -- at 400 knots it'd take 5.8 million years to get to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system.
Ja5per
How many fill ups will that take?
DickeyBirdie
Well, you'd need to be going way faster to escape the earth's and the sun's gravitational pull. So 400 knots of interstellar speed would actually require you to slow down your spacecraft. 32,270 knots is solar escape velocity (from earth). so that jet isn't getting past Pluto any time soon. Going that speed it only takes a bit over 72,000 years to get to Alpha Centauri.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
How many freedom eagles per fortnight?
RonnieKielbasa
At least 12
zanzibarwinds
Tree fiddy
Willsmileforfood
Lol!!!! Thank you sir you speak great American.
sticktime
720,552 assuming an average bald eagle is 34 inches long.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
But how many furlongs per freedom eagle … ?
KaleoM
Sixty nine thousand, four hundred twenty.
a2s2020
Nice
sadurdaynight
I wonder if pilots practice talking like that, like how newscasters practice talking a certain way, and how doctors practice writing a scribble for their signature.
yellowtoolboxblackbag
In a way they do. Pilot speak has become heavily codified over the past 100 years- even down to the order things are said and repeated, and of course phonetic alphabets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet So much of what they do is based on past experiences and disasters. See also, Tenerife disaster.
PowerPedant
And we still haven't fixed the problem with simultaneous radio transmissions.
NicolasKevinMac
"Center controllers, whether talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna or to Air Force One, always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional tone. After years of seeing documentaries on [the] space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that. Conversely pilots always wanted to ensure that they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios."
OmnesMundiLardum
They're all striving for "steely-eyed missile man" vibes.
NicolasKevinMac
From Brian Shul's famous "Ground Speed Check" story: https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blackbird-speed-check-story
BDBottom
From The Right Stuff: “Anyone who travels very much on airlines in the United States soon gets to know the voice of the airline pilot . . . coming over the intercom . . . with a particular drawl, a particular folksiness, a particular down-home calmness that is so exaggerated it begins to parody itself . . . 1/3
BDBottom
. . . the voice that tells you, as the airliner is caught in thunderheads and goes bolting up and down a thousand feet at a single gulp, to check your seat belts because ‘uh, folks, it might get a little choppy’ 2/3
BDBottom
It was the drawl of the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff: Chuck Yeager.” 3/3
LeftRightThere
tgeliot
Gotta love the poiny tail as indicator.
lonelyrangerofthedreams
I know it’s surely hard, but I always thought it took more than just the use of 2 levers to make all those acrobatic movements. Impressive.
Nullcrash
Don't forget the rudder pedals.
ThaddeusMB
Is that Patty Wagstaff in her Extra 300?
damagemycalm
I drive a Tacoma truck. Today someone asked what a women was doing driving a truck.
DidItForScience
That person been under a rock for the last 5 decades?
JerzeeTomato
She is a woman of focus...
Elnauriel
And casual comfort of fashion.
ttra
I guess this one was sped up
LadyNetrex
What makes you think that? They move like that in air shows: https://youtu.be/aQONtYjDlMw?si=OPTyk8-kN5eqXgAZ&t=1128
YoureTooTents
Hand motions between big movements look natural and do not appear jerky like you would expect from a sped up clip. Also, hair movement during the roll is also what I would expect and moves fluidly between big motions. Sped up would appear more herky-jerky.
realizedagain
Why? The way her hair floats says otherwise.
monkeyman321
After looking at similar videos and also slowing this video down I can't find anything to support this is sped up. Why do you think it is sped up?
Onlyonerowing
In case you're not being sarcastic, there's a solid, solid chance it isn't. From the airshows I used to go to, those type of planes can move like this. I have no idea how she did that without painting the canopy with lunch.
sircowdog
Practice. Discipline.
JerzeeTomato
Sheer fucking will...
boostcreep
I’m always surprised with how much slop is in the stick on these planes.
ricbri695
No slop. It has a lot of range of control deflection and some times (like top of her climb) at very low speeds it takes a lot of busy control inputs to stay on target
boostcreep
Ahh, good to know, thanks. Yeah the top of her climb was where it looked like she was rotating to her right but the plane didn’t seem to be responding very fast.
ricbri695
If you ever watch a video of pilots landing a plane, right before touchdown you’ll see a lot of large control inputs as they slow down
mikeatike
Being close to stall speed makes the controls less sensitive, so you gotta put in a lot of control input. I think that's an Extra300 or a Yak, which have extra big control surfaces foe this reason.
UnorthodoxLady
No helmet?
MTsumi
I don’t think she’s in danger of strafing fire or ballistic shrapnel.
MisterPrimeMinister
One reason for wearing a helmet in an aircraft is to reduce the chance of becoming unconscious from hitting your head on anything in the cockpit and crashing a fully functional aircraft. Similar to skydivers.
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kithylin
Today we see the idiot in it's natural habitat. Just look at the way it walks and listen to it's alien words.
tgeliot
Are you always this much fun?
MisterPrimeMinister
When exactly did I say any of the things you are implying that I said?
BishlamekGurpgork
Usually, when safety concerns are cited in any practice, from motorcycles to forklift operation, it's not because it's impossible for an operator to avoid accidents, it's because consequences are so severe that you observe safety protocols anyway.