A Ride in the Back Seat of a F/A 18

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HOLD ON TO YOUR HELMET

 
Ride in an F/A 18 Hornet
Make sure to click on all 5 excerpts.  What a Ride!!!
Make sure your sound is on.
This is very good.  Be sure to watch all of the 'scenes' especially 'Scene 2'.
You have to click on each photo at the left to watch the scene. Click on below:


http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/swf/blueangels/blueangels.swf


Steve, the passenger is a reporter for the "Atlanta Journal Constitution" newspaper.

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Love the Blues.

When I was born, my father was stationed in Pensacola... with the Blue Angels. He wasn't one of the pilots, but part of the support team. My mother received a card signed from all of them.

Eric

[Weston Bye]

I got to fly in the back seat once of an RA-5C Vigilante:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIOyQniNe0

I loved it.

Certainly not as violent as the FA-18, but we did go supersonic for a while, and during one hi-G turn my vision narrowed down to two quarter-sized fields.

The navigator's cockpit was called a flying coffin - just two small foot-square windows.  I was fortunate in that I was able to fire up the radar and nose mounted TV camera, the system I maintained on the aircraft.