tonycondon
Gastons CRO (Chief Dinner Reservation Officer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIEB2DY5ljQ
Kirby Chambliss blasting off the USS Midway in his Edge 540. Cool!
Kirby Chambliss blasting off the USS Midway in his Edge 540. Cool!
He used way less than half the ruwnay
I want to know where they got the flight deck guys on a decommissioned ship like that.
I can't imagine it was hard for them to find a volunteer... "Anyone want to go to San Francisco for an airshow and launch one of the participants off the Midway?"
Kirby Chambliss blasting off the USS Midway in his Edge 540. Cool!
I'd have to agree! I don't recall any Navy bird ever doing that off the boat, Blue Angels excepted... and, that was NOT off a boat!half the deck for the deck run, plus no extra wind over the deck and then a near vertical climb ... yeah, I think he has "enough horsepower" ...
Steve, that looks like a Trader. Am I correct?
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I'm definitely lost now. The headgear looks to be WWII at the latest. I can't picture the plane well at all. From the front, it did look like a Trader. But, I'm lost with the double vertical stabilizers.Maybe this will help
Gosh, that's a pretty good size bird then. I didn't think any of the carriers in that day could accomodate something that large. Until I saw a comment about the Doolittle Raiders, I had forgotten about the massive assault taking off from the Hornet. That's a lot of airplanes to put on a deck about 800x100.