Will the REAL Wingnut please step forward?

[Wingnut]

Lol... here's one of my favorite 'Hornet Ball' videos from Wingnut, fighter pilot extraordinaire and a pretty good filmmaker too, AYE? I think he has done other 'Hornet Ball' videos, but this is the first I ever saw so it made a good impression, lol. At the very least, fast forward to minute 5:36 or so, where the 'BULLET TRAIN' soundtrack comes into play... some of the best footage is shown during that song. You former military personnel will probably enjoy the whole video... pretty cool shots and sequences in there.

Now, I'm not big on all these modern wars which are fought for GREED and not PRINCIPLE, but the flying scenes alone in this video make it worth watching. I've always liked the F-18 Hornet, same way I liked the F-14 Tomcat... now they have the Raptor and the Strike Fighter, which are also awesome warplanes, but the pilots in this Hornet video are pretty damned good at what they do. That one clip where Wingnut comes in over the dam to check boating action on the lake, well, that would be MOI if I flew the F-18 Hornet, lol. Just my style, don'tcha know? Lol.

ENJOY THE VIDEO, IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR ME TO TAKE A BEER BREAK & GRAB A SHOWER, BUT I'LL BE BACK TO POST SOME COOL PICS IN ANOTHER THREAD...

P.S. Yes, I actually drink beer in the shower, lol...

2014 Hornet Ball Video

Edit: Don't forget to use 'Full Screen' for this video, makes it MO' BETTAH!!!

 

[backlash]

I got out before the F18 and the F14 was just getting started.
I camped at Deception Pass State park and the Navy flew over us a lot.
Those F18 Growlers were noisy.
The locals complained about the noise so the Navy cut back on the time and duration of their flights.
They should have just told the town to pound sand but the new woke Navy caved.

 

[Wingnut]

Haha, I copy telling the town to "pound sand!" And jeez... the 'New Woke Navy!' Bunch o' sidewalk sissies, lol... the OLD NAVY---the REAL NAVY back in the day---would've told the town to do more than pound sand, they probably would've told 'em to perform a "biologically-impossible act!" Lol. Remember, Backlash, even though I served in the USA INF, I hail from a "Navy family" with not one, but TWO submarine CDRs, lol... since they're the ranking officers in my large military family, I consider us to be a "Navy family!" Got an uncle who was a colonel in the Air Force, but he wound up as a "chair-warmer" in the Pentagon, so the sub commanders won out in my estimation, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Aboard a submarine, diesel or nuke, the CDR is the same as a Captain aboard other ships, he has ultimate power and "say-so" aboard his ship. In the hierarchy of naval rank, I think he falls below a regular USN Captain, you'd probably know more about that than I do, since I was an enlisted ground-pounder in the Aaarrrrrrghmy, lol.

 

[Wingnut]

Gonna bump this thread just to let the newcomers check out the video... it's worth watching, kinda like those Black Rifle Coffee Company videos, lol. In fact, I should throw some links down later to a few of the more classic BRCC videos, but I'm just gonna bump this for now and maybe bump one other thread, then it's time for a movie on the home theater...

 

[Magus]

Loved the dubstep and nightcore soundtrack. great video!

 

[Wingnut]

Uh-oh, Magus is stirring things up already, lol... and yeah, I like that 'Bullet Train' tune, it fits the video!

 

[Weedygarden]

Wingnut, I am curious about your relationship to these fighter jets? Not knowing much about the military, I am ignorant, so please excuse me for my lack of knowledge.

Chair warmer at the Pentagon? I never heard that term. I have a couple family members who worked at the Pentagon, one being a cousin who was there on 9/11.

 

[Wingnut]

I just like the flight video... we're essentially a Navy family (2 CDRs, USN Submarine Service), but I and several other members of my family served in the Army as enlisted personnel. I have an uncle who retired from the USAF as colonel, he was a chair warmer in the Pentagon for a number of years, top security clearance and all that gubmint BS. The submarine commanders were afforded more respect in my nautical family, lol.

P.S. The pilot 'Wingnut' is my favorite jet jockey in that video... that clip where he flies low over the dam is classic, that would probably be how I'd fly if I were a pilot, lol. The contour flying shots are also pretty good, even if the video is nearly a decade old. There are other 'Hornet Ball' videos to watch, that was just the first Wingnut video I ever saw, and I liked it so much that I shotgunned it across the web, lol. Just doing my part to help the REAL Wingnut, aye?

 

[Supervisor42]

I just like the flight video... we're essentially a Navy family (2 CDRs, USN Submarine Service), but I and several other members of my family served in the Army as enlisted personnel. I have an uncle who retired from the USAF as colonel, he was a chair warmer in the Pentagon for a number of years, top security clearance and all that gubmint BS. The submarine commanders were afforded more respect in my nautical family, lol.

P.S. The pilot 'Wingnut' is my favorite jet jockey in that video... that clip where he flies low over the dam is classic, that would probably be how I'd fly if I were a pilot, lol. The contour flying shots are also pretty good, even if the video is nearly a decade old. There are other 'Hornet Ball' videos to watch, that was just the first Wingnut video I ever saw, and I liked it so much that I shotgunned it across the web, lol. Just doing my part to help the REAL Wingnut, aye?

The F15-Eagle will always be my favorite. After the war in 'Nam broke out, the farm we grew up on was on a giant 'U' shaped bend in the river.
It was their favorite test ground because it was identical to one in 'Nam.
They would dive down and fly over the river below tree top level on full afterburner and bank over 90° to go around the bend.
My mom would always jump when the dinner-plates rattled by the sink from the sonic-booms, (back when that was legal) . We youngsters of course, would race out of the house to watch.
The amazing part: decades later, when the war in Iraq broke out, they had F117s, F18s, F16s, to choose from.
What did the guys choose when stuff got 'real'.... the F15-E:

The USAF began deploying F-15C, D, and E model aircraft to the Persian Gulf region in August 1990 for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. During the Gulf War, the F-15 accounted for 36 of the 39 air-to-air victories by U.S. Air Force against Iraqi forces. Iraq has confirmed the loss of 23 of its aircraft in air-to-air combat. The F-15C and D fighters were used in the air-superiority role, while F-15E Strike Eagles were used in air-to-ground attacks mainly at night, hunting modified Scud missile launchers and artillery sites using the LANTIRN system. According to the USAF, its F-15Cs had 34 confirmed kills of Iraqi aircraft during the 1991 Gulf War, most of them by missile fire: five Mikoyan MiG-29s, two MiG-25s, eight MiG-23s, two MiG-21s, two Sukhoi Su-25s, four Sukhoi Su-22s, one Sukhoi Su-7, six Dassault Mirage F1s, one Ilyushin Il-76 cargo aircraft, one Pilatus PC-9 trainer, and two Mil Mi-8 helicopters. Air superiority was achieved in the first three days of the conflict; many of the later kills were reportedly of Iraqi aircraft fleeing to Iran, rather than engaging American aircraft. ...The F-15 has a combined air-to-air combat record of 104 kills to no losses as of February 2008. The F-15's air superiority versions, the A/B/C/D models, have not suffered any losses to enemy action. Over half of F-15 kills have been achieved by Israeli Air Force pilots.