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A Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet crew got permission for a low-level demonstration flight, as part of the opening ceremony for a speedboat race on the Detroit River, last weekend.. This is what it looked like, for Motor City residents.
This is the moment a US Navy pilot gave a shocked resident a very close look at his F18. The fighter/bomber streaked past an apartment block on the banks of the Detroit River at the weekend. It was part of a tactical demonstration fly-past to open a speedboat race in the North American city.
Officials waived rules to allow the Navy flyers to swoop under 100ft along the waterway.
One resident said: 'I couldn't believe how low they flew and how close they came to our building - I'm sure the pilot waved at me.' The jets had flown in from the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia to put on a spectacular show for thousands of spectators. The Chrysler Jeep Superstores APBA Gold Cup race was won by speedboat ace Dave Villcock.
'We danced with the devil at every turn,' said Villwock, 55, who demolished the field on his way to his seventh Gold Cup win.
'We were either going to win it big or lose it big.' He couldn't match the F18's for speed, although his average of 141mph for the five-lap final remained impressive.
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Oh Chu. If only you could have seen what I've seen, with your eyes.
Amazing picture! I've experienced one of those "too close for comfort" moments when the Thunderbirds were in town a couple of years ago. I was house sitting on Waialae Iki and standing on the lanai while talking to the pool guy one story below. We could hear the far off sounds of a jet getting closer. Then, the sound was deafening and we had to plug our ears as the plane flew by so low and so close we both could see the pilot's face. We had to confirm with each other what we just saw. We didn't need to confirm the ear splitting noise. The Thunderbirds were practicing.
During the actual show my friends, who were staying in my daughter's 36th floor Waikiki condo, watched from her window as one plane flew along the coast. My friends said they looked down on the plane! That, too, was an ear splitting experience.
Allegedly: (...) One resident said: 'I couldn't believe how low they flew and how close they came to our building - I'm sure the pilot waved at me.'
Kinda like what TutuSue wrote, but a couple of years ago the Blue Angels were here in Kaneohe Bay. On practice day (before they start the real show days) they fly all around the area taking note of landmarks, etc. A formation of four flew right over me just a couple of hundred feet overhead, and one pilot definitely did wave at us. Yikes! Here's four jets screaming along at 400+ knots and just feet apart from each other... shouldn't the pilot be keeping his eyes on what he's doing?!?
Amazing.
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