Strafed by an airplane

LMFAO!

 

cool

 

I seem to think that is called buzzing, not strafing.
Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't strafing involve bullets?

Needless to say, that pilot should be reported to someone. Police, FAA...
That is some pretty dangerous behavior.


It's good you were just a practice run.

 

I would assume the pilot did not understand there is wake turbulence off you and if he ran into that with the small plane it could have flipped him into the ground. The best you can do is pull over and stop when that pilot came down towards you. By stopping you keep the air around the plane somewhat stable when he gets to you.

The one encounter I had was with 4 apaches in deep fog on US 287 near Kit Carson one fine morning in Colorado. These warbirds followed me really closely in the fog. It was noisy I can tell you that. Eventually there was a break in the fog and they flew across my front in a diamond about 100 feet AGL. The fog did not exist for them, not with the all weather day night sensors in those longbows.

I understand there is quite a base to the west some distance and that was where they were out of.

Nevada has a couple of spots where the military would like to get low and fast. With those fighter jets going as fast as they were I am not concerned about the effects off my truck vs them. Its when you get into the tiny little pipers or cessnas that weigh maybe 1600 pounds is where there might be a problem.

 

That's kind of strange. I've had crop dusters buzz me good and what I believe was an F18 scared the ever living #### out of me in Tulsa this summer.

 

The F16s out of Sioux Falls will shake windows and doors out here in South Dakota once in a while. Kinda fun to watch them do their mock dog fights chucking flares.

 

We were A10 country near a Martin Meiratta base in Eastern Maryland. Once in a while they would break up the packs of four and have a furball.

Only you never see them, we had a major forest near the bay in those days and if they were to get down low and hunt each other thats what they will do.

Every year in a airshow two A10s were detailed to give demonstrations and our airport were very small. Tiny. And they used a very small section of sky to show that they can point the gun at anyone anywhere in any situation. We have always liked what they have been able to do.

Fast foward out west. Target range? You see the rounds hit and tear up the area. Then the BRRRRTZ HMMMM. Just glad we have them and the bad guys don't

There is a base with airshows here in Arkansas (Jacksonville) and they bring in everything for show. The last time we saw the Arkansas F16s I think they were getting on in age. Dating back to the 70's era. I am glad we have them, but at some point with the new Russian Pak-57 Felons that are being produced, we are going to need to come up with something good.

I have not had too much military iron, the most of the action would be in places like Dyess on I-20 Or Mildenhall AFB and so on. But Dyess is the king with the B1's The ones that are combat loaded have about two miles to get off the runway with their burners and all. The much lighter ones come up and then blast the J truckstop with burners on doing rolls and manuvers etc.

Here is one example at Dyess. (Warned... its LOUD...)

 

The pilot is a WW2 buff and he was pretending that he was back in 1945 and flying a P47 on a strafing mission. To him, you were a German locomotive hauling supplies to enemy soldiers. Ahhh... that marvelous feeling of eight .50’s opening up in splendid unison.....

You could have obliged him by ‘firing back’ with an engine ‘regen’ from your truck which would have sent puffs of hot air directly into his path. The resulting down draft would have caused him to plunge into the ground creating a huge fireball, therefore blasting charred body parts from all directions from the wreckage.

“Mommy, why is there a crispy looking man’s head wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat in that Joshua Tree?”
Geez, the things kids say......

Great fun!

 

two week ago in Oxnard, CA small helicopter almost touched my trailer. he was spreading poison over fields...