Louis Baseler uit Huijbergen

Huijbergen en omgeving. Wat maak ik er allemaal mee. Ik beschrijf hier mijn hobby, toerfietsen. Wat gebeurt er hier in Huijbergen en omgeving. Verder een beetje mijn kijk op de wereld vanuit Huijbergen. Huijbergen, mijn dorp op de Belgisch-Nederlandse grens: "The most interesting things in life exist at the boundary, both in the physical sense and metaphorically". Barry Lee.

donderdag, april 24, 2008

Fly by:

Ik heb al eens eerder een mooie foto geplaatst van een Fly By.
Nu zag ik weer een mooie foto, en wel met een B-52 bommenwerper.
This is not photoshopped. It happened in early 1990 in the Persian Gulf, while U.S. carriers and B-52s were holding joint exercises. Two B-52s called the carrier (USS Ranger) and asked if they could do a fly-by, and the carrier air controller said yes. When the B-52s reported they were 9 kilometers out, the carrier controller said he didn't see them. The B-52s told the carrier folks to look down. The paint job on the B-52 made it hard to see from above, but as it got closer, the sailors could make it out, and the water the B-52 jets were causing to spray out. It's very, very rare for a USAF aircraft to do a fly-by below the flight deck of a carrier. But B-52s had been practicing low level flights for years, to come in under Soviet radar. In this case, the B-52 pilots asked the carrier controller if they would like the bombers come around again. The carrier guys said yes, and a lot more sailors had their cameras out this time.

Mooi...!

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