<p>In my contiued role as the resident alumni geek, I'd like to offer the following link to a page of mine:</p>
<p>Enjoy! :D</p>
<p>My personal favorite: <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/luismulet/.Pictures/GO%20NAVY!/Army-Navy%20Flyby.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://homepage.mac.com/luismulet/.Pictures/GO%20NAVY!/Army-Navy%20Flyby.jpg</a></p>
<p>Oh, and the handsome devil in the picture in the bottom row? GUESS WHO? :D</p>
<p>Did you take all of those photos?</p>
<p>We now have a photo of the Zaphod! How old were you then? Things are looking quite spiffy in that album.</p>
<p>Beautiful house, by the way,</p>
<p>...but I can't say I approve of your Isuzu trooper (actually, depends on your gas mileage and if you are a rude driver that runs over defenseless runners?). ;)</p>
<p>Nice pics...some of them are kinda BS though. For example, that F-14 fly-by is obviously photoshopped.</p>
<p>There was some online forum that I saw on that. Just looking at the picture you can see it's faked. For one, the pilot would be screwed for doing that. For two, the "wake" produced by that jet would send those people flying. Thirdly, you see a couple people just standing there or even walking CLOSER. Wouldn't you run if you saw a jet about to crash into your "boat" (I know it's a carrier!) Fourthly, just LOOK AT THE PIC!</p>
<p>In the "CVN-68 High-Speed Turn", is that real? And why would they turn that fast?</p>
<p>No he didn't take all those pics. Cmon...just look at them. I'm sure you've seen at least some of them before. They're all over the internet. (Unless they all stole them from Zaphod! :X)</p>
<p>I have a 1994 Ford Explorer that gets 10 miles to the gallon. It's really a pocket drainer. That's 30 cents a mile! There's basically gasoline GUSHING out my exhaust. You want to complain about his SUV, stop. Just complain about mine. It's my first car and it gets me around. I don't drive it much...just to school and work.</p>
<p>I didn't take any of those (well, except the one of me). None are photoshopped. The flyby was for the Army-Navy game.</p>
<p>In that picture I must have been, oh..... 26 or so.</p>
<p>ETA: the low-level flyby was real. Pilot got grounded for a month.</p>
<p>Hm...no, I can't say I have seen them all over the internet. Attention to detail. Attention to detail.</p>
<p>usnso: Shhhh! We have to keep photoshopping images to trap innocent, young blood into the military lifestyle! (Don't forget all those cool commercials with the fast-paced pumped-up music and sleek graphics!) Sorry about your gas mileage. I would die financially if my car didn't get 26.5 miles/gallon because school is so far away from here.</p>
<p>lol photoshop is truly an amazing thing. And yes, I remember that original site that posted that picture. It said that he was grounded for a month. But seriously...explain how that picture is even physically possible. I haven't taken physics (not yet) but it just doesn't seem right. It seems like about a second after that picture was taken, all of those people on deck would have been on the other side of the carrier.</p>
<p>It's real. The F-14 is a BIG plane, so the image gives the impression it's closer than it was. As for the physics, that's easy: come in low from astern and bank hard to the right. Very dangerous, but not a lot different than what you see our guys doing when flying close air support missions.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>Torpedo/missile evasion, or unmasking AAW batteries.</p>
<p>Fine.</p>
<p>You win this time!!! :o</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Don't you just love the power of seniority and experience, Zaphod?</p>
<p>lies...all lies</p>
<p>Zaphod actually paid me $20 via PayPal just to get me to give up in public. He just wanted the attention! ;)</p>
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<p>It comes in handy sometimes. ;)</p>
<p>Actually, I think the F-14 pilot was not grounded. I recently saw that myth debunked. The maneuver was completely legit and it was part of a routine for a Fleet Week/Family Day on board the carrier. The text added in the originally distributed picture was added for flavor, but the pilot was just performing a routine, not hot-dogging. It's still a great picture, though.</p>
<p>This explains the picture: <a href="http://aerofiles.com/f14flyby.html%5B/url%5D">http://aerofiles.com/f14flyby.html</a></p>
<p>The F-14 is such an awesome plane. It's a bit scary that the Iranians have F-14A's to use in their military. But a plane is only as good as its crew and its systems.</p>
<p>Zaphod, you are indeed a handsome devil! And I loooove those F-18 pix. Ah, I could practically smell the JP-5! I used to work in flight deck control (uncomfortably close to the handler) whenever we did a carrier qual detachment. Such a rush.</p>
<p>So he didn't get grounded, eh? COOL!</p>
<p>The Iranians? Please don't make me laugh! They can't even get the birds off the ground!</p>
<p>I just saw a documentary that explained that back in 1979 when the rag... when the Ahyatollah (or however the hell you spell that whackjob) came to power, the Grumman consultants who had been servicing the Iranian F-14's quietly removed a whole bunch of parts and such on the way out, making the weapons systems inoperable. The F-14's now being scrapped are closely guarded to ensure the next generation of whackjobs can't get them in the air.</p>
<p>Either way, they don't have Phoenix missiles, which means they'd have to get in close with the Sparrows they have (we have AMRAAM) and their old Sidewinders (we have infinitely better versions). We also have our pilots. The life of the Iranian F-14's would be short, loud, spectacular, and terminal.</p>
<p>Thanks for photos Z! I sent them to my 13 year old son (plans on following in big sister's footsteps!) Go Class of 2014! This kid is GUNG-HO!</p>
<p>Nice house! Looks like 3000+ sq ft?</p>
<p>Another note. Ever consider coming up for I-Day?</p>
<p>Thanks. Closing on Thursday, if all goes well.</p>
<p>Can't remember exact square footage right now, but not nearly that big. Closer to 2000.</p>
<p>When is I-Day, again?</p>
<p>28-June. We are going down Monday night but, have to leave evening of the 28th (Doc appointments 29th).</p>
<p>Number of rooms threw me. Sure looks like more than 2K.</p>
