On this date in 2009......

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JJacket

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Yeah, they got grounded for either carelessness or disobeying orders. I knew one of the pilots - he lived across the hall from me when he was a freshman. I think he ended up flying for NASA.

JRjr
 
Seeing as how they all eventually get grounded (except for Maverick), that wasn't a bad way to go out if you think about it. It's more like "Ahh gee whiz skipper, now I'll have to go fly for Delta and make more money. Oh, and thanks for the training!".
 
What game had the flyover where there was a camera feed from the cockpit that was broadcast on the Jumbotron as he flew over? My memory was that you could just see the top of the pilots head.
 
aeromech said:
Seeing as how they all eventually get grounded (except for Maverick), that wasn't a bad way to go out if you think about it. It's more like "Ahh gee whiz skipper, now I'll have to go fly for Delta and make more money. Oh, and thanks for the training!".
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There's all kinds of opinions on what they did, but what would have been a hand slap 20 yrs prior got them a permanent grounding despite being in the middle of a war and needing combat pilots. Wish it wasn't that way, but warfighting prowess no longer gets you a pass.
 
Was there at the top of the Upper East (on the side of the South Endzone that Nesbitt scored the game winner in). Hell of a game and the flyover may have been even better.

Always felt bad for those dudes after hearing they got their wings clipped. I hope they had an idea that would happen and kind of wanted to go out that way.
 
Epic flyover. I was in the north stands that day. I’m still pissed at the pos admiral that took their wings and grounded them.
 
vapspwi said:
Yeah, they got grounded for either carelessness or disobeying orders. I knew one of the pilots - he lived across the hall from me when he was a freshman. I think he ended up flying for NASA.

JRjr
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I was inside CL-2 East Section, getting a beer when that happened. I didn’t see it. But the flyover sounded like 10 M-1 Garands going off at the same time divided between my left and right ears at 6 feet distance, plus an earthquake shaking the stadium. It busted everyone’s ears inside the air conditioned CL and felt like an they hit Bobby Dodd. Everyone was ducking under the tables inside the fancy section including the bartenders. After it was over, I remember feeling sorry for any enemy of the USA on a battlefield. That would be terrifying—-even without Wille Pete and Napalm following it if dropped from those 2 jets. Extremely impressive.
 
Well, it probably doesn't affect what they are doing now and they did something memorable instead of another interchangeable forgotten pass, so good for them.
 
RoanokeJacket said:
Well, it probably doesn't affect what they are doing now and they did something memorable instead of another interchangeable forgotten pass, so good for them.
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If I hooked up with Salma Hayek and then got thrown out of the house by her husband's thugs afterwards, I still hooked up.

Those pilots will live forever in that awesome flyover.

And it wasn't dangerous, although I did think they might hit the antenna on the building that used to be across the street
 
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