Jet Racing at Reno Air Races 2008 - Front Row Seats (almost!)

[bobmac84]

The music ruins it, and also gives YouTube an excuse to add annoying ads

[USAF2409]

i like the song but why for this video. id rather hear the planes

[illuminated775]

so i imagine most people watching this are pilots ..I was curious what you as pilots think about the airplanes spraying Geo engineered chem trails into are sky's? now whether u believe our not i know you have noticed the planes spraying white chem trails daily ,,there are alarming rates of aluminum and barium being found in our trees and water... again i ask what is your opinion and do any of you pilots have anymore info on were they r landing and taking well we have questions!!!!!!!!!!

[FLfalconer]

@illuminated775

Are you serious? Those white trails you see are called contrails. It's just water vapor. You generally only see them coming from aircraft at relatively high altitude, where atmospheric conditions are right for their formation. There is no conspiracy, just high flying jets and water vapor.

[illuminated775]

@FLfalconer Have you ever heard of cloud seeding. Contrails disappear after a few minutes,the trails i'm speaking of hover and form a overcast cloud threw out the day! They make x patterns over and over till the whole area is no longer blue.. Now this happens in Reno NV almost everyday i have been in Medford OR the past few months and the same occurs here.The ski resorts in Tahoe claim the help fund cloud seeding all of you pilots can claim this doesn't happen your either lying our blind

[FLfalconer]

@illuminated775

Of course I know what cloud seeding is, but apparently you don't. It's used to encourage precipitation, which is something ski areas are very interested in during the winter. More snow equals better skiing.

And who told you that contrails disappear after a few minutes? Contrails can persists for hours, and can indeed encourage cloud formation.

You seem to lack a basic understanding of the concept of water vapor condensation, go read a book and take off the tin foil hat.

[pathyskeeter]

Guys, the band was playing as the jets were staging, taxiing, and flying. Didn't you see them? lol Crappy music....

[theobald0]

The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger

[CBAsystems]

What's fastest jet at say 200 FT above the ground and don't give me F-22 bullshit

F-16 pretty good but fastets I 've seen so far on Video is F-14 and possibly Tornado from UK...I want to know the fastest ever recorded speed at 200 ft ???

[djwilko7]

@CBAsystems tornado is fastest ever at low levels i heard ?

[deltaalpha21074]

@djwilko7 yup i think you are right !

[jango1968]

engine noise only please

[Rodarooni]

Spoilt with the shitty music.Lets hear the jet engines please.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

Geeze, what crappy music.

[UPUPUP69]

STOP THE FUCKING MUSIC!!!!

[Polybun]

shitty music over great noises of jets, one fucking star.

[testpilot51]

Would be a nice video without the song...airplane videos don't need music...... THEY MAKE THEIR OWN!!!!!!

[justfuzzyz]

what song is tht?

[britopinion]

You'll have to excuse my ignorance on this subject lads but i was wondering if, in the jet class, were the L-29s and L-39s being used still equipped with ejection systems aboard. I ask because in the UK any private civilian flying a former military aircraft is obligated to remove the system all together. However because of the nature of the flying at Reno i'm guessing that they retain the system, am i right or wrong in that ?.

[WackoWasko]

I dont know what the rules are in the Reno races, but I know that here in the US you can keep your ejection seat functional, but it has to follow very strict FAA guidelines.

[britopinion]

So the option is available to the pilots. I'm guessing that given the choice between flying a jet at 500mph at 50 ft with without an ejector seat and flying a jet at 500 mph at 50ft with an ejector seat these blokes would go with the ejector seat, unless they're nuts.

Thanks for the reply Wacko.

[gpw678]

Britopinion, i'm not sure where you got your info from, but most of the ex mil jets in the UK have "live ejection seats.

[britopinion]

I just remembered watching a report some time ago about a private owner of a former RAF Jet Provost who, during the interview, stated that the ejection systems had to be removed once military jets were passed in to civilian hands. That's what i was going on really. Never really made alot of sense from a safety point of view i suppose and if your telling me that's not the case then i stand corrected, and relieved for those civilian pilots of former military jets in the UK.

[brettt777]

Is the Jet class also unlimited? If someone showed up with say, a T-38, could they race it too?

[Nighthawkwill7]

Jet Class is open to any non-afterburning jet with less than 15° of wing sweep. No T-38 allowed by those rules =/

[brettt777]

Isn't there some guy with a Mig that has AB's that races there?

[Nighthawkwill7]

Yes there was but his plane was too fast compared to the F-80's and The L-39's so the rules were changed to even out the playing field. There should be another jet class for swept wing, afterburning jets.

[batvette]

@Nighthawkwill7 Show up with a Tomcat with the wings stuck forward and say "no really, the AB is broken and I don't know anything about any swept wings!"

When I was in VF-302's fire conrtrol shop at miramar we once had to ferry an F4S to the east coast with no radar (awg-10b) so used the dummy weight, about 1100 lbs IIRC and we wondered why we couldn't pull gear instead off the tail like the record holding Phantom did. Apparantly the ATs like the radios and IFF to work. Pshaw

[LivetoDance431]

coooool!