not to many g's not enough speed sent him into a stall resulting in the impact and thus losing his life but he did make sure to not hit any one i commend him on that a truly great pilot was lost that tragic day.
@MrJwill919 I was on the opposite side of the airfield. The planes had been flying below the treeline all afternoon. There was no indication that anything had happened until 15-25 seconds later when only 5 planes flew back for the final maneuver. Off to the left there was a smoke plume. This is rural South Carolina so someone could have been burning a pile of junk. It was about 20 minutes later that we learned through the radio station, that there had been a crash.
Vanity isn't the reason they don't use g-suits. It's because the g-suits inflate and deflate unexpectedly during high-g maneuvers. Their right arm rests on top of their right thigh while holding the control stick during high g's. The g-suit suddenly inflating under their arm is not a good thing during close formation flying.
Sigh. The Blues need to get over their vanity and start wearing G-suits for their performances. After all, they wear parachutes even though they can walk on water!
Considering fighter pilots can handle 9 G's for short periods, there is no way in hell this guy blacked out. I think the investigators would have a better idea and from what i've read it was attributed to mechanical failure.
@8BALT i see you're point but you can't completely rule out that he blacked out seeing as how he gave no communication, and did not eject. if he hadn't g-loc'd what would stop him from ejecting. the ejection handle is not computer based and so failure is unlikely. If however the ejection did fail the why didn't the canopy open, if the canopy opening mechanism failed why didn't he just eject straight into the canopy a double failure of these systems is less likely than a g-loc.
@8BALT "A report was released on 15 January 2008, ending the investigation by the Navy into the crash. The report states that when Commander Davis pulled back into a 6.8 G pull, he lost control of the airplane due to the effect of greyout." (wikipedia)
@Fallschirmjaeger963 @00:29 you see #6 crashing to the ground. The impact was behind the trees. This video was submitted as evidence to the investigation.
i guess you don't remember the colorado airshow where the thunder chicken solo bird fell flat out of the loop?
of the year all of the thunderbirds crashed in one maneuver? they hold the distinction of being the only american flight demostration team to ever do that. they were flying f-4's at the time.
@navybugler I recorded the footage and still have the original with the time stamp on the video. This one happened in 2007, Marine Corp Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina! You need to look it up because you are incorrect!
@navybugler its funny but there sure are a lot more trees in this video than there were when i was at mountain home "IDAHO as trees attract gawkers wondering what they are" but the tree ratio looks about right for south carolina
no i was commenting on the thunderbird crash for being mountain home idaho.
they have a really good video on here on the thunderchicken crash...and how they found it to be his fault by doinghis math wrong. he didn't agl, but asl'd his altitudes..
@k2477456 Indeed. I had the GREAT honor to meet this man. Regardless, I have watched the Blue Angels since I was a kid and it truly hurts to see one pass in such an accident. To all Blue Angel Pilots, both past and present, I have the utmost respect for you.
I cried when I heard this news, and I still tear up whenever I think about it. Our family had the honor of meeting Kevin Davis just before an airshow about a year before this happened. The event shocked me to my core; I couldn't believe it. Rest in peace, good sir; my family and I still salute you.
My entire life, since 6 years old, I've wanted to be a fighter pilot. Never became one, because I was too afraid. For someone to actually be doing it, and die, makes me want to commend them for their courage to even get into a plane. If most of you knew what its like to overcome that fear, and become something amazing, you might have a little respect for the people that did what you wish you could do. RIP
Hi, im a 12 year old boy who when i grow up i want a pilot in the airforce/navy. i and i can understand why why u did not want to become a pilot. i sometimes feel the same way. but i have already decided that when i grow up i would like to be an f35 pilot, and i will do whatever it takes to serve our country. after that i want to become a blue angel also. i would also like to master in aeronautic engeneering. i greatly miss this pilot and i wish his family good times and cheers.
@wiesenbefeuchter SUICIDE!? really? Kevin was lining up for the shows final maneuver after a flawless performance. Kevin was traveling approx. 400 knots when he performed a "Break Turn" to bleed off speed. Break Turns can carry very high Gs and Aviators can experience G-LOC quite easily. Kevin DID NOT kill himself.
I guess as he was turning he hit supersonic and had to much Gs and he passed out or he couldnt make such a tight turn and had a system malfunction rest in peace
DON'T READ THIS!In 1971 a guy named Kyle and his girlfriend Emily were in side a house that was said to claim peoples lives if they entered the house.The next morning a guy named Alex saw fingernail marks on the door.if you dont post this to 5 videos, you'll be getting a visit from Kyle and Emily tonight!WARNING:this has been proved to be real,i value my life!whoever reads this may God be with you! I TRULY DO APOLOGIZE!!! PS i got this from another vid
DON'T READ THIS!In 1971 a guy named Kyle and his girlfriend Emily were in side a house that was said to claim peoples lives if they entered the house.The next morning a guy named Alex saw fingernail marks on the door.if you dont post this to 5 videos, you'll be getting a visit from Kyle and Emily tonight!WARNING:this has been proved to be real,i value my life!whoever reads this may God be with you! I TRULY DO APOLOGIZE!!! PS i got this from another vid
DON'T READ THIS!In 1971 a guy named Kyle and his girlfriend Emily were in side a house that was said to claim peoples lives if they entered the house.The next morning a guy named Alex saw fingernail marks on the door.if you dont post this to 5 videos, you'll be getting a visit from Kyle and Emily tonight!WARNING:this has been proved to be real,i value my life!whoever reads this may God be with you! I TRULY DO APOLOGIZE!!! PS i got this from another vid
Looking at the trajectory makes me think the pilot was out. No apparent attempt at recovery. Particularly the roll angle. Loaded wing stall you would think he would have levelled it. Sad.
Beezlebub, I have talked to the thunderbirds on numerous occasions and despite the fact that the stick is side mounted on the viper doesn't change the fact that they don't wear the suits. However after the whole team died in the 90's that may have changed the wearing of the suits
@kross662003 The Thunderbirds most definitely wear g-suits. The control stick on an F-16 is not located in the center between the pilot's legs; it's actually positioned on the right side of the plane. Since G-suits only affect the lower trunk and legs, a Viper pilot can rest his arm for precise inputs and still wear the G-suit. F-18s, with center sticks, mean the pilot rests his arm on his leg during small inputs; thus the Blue Angels don't wear G-suits.
@psyleo7 left handed pilots learn to use the stick with the right hand. There is no changing it because the throttle is on the left hand side of the cockpit and that can not be changed.
i know this will probably attract some hating, but at least he wasn't forced to watch his own death unfold since he was unconscious... in all respect, if i had to choose how I died in that plane I'd rather not watch
G-LOC or G induced Loss Of Conciousness was the suspected cause. He passed out from the right hand high G turn he was completing to rejoin the formation.
To those asking why the pilot wasn't wearing a G-suit: the pilot holds the stick in his/her right hand, with the right arm resting on the leg. The stick is spring loaded with about 35 lbs of pressure to make it extremely sensitive to control inputs (no slack). A G-suit over the legs would be constantly inflating and deflating, and that movement would be fed into the stick, causing the jet to move all over the place in the air. Not good when the guy on your wing is 36 inches away at 400 knots.
@crazedactor "A G-suit over the legs would be constantly inflating and deflating" great explanation and makes perfect sense.
These guys fly in a close formation I've never seen anywhere else in the world, they would need every little edge they can get to keep their aircraft perfectly stable.
@ZzRvXzZ the G suit may have helped, however, at best, it only reduces the g-load by about 1. It's helpful but not as counterintuitive as most people believe it to be.
@mikec393 G-suits do not reduce G- load, they constrict blood from flowing to the extremities. The function of the G-suit is to maintain oxygenated blood in the brain so eyesight is not lost or is delayed until the maneuver is completed.
@sakoshooter48 I'm not sure what your point is here.. what you replied with is accurate but do you know understand that in doing so, there is an equation to calculate the average amount of theoretical g-force reduction and this is known throughout the aviation community to be about 1. Look it up.
@mikec393 Never mind, I think that our conversations was paralleling one another. I guess I understand what you are saying, as an equivalency, the reduced G's effect. Point taken!
@ZzRvXzZ The issue isn't the stick. They don't wear G-suits because they have to fly with such precision that the constant inflating and deflating of the G-suit disrupts their ability to be smooth. It's like driving a car if the driver's seat keeps moving around. In reality, these pilots are so conditioned to G-forces by flying daily that the G-suit isn't necessary. He simply was trying too hard to avoid overshooting the formation and pulled harder in the turn than he was ready for.
Hu pulled a little too hard in the turn and blacked out from g-loc or gravity induced loss off consciousness, the jet was perfect but without the pilot at the controls it just drifted into the ground.
It happens, flying fast jets is dangerous, even without people shooting at you.
all these fighting maneuvers are useless. Just drop the ordinances over the target. No need to practice dog fighting tactics. Send over drones to smoke out the anti aircraft artillery. Use your brain which is the biggest muscle of all. All this spending being wasted because the military has a lot of time on its hands. These air show are not impressing anyone with a brain. They are just a waste of taxpayer dollars.
@goodoldrebel8 as a matter of fact it does entertain me... I have been interested in aviation for several years now, and have decided that I am going to become a naval aviator after I go to the Naval Academy, where YOUR tax dollars are going to pay for MY education to be comissioneed as an officer in the United States Navy, where I will then fly multi-million dollar aircraft that YOUR tax dollars pay for, and drop millions of dollars worth of ordinance that YOUR tax dollars pay for. So thank you
You sound like a mindless lost adolescent having a pipe dream. I went throught OCS so who are you telling about getting a commission. You sound like your playing too many video games. What you as a limited life experienced adolescent doesn't understand is that all that air show stuff is just artificial entertainment for the masses. You won't last one day at the academy.
@goodoldrebel8 ok thank you for telling me what I sound like...and I never said that airshows weren't artificial entertainment for the masses. its entertainment none the less. if anything, it may be boosting the public's opinion on our armed forces. oh and dont try to talk down to someone who is younger than you, good for you that you went through OCS...im suprised that even a person with an attitude like yours made it through. And ill write you while im at the academy, just watch.
The academy is about how much effort every minute you decide to give. Dreaming about it is easy. Doing it requires less talk and more action. Good luck and I hope you can develop some military bearing.
in a F1 car the force comes from the sides of the car, when they turn fast at high speed. If you turn right, the blood goes to the left side of the body.
Negative g's = Black out
Positive g's = red out
The Valkirie pilot survived from a plane crash with 33G's on body(luck). More than 10-12 G's can damage eyes and ears.... Its physics.... and luck.. or not
recruiting tool so we can spend more trillions on useless socialist military spending lol
US spends more than $1 trillion every year on militaryt related spending what a friggin joke and then idiots wonder why we are going bankrupt. $10 trillion wasted on so called defense spending since 911, anyone think we got a great bang for our buck? LMFAO
This comment has received too many negative votesshow
@bluetiege All people need to do is get out and vote come election time. Right now they continue to listen to the GOP and vote against their own best interest.
@bluetiege damn straight, i am happy to have my tax dollars go to the military....cut the spending for the gay social organizations and we would be all set
@bluetiege It's a recruiting tool...support your troops...they are protecting your opinions to say what you say...I'm retired...I saw these guys less than a month before the accident...RIP...
@bluetiege No, the joke is the billions of dollars we spend on illegal immigrants. I would much rather have my money spent on a soldier than an illegal immigrant.
@bluetiege If you looked at the actual amount spent on military versus other federal expenses you would see that military spending is quite small compared to things like running the IRS and social security ect ect,
@schmoop23 I know. It's so damned sad. He was from my hometown. My dad was an ATC for the US Navy when South Weymouth NAS was still open. Quite quite sad. RIP Kojak.
If he wouldve ejected he wouldve landed in my backyard :/ And I couldve helped him I was home when it happened, it shook my house and windows, I thought my house was falling apart.
@mcgherkinstudios As far as i know, the newer model planes can detect G-lock, however, the blue angels fly early model F-18s that may or may not have the systems in them. However, regardless of whether or not they had the system, he was at such a low altitude and in such an extreme turn that the system mostly likely would not have been able to return the plane to straight and level before it impacted the ground. If someone else has a better knowledge of the system please feel free to correct me
@dmbinns1 The Blue Angles and the Air Forces Thunderbirds fly planes that are only one step away from being made into a plane on a stick static display. They are the oldest planes in the fleet and typically stripped of the entire EWO, weapons and specialty systems. Even if a G-Lock system was available, it was more than likely stripped out.
@Postie218 I agree with you on the stripped out part. However, it seems to me that if a G-Lock system was available, it would be one of the systems that was not removed specifically because the planes pull such high Gs during the airshows. All in all though, thats a valid point. Thank you for pointing it out.
@mcgherkinstudios since 1643 Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer. Its a device wich measure the pressure. When you say 1 G is the pressure of the vertical column of air over your body at sea level. In the moon ( no air but by the relation of the mass) would be 1/6 G's. Jupiter has 318 more mass then earth, so would be something like 318G(even athmospher is dense). More than 6.5 G human body can fall in "sleep" called black out... Red out is less G's and it can produce brain damage.
@ajetin Well heres the thing. If he had ejected it would have been very probable the plane would have crashed where the spectators were so in saving hundreds of lives he took his own.
he was losing his aerodynamic while that turn he came in a bit too fast and then he got an in-turn-stall, which is very dangerous, you see. and now his only chance was to gat that plane up by his side rudder and turning to horizon, but you can´t think of that in a piece of a second! R.I.P Blue Angel #6
yeah look at the angle he came in that is a very steep angle when u look at that and how hard he pulled he pulls real hard at first then his pull decreases meaning he was losing it and finally blacked out which is also the probable cause because as the plane goes down there is no attempt to adjust the planes position. there was just no way he could have pulled out of his black out in time to correct and save the plane let alone eject. R.I.P. Kevin Davis
I was there when it happened....im sure it's happened before, nothing's stopping it from ever happening again. I watched him go down when i was a boy. i watched it with my own eyes. Yet, it didn't deter my dreams of being a fighter pilot for the U.S.Navy. God bless those who have died, and who are serving in our Military and armed forces. Semper-Fidelis men! Semper Fidelis....
what crash??? sure isn't on this video! the only way some could even tell there was any mishap is by reading the comments. the name of this video should be "watch a non slow motion crash so i can be paid by the advertiser"
The reason he went down is because they told me why. On the jets they have springs attached to the Stick to pull the nose down in case something like this happens. I have met the crew and talked and made friends with them and they are cool.
@shess0501 It's true. I am in the USNSCC and we met them and everyone I asked told me that. Great guys too( the crew, not the pilots), Real nice and I made friends with a bunch of them.
Sad. It was number 6 I remember reading about this or something. The pilot blacked out from the g force. Happens toblotscof people just not pilots they are trained very well. It looked like a very shap turn to do in a jet. Very sad..
i think that was kojak, pilot number 6 i think. he blacked out because of the high G_force (7.5 g i think) applied to his body while performing a turn
He couldve used the ejection seat but he wouldve left the plane over residential area. He did what he was trained to do and crash the plane and not hit any houses or people. RIP
@305Nat There is an accident report that explains the details on what happened. When you see the last plane loop around to join, when goes behind the treeline, he is in the process of crashing.
@305Nat Kevin blacked out on the banking turn and never recovered, the official Navy report said he never even twitched a muscle before impact. The flight suits monitor all cockpit movement, they also protect against G force but in Kevin's case he came down too fast and banked to hard. This push to much blood into his head, super saturating his brain with oxygen, causing black out. The F22 has a control take over for this reason. Hope this answers your question.
@nucsol Dude... watch the video again! that was a positive G turn. In such a turn, the blood is going to be pulled from your head causing a black out. a negative G turn would cause excess blood to you go to your head causing a red out. I do like that creativity with the "super saturating" of the brain with oxygen... thats called oxygen toxicity, and nothing he was doing would cause that. He got G-LOC, also known as gravity-induced loss of consciousness.
@nucsol its wasnt an inverted turn, so the blood doesnt go to the head and produce a red out. You must probably say, by watching the movement of the plane, he had a balck out, when the blood goes from the body to the legs/foot. As i know, they dont wear G-Suites for better performance on manouvers, so how can be monitored?
I really dont know even the G-suit monitors something, but it can push the blood to vital organs like brain.
@adias111 The information about this is on the Blue Angels web site and I think that sensors are in the cockpit. They do make it very clear that the pilot was completely unconsious at impact and made no attempt to recover the plane. I just think it is a horrible loss of a fine officer who busted his ass to get to the top, only to have his life ended by a tragic split second mistake. I have nothing but great respect for these brave hero's with balls of steel.
RIP KOJAC that was his call sign
ill will replace u in a couple of years
u make me wana fly
bagfullofmushrooms 4 days ago
Did he stall out or was there some sort of engine malfunction?
mikeyr260 2 weeks ago
Best video of this tragedy on youtube.
Cocoheadedcannibal 3 weeks ago
you suck dont waist my time
zackdevan 1 month ago
dont wanna disresept but y didnt he pull his chute?
Xxbrando5450xX 1 month ago
@Xxbrando5450xX He was going into g-LOC from the turn. Basically, he was blacking out.
sunsetxlungs777 1 month ago
not to many g's not enough speed sent him into a stall resulting in the impact and thus losing his life but he did make sure to not hit any one i commend him on that a truly great pilot was lost that tragic day.
invisiblejustin 1 month ago
I don't mean any disrespect to the guy who died; but when you see a plane going down YOU FOCUS ON IT!!!!
MrJwill919 1 month ago
@MrJwill919 I was on the opposite side of the airfield. The planes had been flying below the treeline all afternoon. There was no indication that anything had happened until 15-25 seconds later when only 5 planes flew back for the final maneuver. Off to the left there was a smoke plume. This is rural South Carolina so someone could have been burning a pile of junk. It was about 20 minutes later that we learned through the radio station, that there had been a crash.
tjw1963 1 month ago
@MrJwill919 give him a break.. you dont go to the show expecting this.
juice12222 3 weeks ago
Stall in turn.
cichy1970 2 months ago
Toooo many Gs.
batmandeltaforce 2 months ago
i was there!
flame623 2 months ago
Vanity isn't the reason they don't use g-suits. It's because the g-suits inflate and deflate unexpectedly during high-g maneuvers. Their right arm rests on top of their right thigh while holding the control stick during high g's. The g-suit suddenly inflating under their arm is not a good thing during close formation flying.
TheIceman1302 2 months ago
Sigh. The Blues need to get over their vanity and start wearing G-suits for their performances. After all, they wear parachutes even though they can walk on water!
KB4QAA 2 months ago
Rest in peace Kojak~ you died living your dream. Most people only dream they could have ever truly lived.
strikerk 3 months ago
Looks more like he passed through the jet-wash of other aircraft and lost aerodynamics.
THEORIGINALEXSCAPER 3 months ago
Did he black out from the gs of the turn he did. Dont they have the hic-up thing to prevent black outs or was it mechanical failier
darkruler528 4 months ago
@darkruler528 Yes he did, if you look that was a high g turn 6-7g's and sometimes that can just overcome a pilot.
stewiee7999 4 months ago
@stewiee7999 He did not black out. It was mechanical failure.
Toddinfantry 3 months ago
@stewiee7999
Considering fighter pilots can handle 9 G's for short periods, there is no way in hell this guy blacked out. I think the investigators would have a better idea and from what i've read it was attributed to mechanical failure.
8BALT 3 months ago
@8BALT i see you're point but you can't completely rule out that he blacked out seeing as how he gave no communication, and did not eject. if he hadn't g-loc'd what would stop him from ejecting. the ejection handle is not computer based and so failure is unlikely. If however the ejection did fail the why didn't the canopy open, if the canopy opening mechanism failed why didn't he just eject straight into the canopy a double failure of these systems is less likely than a g-loc.
stewiee7999 3 months ago
@8BALT "A report was released on 15 January 2008, ending the investigation by the Navy into the crash. The report states that when Commander Davis pulled back into a 6.8 G pull, he lost control of the airplane due to the effect of greyout." (wikipedia)
stewiee7999 3 months ago
Blacked out from G's.
dks13827 4 months ago
@TheHumanParaquat not really but ok
sniper659 4 months ago
where's the crash part?
Fallschirmjaeger963 5 months ago
@Fallschirmjaeger963 @00:29 you see #6 crashing to the ground. The impact was behind the trees. This video was submitted as evidence to the investigation.
tjw1963 5 months ago
@TheHumanParaquat Huh? is that why one of them ejected a minute after taking off? Hop off you troll, and have some respect.
b747dude 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@TheHumanParaquat
i guess you don't remember the colorado airshow where the thunder chicken solo bird fell flat out of the loop?
of the year all of the thunderbirds crashed in one maneuver? they hold the distinction of being the only american flight demostration team to ever do that. they were flying f-4's at the time.
navybugler 5 months ago
excuse me, it was mountain home, idaho where the crash happened....
look it up.
navybugler 5 months ago
@navybugler I recorded the footage and still have the original with the time stamp on the video. This one happened in 2007, Marine Corp Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina! You need to look it up because you are incorrect!
tjw1963 5 months ago
@navybugler its funny but there sure are a lot more trees in this video than there were when i was at mountain home "IDAHO as trees attract gawkers wondering what they are" but the tree ratio looks about right for south carolina
blastforyou 5 months ago
@blastforyou
no i was commenting on the thunderbird crash for being mountain home idaho.
they have a really good video on here on the thunderchicken crash...and how they found it to be his fault by doinghis math wrong. he didn't agl, but asl'd his altitudes..
navybugler 4 months ago
@navybugler Um no dude, i live in Beaufort and was there this day. Took place over the MCAS.
StinkyGreenBud 4 months ago
@StinkyGreenBud
obviously you can't read. the crash in question, the thunder bird one i was telling paraquat about, was in mountain home idaho.
the blues crash was in sc.
navybugler 4 months ago
tossers
plasticspastic201 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
"KNOCK IT OFF......KNOCK IT OFF"
RIP Lt. Cmdr. Kevin "KOJACK" Davis :(
shakenama 5 months ago
it was a loss felt by all
MrBQ2010 6 months ago
No g suit
couchfighter 6 months ago
@couchfighter A suit wouldn't have saved him.
Tramsootru 5 months ago
Rest in Peace Lt. Cmdr. Kevin "KOJACK" Davis
k2477456 6 months ago
@k2477456 Indeed. I had the GREAT honor to meet this man. Regardless, I have watched the Blue Angels since I was a kid and it truly hurts to see one pass in such an accident. To all Blue Angel Pilots, both past and present, I have the utmost respect for you.
dasadler123 5 months ago 11
I cried when I heard this news, and I still tear up whenever I think about it. Our family had the honor of meeting Kevin Davis just before an airshow about a year before this happened. The event shocked me to my core; I couldn't believe it. Rest in peace, good sir; my family and I still salute you.
operaghostandkitty 6 months ago
My entire life, since 6 years old, I've wanted to be a fighter pilot. Never became one, because I was too afraid. For someone to actually be doing it, and die, makes me want to commend them for their courage to even get into a plane. If most of you knew what its like to overcome that fear, and become something amazing, you might have a little respect for the people that did what you wish you could do. RIP
jshrckstar 6 months ago 40
@jshrckstar Well said.
ERICAOUTLOUD 2 months ago
@jshrckstar
Fear is a killer. You can only master it though, never overcome it. I had my moment in Mombasa, Kenya in 1992.
hartley81848184 2 months ago
@jshrckstar
Hi, im a 12 year old boy who when i grow up i want a pilot in the airforce/navy. i and i can understand why why u did not want to become a pilot. i sometimes feel the same way. but i have already decided that when i grow up i would like to be an f35 pilot, and i will do whatever it takes to serve our country. after that i want to become a blue angel also. i would also like to master in aeronautic engeneering. i greatly miss this pilot and i wish his family good times and cheers.
theflyingjackass1522 1 month ago
@jshrckstar
Hey, beautifully said!
akngac5 1 week ago
R.I.P. to the pilot and to the family of the pilot, your son was a hero and sorry for your loss!
saultman 6 months ago
here in Beaufort we were told that he lost his bearing of where he was and was accidentally flying upside down.
smoshv2 6 months ago
looks to me like he pulled to many g's and passed out look how sharp his turn is
blairtracey 7 months ago
R.I.P. pilot
jithization 7 months ago
@wiesenbefeuchter SUICIDE!? really? Kevin was lining up for the shows final maneuver after a flawless performance. Kevin was traveling approx. 400 knots when he performed a "Break Turn" to bleed off speed. Break Turns can carry very high Gs and Aviators can experience G-LOC quite easily. Kevin DID NOT kill himself.
rms42 7 months ago
@rms42 the term Break Turn is also known as a Carrier Break
rms42 7 months ago
To me it looks like suicide! How could he lose conciousness in such a slow speed turn???
wiesenbefeuchter 7 months ago
@wiesenbefeuchter Note the title of the video.... crash in slow motion. Have some respect.
cobra10908 7 months ago
waste my time...
youronlycow 7 months ago
I guess as he was turning he hit supersonic and had to much Gs and he passed out or he couldnt make such a tight turn and had a system malfunction rest in peace
coolleel1234 7 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
DON'T READ THIS!In 1971 a guy named Kyle and his girlfriend Emily were in side a house that was said to claim peoples lives if they entered the house.The next morning a guy named Alex saw fingernail marks on the door.if you dont post this to 5 videos, you'll be getting a visit from Kyle and Emily tonight!WARNING:this has been proved to be real,i value my life!whoever reads this may God be with you! I TRULY DO APOLOGIZE!!! PS i got this from another vid
miziko123 8 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
DON'T READ THIS!In 1971 a guy named Kyle and his girlfriend Emily were in side a house that was said to claim peoples lives if they entered the house.The next morning a guy named Alex saw fingernail marks on the door.if you dont post this to 5 videos, you'll be getting a visit from Kyle and Emily tonight!WARNING:this has been proved to be real,i value my life!whoever reads this may God be with you! I TRULY DO APOLOGIZE!!! PS i got this from another vid
miziko123 8 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
DON'T READ THIS!In 1971 a guy named Kyle and his girlfriend Emily were in side a house that was said to claim peoples lives if they entered the house.The next morning a guy named Alex saw fingernail marks on the door.if you dont post this to 5 videos, you'll be getting a visit from Kyle and Emily tonight!WARNING:this has been proved to be real,i value my life!whoever reads this may God be with you! I TRULY DO APOLOGIZE!!! PS i got this from another vid
miziko123 8 months ago
Rest in peace #6, rest in peace......
erasaka82 8 months ago
I saw the T-Birds at Smyrna Airfield (Nashville) last Saturday, and they put on G-suits before entering their aircraft. Maybe they were "J.I.C." ;-)
cwclwell 8 months ago
Looking at the trajectory makes me think the pilot was out. No apparent attempt at recovery. Particularly the roll angle. Loaded wing stall you would think he would have levelled it. Sad.
w5cdt 8 months ago
Beezlebub, I have talked to the thunderbirds on numerous occasions and despite the fact that the stick is side mounted on the viper doesn't change the fact that they don't wear the suits. However after the whole team died in the 90's that may have changed the wearing of the suits
kross662003 9 months ago
Neither the thunderbirds or blue angels wear g suits it restricts movement too much.
kross662003 9 months ago
@kross662003 The Thunderbirds most definitely wear g-suits. The control stick on an F-16 is not located in the center between the pilot's legs; it's actually positioned on the right side of the plane. Since G-suits only affect the lower trunk and legs, a Viper pilot can rest his arm for precise inputs and still wear the G-suit. F-18s, with center sticks, mean the pilot rests his arm on his leg during small inputs; thus the Blue Angels don't wear G-suits.
beelzbub 9 months ago
@beelzbub What if the pilot is left handed? In the F-16 do they have configuration for that too ? Or are there no left handed pilots?
psyleo7 9 months ago
@psyleo7 left handed pilots learn to use the stick with the right hand. There is no changing it because the throttle is on the left hand side of the cockpit and that can not be changed.
TheGator08Man 9 months ago
@TheGator08Man Thanks for the info, I'm not left handed but was just wondering. Take care.
psyleo7 9 months ago
It looks like No. 6 was in Stall before he crashed.
Hickmaann90 9 months ago
@Hickmaann90 he greyed out and couldn't recover before it crashed
Swingking9 9 months ago
I hope that they have auto eject nowdays :'[
ZzRvXzZ 9 months ago
This dude died at the top of his game doing what he loved, we all got to die, he died like a hero.
mandaltby 10 months ago
No crash in this vid. FAIL TITLE
SasukoJenkinz 10 months ago
i know this will probably attract some hating, but at least he wasn't forced to watch his own death unfold since he was unconscious... in all respect, if i had to choose how I died in that plane I'd rather not watch
MASDERCHEEFOrigin 10 months ago
G-LOC or G induced Loss Of Conciousness was the suspected cause. He passed out from the right hand high G turn he was completing to rejoin the formation.
unclesara 10 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
what happend??
bartekS2000 10 months ago
what happend??
bartekS2000 10 months ago
I've never liked the FA-18. Not saying it was the cause of the crash. Just I don't like them. Never have. I was sad to see the old F-14's go.
Dan454 10 months ago
pull up COUGAR PULL UP COUGAR!!
JackDawsonRMS 10 months ago
I think he g-locked in that tight turn to join the others.
t5239857289578947594 10 months ago
RIP
r1casill 11 months ago
He stalled in mid turn. Dang that sucks.
Amtrak81 11 months ago
@Amtrak81 nope, he blacked out from pulling a little over 6 G's. These guys Don't wear G suits
piperpilot26 11 months ago
he was trying to get with the team and turned more then he could handle and g lock
skateboy159 11 months ago
@skateboy159 It's G-loc, not lock. But yes, unfortunately that appears to be the cause.
siouxperb5570 11 months ago
What I Think Happened Was The G's That Made Him Go Unconscious And He Then Blacked Out And Couldn't Take Control Of The FA-18 Hornet. Notice The Turn
militaryfan90 11 months ago
To those asking why the pilot wasn't wearing a G-suit: the pilot holds the stick in his/her right hand, with the right arm resting on the leg. The stick is spring loaded with about 35 lbs of pressure to make it extremely sensitive to control inputs (no slack). A G-suit over the legs would be constantly inflating and deflating, and that movement would be fed into the stick, causing the jet to move all over the place in the air. Not good when the guy on your wing is 36 inches away at 400 knots.
crazedactor 11 months ago 14
This has been flagged as spam show
@crazedactor "A G-suit over the legs would be constantly inflating and deflating" great explanation and makes perfect sense.
These guys fly in a close formation I've never seen anywhere else in the world, they would need every little edge they can get to keep their aircraft perfectly stable.
FXWorldBeater 10 months ago
@crazedactor
lol...... that g suit would have saved his life :'[
Why they don't modify the stick, so they can use a g-suit?
ZzRvXzZ 9 months ago
@ZzRvXzZ the G suit may have helped, however, at best, it only reduces the g-load by about 1. It's helpful but not as counterintuitive as most people believe it to be.
mikec393 9 months ago
@mikec393 G-suits do not reduce G- load, they constrict blood from flowing to the extremities. The function of the G-suit is to maintain oxygenated blood in the brain so eyesight is not lost or is delayed until the maneuver is completed.
sakoshooter48 9 months ago
@sakoshooter48 I'm not sure what your point is here.. what you replied with is accurate but do you know understand that in doing so, there is an equation to calculate the average amount of theoretical g-force reduction and this is known throughout the aviation community to be about 1. Look it up.
mikec393 9 months ago
@mikec393 Never mind, I think that our conversations was paralleling one another. I guess I understand what you are saying, as an equivalency, the reduced G's effect. Point taken!
sakoshooter48 9 months ago
@ZzRvXzZ The issue isn't the stick. They don't wear G-suits because they have to fly with such precision that the constant inflating and deflating of the G-suit disrupts their ability to be smooth. It's like driving a car if the driver's seat keeps moving around. In reality, these pilots are so conditioned to G-forces by flying daily that the G-suit isn't necessary. He simply was trying too hard to avoid overshooting the formation and pulled harder in the turn than he was ready for.
nocalsteve 9 months ago
@nocalsteve Pretty much agree. The AoA on that turn was pretty extreme, I was half surprised he didn't stall pulling back that hard.
beelzbub 9 months ago
Hu pulled a little too hard in the turn and blacked out from g-loc or gravity induced loss off consciousness, the jet was perfect but without the pilot at the controls it just drifted into the ground.
It happens, flying fast jets is dangerous, even without people shooting at you.
WinchesterRanger 1 year ago
all these fighting maneuvers are useless. Just drop the ordinances over the target. No need to practice dog fighting tactics. Send over drones to smoke out the anti aircraft artillery. Use your brain which is the biggest muscle of all. All this spending being wasted because the military has a lot of time on its hands. These air show are not impressing anyone with a brain. They are just a waste of taxpayer dollars.
goodoldrebel8 1 year ago
@goodoldrebel8 just shut up...move somewhere else if you dont want to pay u.s. taxes.
jman40194 1 year ago
@jman40194
your just a pavlovian sheep standing there clapping with a blank look on your face as the air show 'entertains' you.
goodoldrebel8 1 year ago
@goodoldrebel8 as a matter of fact it does entertain me... I have been interested in aviation for several years now, and have decided that I am going to become a naval aviator after I go to the Naval Academy, where YOUR tax dollars are going to pay for MY education to be comissioneed as an officer in the United States Navy, where I will then fly multi-million dollar aircraft that YOUR tax dollars pay for, and drop millions of dollars worth of ordinance that YOUR tax dollars pay for. So thank you
jman40194 1 year ago
@jman40194
You sound like a mindless lost adolescent having a pipe dream. I went throught OCS so who are you telling about getting a commission. You sound like your playing too many video games. What you as a limited life experienced adolescent doesn't understand is that all that air show stuff is just artificial entertainment for the masses. You won't last one day at the academy.
goodoldrebel8 1 year ago
@goodoldrebel8 ok thank you for telling me what I sound like...and I never said that airshows weren't artificial entertainment for the masses. its entertainment none the less. if anything, it may be boosting the public's opinion on our armed forces. oh and dont try to talk down to someone who is younger than you, good for you that you went through OCS...im suprised that even a person with an attitude like yours made it through. And ill write you while im at the academy, just watch.
jman40194 1 year ago
@goodoldrebel8
The academy is about how much effort every minute you decide to give. Dreaming about it is easy. Doing it requires less talk and more action. Good luck and I hope you can develop some military bearing.
goodoldrebel8 1 year ago
in a F1 car the force comes from the sides of the car, when they turn fast at high speed. If you turn right, the blood goes to the left side of the body.
Negative g's = Black out
Positive g's = red out
The Valkirie pilot survived from a plane crash with 33G's on body(luck). More than 10-12 G's can damage eyes and ears.... Its physics.... and luck.. or not
adias111 1 year ago
black out...no llevan anti Gs puestos, le dio mucho el jalon descanse en paz
maverickjulio 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
recruiting tool so we can spend more trillions on useless socialist military spending lol
US spends more than $1 trillion every year on militaryt related spending what a friggin joke and then idiots wonder why we are going bankrupt. $10 trillion wasted on so called defense spending since 911, anyone think we got a great bang for our buck? LMFAO
bluetiege 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
@bluetiege All people need to do is get out and vote come election time. Right now they continue to listen to the GOP and vote against their own best interest.
tjw1963 1 year ago
@bluetiege Go to Pakistan and blow Osama. Maybe he will leave us alone. Fruit.
madisonelectronic 1 year ago
@bluetiege damn straight, i am happy to have my tax dollars go to the military....cut the spending for the gay social organizations and we would be all set
ownage1894 1 year ago
@bluetiege It's a recruiting tool...support your troops...they are protecting your opinions to say what you say...I'm retired...I saw these guys less than a month before the accident...RIP...
TiBossII 1 year ago
@bluetiege No, the joke is the billions of dollars we spend on illegal immigrants. I would much rather have my money spent on a soldier than an illegal immigrant.
XxACE09xX 1 year ago
@bluetiege If you looked at the actual amount spent on military versus other federal expenses you would see that military spending is quite small compared to things like running the IRS and social security ect ect,
ChargedTTq 1 year ago
@bluetiege this is not a video to post irrelevant propagandistic ideas/views of yours on the government.
have some fucking respect, your fucking jerkoff.
TheNondiscriminatory 1 year ago
Hey,Blame it on the creation of G Force and Gravity....But without it thee world would be Crazed :I
robloxkingvids 1 year ago
yeaahhhh top gun
zev007 1 year ago
It was G lock
SaelPalani 1 year ago 15
@SaelPalani G-lock+black out=dead
schmoop23 1 year ago
@schmoop23 I know. It's so damned sad. He was from my hometown. My dad was an ATC for the US Navy when South Weymouth NAS was still open. Quite quite sad. RIP Kojak.
SaelPalani 1 year ago
@schmoop23 yeah, i know. It's terrible. :-(
SaelPalani 8 months ago
@SaelPalani was it G lock, or was it the jet wash from another plane making it stall out?
Fourteen88SoCal 9 months ago
@Fourteen88SoCal naw. It was G Loc. Look at his turn.
SaelPalani 8 months ago
@SaelPalani is that anything like matlock?
Jvergakis 5 months ago
R.I.P Kevin Davis.
delta1667 1 year ago
If he wouldve ejected he wouldve landed in my backyard :/ And I couldve helped him I was home when it happened, it shook my house and windows, I thought my house was falling apart.
Tip345 1 year ago
@Tip345 Reports suggest he was unconscious.
DrPhucker 1 year ago
R.I.P its unfortunate but thinks happen :(
CrIp1391 1 year ago
@TheSoulSearcher1 Ah, right, of course. Thanks
I forgot that the governments put prices on people's lives.
mcgherkinstudios 1 year ago
Is there a way for the plane to detect G-LOC? For example, using a dead man's trigger? If so, could it engage the autopilot to maintain altitude?
Can anyone see why this isn't technically possible?
mcgherkinstudios 1 year ago
@mcgherkinstudios As far as i know, the newer model planes can detect G-lock, however, the blue angels fly early model F-18s that may or may not have the systems in them. However, regardless of whether or not they had the system, he was at such a low altitude and in such an extreme turn that the system mostly likely would not have been able to return the plane to straight and level before it impacted the ground. If someone else has a better knowledge of the system please feel free to correct me
dmbinns1 1 year ago
@dmbinns1 The Blue Angles and the Air Forces Thunderbirds fly planes that are only one step away from being made into a plane on a stick static display. They are the oldest planes in the fleet and typically stripped of the entire EWO, weapons and specialty systems. Even if a G-Lock system was available, it was more than likely stripped out.
Postie218 1 year ago
@Postie218 I agree with you on the stripped out part. However, it seems to me that if a G-Lock system was available, it would be one of the systems that was not removed specifically because the planes pull such high Gs during the airshows. All in all though, thats a valid point. Thank you for pointing it out.
dmbinns1 1 year ago
@mcgherkinstudios since 1643 Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer. Its a device wich measure the pressure. When you say 1 G is the pressure of the vertical column of air over your body at sea level. In the moon ( no air but by the relation of the mass) would be 1/6 G's. Jupiter has 318 more mass then earth, so would be something like 318G(even athmospher is dense). More than 6.5 G human body can fall in "sleep" called black out... Red out is less G's and it can produce brain damage.
adias111 1 year ago
why didnt he eject?
BlackPhantomJambo 1 year ago
dude i wish he had catapulted before the crash so he could at least survive
ajetin 1 year ago
@ajetin Well heres the thing. If he had ejected it would have been very probable the plane would have crashed where the spectators were so in saving hundreds of lives he took his own.
chrisg21225 1 year ago
we should call the detective conan to find out wt happened in that day ,,,, ):
TheWinnerOfTheDinner 1 year ago
he was losing his aerodynamic while that turn he came in a bit too fast and then he got an in-turn-stall, which is very dangerous, you see. and now his only chance was to gat that plane up by his side rudder and turning to horizon, but you can´t think of that in a piece of a second! R.I.P Blue Angel #6
ComAviationToday 1 year ago
@ComAviationToday no get your facts straight he BLACKED OUT its in like 99% of the comments dude
thefsxandREALpilot 1 year ago
yeah look at the angle he came in that is a very steep angle when u look at that and how hard he pulled he pulls real hard at first then his pull decreases meaning he was losing it and finally blacked out which is also the probable cause because as the plane goes down there is no attempt to adjust the planes position. there was just no way he could have pulled out of his black out in time to correct and save the plane let alone eject. R.I.P. Kevin Davis
Ghost096 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
I was there when it happened....im sure it's happened before, nothing's stopping it from ever happening again. I watched him go down when i was a boy. i watched it with my own eyes. Yet, it didn't deter my dreams of being a fighter pilot for the U.S.Navy. God bless those who have died, and who are serving in our Military and armed forces. Semper-Fidelis men! Semper Fidelis....
13knifethrower13 1 year ago
probly goin to fast maby?
ABZ6381 1 year ago
what crash??? sure isn't on this video! the only way some could even tell there was any mishap is by reading the comments. the name of this video should be "watch a non slow motion crash so i can be paid by the advertiser"
sw8741 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
R.I.P Kevin, a great pilot, and very brave man to do this. A great loss of the Blue Angels- You shall not be forgotten. Rest In Peace *salute*
potatoewarrior 1 year ago
The reason he went down is because they told me why. On the jets they have springs attached to the Stick to pull the nose down in case something like this happens. I have met the crew and talked and made friends with them and they are cool.
PSNgregiskool 1 year ago
@shess0501 It's true. I am in the USNSCC and we met them and everyone I asked told me that. Great guys too( the crew, not the pilots), Real nice and I made friends with a bunch of them.
PSNgregiskool 1 year ago
sad he decided to pull a Canadian R.I.P.
the18gearJammer 1 year ago
ok i see he pulled a hard right to get back into formation but my question is why was there not ejection from his plane
souljaboy132 1 year ago
@souljaboy132 he blacked out i think
Bloodsteri667 1 year ago
@Bloodsteri667 i guess so but that the reason even airshow pilots should have
G-suits
souljaboy132 1 year ago
should have ejected
DogmeatFilms 1 year ago
@DogmeatFilms he couldn't. he blacked out, dude.
nmullins19 1 year ago
Sad. It was number 6 I remember reading about this or something. The pilot blacked out from the g force. Happens toblotscof people just not pilots they are trained very well. It looked like a very shap turn to do in a jet. Very sad..
DziukCrzy 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
No more wars for Israel.
holocaustexpert 1 year ago
i think that was kojak, pilot number 6 i think. he blacked out because of the high G_force (7.5 g i think) applied to his body while performing a turn
rafaelmtb 1 year ago
He couldve used the ejection seat but he wouldve left the plane over residential area. He did what he was trained to do and crash the plane and not hit any houses or people. RIP
mrocks301 1 year ago
Isnt there supposed to be an ejection seat?
Airplanesaremything 1 year ago
@Airplanesaremything ya but his turn put too much G force on his body which made him pass out so he couldnt eject
supercross113 1 year ago
I just seen these guys at the Dayton air show so bad ass!!!!! RIP
sk8erpunk351 1 year ago
The defensetech accident report said it was blue angel number 5...
Does anyone know what it was?
TheIndoorFllyer1 1 year ago
@TheIndoorFllyer1 It was number #6.
tjw1963 1 year ago
@tjw1963 no anti-g suits=black out.....we r humans, you know....?
adias111 1 year ago
@tjw1963
Kevin Davis number 6
nattergale2345 1 year ago
@TheIndoorFllyer1 He blacked out from High "G's"
Jacobun1 1 year ago
i still dont get it how did he go down?
305Nat 1 year ago
@305Nat There is an accident report that explains the details on what happened. When you see the last plane loop around to join, when goes behind the treeline, he is in the process of crashing.
tjw1963 1 year ago
@tjw1963 yeah i know i see that but what happend? cuz he didnt hit anything or miscalculated a turn, etc. you get me?
305Nat 1 year ago
@305Nat The G force on his body made him pass out so he was pretty much asleep and couldnt handle the controls or eject
supercross113 1 year ago
@305Nat he was to slow :(
mepizzasmangled 1 year ago
@305Nat Kevin blacked out on the banking turn and never recovered, the official Navy report said he never even twitched a muscle before impact. The flight suits monitor all cockpit movement, they also protect against G force but in Kevin's case he came down too fast and banked to hard. This push to much blood into his head, super saturating his brain with oxygen, causing black out. The F22 has a control take over for this reason. Hope this answers your question.
nucsol 1 year ago
@nucsol Dude... watch the video again! that was a positive G turn. In such a turn, the blood is going to be pulled from your head causing a black out. a negative G turn would cause excess blood to you go to your head causing a red out. I do like that creativity with the "super saturating" of the brain with oxygen... thats called oxygen toxicity, and nothing he was doing would cause that. He got G-LOC, also known as gravity-induced loss of consciousness.
VolcomSRT4 1 year ago
@nucsol if you dont know what you are talking about, please spare everyone else from your useless banter...
VolcomSRT4 1 year ago
@VolcomSRT4 I told you what the Navy investigation said you self important little twit. Read it for yourself.
nucsol 1 year ago
@nucsol its wasnt an inverted turn, so the blood doesnt go to the head and produce a red out. You must probably say, by watching the movement of the plane, he had a balck out, when the blood goes from the body to the legs/foot. As i know, they dont wear G-Suites for better performance on manouvers, so how can be monitored?
I really dont know even the G-suit monitors something, but it can push the blood to vital organs like brain.
Thanks for the precision of your answer.
adias111 1 year ago
@adias111 The information about this is on the Blue Angels web site and I think that sensors are in the cockpit. They do make it very clear that the pilot was completely unconsious at impact and made no attempt to recover the plane. I just think it is a horrible loss of a fine officer who busted his ass to get to the top, only to have his life ended by a tragic split second mistake. I have nothing but great respect for these brave hero's with balls of steel.
nucsol 1 year ago 62