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Jul. 25th, 2011 07:29 amКстати о мостах, зачем они на самом деле нужны.
The RB-47 continued to descend and came within 75 feet of reaching the deck when Lappo, heading east with the afternoon sun at his back, leveled her out and raced his way above the whitecaps at speeds that seemed to leave the plane's shadow in its jet stream.
Then at the blink of an eye it was all over, he had shot through the 199-foot clearance beneath the bridge's deck and flew the plane up in a trajectory ascent reminiscent of an Apollo take-off from Cape Kennedy. The crew gave out a reverent, yet subtle hoorah knowing that they had just participated in one of the most beautiful pieces of flying ever undertaken by an Air Force pilot.
When asked whether there were any objections to him doing it Lappo said, «Yeah, the navigator recommended against it. Of course, I had no idea at the time that he was the general's son and that he was going to go rat on me once we got back to Lockbourne.»
This wasn't LappoТs first demonstration of flying bravado. A few years earlier he gave a booming salute to his old community back in Muskegon when he swooped down over the town's airfield in another B-47 just to say hello. The switchboard at the police station stayed lit up for nearly an hour after that stunt.
Кратко — пролетел на «стратоджете» под макинаксим мостом. «Стратоджет» это такая огромная дура больше ста тонн максимального взлетного веса, Ту-154 практически, только на 10 метров короче.
Выпилили из авиации, конечно, не глядя на награды и подвиги.