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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for choosing to fly with Mandarin Airlines.
As we taxi out to the runway please make yourself comfortable........... and for those of you sitting on the right side of the plane please ignore our other......um....aircraft
This is an actual fly-by during deployment of the Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Stennis. The pilot was grounded for 30 days but he likes the picture and thinks it was worth it.
If you're an infrequent flyer, then plan everything well in advance.
The simple advice, is "Don't Drink and Fly"
An actual drawing, handed to a flight attendant on a Quantas flight, by an 8 year old girl.
Not funny, just awesome.
Official US Navy photo.
An F/A-18 Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron One Five One (VFA-151)
breaks the sound barrier in the skies over the Pacific Ocean, July 7, 1999.
VFA-151 is currently deployed with USS Constellation (CV 64). U.S.
Navy photo by Ensign John Gay. [990707-N-6483G-001] July 7, 1999.
Some more information about this amazing photograph can be found at http://www.wilk4.com/misc/soundbreak.htm. They also have a 1.4Mb mpeg movie of a jet doing this at low altitude!