A U.S. Coast Guard C-130 from Air Station Clearwater performs a precision low-pass message drop. These aircraft can also deliver life rafts, medical supplies, survival gear, dewatering pumps, flares, and other emergency equipment to vessels in distress.
📹: theeducatedcaptain
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard a story like this. It’s probably a lot more common that people retain things in their hands that are useless in that moment of fight or flight than we may grasp.
Our ability to logic everything out in that kind of moment kind of goes out the door, I guess.
Frozen Raptor. Situated at Eglin AFB, Florida, the 46th TW’s McKinley Climatic Laboratory is the largest environmental testing facility on the planet. Often referred to as "the world’s largest refrigerator," this massive hangar serves as a high-stakes torture chamber for the most advanced aircraft in the world.
This is exactly the kind of fucking flying I wish I could have done in my lifetime. Taking huge monster aircraft like this and tossing them around like ballerinas