[Info-vax] OT: Aircraft pitot tubes and clustering.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <mailman.1.1261251953.5195.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>, "Peter Weaver" <info-vax at weaverconsulting.ca> writes:
> 
> I've ridden in the back of a lot of C130's and seen a lot on the ground. At
> various airshows I heard people comment about how big the C130 is and I
> always thought "Wait until you see a Galaxy or a Starlifter." Then one day a
> few years ago I was flying in a Cherokee on the downwind leg at my local
> airport and I heard a C130 call that they were 8 miles out. When I was on
> very short final I looked up and saw it at mid-downwind. I never saw
> anything look so big and I never felt so small. All I could think of was
> getting down and off the runway before I became a smudge on one of its
> wheels.

  I found out how big a "little" A-10 is one day when I taxied a
  Tomahawk in front of one.  He could have fired his gatling gun and
  missed me because as a chin mount is was that much higher than my
  tail.