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Who's your flyby Daddy -- don't be shy -- what's my name?

navy.mil — Great snap of a transonic USN F/A-18F Super Hornet, assigned to the "Bounty Hunters" of Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-2, performing a high-speed flyby over the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) and guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86) during an air show on April 22, 2008 in the Indian Ocean. Photographer: MC3 Justin R. Blake, USN.

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  • vroom101, on 04/26/2008, -1/+6Via http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=57871 via photo 13 at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20061112.htm
  • smarusich, on 04/26/2008, -7/+34Tower, this is Ghost rider requesting a flyby.
  • RevinKoze, on 04/26/2008, -3/+41Red leader standing by..
  • Quicksilver4648, on 04/26/2008, -9/+2Reminds me of Top Gun.
    • Heavypettingzoo, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Oh? it reminds me more of airplanes.
  • beefchi, on 04/26/2008, -0/+6airstrike on wetworks
    • bikingshaun, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3That always bothers me - how can you airstrike a ***** boat - we'd all go down!
  • lollypopz, on 04/26/2008, -10/+57Wow he flew right through that cloud! Bullseye!
  • ultralights, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1what was that number for truckmaster again!
    • Mootabolife, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1I could tell you.. but then id have to kill you.
  • Hartley1942, on 04/26/2008, -11/+9Obligatory comment about Bush and Iraq.
  • EpicSelekta, on 04/26/2008, -1/+10"sorry Goose, but it's time to buzz the tower."

    *spills coffee*
  • Skelly11, on 04/26/2008, -18/+163 diggs and only 11 comments...wtf?!?!
    • Ataxia2008, on 04/26/2008, -3/+7Shut the ***** Up

      No, I'm not abbreviating.
  • govsucks, on 04/26/2008, -1/+37If I was on that destroyer I would have to hit that guy with a radar ping just to make him *****. He's all "I'm so ***** cool" then alarms start going off in that ***** that he's getting tracked by a SAM system. AHHH, all in a days fun :) I would love to fly a hornet at supersonic speed...sigh.
    • donsmini92102, on 04/26/2008, -1/+7Hate to bust your bubble but that's a cruiser (USS Mobile Bay, CG-53) home ported in San diego, CA not a destroyer. A destroyer has a much more sloped superstructure, although the hulls are essentially the same. But your right, jet jockeys are a pain in the a$$.
      • donsmini92102, on 04/26/2008, -1/+2Sorry and the shoup (DDG-86) in the background. No matter, when a fighter does that its always means a trip to the Capt's cabin for a "discussion"
    • ludar, on 04/26/2008, -1/+1i'd rather be in an F 35
    • tafkaz, on 04/26/2008, -0/+9oh man! that would've been hilarious! He would have been like "oh *****!", then you and your buddies would have been all "that was awesome!'. And then chest bumps for everyone!
      • govsucks, on 04/26/2008, -4/+2Or we could all sit around being snide little ***** heads on the internet. Nah, I'd rather do something cool.
      • DrywallThief, on 04/26/2008, -1/+3Then a greased up all male volleyball game with winking and ass-slapping afterwards.
  • averagejoesgym, on 04/26/2008, -15/+6Flying aroud FLAMING and covered in WHITE STUFF. Sounds like a Navy boy to me.
  • lazerus9, on 04/26/2008, -8/+2I really enjoy this ship story:http://www.gtr5.com/
  • Complexium, on 04/26/2008, -0/+8Kudos for intact EXIF.
  • pk7677, on 04/26/2008, -2/+1Thats a sexy title.
  • ekattan, on 04/26/2008, -16/+3Photoshoped.
  • mal1964, on 04/26/2008, -2/+2Iceman: Maverick, it's not your flying, it's your attitude. The enemy's dangerous, but right now you're worse than the enemy: you're dangerous and foolish. You may not like the guys flying with you, they may not like you. But whose side are you on?
  • nobhdy, on 04/26/2008, -0/+11As a Navy Submariner, I don't see this kind of thing as often as I'd like. Great shot.
    • ufia, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3They don't let you look through the screen door?
    • lazerus9, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1Your lucky that you were not on the USS Liberty.
  • boshuda, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3God damnit! Thats twice! I Want some butts!
  • b04155, on 04/26/2008, -3/+1Sorry, but that is not a flyby. Those are also Aegis equipped destroyers, very cool in their own right.
    • OriginalLucid1, on 04/26/2008, -1/+2I think the description made it very clear what type of ship is in the photo. And it also appears that the plane is "flying by" said destroyers. How can it not be a flyby? Perhaps you are thinking of the term "buzz the tower"?
  • monsterette, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1....dd-dddaddy...capital D!
  • sitykat, on 04/26/2008, -3/+1If I hadn't seen this on the official site, I would have sworn this was photoshopped. great pic though.
  • glxyjones, on 04/26/2008, -0/+7Hey, DDG-86 the Shoup made Digg!!! I wrote software for that ship! :)
    • Heavypettingzoo, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1were programmming the microwaves and VCRs? seems like a bit of a security risk to tell you which ship and whatnot...just a thought
  • DaFunk, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1I'm no disciplinarian, but something tells me that in this case the pilot might learn from hearing "your ego is writing checks your body can't cash." Just a thought...
  • ThrstForKnwldge, on 04/26/2008, -0/+12DO A BARREL ROLL!
  • shuckl4k, on 04/26/2008, -3/+2buried for syntactically convoluted title
  • Falor42, on 04/26/2008, -2/+2LOL, that was my cruiser:P Asshole pilot, flybys that close sound like f'n missile hits!
  • Marijuana, on 04/26/2008, -7/+3Military glorification.
    • bikingshaun, on 04/26/2008, -2/+4Pothead glorification
      • Marijuana, on 04/26/2008, -1/+1:]
      • wakananda, on 04/29/2008, -1/+1Yes, smoking pot has killed millions and put our country deep in to debt to hostile foreign powers. Whereas mindless submission to war boosting has resulted in lots of giggling, junk food consumption and a little coughing. Wait - did I get that backwards? Dude...
  • miker2049, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1Is nobody going to say anything about the awesome Stones reference?
  • lacreme, on 04/26/2008, -0/+5Pfff, I fly way closer to the carrier in Battlefield 2.
  • fudged71, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1Maverick ?
  • Sulzer, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1Vapor cone FTW!!
  • CHANNELOCK, on 04/27/2008, -0/+0Must be the humidity and the heat of the Indian Ocean producing that Vapor exhaust,Must suck to be in the boiler room of those thin skinned cans.
    • URnotheonly1, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Hell the flight deck is 130. Not a wave insight
    • Aonghais, on 04/27/2008, -0/+0No boilers. Gas turbines.
  • URnotheonly1, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Because we were inverted!
    • Hartley1942, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2We were... communicating.


      You know. Giving him the finger.
  • shyboy, on 04/27/2008, -2/+1I love lamp.
  • jonvictorino, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Horrible title.
  • footfwd, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1RRRRRRRRRide into the danger zoooone
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