the airplane in an emergency mode. dozens of other cameras are also recording the critical test of the navy s newest fighter jet. they are all stuck all over the airplane and then i m there as the insurance policy. if something goes wrong and they lose the airplane, they have my film that can come back and reassemble what happened. little does he know, it s his plane that will run into trouble. when the planes reach 500 feet, the hornet releases the bomb flying at more than 500 miles per hour. we had just gotten into position and it came down a little bit and then turned on its side and took our right wing off. a slow motion camera on the f-18 records the bomb shearing off part of the wing. when it hit us, it was nothing. i felt a little bump. nothing like when you run into a
basically filled with concrete. the miss was to find out how it would separate from the airplane in an emergency mode. dozens of other cameras are also recording the critical test of the navy s newest fighter jet. i m there as the insurance policy. if something goes wrong and they lose the airplane, they have my film that they can come back and reassemble what happened. little does he know it s his plane that will run into trouble. when the planes reach 5,000 feet, the hornet releases the bomb while flying at more than 500 miles per hour. everything was going according to plan. weigh had just froen into position and as the weapon came down it came down a little bit but then it turned and took our right wing off. a slow motion camera on the f-18 records the bomb sheering off part of the plane s wing.
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welcome back to caught on camera. i m contessa brewer. air shows are meant to showcase the abilities of planes and pilots with death-defying stunts and precision maneuvers. but at one show in canada, it was how the pilot exited the aircraft that got the spectators attention. a military fighter jet, the canadian air force s cf-18 hornet, is practicing a low speed, low altitude maneuver called an alpha pass, for the left bridge international air show in alberta. the air show doesn t officially start until the next day, but some eager aviation buffs are on hand to see the action. all eyes are on the plane as it swoops overhead. the spectators are about to get a show they ll never forget. two cameras are recording the well-trained pilot s tricky move. one camera zooms in. the other stays wide as the
families, particularly with the deployments that happen year after year over the past decade. you write this in the magical stranger n an airless state room aboard the uss kitty hawk i find my dead father. somewhere off the vietnamese coast the roar of an f-18 hornet shot from the carrier s number two catapult blasts me awake. pilots learn to sleep through the bash and rattle of launches and recoveries. but i m not a pilot. just a reporter. a tourist by another name. now my father was a pilot. when i was a boy, he chased sky and sea off this very ship. one day, his plane dipped ir per sentbly, a wing tapping the ocean and disintegrated. all that remained was black oil and a white helmet floating on a blue sea. what was it like to see just for a second what your dad s life was aboard the kitty hawk.