Blue Batmobile - NSX Pic/Progress Thread
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Were you singing this during your ride:
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Saw your car on HRE's gallery last week and have been showing it off and impressed ever since. Then tonight p.diddy tipped me off that it was an AZ member's car. Baddest NSX on the planet as far as I'm concerned. Anything done with the interior?
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Guys, sorry I got back to this thread so late...
Savage, I didn't know Ken and Ron A at that time, but here's the story----
I've been a disc jockey on the radio in Kansas City for 35 years. We used to have the largest air show in the United States for a reserve Air Force Base. Each year, the Thunderbirds (Air Force) and the Blue Angels (Navy) used to be the "special guests" at this air show (they would alternate years performing). At each location/city these squads perform in, they take 3 people from the media for a ride (one person from the newspaper, one person from a TV station, one person from a radio station). The year I flew with the Blues, I obviously got the radio ride!
Actually, I got to fly for an hour and a half. The first maneuver was straight vertical, pulling 7.5 G's!
This was, by far, the coolest thing I've ever done (by myself) in my entire life. Four days later, my daughter was born!
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^^^ hahha nice !!! if you still got the hookup i dont mind paying for this experience....
but i can totally see myself telling the pilot to pass me the controls
but i can totally see myself telling the pilot to pass me the controls
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^^^ You can't buy a ride, unfortunately.
The pilot actually let me fly the plane-I really flew an F/A-18 Hornet. Wow, talk about responsiveness! It was better than any automobile drive I could ever do! Even Bat's NSX.
The pilot actually let me fly the plane-I really flew an F/A-18 Hornet. Wow, talk about responsiveness! It was better than any automobile drive I could ever do! Even Bat's NSX.
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Guys, sorry I got back to this thread so late...
Savage, I didn't know Ken and Ron A at that time, but here's the story----
I've been a disc jockey on the radio in Kansas City for 35 years. We used to have the largest air show in the United States for a reserve Air Force Base. Each year, the Thunderbirds (Air Force) and the Blue Angels (Navy) used to be the "special guests" at this air show (they would alternate years performing). At each location/city these squads perform in, they take 3 people from the media for a ride (one person from the newspaper, one person from a TV station, one person from a radio station). The year I flew with the Blues, I obviously got the radio ride!
Actually, I got to fly for an hour and a half. The first maneuver was straight vertical, pulling 7.5 G's!
This was, by far, the coolest thing I've ever done (by myself) in my entire life. Four days later, my daughter was born!
Savage, I didn't know Ken and Ron A at that time, but here's the story----
I've been a disc jockey on the radio in Kansas City for 35 years. We used to have the largest air show in the United States for a reserve Air Force Base. Each year, the Thunderbirds (Air Force) and the Blue Angels (Navy) used to be the "special guests" at this air show (they would alternate years performing). At each location/city these squads perform in, they take 3 people from the media for a ride (one person from the newspaper, one person from a TV station, one person from a radio station). The year I flew with the Blues, I obviously got the radio ride!
Actually, I got to fly for an hour and a half. The first maneuver was straight vertical, pulling 7.5 G's!
This was, by far, the coolest thing I've ever done (by myself) in my entire life. Four days later, my daughter was born!
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That is awesome. Its one of my dreams as a pilot to have the chance to fly one of those things. I've flown the sims for the hornet but it wouldn't come close to the real thing.
Looks like a hell of a time.
Looks like a hell of a time.
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....rhetorical question but does the NSX get a nice growl with the intake as well ???
