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Dale "Snort" Snodgrass Top Gun F14 Pilot - The coolest flyby in Aviation history
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Dale "Snort" Snodgrass Top Gun F14 Pilot - The coolest flyby in Aviation history
DCS Dogfights BFM maxsin72 with F14B vs The 3est with F18
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DCS Dogfights BFM - maxsin72 with F14B vs The 3est with F18 - Virtual Reality view
Brenna 08/12/2021 momento di buona intensità nevicata
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Brenna 08/12/2021 momento di buona intensità nevicata
Dale "Snort" Snodgrass incredible instant turn rate with F14A
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Dale "Snort" Snodgrass incredible instant turn rate with F14A
Top Gun pilot Capt Dale “Snort” Snodgrass story about mock dogfight F14B VS F15
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Top Gun pilot Capt Dale “Snort” Snodgrass story about mock dogfight F14B VS F15
Top Gun pilot Capt Dale “Snort” Snodgrass story about pulling 9 10g to avoid SAM
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Top Gun pilot Capt Dale “Snort” Snodgrass story about pulling 9 10g to avoid SAM missile during a war mission in the Gulf. The F14 was with two fuel tanks and six missile, an important load in terms of weight.
Top Gun pilot Capt Dale “Snort” Snodgrass story about mock dogfight F14 VS brand new F18
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Top Gun pilot Capt Dale “Snort” Snodgrass story about mock dogfight F14 VS brand new F18
Top Gun pilot Capt Dale “Snort” Snodgrass Lectures At The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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Top Gun pilot Capt Dale “Snort” Snodgrass Lectures At The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
breve momento di neve Brenna 05/02/2017
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breve momento di neve Brenna 05/02/2017
Nevone incredibile con fiocconi da 10 cm.avi
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Nevone incredibile con fiocconi da 10 cm.avi
He was not just a pilot . He was is and will be THE PILOT . Rip Dale Snodgrass 😢
How could Snort forget to take the control lock off his elevators!!! Terrible Way to die !!!!
An American legend
I bet his RIOs were sore after flying with him.😅
I found it… Him
"..Slightly below flight deck level." (OMFG.)
Crazy/Beautiful…
So, this guy wasted $30,000 in fuel (my tax dollars) to win a bar bet?!
When Snort was with Draken International I sent him some photos and stuff to sign on a whim - for me and my uncle who was a captain for UPS on the Airbus A-300 at the time. I got a package in the mail with the stuff and a really nice note to me and my uncle. He was not only a legend, but a gentleman.
Lesson Number 1. The hardest thing about flying is the ground.
He fucked up
"She can dance pretty well for a fat girl"
Dale was the only true maverick RIP old friend
That's a proper fly by
Swear to God he pulled 10 G's on those turns...Maybe more...😳
LEGEND R.I.P "SNORT"
RIP SHIPMATE YOU ARE AMAZING!
Two very different planes designed for 2 different roles. Plus all these "simulated" air engagements prohibited using the Phoenix missile which had a claimed range of 126 miles
ThE f14 cAn'T tUrN
I knew him...pretty awesome pilot...superior flying skills RIP "Snort" "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned Skyward, for there you have been and there you will long to return" now your up there for good Snort, enjoy your rest + reward/you earned it
RIP Snort🫡
We need a NEW, updated F-14 ........
So come dude. The f15 was a way better air to air fighter. Sorry, it’s a bit of bravado to say that the f14 was a superior a/a fighter. I love the f14 but the eagle was smoking tomcats 1 v 1.
ten at a time for a dime. ten at a time for a dime.
wonder if they used some of this in top gun maverick??
'coolest flyby', not exactly, the coolest was an RAF tornado that flew by USS Ranger knife edge, wings swept BELOW the flight deck during the gulf war. insane! this is actually pretty sedate..
I wonder if he was the pilot who's secret call sign was The Assassin as mentioned in the commentary of Top Gun...?
Man oh man , the Tomcat sure is one hell of beauty and the beast, absolute legend , i'm missing it greatly , and the pilots and rios that flew in them are one lucky folks, with the help of excellent ground crews and chiefs
Rest In Peace 🙏
Understand that the F-14 is an interceptor, and was designed as such. To be a fighter, it had to be carefully configured (As Dale calls it an 'prohibited' configuration) and it has to be on bingo or emergency gas to turn. To beat the F-15 the F-14 has to stack the deck with slick/unsafe config, low fuel, no missiles, no bullets, and under 20K feet. You're not going to find an F-15 under 20K feet unless it's half of an Eagle wall swooping down to mop up. The #3 and #4 guys are going to stay in the cons for SA, and also because altitude = range and turning advantage. Nothing beats an Eagle wall in combat config, live missiles and guns, period, nothing ever has even once. Closest was a Mig-25 who managed to hit an Eagle in Iraq with a missile, but the pilot RTB'd and landed safely.
I don't know if you all know or not but Snort crashed is personal airplane about a month ago and was killed.
RIP Capt Snort and RIP USS America.
Great story. Priceless. Wish this could be reenacted in DCS. Lol
Normalization of deviation killed snort. Forgot to take the control lock off. Damn dude it was some audio you don't forget. Shit got real for him as he yells no,no oh god no and then nosedive into the ground. The birds prefer to doe when there flying
Snort was the eddie van halen of pilots 🇺🇸 I don't think I could give any higher compliment 🙏
I've now seen the Tomcat, F-15, 18, 16, and 22. In terms of sheer awesomeness F-14 Tomcat is still the best.
What a pilot! Glad he was on our side! Sad ending, just sad.
WHILE SERVING IN VF-32 I KNEW OF A LT. SNODGRASS COINCEDENCE? I WONDER IF THE SAME AVIATOR 1981- 1985
It's possible. He graduated flight school in 1974, and was the first new pilot to be assigned to the Tomcat. The promotion scale looks like this currently: Ensign must spend at least 2 years at that rank before eligible to promote to LTJG. Then, the JG must spend 2 years at that rank before eligible to promote to LT. Next, the LT must spend at least 3 years at that rank--but also, the LT needs to have 9-11 years of total military service--before promotion to LCDR. Hang on, just checked. He never served in VF-32. In 1981 he transferred to VF-101. From 81 to 83 he was with CAG-8 and was an LSO. In summer of 83 he went to VF-43 as the ops officer, and at the end of 85 he went back to VF-101. You guys were with CAG-1 and CAG-6 while he was part of CAG-8. Thanks for serving, shipmate.
Any time baby!!........ My dad worked for Grumman aerospace on the f-14 tomcat and he gave me a sticker....busting the F-15 Pilots balls.......lol.... Anytime for a dogfight bitches!! The F-14 will be there.... I think they eventually had a dog fight and the f-14 came out on top..
Snort actually did well against F-15s, he said. In fact, his fini flight was a dogfight against the F-15, and they ended up something like 500 feet off the deck when it was all over. He landed that Tomcat with broken parts...he said it was a good fini flight, lol. Here is the discussion: th-cam.com/video/aX265Ce4Ssg/w-d-xo.html But Snort was a genius--he had a habit of configuring his aircraft, sometimes in "prohibited" configurations, to give him every possible advantage. One example is when the F/A-18s first came to the fleet. He flew a 1V1 against a Marine pilot in the new Hornet. Before the engagement, he took off, under the guise of a check flight, and burned off much of his fuel to make his Tomcat more maneuverable at the lighter weight. Then he flew the 1V1....and when it was over, the Marine pilot wanted to go again. Snort said he couldnt because he was bingo fuel, lol.
Dont know for sure , but story is that both f14a and f15a went toe to toe and Tomcat won , making the air force angry asking the congress for immidiate upgrades, thus f15's went to C upgrades shortly in service , taking the money from Tomcat upgrades thus the B version took too long and having the rest of the f14s fleet mostly on A+
@@AnytimeBaby78 No, this is not how things went. The Eagle and Tomcat programs were independent of each other money wise, there is no "taking money from the Tomcat upgrades" as each branch of the service has its own independent budget from the other branches. The Air Force is not "Taking money" from the Navy in that regard. Also, the two aircraft went head to head in various exercises, mostly individual flights and not large coordinated exercises. Dale Snodgrass, the pilot mentioned above, actually lectured at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum once, and he did discuss his own experiences against the Eagle. Keep in mind, the two aircraft were designed for two different roles, the Eagle being strictly an air superiority fighter and the Tomcat designed from the outset as a fleet defense interceptor with an additional ground attack ability, and also recon missions with the TARPS pod from the late 70s. Snort's experiences prove that more often than not the pilot is the deciding factor, not the plane. The F-15C upgrades were primarily around additional fuel. The plane was redesigned to carry an additional 2,000 lbs internal fuel, plus the conformal fuel tanks and could now carry three drop tanks if needed. Other upgrades for the -C was an over-load warning system, stronger landing gear, and a new processor for the radar, as well as a new central computer. The total allowed max weight was increased due to the ability to carry more fuel. The -C was not upgraded in an effort to defeat the Tomcat, as the Tomcat was never its intended adversary.
@@AnytimeBaby78 This is false, at least the money part is. Each branch of the military gets its own budgeting. So no, the AF didnt take Navy money to upgrade the F-15. Simply not the case. Also, as far as the F-14B goes, the -A+ was renamed F-14B in 1991. That means the F-14A+ WAS the F-14B. Seriously. The upgrade commenced in 1987, and the name change was 4 years later. There was an earlier attempt at an "F-14B", in 1973. The one change from the F-14A was the installation of GE F401 engines in place of the original Pratt & Whitney TF-30s. There was one such aircraft, BuNo 157986. It was tested, and while somewhat better, the results were still not satisfactory and the program was canceled. The plane was put into storage at Bethpage. This same aircraft was then taken out of storage in 1981 and F101 DFE engines were installed. A second aircraft, BuNo 158630, was ordered, but the Navy canceled this program again before the second plane was completed, so it was changed back on the production line to F-14A standard. This same prototype, stored again at Bethpage, was ordered to be revived in 1984, and F110 engines installed. This would become the F-14A+, which again was renamed the B. For comparison, the first F-15C rolled off the production line in 1979. You can clearly see the timing does not match up to your claim at all. The Navy had no attempts to upgrade the Tomcats at the time of the F-15C development. Hence, there was no upgrade program to take money from. As for a head to head fly-off, the Eagle simply was the higher performing airplane--ESPECIALLY against the F-14A with the troublesome TF-30 engines. The Tomcat would gain ground as far as thrust with the F-14B, but the A model was the worst performing Tomcat, generally speaking.
Yep and he was legend in life and will be eternally.. in snorts poem works..."Fly Good, Don't Suck"
My 2 Cents though I just saw this vid 2 years later - First take any F-15 and do both a take off n landing on a carrier and watch it fly apart - so there are substantial weight differences - 2nd Grumman offered the USAF an Air Force version of the 15 buttt they wanted their own plane - next though never developed cuz Dick Cheney Hated Grumman and I have yet to see a vid on that I recommend u watch the Tomcat 21 vid though never developed it would of trounced anything put up against it - how do I know u ask - my father (deceased about 3 years now) was an airframe engineer 4 Grumman who worked on the Tomcat A,B, D 21 - the A-6E & prototype F along with the E2-C - wish Grumman was still here as they made the best of the best - no not Northrop Grumman
Terrible loss of a real legend figther pilot. Its frustrating that an engaged control surface lock caused his passing much too soon! RIP Snort
Great plane, great pilot! Should have been upgraded, not scrapped!
Surreal badassery right there!!!!!! RIP Shipmate Sir! 🍻
One of the best!
I served under Snort in VF-33. I was an Aviation Electrician. He was brutal on the aircraft. One time in Key West he brought the plane back with missing panels and a lot of calfax screws missing and loose. Pulling 10g turns. Later in his career at flight shows other pilots wouldn’t want to give up their planes to him cause he stressed them out. He was hardcore for sure.
To bad that F-14A didnt start with the GE F110 or equvalent for that time but got stuck with the F-111B leftower TF30 for too long
This aircraft is just 1 second behind the raptor's radius turn. This is unbelievable, i don't know who spread rumors that its not dogfighters it can't turn, but this thing is real! Its even faster than eagle c turn.
I was there. I was an Aviation Electrician in VF-33. I remember being on the flight deck at the time. I was our shops troubleshooter. Believe it or not this was not the craziest thing he’d done. Once in Key West the squadron was doing flight ops and maneuvers against other aircraft. Snort brought his F-14 back with a couple panels missing and calfax’s that held panels down were missing or loose. After viewing video he was in a tight extremely high G turn shooting the other aircraft. He stressed the plane to its limits. 😂😂. Needless to say that f-14 was down for some time. He always said “give me guns” RIP Snort honor to serve
Thanks for sharing. He has admitted several times that he used to pull 9 - 10 G all the time in Tomcat essentially because his father was a test pilot at Grumman who told him Grumman over-engineered airframe to withstand 13 G. He is on video of 1x2 against two F-5E Tigers and he gunned both of them down.
Was there also as VF-33 IWT troubleshooter. I can remember a boat det where we pulled into Mayport to catch the C-9 back to Oceana. Snort was pissed, as XO, was assigned to fly the C-9 back with us troops. Said he hated flying in anything that he was not flying! As some of us were waiting with him he told us he directed a crew back at Oceana to fly down to Mayport so he can fly the jet back and that he would be in afterburner most of the way back. We could hear the afterburners roar as we walked down the gangplank! Lol!
@keithbrightwellaerialprod wow! Cool story thanks for sharing. The man was meant to fly , there's no other way to put it. RIP Mr Snodgrass... 🇺🇸LEGEND
Didn't look like he was pulling that Many G's
@@Mthammere2010 In the knife edge pass, no he was not. It was only executed at 300 knots so he was doing no more than 7G. However, in a lot of airshows and BFMs, he was famous for pulling 9 - 10 G all the time in the Tomcat. There is an airshow video where he literally swaps ends of an F-14A Tomcat in full afterburner just 50 feet over the runway.
Great stories from a true warrior RIP Dale.