Originally Posted by
treadigraph
B-1 at RIAT-related display at Boscombe 1990? (CAF Liberator was there) disappeared off to the west to wind up the elastic, caned down the display line at just this side of Mach 1 the went pretty much vertical, describing several rolls on the way up before punching a hole through some altostratus, how high? no idea, at leat 10000'... Great stuff! Also recall the Spanish F-18 pulling very hard out of some manoeuvre and appearing to stall at somewhere between 500' and 1000', lowering the nose and carrying on. The benefit of having a sensible base height, which I think was higher than RIAT's minimum 100'?
Was that the same year the B1 dropped a little boomlet as it pulled up from its high speed run? It came back a few minutes later, a lot slower, and if an aeroplane could ever look sheepish...