1:06 You can see the overflowing passion for the big cat in his eyes! His eyes lit up like fireworks! For a moment there, he was still that young man once again gazing upon his first true love. In aviation there is a powerful enthusiasm that you cannot find anywhere else, and this was one instance of it being caught on camera. Both those who fly and those whom make flying possible are a family. What an absolute powerhouse of a man. Thank you for all you have done for aviation. May you fly higher than you ever thought possible. Rest peacefully.
R.I.P. Capt. 'Snort' Snodgrass. It was an honor to watch you fly. My 2 oldest children were on that dependents cruise in 1989. I was the flight deck acting Crash and Salvage Officer during the first 5 months of 1989.
I had the privilege of meeting DSS back in 2011 when I shot a demo video of the Black Diamond Jet Team, although he was flying a Mig, the man was magic!
I took some nice formation pics of the Black Diamond Team at ToB in AC NJ. Later that year Snort was speaking at the Smithsonian A&S, after the talk he was autographing "Anytime Baby" and I showed him the photos, which included him in the MiG scorching it ~20 ft off the beach. He said "Wow - I haven't seen these - they're great pics - who took them?" I told him did - he called the entire BD team over, including Jerrod "Rook" Issacson to autograph the pics. They are now a prized possession and I'm looking at them on my office wall as I write this. RIP to a legend and a true aviator.
He was CO of VF-33 at the time so not on my ship, but have a very similar story during flight ops in rough seas off Norway. I was stuck riding brakes in one of our birds by the fan tail at night when word came out for all hands to clear the deck due to sudden 120knt winds. I ended up stuck all alone for about 20mins unable to exit riding out hurricane force winds separated from certain death only by 20 odd tie-down chains creaking and strained to the limit. Loneliest 20mins of my life.
I was there for his last -14 show at DAB. Was doing a two-ship with my boss LL there, -51, and Spit. Had a camera mounted in the back hole of a T-IX. Rick Grissom wanted a media photo flight with several airplanes, I got a photo of Snortley and Gumbo in trail on the TigerCat from the right wing. Something I treasure,,, Snort's laugh at the end of the Hornet story about made me cry. I miss that guy. I was out there on the show circuit that summer he spoke of, and he did Always have a smile on his face.
Great video. I unfortunately seen his last take off in his Siai Marchetti. I also know who was working the tower that crappy day and hearing Dale scream "Shit shit shit was haunting for my son and I. We actually have stood in the exact spot his plane hit the dirt. What an erie feeling. Rip Mr. Snodgrass.
That was AWESOME!! Thank you thank you thank you for releasing it! I had asked Ward “Mooch” Carroll to contact you to see if it could be released so Mooch thank you too for doing so if this was you but regardless what a legend! RIP Snort and thank you for your service!
@@tommynikon2283 interesting comment. We all know the story, though most do not feel the need to make it front and center. Even the very experienced can miss something when interrupted during preflight.
You won me over with dropping bombs off the F14, which didn't sit well with me before. What an amazing story I did not know, nor the superior capability the Tomcat had in this realm that was never expressed or explained before. When I was a kid, my dad worked for CDC and they worked on the computer systems for the F14. He told me it was a fighter/bomber he was working on. When technology caught up, it finally became true. For a brief moment before she retired, "Snort" was there to make it happen. An innovative aviator whose name will be one of the greats in aviation along with all the others we know outside of naval aviation.
Great stories from a great man! It’s a really cool feeling to literally be here at General Electric right now, working on a diffuser for an F129 engine, and hearing his appreciation of our engines in the B and D models, which I agree, made the Tomcat an absolute beast! RIP to a great man and Naval aviator, and I’ll be looking forward to your next video!
@@jimiraybeckton We lived through the great engine wars of the 1980s at Edwards AFB when the community was having a lot of problems with the TF30 and F100. GE stepped in with F101 derivatives off the B-1, and made the F110. F-16C Block 30 got it first in production, as did F-14A+(B) and later the D. Pratt made the F100-PW-229 to address the requirements. Since those days, we've had amazing engine performance in the US fighter fleets. One of good friends and neighbors worked on DEEC for the F100 in the 1980s. Great times.
@@jimiraybeckton There's added airframe and systems weight that countered some of the thrust increase, but more thrust and FADEC really helped things for both performance and engine longevity, and longer time between overhaul schedules. If you look at the empty weight of the Block 1, 5, 10, and 15 F-16A models, they were rocket ships even with the F100-PW-200/220. About a 16,285lb airframe weight empty. The first Block 30s didn't have the large inlet, so they couldn't facilitate the mass airflow demands of the F110, hence the move to the big mouth on most 30s afterwards, and on Block 40 and 50. With Block 40, they really beefed up the airframe to support a heavier stores load with the LANTIRN Pods and A2G stores, as well as the gear, wheels, and brakes. Block 40 C model weighs 18,238lbs empty. If you put an F110 or PW-229 in an A model, it would be like Apollo going into the vertical. It would be fun to have a CF airframe and skinned Viper with even lower airframe weight than an A model.
I was in VF-103 we we got the flir pods and GPS. I believe aircraft 214 had the famous Flir-Cat nose art.
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Awesome to watch the Alert 5 launch and then escort the “Bear” away from us. USS Coral Sea, WestPac 79-80. I was a Marine apart of the MarDet and always impressed by these pilots and the rumors told about what happens if the bomb doors open on the Bear. Never found out what the true policy was. Thank you Captain for your service. Semper Fidelis.
I was fortunate enough to get to see him fly the aerobatic routine with the Tigercat at the Dayton Airshow. Still have VHS video somewhere that I shot that day. What an amazing performance by both pilots!
In the early '80s, USS Enterprise was finally at sea after her lengthy (!) Bremerton overhaul. Skipper CAPT RJ "Barney" Kelly got on the horn to announce a "radar calibration run" which an incoming F-14 was to perform. Off-duty watchstanders like myself raced topside to witness the spectacle! What looked at first like a black smudge on the horizon rapidly turned into a Tomcat! The pilot raced up our starboard side at low altitude, just above flight deck level. Once alongside, the guy does a quick 90-degree right roll and circles out over the ocean, still at low level. When that circle returns to the Big E he pulls the nose up, goes vertical, and lights the burners before disappearing into the marine layer. It was QUITE the show! I don't know who that pilot was but he dropped the jaws of everyone who saw it!
A testament to the F-8. Snort wanted to fly F-8s if he couldn't fly F-14s. The way he talks about the F-8 and it's Pilots shows how much admiration he has.
I'm just going to ask this simple question: The F14 crew is comprised of (1) pilot and (1) RIO. Why does Capt Snodgrass ever comment on his RIO. I've NEVER seen him say who he enjoyed flying with.......EVER.
Frankly he probably flew with so many that they all blur together. Iirc from what I've heard pilots and Rios were interchangeable, you had ones that you worked better with but it was who ever was on the flight schedule that day.
The shameful thing is, someone else, years ago came up with the Bombcat idea but it took a guy with nearly 5000 flight hours to convince the 4 stars that this is the way to go.
They had hundreds upon hundreds of A-7Es and A-6Es in the fleet when the F-14A arrived, with F/A-18s not far behind it built by the hundreds and able to sortie-generate better than any of them, so I can understand when they were allocating funds that there just wasn’t the money to turn the F-14 into a multi-role platform, even though its structures and aerodynamics were ideal for it. Maintenance alone for the F-14 fleet was pretty unforgiving on the budget, always a big thorn in the side even at the Pentagon level. But yes, there are old photos during the developmental days with it carrying 14x Mk.82s, 2x AIM-7Es, 2x AIM-9Bs, 2x EFTs.
What we learned is , that you must check that the controls are free , not locked prior to taxi : CIGAR : C for controls : first item on the Check abbreviation.🛩️🇺🇲
It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be. -Ernest Hemmingway
And his trajic end was that he took off with the controll locks in place on an Italian STOL airplane . a SIAI Marchetti. It stalled on the airport, realized he could do nothing about it .🇺🇲🗽
Don't know how long ago this interview happened, but it's obvious he's keenly aware of not exhibiting that his hands and fingers are shaking (onset of Parkinson's). He tries to keep still long enough for it to not be obvious. Alot of people who know they have it adopt (or are developing) a coping mechanism of constant motion during conversation that makes them appear as being "animated", when, really, they can't contain their constant motioning. Also, I wonder how many of us could have been award-winning pilots if our dads had also been engineers at Grumman. Fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, and you don't get fruit from weeds. My parents were weeds, as were theirs, as were theirs, etc. NO matter how much you try to cultivate a weed, it just never grows fruit. I would have LOVED to have the opportunity this guy had. I gnawed, bit, and clawed my way in life just to have enough to pay for a Private PIlot certificate. Been made to feel guilty about spending the money on that, instead of spending it on ungrateful (now adult) kids who complain that I spent the money on myself instead of paying to pave the way for THEIR dreams. Good parenting involves teaching your kids how to be successful on their own and setting up the path for them to do it (I tried turning the trend in my family history). Didn't work very well (apparently). Snort obviously had both. I sit and dream about what could have been. Also, my joining the USAF at 17 with no degree or family providence wouldn't have worked to get my foot in the door. to start where Snort had already arrived out of the gate. Excuses Excuses, I know.
Would you describe your piloting as being a pilot or an aviator? I’m wondering if you’ve been able to sprout a bud in that direction. Interesting take on things. I would have disagreed with you when I was younger, but I think there definitely is something to genetic predispositions and talent. I suck at swimming, for example, though I am SCUBA trained and spent my whole childhood and youth swimming regularly. Things that my grandparents, great grandparents, great-great, etc. are good at, I am gifted in. I still put in decades of work, but I see faster results.
To Speed n Angels: I cannot say I am the face of Grumman as Grumman was a family company with thousands of faces and pilots like Dale n many others were the Reason Grumman was so well Respected - my father (may he rip) started in Grumman in 65 as an accountant and wouldn’t u know was an airframe engineer in 69 working on the Tomcat airframe as he 2 was a USAF pilot who grew up building models. Here is a suggestion to your company and to all to think they know Grumman History: I’m so Tired and I hope other Grumman families are 2 - of seeing inaccurate movies or vids on Grummans history - the Tomcat - the moon - or now the Northrop Grumman Tomcat as some call it - What Took Neil Armstrong to the moon & who built it spending a lot of hours to get u there in the first place - 2nd my father would curse u out if he we’re still with us as a Team of engineers made that cat possible under the Name Grumman! 3rd I have yet to see a Movie made on the life of Leroy Grumman who made it all possible and what Grumman did for this country as I now see movies about what contributions of people of color have done for WW2. Finally, if u made it this far - Grummans reward for building fantastic aircraft and again no one yet has Gotten this one right!! Dick Cheney (Yes VP) Dick Cheney personally took Grumman out as he hated Grumman and he actually covered that up so U the public would believe Grumman built shitty, inferior aircraft, that cost to much - took too much time to work on and were Obsolete as we see a new Costly version of the F-15 Eagle take to the skies - Who r U kidding as you make these BS vids - I’d personally like to see someone from NY build a new Grumman from the ashes instead of hearing Grumman screwed up the Water again - some Generations of families had good paying jobs and all loved working there - Signed the proud son of a Grumman Airframe Engineer who watched his father turn into an alcoholic because he couldn’t support his family as all 32k were fired at the same time so Dick Cheney where is that movie about you Scum Bag??!!
I helped build Bird Number One as an instrumentation engineer on the original F-14. I didn't realize at the time that it was a special assignment But apparently, my history with the University of California provided management with some scientific chops, in addition to the unique instrumentation that this particular bird entailed. My professor and physics lab partner became the founders of Qualcomm. The thing that amazed me, was the experienced assembler technicians getting down on the ground and taking sledgehammers to shape various titanium flanges and components into a configuration that would fit. Later units would get more refined specifications, but this first bird was hand-built. 🛫 .
@@R760-E2the AOPA said the very same thing: “A flight control check would have saved Dale Snodgrass’ life. So in Dale’s memory: Fuel, fire, flight controls. Those three things are the things that can really hurt pilots on takeoff. … In honor of Dale Snort Snodgrass, let’s all of us, fuel, fire, flight controls before every takeoff. Here’s a nickel on the grass for an iconic figure and somebody we’ll dearly miss.”
1969 i was making night landing blacked out to lz's that had red and green tracers zipping through the jungle pulling wounded ..1000 hours flight time 9 month's i was 19.the huey is not fast or sexy.rip my fellow aviator.
Do you know how to tell if you are looking at a pilot who might some day do something really stupid and get himself killed, something like taking off with the gust lock engaged? Look for the airplane keys in his pocket. No matter how good you are, no matter how much experience you have, no matter how smart you are, you will never be immune from doing something stupid. I mean no disrespect here. I never knew this man, but it's clear one thing he was not was stupid. My entire point is, you don't have to be stupid to do something stupid. In fact, being smart, can increase the chance of doing something stupid. If you ever think, "I'm to smart to do that." you need to rethink just how smart you actually are.
@@shawnomack45 You might have seen some of it but not all of it. This is the entire filmed interview we shot for Tomcat Tales and there are parts that no one has ever seen except for the Director and film crew.
Hilarious to have "Fly good don't suck" on his tombstone when in the end he himself didn't fly good and objectively sucked. Maybe his motto should have been "(Pre)-Flight good and Don't Suck (at a basic controls check"
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R.I.P. Captain Dale 'Snort' Snodgrass
Probably one of the best interviews I’ve seen. SNORT telling it like it is in his own words. Absolute legend 🫡🇺🇸
One of the legends of Naval aviation and synonymous with the Tomcat.
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You can see the overflowing passion for the big cat in his eyes! His eyes lit up like fireworks! For a moment there, he was still that young man once again gazing upon his first true love. In aviation there is a powerful enthusiasm that you cannot find anywhere else, and this was one instance of it being caught on camera. Both those who fly and those whom make flying possible are a family. What an absolute powerhouse of a man. Thank you for all you have done for aviation. May you fly higher than you ever thought possible. Rest peacefully.
Thank you for putting this tribute together.
Thank You For Your Service, Dale Snodgrass. RIP, Sir.
R.I.P. Capt. 'Snort' Snodgrass. It was an honor to watch you fly. My 2 oldest children were on that dependents cruise in 1989. I was the flight deck acting Crash and Salvage Officer during the first 5 months of 1989.
R.I.P. CAPTAIN DALE "SNORT" SNODGRASS. Awesome stories. This is THE guy. This is the man one could listen to for hours.
Love everything about this! Proverbial kid in the candy store - the kid in him and his love of the Tomcat are clearly visible.
Punch line at the end. Thank you for putting this out to us. Much appreciated. Rest in peace Snort....job well done.
Thank you for this. RIP “Snort”
Captain Snodgrass is up there flying with Hoser and Fox Ferrell burning up the sky in their F-14Ds painted in playboy bunny livery.
No kill like a guns kill...RIP...or really Fly Fight Win
@ml1754 You may be Cool; but you'll never be Hoser level Cool of getting 2 gun kills on F-15s in a single day!
@@georgesykes394 Nobody's that cool..
I had the privilege of meeting DSS back in 2011 when I shot a demo video of the Black Diamond Jet Team, although he was flying a Mig, the man was magic!
I took some nice formation pics of the Black Diamond Team at ToB in AC NJ. Later that year Snort was speaking at the Smithsonian A&S, after the talk he was autographing "Anytime Baby" and I showed him the photos, which included him in the MiG scorching it ~20 ft off the beach. He said "Wow - I haven't seen these - they're great pics - who took them?" I told him did - he called the entire BD team over, including Jerrod "Rook" Issacson to autograph the pics. They are now a prized possession and I'm looking at them on my office wall as I write this.
RIP to a legend and a true aviator.
He was CO of VF-33 at the time so not on my ship, but have a very similar story during flight ops in rough seas off Norway. I was stuck riding brakes in one of our birds by the fan tail at night when word came out for all hands to clear the deck due to sudden 120knt winds. I ended up stuck all alone for about 20mins unable to exit riding out hurricane force winds separated from certain death only by 20 odd tie-down chains creaking and strained to the limit. Loneliest 20mins of my life.
Snort was a friend of my dad, a fellow Fighter Pilot. Class act all the way. R.I.P.
I was there for his last -14 show at DAB. Was doing a two-ship with my boss LL there, -51, and Spit. Had a camera mounted in the back
hole of a T-IX. Rick Grissom wanted a media photo flight with several airplanes, I got a photo of Snortley and Gumbo in trail on the TigerCat
from the right wing. Something I treasure,,,
Snort's laugh at the end of the Hornet story about made me cry. I miss that guy.
I was out there on the show circuit that summer he spoke of, and he did Always have a smile on his face.
Great! Can you get pics posted online or direct me to where I can see your works.
Great video. I unfortunately seen his last take off in his Siai Marchetti. I also know who was working the tower that crappy day and hearing Dale scream "Shit shit shit was haunting for my son and I. We actually have stood in the exact spot his plane hit the dirt. What an erie feeling. Rip Mr. Snodgrass.
That was AWESOME!! Thank you thank you thank you for releasing it! I had asked Ward “Mooch” Carroll to contact you to see if it could be released so Mooch thank you too for doing so if this was you but regardless what a legend! RIP Snort and thank you for your service!
Fellow Grummanite and Long Island kid. Lived the dream! RIP Snort. Miss ya. Aviation changes when humans like you leave us.
And some aviation things don’t change- like preflight and removing a lock.
@@tommynikon2283 interesting comment. We all know the story, though most do not feel the need to make it front and center.
Even the very experienced can miss something when interrupted during preflight.
Or having decency, apparently.
WHAT A LEGEND!!!!! R.I.P. SNORT.😪
The Ferrari story is GOLD! Rest in peace SNORT. Legends never die......
Wow, just wow. I was a young snot nosed enlisted guy on the boat. These guys were legends, especially Snort. Bravo Zulu, Sir.
Thank you for uploading this 👍🏼
You won me over with dropping bombs off the F14, which didn't sit well with me before. What an amazing story I did not know, nor the superior capability the Tomcat had in this realm that was never expressed or explained before. When I was a kid, my dad worked for CDC and they worked on the computer systems for the F14. He told me it was a fighter/bomber he was working on. When technology caught up, it finally became true. For a brief moment before she retired, "Snort" was there to make it happen. An innovative aviator whose name will be one of the greats in aviation along with all the others we know outside of naval aviation.
Great stories from a great man! It’s a really cool feeling to literally be here at General Electric right now, working on a diffuser for an F129 engine, and hearing his appreciation of our engines in the B and D models, which I agree, made the Tomcat an absolute beast! RIP to a great man and Naval aviator, and I’ll be looking forward to your next video!
Do you mean F110-GE-129?
@@LRRPFco52 that’s the one!
@@jimiraybeckton We lived through the great engine wars of the 1980s at Edwards AFB when the community was having a lot of problems with the TF30 and F100. GE stepped in with F101 derivatives off the B-1, and made the F110. F-16C Block 30 got it first in production, as did F-14A+(B) and later the D.
Pratt made the F100-PW-229 to address the requirements. Since those days, we've had amazing engine performance in the US fighter fleets.
One of good friends and neighbors worked on DEEC for the F100 in the 1980s. Great times.
@@LRRPFco52 ya I’ve talked to several Viper drivers that absolutely rave about those big mouth Vipers. I bet it’s a lot of fun to wrestle that beast!
@@jimiraybeckton There's added airframe and systems weight that countered some of the thrust increase, but more thrust and FADEC really helped things for both performance and engine longevity, and longer time between overhaul schedules.
If you look at the empty weight of the Block 1, 5, 10, and 15 F-16A models, they were rocket ships even with the F100-PW-200/220. About a 16,285lb airframe weight empty.
The first Block 30s didn't have the large inlet, so they couldn't facilitate the mass airflow demands of the F110, hence the move to the big mouth on most 30s afterwards, and on Block 40 and 50.
With Block 40, they really beefed up the airframe to support a heavier stores load with the LANTIRN Pods and A2G stores, as well as the gear, wheels, and brakes. Block 40 C model weighs 18,238lbs empty.
If you put an F110 or PW-229 in an A model, it would be like Apollo going into the vertical. It would be fun to have a CF airframe and skinned Viper with even lower airframe weight than an A model.
I was in VF-103 we we got the flir pods and GPS. I believe aircraft 214 had the famous Flir-Cat nose art.
Awesome to watch the Alert 5 launch and then escort the “Bear” away from us. USS Coral Sea, WestPac 79-80. I was a Marine apart of the MarDet and always impressed by these pilots and the rumors told about what happens if the bomb doors open on the Bear. Never found out what the true policy was. Thank you Captain for your service. Semper Fidelis.
I was fortunate enough to get to see him fly the aerobatic routine with the Tigercat at the Dayton Airshow. Still have VHS video somewhere that I shot that day. What an amazing performance by both pilots!
That Ferrari story is great 😂
In the early '80s, USS Enterprise was finally at sea after her lengthy (!) Bremerton overhaul. Skipper CAPT RJ "Barney" Kelly got on the horn to announce a "radar calibration run" which an incoming F-14 was to perform. Off-duty watchstanders like myself raced topside to witness the spectacle!
What looked at first like a black smudge on the horizon rapidly turned into a Tomcat! The pilot raced up our starboard side at low altitude, just above flight deck level. Once alongside, the guy does a quick 90-degree right roll and circles out over the ocean, still at low level. When that circle returns to the Big E he pulls the nose up, goes vertical, and lights the burners before disappearing into the marine layer. It was QUITE the show!
I don't know who that pilot was but he dropped the jaws of everyone who saw it!
A testament to the F-8. Snort wanted to fly F-8s if he couldn't fly F-14s. The way he talks about the F-8 and it's Pilots shows how much admiration he has.
I'm just going to ask this simple question: The F14 crew is comprised of (1) pilot and (1) RIO. Why does Capt Snodgrass ever comment on his RIO. I've NEVER seen him say who he enjoyed flying with.......EVER.
Frankly he probably flew with so many that they all blur together. Iirc from what I've heard pilots and Rios were interchangeable, you had ones that you worked better with but it was who ever was on the flight schedule that day.
A remarkable Officer and a gentleman!
What a life he lead ! Wow !
Wow . God Speed "Snort"
The shameful thing is, someone else, years ago came up with the Bombcat idea but it took a guy with nearly 5000 flight hours to convince the 4 stars that this is the way to go.
They had hundreds upon hundreds of A-7Es and A-6Es in the fleet when the F-14A arrived, with F/A-18s not far behind it built by the hundreds and able to sortie-generate better than any of them, so I can understand when they were allocating funds that there just wasn’t the money to turn the F-14 into a multi-role platform, even though its structures and aerodynamics were ideal for it. Maintenance alone for the F-14 fleet was pretty unforgiving on the budget, always a big thorn in the side even at the Pentagon level. But yes, there are old photos during the developmental days with it carrying 14x Mk.82s, 2x AIM-7Es, 2x AIM-9Bs, 2x EFTs.
I was fortunate enough to see "Snort" fly a bunch of F-14 demos. R.I.P Brother. Take care. Hawk out!!
Should have never gotten rid of the Tomcat. RIP Captain Snodgrass.
"snort" Snodgrass the absolute F-14 legend sooooooooo when we makin a movie about his life eh?
The real maverick ❤ R.I.P ❤
"It cost me a marriage, but thats another story." 😁😁😂🤣😅😀
Watched him practice airshow so many times.
Thank you so much for this!!!!!
Excellent interview! Great aviator for sure!
Captain Snodgrass was, and always will be one of our BEST FIGHTER PILOTS EVER! R.I.P. FLY ON CAP! WHOOOOSH!!!!!!! ----------->
Wow. What a career. Respect.
What an exciting life..
Truly fearless air warrior.. they don't makem like that anymore..
Grumman saved their best jet for last F-14D there will never be another like it.
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die
“We’re not going to do that….”🤣🤣🤣
We miss you Snort. True American hero!!!
Great Interview by an American HERO!!
SNORT is an American hero. Putting LANTIRN on the TOMCAT was such an amazing and correct decision.
It takes high “T”, to be this good!
A true American legend
With angels.
Thank you to the family.
Life is cruel to take Snort the way he went. I'm sure if he made it out of that mishap, he'd be the first to remind people that complacency kills.
Idiotic design(ers) kill too.
What we learned is , that you must check that the
controls are free , not locked prior to taxi :
CIGAR : C for controls : first item on the Check abbreviation.🛩️🇺🇲
As Chuck Yeager said "a Piper Cub will just barley kill you."
18:00 40 second Boyd lives again ! "Snort" was the real deal !
You can tell this guy was one hell of a man and gentleman at the same time, truly a loss!! 👍🏾💪🏾
That horrific experience with the airplane nearly sliding off the deck was certainly not the airplanes fault. Just conditions. =PC=
It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.
-Ernest Hemmingway
Saw the Tomcat quite a few times back in the day in Cleveland. I believe Snort might have been the pilot.
And his trajic end was that he took off with the controll locks in place on an Italian STOL airplane . a SIAI Marchetti. It stalled on the airport, realized he could do nothing about it .🇺🇲🗽
RIP Snort. You're my hero. Miss you. Rover
R.I.P. Snort 🍻
So thankful such fine men commanded such a gorgeous machine. What a bird she is.
Snort ... One - of - a - kind. You are missed ... ^v^ (PS - He'd have made a Great, Crusader jock!)
Don't know how long ago this interview happened, but it's obvious he's keenly aware of not exhibiting that his hands and fingers are shaking (onset of Parkinson's). He tries to keep still long enough for it to not be obvious. Alot of people who know they have it adopt (or are developing) a coping mechanism of constant motion during conversation that makes them appear as being "animated", when, really, they can't contain their constant motioning.
Also, I wonder how many of us could have been award-winning pilots if our dads had also been engineers at Grumman. Fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, and you don't get fruit from weeds. My parents were weeds, as were theirs, as were theirs, etc. NO matter how much you try to cultivate a weed, it just never grows fruit. I would have LOVED to have the opportunity this guy had. I gnawed, bit, and clawed my way in life just to have enough to pay for a Private PIlot certificate. Been made to feel guilty about spending the money on that, instead of spending it on ungrateful (now adult) kids who complain that I spent the money on myself instead of paying to pave the way for THEIR dreams.
Good parenting involves teaching your kids how to be successful on their own and setting up the path for them to do it (I tried turning the trend in my family history). Didn't work very well (apparently).
Snort obviously had both. I sit and dream about what could have been. Also, my joining the USAF at 17 with no degree or family providence wouldn't have worked to get my foot in the door. to start where Snort had already arrived out of the gate. Excuses Excuses, I know.
I have seen it , sir . I know what you mean , I think big buddy - A bitch ain’t it ?
Would you describe your piloting as being a pilot or an aviator? I’m wondering if you’ve been able to sprout a bud in that direction. Interesting take on things. I would have disagreed with you when I was younger, but I think there definitely is something to genetic predispositions and talent. I suck at swimming, for example, though I am SCUBA trained and spent my whole childhood and youth swimming regularly. Things that my grandparents, great grandparents, great-great, etc. are good at, I am gifted in. I still put in decades of work, but I see faster results.
He loved what he did ❤
Wow, I hope y'all got the whole other story!
Nerves of steel and a big pair too!
I'd rather fly the Tomcat than be a rockstar....
RIP - im not worthy to even address this Hero - 🇺🇲
To Speed n Angels: I cannot say I am the face of Grumman as Grumman was a family company with thousands of faces and pilots like Dale n many others were the Reason Grumman was so well Respected - my father (may he rip) started in Grumman in 65 as an accountant and wouldn’t u know was an airframe engineer in 69 working on the Tomcat airframe as he 2 was a USAF pilot who grew up building models.
Here is a suggestion to your company and to all to think they know Grumman History: I’m so Tired and I hope other Grumman families are 2 - of seeing inaccurate movies or vids on Grummans history - the Tomcat - the moon - or now the Northrop Grumman Tomcat as some call it - What Took Neil Armstrong to the moon & who built it spending a lot of hours to get u there in the first place - 2nd my father would curse u out if he we’re still with us as a Team of engineers made that cat possible under the Name Grumman! 3rd I have yet to see a Movie made on the life of Leroy Grumman who made it all possible and what Grumman did for this country as I now see movies about what contributions of people of color have done for WW2. Finally, if u made it this far - Grummans reward for building fantastic aircraft and again no one yet has Gotten this one right!! Dick Cheney (Yes VP) Dick Cheney personally took Grumman out as he hated Grumman and he actually covered that up so U the public would believe Grumman built shitty, inferior aircraft, that cost to much - took too much time to work on and were Obsolete as we see a new Costly version of the F-15 Eagle take to the skies - Who r U kidding as you make these BS vids - I’d personally like to see someone from NY build a new Grumman from the ashes instead of hearing Grumman screwed up the Water again - some Generations of families had good paying jobs and all loved working there - Signed the proud son of a Grumman Airframe Engineer who watched his father turn into an alcoholic because he couldn’t support his family as all 32k were fired at the same time so Dick Cheney where is that movie about you Scum Bag??!!
What a fantastic American.
Love the stories.
This guy has a lot to tell, would be great to have met him at a bar.
Generation after generation … this Country 🇺🇸 isn’t done yet!
I helped build Bird Number One as an instrumentation engineer on the original F-14.
I didn't realize at the time that it was a special assignment But apparently, my history with the University of California provided management with some scientific chops, in addition to the unique instrumentation that this particular bird entailed.
My professor and physics lab partner became the founders of Qualcomm. The thing that amazed me, was the experienced assembler technicians getting down on the ground and taking sledgehammers to shape various titanium flanges and components into a configuration that would fit.
Later units would get more refined specifications, but this first bird was hand-built.
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real top gun lov it x sir
RIP, Sir! 🫡🇺🇸⚓
R.I.P
Cost Him a Marriage 😂 but you have some Great Stories.She be alright.👍
RIP LEGEND 🍺🍺👍🇺🇸
Snort=Tomcat & Lantern
So sad that he never got to see the second Top Gun
He was spared, that movie was horrific
Is this your production, Paco?
Where can i see these photos? @ 9:31 🇺🇸
A god among men
Always do your checklist 😐
Don't be a dick. Guys that pontificate about others mishaps
are often the next ones to screw up
@@R760-E2the AOPA said the very same thing:
“A flight control check would have saved Dale Snodgrass’ life. So in Dale’s memory: Fuel, fire, flight controls. Those three things are the things that can really hurt pilots on takeoff. … In honor of Dale Snort Snodgrass, let’s all of us, fuel, fire, flight controls before every takeoff. Here’s a nickel on the grass for an iconic figure and somebody we’ll dearly miss.”
1969 i was making night landing blacked out to lz's that had red and green tracers zipping through the jungle pulling wounded ..1000 hours flight time 9 month's i was 19.the huey is not fast or sexy.rip my fellow aviator.
Dead stick? Watch me.
Is that what he said before trying to take off in the Sia Marchetti? That was more like "locked stick" though...
Do you know how to tell if you are looking at a pilot who might some day do something really stupid and get himself killed, something like taking off with the gust lock engaged?
Look for the airplane keys in his pocket.
No matter how good you are, no matter how much experience you have, no matter how smart you are, you will never be immune from doing something stupid.
I mean no disrespect here. I never knew this man, but it's clear one thing he was not was stupid. My entire point is, you don't have to be stupid to do something stupid.
In fact, being smart, can increase the chance of doing something stupid. If you ever think, "I'm to smart to do that." you need to rethink just how smart you actually are.
What a great bloke - RIP mate.
I seen this interview years ago.
@@shawnomack45 You might have seen some of it but not all of it. This is the entire filmed interview we shot for Tomcat Tales and there are parts that no one has ever seen except for the Director and film crew.
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Hilarious to have "Fly good don't suck" on his tombstone when in the end he himself didn't fly good and objectively sucked. Maybe his motto should have been "(Pre)-Flight good and Don't Suck (at a basic controls check"
Rest easy mr. Snodgrass. you will always be remembered!!