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Noticed a particularly touching detail in the Warbird section of EAA AirVenture yesterday, July 24. And I’m not going to lie, I got a little emotional.

All of the wheel chocks being used in the warbirds area were painted drab green with white bars ends and white stenciled text. On one side was stenciled the words “FIGHTERTOWN” accompanied by two little silhouettes of P-51 Mustangs

The other said “REMEMBERING SNORT”

Dale “Snort” Snodgrass is a legend in aviation, “one of the most highly regarded military pilots” and “one of the best fighter pilots of all time.”

Snort will forever hold the record for the most hours in the F-14 Tomcat with a total of 4800 hours out of his total 8000 flight hours over the span of his highly-decorated 27-year naval career. He both attended and taught at TOPGUN, was the commanding officer of a Fighter Squadron, and was an F-14 Tomcat Demonstration Pilot for 10 years.

If you don’t know of Snort, you might know of this famous picture of an F-14 Tomcat being piloted by Snort.

The plane is on its side for a high-speed, low-level pass with the wings fully extended and the wingtips below the level of the flight deck of the USS America all while in full afterburner. Don’t worry, despite what you might hear this “banana pass” was both planned and approved.

After he retired from active duty he returned to the air show circuit, flying in over 850 airshows before his death.

On July 24, 2021, Snort was killed when his SIAI-Marchetti SM. 1019 crashed while taking off at an airshow in Idaho. We will forever keep him in our hearts and minds. His spirit lives on in every plane that crosses into an Airshow box.

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Capt. Dale “Snort” Snodgrass in his F-14 Tomcat performing an aggressive, ultra-low “Banana pass” along the flight deck of the USS America (CV-66). 1988

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Obituary - Dale 'Snort' Snodgrass

Obituary - Dale 'Snort' Snodgrass #snort #usnavy #avgeeks #tomcat #f14

One of aviation’s true legends passed away at the weekend when Dale ‘Snort’ Snodgrass was killed in a crash at an airport in Idaho. Gareth Stringer takes a look at his career. The word legend has been quoted repeatedly in reports on the death of Dale Snodgrass and while it is undoubtedly an overused epithet these days, Snodgrass certainly deserves it more than most. Snort displaying an F-86 Sabre…

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Black Diamond Jet Team Pilot Dale "Snort" Snodgrass makes a low fast pass in the teams MIG 17 at the NAS Oceana  airshow

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R.I.P. Dale “Snort” Snodgrass. Greatest F-14 pilot and a native of Long Island.

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Genny '08 - Snort-in' Stang

2008 Geneseo Airshow - Friday

Dale 'Snort' Snodgrass in 'Glamorous Gal', getting ready for the Heritage Flight practice...

Via Flickr

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"LWS"

...is the IATA code for Lewiston Nez Perce County Airport in Idaho. Here, at Alphabetsoup, we've had a request to post this airport in our long-running "random locode" subsegment.

Lewiston was the site of a tragic plane crash in July 2021 when Dale "Snort" Snodgrass, a former Tomcat (F-14) pilot and Top Gun instructor, crashed a small SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019 near the taxiway and died as a result.

Top destinations from this commercial airport include Denver and Salt Lake City.

And, while we're here, virtually speaking, I would like to mention three other proximate codes just over the border in Washington:

GEG, which is the locode for Spokane and the IATA code for Spokane International Airport

SFF, the IATA code for Spokane Felts Field

and

PUW for Pullman Moscow Regional Airport.

BOLO: C.S. Lewis, Lewis Hamilton (Hal in Lewis, tom), Egg, FFS; and Pull Wagon. 📕🏎🍳🖕🛒🇺🇸👀

Disambiguation: Lewistown, Lewisburg, Egg qua Dice, Fly 7 (FSF), Pullman Hotel and Moscow, Russia.

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F-14 Tomcat sporting the Jolly Rogers livery, featuring Captain Snort Snodgrass’s name at Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Portage Michigan

F-14 Tomcat sporting the Jolly Rogers livery, featuring Captain Snort Snodgrass’s name at Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Portage Michigan

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The Black Diamond Jet Team is a civilian aerobatic display team flying seven jet aircraft – five L-39s and two MiG-17s, all paint in arctic camouflage. The team is sponsored by United Bank Card, Inc. and is based at Lakeland, FL, USA. Some of the team’s pilots are well known air show performers as Team Leader Lt. Colonel Jerry "Jive" Kerby, USAF (ret.) and Lead Solo Performer in the single MiG-17 Captain Dale "Snort" Snodgrass, USN (ret.).

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The US Navy liked Dale "Snort" Snodgrass's low pass so much they asked him to perform the manoeuvre again at a demonstration the next day. (x-post /r/LowAltitudeJets)

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F-14 Tomcat driver Captain Dale “Snort” Snodgrass making a curving pass alongside USS America

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F-14 Tomcat sporting the Jolly Rogers livery, featuring Captain Snort Snodgrass's name at Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Portage Michigan

F-14 Tomcat sporting the Jolly Rogers livery, featuring Captain Snort Snodgrass’s name at Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Portage Michigan