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Offline Kwan

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« on: December 07, 2004, 09:20:51 PM »
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Offline XrightyX

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« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2004, 09:55:56 PM »
That's crazy...no caption as to where/when?

Probably was not an authorized fly zone...LOL
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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2004, 10:00:57 PM »
must've been a great set of cans on that beach - or maybe he caught his girlfriend cheating on him...

"no honey, i'll be home all day......I'm feeling tired today..."


lmao!
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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2004, 10:16:53 PM »
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Originally posted by Waffle BAS
must've been a great set of cans on that beach - or maybe he caught his girlfriend cheating on him...

"no honey, i'll be home all day......I'm feeling tired today..."


lmao!


ROFLMFAO!
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2004, 10:30:33 PM »
Flameout? Odd one. You see the water disturbed by the thrust when it first drops then it get's calm again before impact. Can't tell if the nozzles shift position in the closeup. Perhaps he was in the process of transistioning when it flamed out.
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« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2004, 12:01:26 AM »
Eh, its a Harrier thats what they do best is crash. In '79 when the AV-8A deployed the USMC crashed 32 in one year.

Ever notice you dont hear much about the Harrier in combat? It had the worst operational record and the highest pilot casualties in the entire Coalition inventory in Gulf '91. I know lots of USMC Harrier pilots who transitioned from A-4 Skyhawks that wish they had their 50 year old A-4M's back.
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« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2004, 12:24:27 AM »
OUCH!  he must feel like shiiiiiiiiit!

Look like he ws transitioning and lost it.
« Last Edit: December 08, 2004, 12:30:45 AM by mars01 »
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« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2004, 02:46:51 AM »
German ace barkthorn (301 allied kills) flew a
harrier.

he acccidently wrecked the  the harrier while landing

he climbed out and murmured dreihundertzwei  (302)  :)
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« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2004, 09:22:26 AM »
What concerns me most is, there is a Jet hovering off shore, and NOT A SINGLE PERSON seems to be looking at it!

Heck, I can't avoid starring at a kite on a string!  If I saw a Harrier, I'd be like "Holy S*&T, look at that!"
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« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2004, 09:44:57 AM »
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Originally posted by Grits

Ever notice you dont hear much about the Harrier in combat? It had the worst operational record and the highest pilot casualties in the entire Coalition inventory in Gulf '91. I know lots of USMC Harrier pilots who transitioned from A-4 Skyhawks that wish they had their 50 year old A-4M's back.


must be those yank pilots! "what?! a plane! hovers?!?!?! nahh!"

British seemed to do ok with it in the Falklands and Kosovo/Bosnia?

Think it was 32:0 against Argentinian aircraft.
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« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2004, 11:06:49 AM »
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Think it was 32:0 against Argentinian aircraft.


Those were Proxies when the Argies augered trying to sink the CV!

Seriously, the AV-8 has a terrible operational combat record in all countries that use it.
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« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2004, 11:25:31 AM »
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must be those yank pilots! "what?! a plane! hovers?!?!?! nahh!"

British seemed to do ok with it in the Falklands and Kosovo/Bosnia?

Think it was 32:0 against Argentinian aircraft.


we lost two harriers in the falklands. and those were the morons who crashed into each other in bad conditions.

out of a squadron of 10 a/c, we killed, as you say, 30-40 odd argie planes and only lost these two to mishaps.


back to the clip:

WTF is that guy doing hovering a harrier 50ft above kids playing in the sea???

thats either some clever video editing or some really stupid pilot.
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« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2004, 11:37:44 AM »
I'm guessing some kind of airshow or something?... you can see everyone's head's turn about 1/2 to 3/4 of a second after he actually ejects, so he's what, 1/4 mile out over the ocean?  I'm a little rusty on my mad math skilz.
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« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2004, 11:42:10 AM »
1/4 mile is what? like 400 yrds?  pretty close, wouldnt be happy if my kid was swimming there. lucky i dont have any kids come to think of it
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« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2004, 11:49:11 AM »
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