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Offline TwinBoom

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« on: September 21, 2006, 04:35:02 PM »
« Last Edit: September 21, 2006, 04:38:37 PM by TwinBoom »
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« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2006, 04:59:17 PM »
Yeah?....well let's see how he performs when trees pop up out of nowhere.

Seriously, sometimes I think those guys have lost their marbles.

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« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2006, 05:02:02 PM »
One of my favorite videos on net.This has been posted before, but it's always great to watch

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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2006, 10:46:05 PM »
Tree Clippers Inc.

that looks fun as hell:D

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« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2006, 12:28:22 AM »
Anyone have some background on this video?  Trying to figure out the plane type and the location.  Reminds me of SW USA, but could be desert in Asia as well.

Got to be Dassault Mirage series?  Licensed version built by Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi air force?

Not Soviet, but one of those countries that uses Soviet helos (seen in fly-bys of ground crew)...

Edit:  Gotta be a Mirage F1 used by either Jordan, Iraq, Libya, Qatar or Kuwait (+ Iran?).

Someone, please help....bugging me.....:rolleyes:

Edit 2:  Iraqi?  Only user/operator that also has the Mi-8 helo...
« Last Edit: September 22, 2006, 12:41:37 AM by kamilyun »

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« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2006, 12:41:51 AM »
Thats whatcha call Book Smart.

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« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2006, 01:18:02 AM »
Love the music on it.
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« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2006, 09:46:01 AM »
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Originally posted by kamilyun
Anyone have some background on this video?  Trying to figure out the plane type and the location.  Reminds me of SW USA, but could be desert in Asia as well.

Got to be Dassault Mirage series?  Licensed version built by Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi air force?

Not Soviet, but one of those countries that uses Soviet helos (seen in fly-bys of ground crew)...

Edit:  Gotta be a Mirage F1 used by either Jordan, Iraq, Libya, Qatar or Kuwait (+ Iran?).

Someone, please help....bugging me.....:rolleyes:

Edit 2:  Iraqi?  Only user/operator that also has the Mi-8 helo...


That's a Super Puma not a Mi-8, and about a dozen countries operate the Mirage F.1, but my guess is it's the French or Spanish flying in North Africa. :)

Edit: Or perhaps the South Africans.
« Last Edit: September 22, 2006, 09:50:02 AM by Viking »

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« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2006, 10:17:06 AM »
Mirages.  Some F-1s, an occasional clip from what I assume is a Mirage 2000 variant.  I've flown with and against some of those guys.  I've flown that low once or twice, although I generally follow US training rules and keep to the 500' limit.

Some of that terrain reminds me of the big bend low level I used to fly in T-38s from Laughlin AFB...  The entry to the low level route was one of those monolith-like features in the middle of the desert and there was plenty of interesting terrain to fly around/over/through.

We didn't video tape it though...  Fast track to career stopper in the USAF especially after people get killed doing that same sort of thing.  The USAF and American public would rather 100 of us die the first day of the war than 10 of us die in training, because low level flying is dangerous, period.  If you train to "real" low level flying, you'll have an occasional training mishap.  But if the first time you fly really low is in combat, you're guaranteed to have a lot of losses.  We lost a couple of F-15E's in Desert Storm due to a lack of low level familarity, and that's because we lost a few F-111's and F-4s in training due to low level mishaps.  What's worse?  Training losses during realistic low-level tactical training, or real combat losses because nobody is allowed to train at levels that would be realistically required in real combat?  The US and the French have arrived at polar opposite conclusions about that particular question...
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« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2006, 11:14:57 AM »
That's what I hear from our guys here too Eagl, and I paraphrase: "There is no problem identifying American planes during NATO exercises. You have to look up to see them. For all the others you have to look down!"

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« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2006, 11:28:50 AM »
great video, I especially like the parts where the 1 guy is flying along the road, and you can see bushes at flight level.

I was expecting to see the video of the 5or6 prop planes, I think they were F4s, these guys found a smooth as glass lake, and took their planes to the deck with landing gear down, effectively making the planes "water ski" on the wheels. Incredible footage.:aok
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« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2006, 12:04:45 PM »
Great video but I still think the one where the 2 mirages fly over the water and beach is even more insane...

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« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2006, 12:08:25 PM »
You REALLY have to know you'r ride to fly like that!
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« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2006, 12:12:33 PM »
Cool film! They had alot of debris on their canopies. Lucky they did not get a bird strike at that height.:aok

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« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2006, 12:37:46 PM »
Got me inspired here are a few more great Mirage vids...
Two versions of the same
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4393793993255666987&q=mirage&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6680497335782404513&q=mirage+low&hl=en

19 Min high quality version of the originally posted video... this one freekin rocks!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8999279707606448277&q=mirage+low&hl=en

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