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Title: now this is flying low
Post by: TwinBoom on September 21, 2006, 04:35:02 PM: video (http://www.glumbert.com/media/flylow)
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Post by: Goth 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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Post by: croduh 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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Post by: Yoshimbo on September 21, 2006, 10:46:05 PM: Tree Clippers Inc.

that looks fun as hell:D
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Post by: kamilyun 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...
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Post by: Mugzeee on September 22, 2006, 12:41:51 AM: Thats whatcha call Book Smart.
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Post by: Saxman on September 22, 2006, 01:18:02 AM: Love the music on it.
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Post by: Viking on September 22, 2006, 09:46:01 AM: Quote
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.
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Post by: eagl 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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Post by: Viking 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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Post by: Atoon 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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Post by: TexMurphy 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...

Tex
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Post by: Kuhn on September 22, 2006, 12:08:25 PM: You REALLY have to know you'r ride to fly like that!
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Post by: uberhun 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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Post by: TexMurphy 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

Tex
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Post by: cav58d on September 22, 2006, 01:49:27 PM: anyone know what song is 13:00 minutes into the 19 minute video?
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Post by: Viking on September 22, 2006, 02:41:33 PM: Frenchies in Chad it is. :)

Cav, the music is Clubbed to Death by Rob Dougan. Matrix soundtrack.
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Post by: cav58d on September 22, 2006, 07:47:26 PM: thanks bro...I love the song
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Post by: Reynolds on September 22, 2006, 09:08:26 PM: I think they look like Tornados, but then again I dont know all that much about non-russian non-american modern planes.
Title: I love that video and the music . . .
Post by: shiningpathb4me on September 23, 2006, 09:39:08 PM: It reminds me of the time our Chaplain was giving Sunday service on top of a mesa at 29 Palms. He raised his hands and said 'behold the glory of God' and at that moment, as if on cue, an F16 popped over the mesa and took off the whip antenna of the Chaplains Jeep. heheh . . .