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Title: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: oakranger on September 02, 2009, 09:11:03 PM
Oh how funny if this would have gone wrong.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1920181 (http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1920181)
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Russian on September 02, 2009, 09:12:20 PM
A) Are you sure it's a F-18?
B) Where is the video?
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Sandman on September 02, 2009, 09:13:11 PM
Oh how funny if this would have gone wrong.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1920181

need to lose the img tags
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Reaper90 on September 02, 2009, 09:18:22 PM
Not an F-18, but I don't guess that's the point......
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Sandman on September 02, 2009, 09:22:56 PM
I'm guessing F1 Mirage?
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: hunter128 on September 02, 2009, 09:40:02 PM
I'm guessing F1 Mirage?
looks about like it
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: mensa180 on September 02, 2009, 09:45:04 PM
Harrier?
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Strip on September 02, 2009, 09:47:27 PM
I'm guessing F1 Mirage?

Harrier?

Keep guessing....
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: oakranger on September 02, 2009, 10:00:14 PM
I didn't think it was a f-18.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Strip on September 02, 2009, 10:06:18 PM
Thats an easy one to rule out.......no twin tail!

 :D
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Sandman on September 02, 2009, 10:09:40 PM
After further review, I'm going with Sepecat Jaguar.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: 007Rusty on September 02, 2009, 10:12:00 PM
at 39 sec. got a ok pic of it.   :D
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Phantomz on September 02, 2009, 10:35:44 PM
No twin tail and swept wings def not a f-18.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Strip on September 02, 2009, 10:36:45 PM
After further review, I'm going with Sepecat Jaguar.

We have a winner!
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Wmaker on September 02, 2009, 10:49:53 PM
We have a winner!

It's not a Jaguar, it doesn't have square intakes for example. It's quite clearly a Mirage F.1. Intakes, ventral tailfins and fixed refuelling boom are the give aways.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Widewing on September 02, 2009, 11:08:36 PM
It's not a Jaguar, it doesn't have square intakes for example. It's quite clearly a Mirage F.1. Intakes, ventral tailfins and fixed refuelling boom are the give aways.

Agree...Mirage F1.


And a Frenchman with the common sense of a possum on an interstate....


My regards,

Widewing
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Golfer on September 02, 2009, 11:18:27 PM
Keep guessing....

Sandman got it right.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Jappa52 on September 02, 2009, 11:28:03 PM
you are correct sah!

(http://k53.pbase.com/g4/81/640581/2/59210630.IMG_37919.jpg)
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: oakranger on September 02, 2009, 11:48:41 PM
yea, well, that toolbox lucky the pilot didn't mis-judge is alt from the ground
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Noir on September 03, 2009, 01:26:55 AM
yea, well, that toolbox lucky the pilot didn't mis-judge is alt from the ground

I think he disabled detailled ground.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: oakranger on September 03, 2009, 01:31:32 AM
I think he disabled detailled ground.

 :rofl
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: JunkyII on September 03, 2009, 02:59:07 AM
The guy looked like he needed new shorts :D
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Strip on September 03, 2009, 05:07:59 AM
I disagree...

The one in the video doesn't have the guide cone in the inlet, not that I can see anyway. Also, I have never seen a Mirage with the ECM or threat detection pod in the upper tail. The inlet looks to high to be a Mirage but appears to be round or square depending on the frame. I have heard both aircraft many times, it certainly does not not sound like a Mirage tho the sound quality is quite poor. Having personally worked on and around a Sepecat Jaguar I will say it sounds awfully familiar.

In any event its not worth arguing over, we could all agree that is one crazy dude on the runway.

Strip
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: mechanic on September 03, 2009, 05:23:01 AM
it kind of even looks like an intruder from the front.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Wmaker on September 03, 2009, 08:01:59 AM
I agree that it's not worth arguing over. I just think that the inlet guides won't show up because of the low resolution of the video and the dark camo of the plane. It's the refuelling boom made me more or less sure it's a Mirage. You can kinda see a lighter shade on the right intake which looks like the intake guide. Also, the desert setting kinda reminds me of Tchad. :)

(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f147/Wmaker/fighterjet1.jpg)
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: straffo on September 03, 2009, 09:18:17 AM
well just look at the fatigue the soldier is wearing it's a French BDU
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: JunkyII on September 03, 2009, 11:55:39 AM
well just look at the fatigue the soldier is wearing it's a French BDU
Some USAF still wear BDUs
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: CAP1 on September 03, 2009, 04:53:38 PM
Oh how funny if this would have gone wrong.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1920181 (http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1920181)

that's a harrier. not a hornet.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Strip on September 03, 2009, 04:55:41 PM
The harrier does not have ventral fins....the plane in the video does.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: CAP1 on September 03, 2009, 05:28:07 PM
The harrier does not have ventral fins....the plane in the video does.
i don't see any ventral fins.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Strip on September 03, 2009, 05:45:39 PM
They are there.......have to catch it high in the camera frame tho.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: CAP1 on September 03, 2009, 05:46:40 PM
They are there.......have to catch it high in the camera frame tho.

might not be a harrier....could be one of the mirages......but it absolutley not a hornet.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Strip on September 03, 2009, 05:55:09 PM
Most have pretty much decided its a Mirage or SEPECAT Jaguar......
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Sandman on September 03, 2009, 11:10:31 PM
that's a harrier. not a hornet.

IIRC, the Harrier can't carry a center tank. That's where the landing gear is.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Jayhawk on September 04, 2009, 12:47:40 AM
Harriers have two landing gear right under the fuselage and two smaller wing point gear (or whatever you would call them).  Now are there any variations that would allow for a fuselage tank?  Just curious.

And I agree Mirage F1.
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Widewing on September 04, 2009, 01:14:07 AM
This is a Mirage F.1

(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh95/SuperHornet69/MirageF-1Colmar273.jpg)


This is a Sepecat Jaguar

(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/1/7/9/1211971.jpg)


Any questions?


Note that the fighter in the original video has no dihedral or anhedral of the elevators, whereas the Jaguar has pronounced anhedral (as does the Harrier). Anhedral means that the elevator angles downward from the fuselage (as does that of the Phantom II).

I don't see that anyone can argue that the fighter in the video is not a Mirage F.1. It's certainly NOT a Jaguar.



My regards,

Widewing
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: oakranger on September 04, 2009, 01:32:41 AM
Looked over that video 100 times and looked at the pics widewing posted.  It is clearly a Mirage.  there are five points i look for in the video and from the mirage and jaguar.  I can see clearly the five point in the video that indicated it is a mirage. 
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Skulls22 on September 04, 2009, 06:34:37 AM
For a sec I thought it was an A-4

but ya it's the F1
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: cpxxx on September 04, 2009, 06:35:02 AM
Instant giveaway is the French DPM on the very cool and collected guy and definitely a Mirage F1. Which is one of my favourite jets as it happens. A few centimetres lower and it would have been a very different video. :O
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: CyranoAH on September 04, 2009, 08:32:20 AM
Such as this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDmfvqQHF10
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: SEraider on September 04, 2009, 12:13:12 PM
Guy on the runway:  :noid  :noid  :noid   :noid
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: CAP1 on September 04, 2009, 12:57:10 PM
hornet low pass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR_5YcWNY_M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7rAUu8djZ4&feature=related

low speed and showin off.l......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnaT4ESKaOo&feature=related


eagle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgoDi16t1YE&feature=related


just cause i felt like puttin this one here........sr71

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N31eEXjNAUU&feature=related
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Noir on September 04, 2009, 01:31:52 PM
I'm not much a fan of the F1 but it may change in the future, that front view looks racy and agressive :)
Title: Re: F-18 LOW HIGH SPEED
Post by: Babalonian on September 04, 2009, 06:29:03 PM
Agree...Mirage F1.


And a Frenchman with the common sense of a possum on an interstate....


My regards,

Widewing

Couldn't of said it better.  :D


As for someone mislableing it as an F-18...  I'll get the tar and feathers.