WHY WE WIN
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Comment from a fighter pilot: This is without reservation the best
video I have ever viewed depicting air-to air combat. The producer and
photographer were able to show perspective of the entire arena in a way
I've never seen.
This is as "real" as it could possibly be! When the pilot got into a
scissors or Luffberry I could almost feel the g's!
A day in the life of a fighter pilot. Filmed at Kadena AB , Okinawa .
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cuzzin ricky
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Excellent, seen it before.
ReplyDeleteThe local AFB had a heckuva airshow after Desert Storm. All the hot planes were there--B1B, A10, F117's first public view, etc. The Blue Angels were the headliners of the show. An F15 flew solo before the Angels, that had to be the most badass thing I've ever seen. The Blue Angels were something of an anticlimax after seeing the F15 put through its paces.
Flying gets in your blood. And it stays!
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Excellent film. Back in the '70s when it first came out, I went to an airshow in Columbus OH where they did an F-15 demo. The pilot spooled it up, let loose the brakes and in about 5 lengths of the plane he was pulling the wheels off the ground and snapping them closed. By the time he hit the halfway point in the runway he turned straight up on afterburners and went out of sight. Phenomenal plane....
ReplyDeleteYou will notice the power lever slamming...
ReplyDeleteThese are not large piston engines where
you might cought up
a carburetor going up or crack a
jug slamming shut, you're just telling something to
the digital controls...fact, with big freighters in low traffic,
you have to pay the beer if you dare touch
the power levers again before landing!
(Large jets fly like gliders!)
For the record, it has nothing to do with this topic, but I just got out of a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. It was one of the best movies I have ever seen. And unlike some people who barely know who batman is, let alone his villains, Bane is not an allegory for Romney. Bane is the leader of an Occupy Wall Street like movement, shouting rhetoric about class warfare and having the citizens bring down harsh punishment on the upper class.
ReplyDeleteThis is about the most anti occupy movie you could ever see. So the next time you hear the radio or some idiot in person tell you about this Bane crap, tune it out.
Archer.
Authorized Distributors of Mig Parts!
ReplyDeleteLove it, even though they are USAF Pukes!
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Authorized Distributors of Mig Parts!
ReplyDeleteLove it, even though they are USAF Pukes!
:-D
Just FYI, Most Russian fighter engines will not tolerate the rapid throttle movements seen on this video; which is normal for all USAF/USN/USMC strike fighters,since waay back days of 1950s and later....
ReplyDelete(...couple of examples: Old MiG-17s & MiG-21s, had to be in 1G flight and wait for several seconds to get full afterburner. On the MiG-17, full A/B just turned fuel into loud noise and smoke..... =8^)
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Gyrene fighter pilot 7500 hrs total w 1000 hrs in F-18 Hornet
I was at Masroor Air Base in Pakistan (maybe 1979), when a flight of four Chinese-built MiG-19s landed. Instead of taxiing back to their spots, they all stopped at the end of the runway. I asked a PAF officer why they did that, and he told me the brakes on the MiG-19 are so fragile, they will almost certainly malfunction if they try to taxi back. So they are towed.
ReplyDeleteI'm 47, the first time I saw this plane I was 10. Quite a lineage, especially seeing that I'm the last of the Phantom Phixers. Still at that altitude those "Rodans" wouldn't stand a chance against a half assed Tomcat or Stovepipe (F8) driver.
ReplyDeletePhantoms Phorever - Anymouse
That video was recorded at Kadena AB on Okinawa. I arrived there in April, 1971, on my way to Miyako Jima AS, about 165 miles SW. I looked at the runway, and not much was going on. But I looked at the far side, and there were a large bunch of F-102s, which were dismantled. The decision was made to destroy them in place rather than bring them back to the states. The wing had an air defense mission, and was waiting for their F-4s, which were about to arrive. I was a weapons controller then, directing interceptors at targets. Later, I saw SR-71s landing there.
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