Rafale near miss

[Tarnished]

I've just been sent a 5mb .wmv file of a Rafale getting closer to stooffing than anything I have ever seen.

I have the technology to get pictures on here but don't know how to do video.

Anybody care to either tell me how to get it hosted or have me send it on for you to do the necessary?

Regards

Tarnished (IT Challenged of Texas)

[Navaleye]

Tarnished.

Go to www.putfile.com. Its free

[Tarnished]

Thanks Navaleye, if this works then that was easy.

Click here to watch rafalemalmostsplashes (http://media.putfile.com/rafalemalmostsplashes)

Tarnished

My PC won't run the first link so here's another try

http://media.putfile.com/rafalemalmostsplashes

<a href='http://media.putfile.com/rafalemalmostsplashes?PHPSESSID=cea7e124a3a4053536e367713213 64e8' target='_blank'>Click here to watch 'rafalemalmostsplashes'</a>

Can someone let me know if it works?

[Rakshasa]

Almost the same thing as the Typhoon at RIAT.

[Gainesy]

Second link works fine Tarnished.:uhoh:

[althenick]

Perhaps he fancies himself as a buccaneer pilot :O

[Tarnished]

If he had lowered his hook, he could catch fish (with the right lure of course)

[KC-10 Driver]

Reminds of a video I saw some months ago of a USAF F-16 (Thunderbird, I think) doing a loop.

He started the maneuver too low (or perhaps didn't pull hard enough on the backside), and the aircraft pancakes in. The pilot ejected a split second before inpact.

Can anyone post a link to it?

[juliet]

what was all that stuff about typhoon being the only jet that could recover from such a situation? bad way to prove a point but looks like rafael is every bit as powerful and agile as the eurojet

[southside]

So, whats the difference between that and what happens every Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning in the Plymouth sea areas? That wasn't a near miss at all. The RN Hawk pilots do that weekly.....and with more gusto.

[tug3]

KC-10 Driver

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=186874

C-here

Rgds
T3

[8ball]

southside, difference is, the Hawks are within intended parameters.

[16 blades]

As Austin Powers once quipped: Fook me!

what was all that stuff about typhoon being the only jet that could recover from such a situation? bad way to prove a point but looks like rafael is every bit as powerful and agile as the eurojet

Yes, either that or it's pilots are just lucky fookwits.

THIS chimp was fooking lucky IMHO.

16B

[RiskyRossco]

Certainly, he missed although I'll bet he still drowned his drawers.

[whiz]

Whilst browsing a certain army site yesterday I came across these 2 very close calls:

Mirage (http://ufcna.com/union-riverains-BA115/crash%20mirage.WMV)

Delfin (http://www.mrdetonator.szm.sk/video1.php)

The Delfin clip takes a little while to load but is worth the wait. Click on the still image of the Delfin and the clip will begin to download.

:eek:

[Tarnished]

Pedantic mode on:

The Mirage one is not a close call, its a crash.

Can't view the Delfin one.

Pedantic mode off.

Tarnished

[RebornCyclogenesis]

Southside,

Yeah and FRADU can even bounce Hawks off the Sea as well....and land in 40kt crosswinds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[maxburner]

Just watched the Mirage video clip. Nasty! This flying lark seems awfully dangerous, I'm glad I only do battle with the M6. Come to think of it, the M6 is far more deadly than any plane.

[whiz]

Ref the Mirage clip, Trust the French to find a new and novel way to lay down their weapons :rolleyes:

[tug3]

Another driver who experienced ground rush. (Hope the guy walked however - did hit the deck kinda hard!)

http://www.combataircrafts.com/F18.MPG

Rgds
T3

[Captain Kirk]

Comments about 'enough agility to get out of trouble' rather miss the point that it is the performance of the latest generation of aircraft that can so quickly get a pilot into trouble in the first place!

In performance limited aircraft, 'all' the pilot had to do was hit the entry parameters (principally height and speed), park the throttles and pull the requisite g. Typhoon and Rafale will accelerate in the vertical (making it easier to be a little hot at entry) and then accelerate under g: too much power = faster than intended = larger radius of turn = oh sh1t, here comes the ground.

In any jet, things can go from 'normal' to horribly wrong, very quickly. Now it can happen even more quickly! Comments about Typhoon et al being 'easy to fly' do not do justice to the inherent hazards of such dynamically capable platforms. Routine 'poling' skills may be less demanding but the spatial awareness required and the ability to assimilate and act with reference to rapidly changing parameters can not be described as 'easy' by any stretch.

Interestingly, a display pilot will usually have at least 1000 hours on type. The introduction to service of a new aircraft presents an interesting, and demanding, dilemma!

Tarnished - thanks for sending the vid!

[Ewan Whosearmy]

The Hornet driver suffered spinal fractures and even fratured one (or both, can't recall specifically) of his eye sockets. Doubt he flew again.

EDIT: Anyone know the where and when of the Mirage 2000 crash?

[Safeware]

Isn't the hornet crash the one where he is distracted by ATC as he is doing a display, something about a delay and having to change his display on the hoof?

I've seen a longer clip somewhere at work.

Anyone know how to download the Rafale clip on its own?

sw

[Tarnished]

Safeware see PMs for one option.

Tarnished

[BEagle]

That F-18 accident is very nearly what happened to a CF-18 display pilot on a baking hot day at Abbottsford many years ago. We learned later that he'd bottomed at 17 ft agl.....

The Canucks told him to terminate, land, refuel and poke off whence he came.

Density altitude?

[West Coast]

The F18 crash was at MCAS El Toro, South of LA. The pilot went on to fly a number of years later, even performing at a later El Toro airshow as part of a 3 plane civilian act. The Colonel that pancacked choose to do the airshow himself rather than the designated airshow pilot.

[tug3]

Glad to hear the guy made a partial recovery by the sounds of it.

On a lighter note and somewhat off the thread, but a crash of a sort that will make you laugh (a bit):

Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of all ages, may I present to you the world's first 'Human Overrun Barrier' (Ouch!):

www.rob.com/matt/rc/rc-video/747strike.mpg

Rgds
T3

[5 Forward 6 Back]

Anyone have a direct link to the Mirage and Rafale ones?

[whiz]

Direct link to Mirage

http://ufcna.com/union-riverains-BA115/crash%20mirage.WMV

[jwcook]

This is a bit smaller for those who don't have bandwidth or time.

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/755/rafale2043qy.gif

from OPIT posted here :-
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=43856&page=15&pp=30

Cheers

[John Eacott]

The Rafael clip is somewhat reminiscent of an F4K flypast (well, beat up) off Ark: zot feet, Warp 9, pull, burners, and kept going horizontally, standing almost vertical, for a long, long time before thrust overcame inertia. The exhaust from the afterburners kicked up enough spray to put most of the flight deck IMC, to the great delight of the goofers :cool: :ok:

Happy days......

[Thud_and_Blunder]

Have managed to download the Delfin (eek!) and Rafale vids, but every time I try the Mirage I get an error message saying "invalid http server reply" plus a load of ANSI hieroglyphics. I've tried the usual right-click-"save-as" alternative method too - same result.

Does anyone have an alternative link, please?

[Gainesy]

Thud,
I can't view the Delfin one but have the Mirage one, if you PM me an e-mail address we can do a swap.

[Moe Syzlak]

Southside: The FRADU are no longer authorised to 50' after a chap bounced off the water. Most if not all of them are ex-RAF with currently NO fulltime RN. Other than that-a good post.