Anyone like to comment on this?

[Mark Nine]

Amazing Flying SkillsVideo (http://www.break.com/index/amazing-flying-skills.html)

Over to you for the usual great skill / reckless debate!

[herkman]

Do not know what you guys think but speed of sound me thinks not,

In one shot he still has the gear down.

Regards

Col

[Grabbers]

Deffo brown trousers there, regardless of speed. You don't need to be clever to throw a six.

[Wombat35]

Wanna see what happens next.....
:ok:
Thunderbird Crash With Cockpit View - Video (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/276051/thunderbird_crash_with_cockpit_view/)

[The Helpful Stacker]

New grow bag please. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FThpvGUQ2_w)

The Gods of 'a little bit more power' were certainly smiling down on him that day.

[VinRouge]

Fearless. Completely Fearless.

My internal gyros toppled at around 1:03!!!

YouTube - EXTREME Ski (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx2R9--2QeI)

[scientia in alto]

... and if you were a dog....

flyingvids.tv | Flying dog Video (http://www.flyingvids.tv/video-comedy-99037-flying_dog?vc=1)

SIA

[Biggles225]

All I thought was 'You dull :mad:'

[Molemot]

I'm with Biggles...total plonker. Seem to recall we lost a Phantom at Abingdon some years ago trying to pull through like that..and the Typhoon tearing up the grass more recently.

[Satellite_Driver]

I wasn't at Abingdon the day the Phantom went in but quite a lot of my fellow ULAS students were. A couple were, if I recall correctly, out on the airfield assisting with observation of the planned routine, and came very close to being hit by debris. The impact point was only a few hundred feet from ULAS HQ, and I recall one of the QFIs saying how he'd been standing with his back to the window and had felt the heat from the impact fireball.

But yes, the circumstances as I recall from the subsequent BOI report seem quite reminiscent of this. (Also the Thunderbirds F-16 crash at Mountain Home AFB, where the pilot fortunately banged out just in time).

Looking at the video, I suspect that the pilot and aircraft may well have been saved by ground effect at the bottom of the loop - look at the water under the Rafale as it pulls out.

[dead_pan]

A split-second away from being fish-food methinks, otherwise colliding with that RN sub lurking just below the surface. A very silly boy.

[Bob Viking]

Skill........................No!
Luck.......................Yes!

BV:eek:

[Background Noise]

Replace 'Amazing' with 'poor'.

[Tourist]

Amazing flying in the purest sense.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1& show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

About half way through it gets spectacular.

[Gainesy]

Tourist, link kaput.

As to the original, amazingly lucky is all. After the Admiral saw that he was drafted to subs.

[Tourist]

Works when I click on it:confused:
Anyone else see it?

[FE Hoppy]

Which bit is flying? Mostly controlled falling as far as i can see.

[Argonautical]

That link to the "sky divers" works OK. Anyone have an idea on what glide ratio that these guys achieve?

[Tourist]

F E Hoppy

"Falling with style", I believe is the term.

[LowObservable]

And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground!

[SK8TRBOI]

Ditto! "Amazing Flying Skills?"...NOT. More like "Amazingly Lucky :mad: Who Should Be Drummed Out of The Corp"!
Geez - stunts like that get me incensed.

[ehwatezedoing]

Didn't beat this guy through
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u45/kartoon67/untitled.jpg

When I first saw this picture I asked if it was an incoming gear up landing.
"No, bottom of a loop!" came the answer :ooh:

Can't remember when and where it was.

[alwayslookingup]

Can I be first?!!

Photoshop?!!

[ehwatezedoing]

Can't be photoshop, the old guy who gave me the answer (back in 2005) saw it live.
He had this picture stuck on his fridge :ooh:

The Mig 17 cut short its routine and went for a 'normal' landing afterward.
'old guy' only saw a slightly scrapped nozzle on it.
Didn't say anything about pilot's underwear through :}


If anybody knows more about this incident...

[Mark Nine]

Never forgot what my instructor once told me,
"You will never, ever beat the world low flying record so don't even try!"

[Firestreak]

Many years ago when the Reds flew Gnats, the syncro pair used to do an opposition Barrel Roll with the gear down, both aircraft touching down before and after the roll. On one occasion at Blackpool (?) one stalwart got it slightly wrong and in his own words:-

"After the actual roll and before the second touchdown, I realised I had got it wrong and I was going to hit the runway awfully hard, however after the 'landing' the aircraft was still flying so I finished the display. On shut down, the rear of the fuselage and the jet pipe were a fairly entertaing oval shape as opposed to the nice rounded finish Folland had intended"::O

[Gnd]

That would be a red card - no question.

Saw a Typhoon do a similar thing at Fairford a while ago - you nay all recal; that was a red card too. How does it go - never get your nose below the horizon????

Pull up - Pull up at 1:29 secs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwEAr5MtCbA)

[Bob Viking]

May I be the first smug b@stard to ask how the hell you're ever supposed to land!
BV:8

[AR1]

As with the others, Luck not skill.

Never seen the Typhoon vid from that angle (assuming there's only been one incident) and the commentary just about sums it up nicely.

[Gnd]

Bob,


With a flare, nose above the horizon? I am not fast jet so obviously not that clever - just heard them say it when they have just frightened the SH1t out of themselves?????