View Full Version : Brazillian Airforce display last Sunday and one Very very lucky pilot
NutLoose
5th Aug 2009, 16:09
How the hell he got away with this is anyones guess, looks like someone up there was looking out for him, Incident starts at about the 1 minute mark.
YouTube - Manobra arriscada esquadrilha (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h10gg_ed9xs)
although this stops short of the recovery that is low
YouTube - Esquadrilha da Fumaça, momento de Susto (Domingo Aéreo) 02/08/09 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q47cesfCm8I&NR=1)
Cows getting bigger
5th Aug 2009, 16:16
That's a bit if a ring twitcher. :eek:
airborne_artist
5th Aug 2009, 16:22
Wouldn't like to be the duty squipper :E
NutLoose
5th Aug 2009, 16:30
Even those airside thought it was bad, I wonder if he is still climbing?
YouTube - ESQUADRILHA DA FUMAÇA (FOI POR POUCO) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3rTql3nr34)
Gainesy
5th Aug 2009, 16:46
Just when you thought that was probably the crappiest quality vid on the net...:)
racedo
5th Aug 2009, 19:04
He BOUNCED
Bet his nickname is Tigger after that.
'Il Tiggero'
Johnny Foreigner, see?
Fark'n'ell
6th Aug 2009, 06:53
Wonder how the hell he blew that smoke ring on the deck.
Icare9
6th Aug 2009, 09:06
I don't think that was "smoke" and I think I know which ring it blew from!! Phew!! I just can't believe that he flew away from that.... it must have taken hours to unclench him from the seat afterwards!!
c-bert
6th Aug 2009, 10:27
Does no one in Brazil own a decent camcorder?
BarbiesBoyfriend
6th Aug 2009, 12:36
Ground effect saved his bacon!
cliver029
6th Aug 2009, 13:06
Try This One
YouTube - Domingo Aéreo 2009 - AFA - Manobra Perigosa!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blnSpLcCwsI&feature=related)
barnstormer1968
6th Aug 2009, 14:23
I wish the last video had been 'beadwindowed'
I feel sure that someone in the MOD has just seen a way (and cheap) to 'crush' the Taliban, using stored RAF Tucano's:}
deeceethree
6th Aug 2009, 15:14
Pair of idiots! Obviously putting together a show with absolutely no safety gates at all. Shouldn't be allowed on bicycles, never mind aircraft!:rolleyes:
NutLoose
6th Aug 2009, 16:24
They are part of the "Smoke Squadron", The Brazillian Airforce display team of world renown who were to have displayed last year at IAT, indeed they flew there Tucanos here from Brazil, no mean feat in itself, to fail at the last hurdle due to our weather. They are acclaimed as one of the best display teams in the world, hardly a couple of Idiots out to make a name for themselves.
Just shows things do go wrong and the smoke Squadron nearly became the Smoked one....
chippy63
6th Aug 2009, 23:16
No, Griz,
Johnny Foreigner innit
Epiphany
7th Aug 2009, 06:37
What we would refer to as a couple of idiots the Latins call cojones.
Tim McLelland
7th Aug 2009, 06:44
It's interesting though, when you read some of these comments, how people misinterpret things. Bounced? Ground effect? The second video of course shows a pretty neat recovery without any tricks like that.
Takes me back to the infamous Typhoon incident at Fairford where various "expert witnesses" virtually had the aircraft bouncing along the runway through a couple of tents!
Looks like he may have got in the leader's slipstream and decided to roll and pull... lots of yaw on throughout... close one!!