EK A380 + Jetman video
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Fellas. It is a daytime flight. Not sure any John Deere pilots are current for that.
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Fellas. It is a daytime flight. Not sure any John Deere pilots are current for that.
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Al least it proves that the A380 doesn't have too much wake or induced turbulence (even if they carefully avoided flying immediately behind the aircraft itself, in a way very similar to fighters positioning prior to in-flight refuelling)
Undoubtedly those two gentlemen (french-swiss and french) had ironballs: the slightest mistake in flying too close to one of the invisible vortices and that would have been an uncontrollable sudden departure (remember the XB-70 Valkyrie mid-air collision on June 8, 1966, when an aircraft much bigger than those flying men was sucked within the wake of the massive bomber..)
As for the pilot flying the 380 ... well ... apart from performing holding patterns with flaps down, I don't really see the point - but they will probably explain in the next couple of weeks that they did rehearse for hours on simulator !
Undoubtedly those two gentlemen (french-swiss and french) had ironballs: the slightest mistake in flying too close to one of the invisible vortices and that would have been an uncontrollable sudden departure (remember the XB-70 Valkyrie mid-air collision on June 8, 1966, when an aircraft much bigger than those flying men was sucked within the wake of the massive bomber..)
As for the pilot flying the 380 ... well ... apart from performing holding patterns with flaps down, I don't really see the point - but they will probably explain in the next couple of weeks that they did rehearse for hours on simulator !
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Here's the "making of" thread+video:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...erception.html
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...erception.html
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Although somebody seems to disagree in the video, the real leader of the show in flight was Capt S..a, ex FAF Mirage 2000 pilot, and now CEO of the little Aerovision company in Toulouse, which specialises in air-to-air operations (this time in Dubai with a Corvette, a little-known french business jet contemporary of the much more successful Falcon 20)
They have been making all the pictures for the Airbus factory at Toulouse for 20 +years - a quite demanding job (first flights, special formations, new liveries..)
Enjoy the pictures :
http://www.aerovision.fr/air-to-air-images/photos/
They have been making all the pictures for the Airbus factory at Toulouse for 20 +years - a quite demanding job (first flights, special formations, new liveries..)
Enjoy the pictures :
http://www.aerovision.fr/air-to-air-images/photos/
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More fiddling while Rome burns. Like that stupid video with dubbed-in crowd audio to make it sound like anyone is excited while EK rips off the Air New Zealand ads with a safety demo to start a football game.
Seriously, has EK ever had an original idea in their life?
Seriously, has EK ever had an original idea in their life?
