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delorean79
5th Nov 2015, 08:48
Awesome video.
A380 + Jetman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc&feature=youtu.be)
caneworm
6th Nov 2015, 06:43
Gratuitous self aggrandisement, is Branson now working for EK?
If only the 380 was something pleasant to look at.
puff m'call
6th Nov 2015, 11:45
Yeah they could of at least picked a better looking airliner to do that with!
At least it proves pigs do fly!!!:O
donpizmeov
6th Nov 2015, 12:43
Fellas. It is a daytime flight. Not sure any John Deere pilots are current for that.
ruserious
6th Nov 2015, 15:50
Nothing worse than being the ignored child
notapilot15
6th Nov 2015, 16:03
Any idea how far apart were they and how fast they were flying. Thanks.
glofish
7th Nov 2015, 06:26
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSx4iM1pM5gBhStSysqTjHYp3Ab00NpN38ckh0ZgR0 02EzRhwHBTg
haughtney1
7th Nov 2015, 13:34
Fellas. It is a daytime flight. Not sure any John Deere pilots are current for that.
It's ok Don, some of us are, and besides I quite like the irony of 560t of bacon doing low passes over the Jewel of the Arabian Peninsula.
Juan Heych
7th Nov 2015, 16:00
New inflight wing crack inspection procedure.
Doubt they could get insurance for such a stunt but having unfair govt subsidy to fall back on probably of no concern.
Airmann
8th Nov 2015, 03:41
Heych, you win.
Kobus Dune
8th Nov 2015, 04:57
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 !
PAXfips
8th Nov 2015, 05:29
Here's the "making of" thread+video:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/570246-real-manual-flying-amazing-interception.html
recceguy
8th Nov 2015, 08:07
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/
GoreTex
8th Nov 2015, 14:18
the captain of the 380 has a history, not a good one, but he is protected
nolimitholdem
9th Nov 2015, 20:22
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?