View Full Version : Afghan "Night Stalker" aircraft in action...
wrench1
10th Jan 2022, 16:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8XMd3UDFB4
Fly it like you stole it..........oooppppssss
ShyTorque
10th Jan 2022, 16:35
Not many survive to do that twice.
212man
10th Jan 2022, 16:44
I like the way they keep filming as if waiting for it to reappear!
treadigraph
10th Jan 2022, 16:53
Amazingly, it seems they did survive though badly injured. "Technical malfunction". A medical one?
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/273795
KiwiNedNZ
10th Jan 2022, 17:16
Afghan "Night Stalker" aircraft in action.
Where does this title come from. First off not even a 160th aircraft, they were sold via FMS as civilian MD530s and are about as far removed from a 160th as chalk is from cheese.
wrench1
10th Jan 2022, 18:12
Where does this title come from.
Its a joke, i.e., play on words, hence the quotes around the stalker bit. But doesn't everybody want to be a Night Stalker when zipping around....:ok:
Two's in
10th Jan 2022, 20:37
Wow! What a totally unexpected outcome. Good to see Exercise 53 (Wazzing and zooming) is a universally recognized syllabus.
212man
10th Jan 2022, 21:49
Amazingly, it seems they did survive though badly injured. "Technical malfunction". A medical one?
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/273795
Probably a ‘seat-cyclic-interface’ malfunction. They’re the worst…..
treadigraph
10th Jan 2022, 21:56
Cyclic a bit sticky was it sir?
Well, yes, as a matter of fact it was
Well I wouldn't go telling the CO that, not if I was you...
Doors Off
11th Jan 2022, 20:24
The ole downwind “shandal” with a bit of DA added, not the first “pilot” to prang from “CIFS” (Crowd/Camera Induced FWit Syndrome).