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Military Aircraft Horsing around.
Theres many videos of Military aircraft, including mostly fast jets doing low flybys with soldiers on a runway, but theres the odd chopper and even a 707. A few Airforces are featured but the French Airforce seems to dominate. These events seem pre planned, at kleast well enough to have cammeras.
Its seems to be mostly of deployments to Africa or the Middle East. I though all military ops were tightly scripted and programmed, so how do crews seem to be able to muck around at will with $40 million + assets. |
You think they are real?!!!!
Have you never heard of Photoshop? :E |
Isn't it only chinooks that do the horsey thing? Allegedly.
CG |
*** Pours large Highland Park, cooks some popcorn and sits back in comfy chair to watch *** :E
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NMC,
The answer to your question is well illustrated in the accident to Puma ZA934 on 8 August 2007 and the fatal injuries caused to a soldier at South Cerney some years before, when he was hit by a Hercules, whilst standing on the cab roof of a lorry. A less serious illustration is the Phantom flypast at Cranwell. It's to see how far the boundaries can be pushed and what one can get away with. However, in these days when a simple mobile phone can record it all for posterity and send it round the world in an instant, it becomes more difficult to keep quiet. When it all goes wrong things are really serious. Old Duffer |
The Lancaster Bomber crews in WW2 used to play chicken with other aircraft. They would take turns in shutting down an engine to see who could maintain height on fewer engines. (I have seen photographs of a B17 on 2 engines taken from a Lanc, both props feathered on the wing shown in the photo. Apparantly, the Lanc won). During a war when chances of survival were extremely low anyway, such things didn't seem to matter! Boys 0f 20 will be boys of 20, no matter what the era.
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If you were to ask if there is a systematic culture of 'horsing around' among British military crews these days I think the answer would be no.
People will always conduct low level flypasts but I'm fairly certain they don't go out to intentionally break their auth or do something reckless. |
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Yes Please! Thanks
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The best is still Rah Hannah's with Alain Whatshisname!!
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Nomorecatering,
The Harrier in Afghanistan "I won't flinch" incident resulted in an RAF Board of Inquiry. Vox, Chapter 13: Expedition Benthic Orchid 2, Leaving the RAF, Carol Kitson, Project Ocean Vision and Elysium Strand. Ken Courtnage and Jeane Kitson. |
Argentine Air Force. The aircraft is an FMA Pampa
FMA IA 63 Pampa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cockpit view FMA Pucara |
This looks almost as low as the famous Spitfire takeoff
P-51 Low Pass - YouTube and then there is this - RAF Very Low Level Flight - YouTube |
I believe this is the lowest fly by :E
Pilot pulls up landing gear while on runway - YouTube Don't forget the Gnat.... RAF Very Low Level Flight - YouTube |
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OK, where's the infamous Cranwell Grad flyby?
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trouble is you can only ever equal the record for low flying......
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I though all military ops were tightly scripted and programmed |
OK, where's the infamous Cranwell Grad flyby?
Mike knows!! |
Old Peugeot advert. Low flying Hercules.
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