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Posted: 3/31/2006 7:53:47 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/31/2006 8:02:41 AM EDT
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Those are some pretty fucking manuverable fighters, but that's why they're always crashing. I go to alot of airshows and I never see our guys doing any of that crazy ass shit in a fighter. Percision pases and formations yes, but they don't treat F-18's like acrobatic planes. |
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Posted: 3/31/2006 10:32:29 AM EDT
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The hard deck and flight line rules are so restrictive now for public displays that's pretty much all they can do now in the west, flybys and formation flying… However, a quite Saturday morning on a military airfield, no public, an F-16, and a pilot working up for a forthcoming airshow… 50', full 'burner and bat-turns  ANdy |
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Posted: 3/31/2006 4:27:41 PM EDT
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Does anybody know where there is a downloadable link?
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Posted: 3/31/2006 5:27:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/31/2006 5:41:16 PM EDT
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I think most US pilots would have ridden it in to make sure it didn't hit the crowd. |
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Posted: 4/2/2006 7:10:07 PM EDT
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I think you shouldn't have skipped posts in this thread.  vito said "Soviet fighters have a superb auto-eject system." Those pilots did ride that jet in. The jet just spit them out before it started tumbling. I'd like to know more about these auto-eject systems and what it would've taken to sense the impending disaster and get the pilots out in this situation. Corey |
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Posted: 4/2/2006 7:47:32 PM EDT
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When I tried that link, it only downloaded a GVP link, not a file. Does anybody have any help or advice for the doubly disadvantaged. I have dialup, + retardation working against me but really need to see this. |
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Posted: 4/2/2006 8:08:32 PM EDT
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I say screw all of you laughing at this. After being at the Ramstien air show and seeing what that did to people was awful. That will be something they never forget, I know I don't.
I finally got the nerve to go to the first airshow since that happened last year, and I still flinched watching the Blue Angels. Steven edit: spelling |
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Posted: 4/2/2006 8:49:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/2/2006 11:02:21 PM EDT
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I seem to recall that people in the West started taking serious notice of Russian ejector seats after the Paris air show in 1989 when the pilot walked away from an ejection at about 200 feet with the aircraft pointing straight down at the ground. There was suddenly a lot of interest in mating the Russian systems in non-Russian aircraft. Well, the idea behind Paris is to sell your wares, it's an expensive way of marketing ejection seats, but definitely effective.  Note the chute hasn't opened yet. Russian paratroops tend to be one swing and you're on the ground, it seems that the fighter jocks are about the same way. NTM |
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Posted: 4/3/2006 9:15:54 AM EDT
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Damn!!!!! Sukhoi is making some gorgeous aircraft......that was a great link!!!! |
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