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#411 Post by heuhen »

That crazy. it reminds me of an private plane landing on a beach, where it was only half a meter from hitting a man... that was lying down... and by hitting, I mean by the propeller!

This is from Norway, F16 VS a power-line in a low flying exercise... It show also that the F16 can survive a accident ... crash like that... uhm what!
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#412 Post by Radome »

So all it got was some scratchs and dents on the wing?

check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE

same thing happened with a F-4 Phantom some years earlier. Also in Israel...
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#413 Post by heuhen »

It must be an error in the matrix.... some fighter jet's can do it, but they will be more like an expensive rocket than plane.


Here in Norway a pilot in a F-104 Starfighter (aka the rocket). was doing a high speed test flying with it, with extreme turns and climb. result was that he lost control of the plain. The F-104 flipped, from several thousand meters for hitting the sea, for just bounce of it and flown up to the limit height of the engine.. the engine didn't get air so it stopped, and he was free falling for a long time, until he managed to start the turbine again and get control of the plain. as he said " I was flying a rocket, soo all I did was try to turn opposite of what I was spinning, and just gave full Throttle". He flown back home to base, and when they asked him what happened, he just said: "First I wanted to fish, but then I wanted to see the stars...!"
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#416 Post by Cybermax »

Fata Morgana optical illusion?

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#417 Post by heuhen »

the first things coming to mind is, Photoshop is strong in this one!
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#418 Post by Krakatoa »

No photoshop used.

Its from the Scottish Golf Open at Aberdeen. They went several times to that view, the commentators saying how it looked like it was floating in the sky.
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#419 Post by heuhen »

When a NSM is launched, it is launched upside down!

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#420 Post by RP1 »

... and once it's the right way up, the nose stays in a fixed orientation. i.e. to turn, the missile rolls around the seeker. Is very crafty.

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