Can you come any closer?


How close do you want me?


Is this close enough?


How about now?


Or do you want me to come inside?

Kool!

How is the wake not a factor?

Holy crap!!

Awesome. Just... awesome. I'd be a little intimidated as the camera guy. I hope everything was locked down.

Mister701 wrote:

"I'm too close for guns, switching to knives!"

Absolutely awesome. Should somebody have a word with the pilot about protocols?

Now I remember Graham saying he saw those guys when dead-heading back from one of his patrol runs. I still don't know how they all deal with the wake. Thanks for sharing though!

wyomingiswindy wrote:
Now I remember Graham saying he saw those guys when dead-heading back from one of his patrol runs. I still don't know how they all deal with the wake. Thanks for sharing though!

Wake vortices aren't fully formed until a few hundred feet or so behind an aircraft, and lower AOA produces less powerful vortices. At those distances, directly behinds the place to be. Think aerial refueling.

No expert, but I'd wager a Photoshop job.

NO FORMATION FOR ME -I've done 3000 hrs in Formation -Helicopters less than a rotor span apart with PROFESSIONALS - no time for amateurs

Don,t fly formation and we won't have another mid air like High Serra

182 STOL driver wrote:Don,t fly formation and we won't have another mid air like High Serra

really????

robw56 wrote:

182 STOL driver wrote:Don,t fly formation and we won't have another mid air like High Serra

really????

X100. Wow...

Ok ZZzz. Shut her down. What the hell just happened? This a photo shoot of two military aircraft flying the same direction. Nothing in common with anything other than professional formation flying.

Gump and I were doing formation flying one time. He did not know it. I stayed about 200 ft above and 400 ft behind. That is close enough for me.

Tim

So you guys are saying.

you can understand 182 STOL Driver's posts. Is this real life

looks like one of those "field of view" photos...look how big the clouds look in the really close pic, versus how small they look when he's farther away.

Wont comment on the formation flying, as I haven't had enough to drinky

Zzz wrote:So you guys are saying.

you can understand 182 STOL Driver's posts. Is this real life

I'm glad you said something Zzz, cause for a moment there I thought I was back in the '60's.

Phew!

I hope nothing comes out the back of the camera aircraft and goes in to those two big square garbage cans under the radome. FOD!
Is that a Saab Fighter?
Cool pics thanks for posting it.