Thanks, Dawg. Loved it!

What I wouldn't give for a ride in one of those...

Possibly the coolest video I have ever watched!!! Only if I could do it all over again!

Thanks for posting

Is it just me or does anyone else get more out our flying video's? I mean they don't get nearly as close to the ground, land in tight spots on a river, lake, moutain, valley etc....they can't ski(I mean I can't either but for those that can!) on a lake...Fast which is cool but ehhh...id rather fly a "real plane"

piperpainter wrote:Is it just me or does anyone else get more out our flying video's? I mean they don't get nearly as close to the ground, land in tight spots on a river, lake, moutain, valley etc....they can't ski(I mean I can't either but for those that can!) on a lake...Fast which is cool but ehhh...id rather fly a "real plane"

I have to agree with you Bryan. Yes jets and the flying is nothing short of fantastic but I got just as big a kick out of personally watching Blu and Joe doing their thing on the sandbar at Caveman. I can more relate to that kind of flying.
HC

I understand what you are saying, and wouldn't trade the kind of flying we get to do for anything.

However, when it comes to airplane pron, I am an equal opportunity consumer!

Awesome! Thanks for posting.

58Skylane wrote:Awesome! Thanks for posting.

X 100,000,000 love the music too

Is it just me or does anyone else get more out our flying video's? I mean they don't get nearly as close to the ground, land in tight spots on a river, lake, moutain, valley etc....they can't ski(I mean I can't either but for those that can!) on a lake...Fast which is cool but ehhh...id rather fly a "real plane"

Oh, come on. Sounds like a transport type getting after the fighter type.

robertc wrote:

Is it just me or does anyone else get more out our flying video's? I mean they don't get nearly as close to the ground, land in tight spots on a river, lake, moutain, valley etc....they can't ski(I mean I can't either but for those that can!) on a lake...Fast which is cool but ehhh...id rather fly a "real plane"

Oh, come on. Sounds like a transport type getting after the fighter type.

haha na! I enjoy having my bathroom & cooking my steak. They can keep their pee pouch!

Great video thanks for posting it.
Mike

I say let those young bucks enjoy it while they can. It won't be too long before some pimple-faced kid sitting in Creech, flying something the size of an Aeronca Champ that can do Mach 3, will pull a 40g corkscrew to put one up their tailpipe - all while nibbling on a Philly cheese sandwich in his left hand. Nobody wants to see it happen, but reality check says we can't be putting almost half a billion into each interceptor (F22) which is now limited in performance by the meat it carries. Besides, in the last 10 years what exactly have these guys intercepted besides each other and maybe a few hapless Cessna drivers up for a Sunday gawk around DC or P67?

Would I trade places with them for a day? You bet your ass I would!
They'd be pretty disappointed with their end of the deal tho.

Great video. Thanks for posting that.

YB

Very cool video!

I was enjoying watching when I noticed at 3:23; the controller told the F15 driver to break right, the in cockpit shot showed the pilot using his left hand. Got to wondering if guys changed hands at times, or they have a left handed cockpit layout (discarded that idea pretty quick), or...

Finally decided the editor needed an in cockpit shot he didn't have, and reversed the video imaging (didn't even know you could do that). Sure looks like the cockpit labels are backwards.

Regardless...I'd sure like to be flying that bad boy right or left handed...

Tom

Cool video... but I'd rather watch the stuff Emmet and Matt put out any day!

OK Rob - here's one I just uploaded. But I'm tricking you. It's my bro. Well, its actually a short documentary on the Harrier, but they put a camera behind my brother for all of the POV type scenes(shot from behind him on his left). All the raw footage is after the docu., some ACM practice with a new guy.

Best of both worlds Rob!

I want to be an exchange pilot.

I will exchange some time in a 170 for some time in the Harrier.

^^ Great video Emmet, I haven't seen that one before. I have a box of 8mm tapes with a bunch of raw footage I shot with a lipstick helmet camera about 10 years ago. Best stuff I have is a takeoff from the boat, tanker hit, about 45 minutes of low-level (300ft) through the Albanian alps, a target attack and then recovery back on the boat - should make for a cool video if I ever get around to editing it.

Funny thing about that lipstick camera was that it plugged into my video camera, which I tucked off to the right side. When I'd turn the camera on it would kill my second radio and every time the boat's radar swept past it would screw up the picture - wrapping it in tin foil helped a bit.

Ahhh the F-15C, an air-to-air master, love the video...but I'm with y'all on preferring low 'n slow, the uglier the better. Different strokes...

Can anybody tell me when was the last confirmed air ace?...yup, it was that long ago.

Vick wrote:^^ Great video Emmet, I haven't seen that one before. I have a box of 8mm tapes with a bunch of raw footage I shot with a lipstick helmet camera about 10 years ago. Best stuff I have is a takeoff from the boat, tanker hit, about 45 minutes of low-level (300ft) through the Albanian alps, a target attack and then recovery back on the boat - should make for a cool video if I ever get around to editing it.

Funny thing about that lipstick camera was that it plugged into my video camera, which I tucked off to the right side. When I'd turn the camera on it would kill my second radio and every time the boat's radar swept past it would screw up the picture - wrapping it in tin foil helped a bit.

19 Year Old Radar Operator: "I don't know what's going on, sir, but every time Vick flies, all of our radar arrays are replaced by Albanian soap operas."

Captain: "This is serious. Have you done anything to address the situation?"

19 Year Old Radar Operator: "Well, sir, we put tin foil on the rabbit ears to improve reception, and we had the Flight Boss order Vick to keep loitering until this episode is finished. We've already scrambled an extra tanker. It is the season finale, after all."

Captain: "Good work sailor. What have I missed so far?"

For a totally different sort of adrenalin rush, here's just another day at the office:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQLnmdOthmA