I'd pay for that.
for those in Rio Linda: Like it wasn't staged -- like everything else you see on video?
fantasy-reality-blur alert.
OUTSTANDING!
Hey I don't see anything so terrible about that, although I hope that soldier had some ear plugs as that Harrier went screaming overhead!
Wouldn't you just love to see Comrade Chia Pet in Pyongyang hitting the deck like that as one of those Harriers was coming in at tree top level?
C'mon, it missed him by at least 50 feet. :)
There's a picture out there of a reporter doing a stand-up talking about the Spitfire fighter, and in the distance you hear the drone of an engine...and then the guy suddenly drops to the ground and the Spit howls over the guy balls-out at about 300 mph, maybe ten feet off the ground. Now THAT'S low.
}:-)4
The Harrier ...
Most excellent design ever created ....
For the conversion of fuel to noise.
Can you do a translation for us? Sounds like, "tough it out," but it's not.
The plane was 20 feet or more to the guy's right ... which does nothing to alter the fact that this was cooler than all getout.
When I was in the AF we would make our way to the end of the runway and lay in the grass next to the landing runway. Yes, beer was involved.
the rooster tail is funny.
THESE are kind of folks I want for allies in the WoT! G-d bless 'em all.
No worse than standing on the exterior flightdeck catwalk of an aircraft carrier while they are launching planes. Done it dozens of times. No big deal.
Sweet.
I wonder if the guy in the foreground had to clean out his drawers afterwards.......
Hold mah beer and watch this!
It seems that boys will be boys... Even these days.
A Navy friend tells me of something similar they used to do on aircraft carriers.
When the catapult is released to thrust a jet down the runway, below deck there is a piston that drives the catapult. This piston hurtles forward to perform the launch, stops a few feet from a wall, and then is pulled back for the next launch. The challenge is to stand in front of the piston as it accelerates towards you at enormous speed, knowing in your heart it will stop a few feet from you, but have the guts to stand there and not flinch.
This could be just a sea story. Any confirmation or refutation gladly accepted.
And on the other side, the jihadists let off steam by picking fleas off each other.
I was recruited to fly Harriers in 1989, and performed well on my tests, but failed the vision test. Those guys are strict.
that's kewl