What you don’t want to see when you look out the window of your plane — air force fighter jets

news.com.au ^ | AUGUST 20, 2017

[Ronin]

Looks like a Rafale to me, but what do I know?

I’ve seen fighters form up on jetliners before if they happen to be going the same direction. Kinda cool to see the pilots waving at the airliner passengers.

[AndyJackson]

If the fighter were about to shoot you down you wouldn’t be able to see him.

[fella]

If they’re in formation there’s no worries. If they were going for a shoot they be on the 6 and the passengers would never see it coming.

[null and void]

They could have hung back a few hundred meters and been invisible to the passengers.

They were deliberately showing the (white) flag.

[sukhoi-30mki]

That’s a Mirage-2000. The shape of the air intakes and wing design (”classic” delta with no wing-tip pylons) show it’s a Mirage.

[bunkerhill7]

The planes near Spain can be seen mainly thru the panes.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Perhaps, but alas, tis only a Mirage :)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Don’t attempt to take off in heavy percip. The planes in Spain fall mainly in the rain.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

““(My husband) was terrified and it didn’t help that loads of other passengers came by us to look out at it,” she said.””

Your husband is gay.

[Ciexyz]

Was Liam Neeson on board? 😂

[lacrew]

[moovova]

Thank you for your comment...saved me the time.

[GOYAKLA]

Genius, times three!

[Sequoyah101]

Those are just pretty airplanes. They have a subtle edge over the F-106.

[Enchante]

Lady, tell your husband to remove his pink p#ssy hat. Better yet, dump the husband and find yourself a real man!

[Thunder 6]

This.

Pretty standard procedure to send up someone to take a look if the ATC loses comms with the aircraft. Passengers were “terrified” of a fighter escort? What has become of Europe?

[Yaelle]

The planes near Spain can be seen mainly thru the panes.

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Got me, rofl.

[morphing libertarian]

XLNT

[jimtorr]

The U.S. military frequently flies helicopters and other aircraft north-south over the Cascade Mt western foothills, just to the east of where I live.

Thursday night a formation of choppers and what I can only conclude was a C-130 configured for aerial refueling flew over, headed south, low and slow. The C-130 was outlined by steady, bright blue lights.

Night chopper refueling exercise?