Posted on 12/19/2010 9:31:42 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Swedish fighter jet tows sledges – YouTube video
A Swedish fighter jet was used to tow three toboggans in a plane crazy stunt.
This sledging clip on YouTube has really taken off
Yep, it's snow joke - with the Mission Impossible theme playing in the background the jet powers along a snow-covered part of an unnamed airbase pulling three riders who are all dressed in pilots uniforms.
What would have happened if the pilot at the controls of the plane – a Saab Viggen - had engaged the afterburners by accident doesn’t bear thinking about. Some seriously quick panning would have been required by the cameraman.
The astonishing clip has become a YouTube sensation, having clocked up nearly 70,000 hits.
The Royal Air Force commented to Metro.co.uk that there’s no chance of such a crazy stunt being repeated on British soil – mainly because it hasn’t got any jets left to perform one.
So we can be thankful to the Swedes for providing us with some much-needed jet-powered Christmas merriment.
Interesting that they can get away with this.
Intersting, but I so hate how every article in the UK is written with lame-ass puns. And 70,000 hits is not quite a “sensation”. I’ll bet the writer was sent the link by a friend and decided he had to do something to make a deadline.
We protect the free world so they have time to goof off.
That is funny. Just goes to show that there are red-necks in Europe also. It might have been better if the guys on the sleds were dressed in Santa costumes.
From the front it looks like a F-4 Phantom II but the profile and aft views say no (at least to my eye). I did not know the Sweeds had used the Phantom. Is it a knock off manufactured by SAAB?
Now does it look like a Phantom
Not at all! LOL SAAB JA 37 Viggen
Our troops are getting killed and pawned by the muslim. Yesterday they got a wrose Christmas present. Keep watching TV and support Hollywood because all of TV and Hollywood support Hussein including Prince Al Waleed’s Fox.
I give the Swedes credit they do not elect Muslims to run their country.
I guess Christmas has not been banned there yet. It is in banks in the United States thanks to the muslim.
It must have been some flyby to do that.
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Too funny.
NOt really cost effective but cool.
Yeah, I was wondering if it was an F-4 from the front view also. The exposure was so bad I couldn’t tell if the horizontal stabilizers were pitched down or not. But as it turns you can clearly see not. Probably a European plane designed around the same era and mission.
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