thankx...
Posted on 02/23/2013 5:45:56 PM PST by Doogle
....a nice short version of Red Flag operations. Super clear IMAX video photography...somewhat "fluffy", but worth the time to view
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
thankx...
incoming
Nothing beats the view of that F15 taking off and going straight up. Watching the wings flex and buffet really adds to that scene, as does the sight of the receding vegetation on the ground being pushed around by the exhaust...
I love aviation. Just love it.
‘I love aviation.’
Great!
As an ordinary citizen, I love flying, if only the little amount I’ve done.
Told our (adult) kids if I’m in a crash, don’t feel bad for me, as I love to fly. . . .
An aside: Many in my family worked for Grumman on Long Island - as did I for a very short while - builder of all those ‘cat’ planes from WWII on, before it was Northrup Grumman, so I am steeped in a bit of aviation.
But I don’t believe that has a bearing on loving to fly,
does it - - ??!
yeah it's slightly contrived as i doubt scene about him getting chewed out about the near miss in debrief was real, but it's not a documentary some of the footage of the fires was prolly gas as high order detonation is over in a flash but over all it was very impressive when i saw at the IMAX in Rochester
Well, it is said that flying is in the blood, so you definitely might have a genetic component...:)
I have loved aviation since I read “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” when I was seven. I got my first sight of real military planes when I landed at Tachikawa AFB when my dad got orders to Yokosuka, Japan. After our plane landed, we taxied past a long row of F4 Phantoms, painted in black and dark green camouflage.
Then, when I lived at Subic Bay, I used to go to the airfield up at Cubi Point and walk all around the planes...the Crusaders...Corsairs, Phantoms and Intruders. Hahaha, now you wouldn’t get within a half mile of them.
Actually, I believe they are pretty serious about those types of things, ceilings, rules of engagement, etc.
But hey, it is fun to watch. I forget where I read it, it might have been in “Bogeys and Bandits: The Making of a Fighter Pilot”, where the author describes fighters mocking and making fun of the “cartoonish” “Top Gun” movie, yet...they all love it.
o yeah, i totally agree about the seriousness of that type of thing, i simply think it was in the script rather than being a real life eventlike i said, it wasn't a documentary but an IMAX Red Flag movie so liberties were taken
I agree.
love the SLUFs...
My wife and I were visiting Arizona, and I came across this plane at the Pima museum that I had actually worked on back in the Seventies...:) That was a real trip...
i bet it was...
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