Another fun video

a reply to: Zaphod58
Just like the Cobra Ball sure take off and landing are great but a walk in the inside is way better.

How about this one. Airliner landing without the landing gear...

Ok, shameless self promotion but I had fun making it:

Always nice to watch a professional at work.

Thanks Zaph for resurrecting this thread..Nothing like a good head bang and devil horns at 07:50 AM in yer pojammies.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Wow That's some serious swing manouver's he's got going there. how the hell is he grabbing and letting go of the trees at pace.

a reply to: Zaphod58

I wonder how long those helicopters last doing this kind of work? It has to be super stressful on the air frames.

How would you like to be the guy on the ground responsible for hooking the cable from the chopper to the bundles of trees? You have mere seconds to grab the hook coming at you at alarming speed and hook it to the bundle before it get jerked up.

a reply to: Sammamishman

Any blues scout could do it once they got the timing down,we had to bend rules and do things a bit DIFFERENT from normal air assault stuff in Korea sometimes.
We had to move REAL fast on alerts.
It made sling loads REAL interesting too.

Awesome video, Zaphod... thanks, sir.

Hard to believe F-15s are 40 years old and still such a bad arse machine. I've heard pilots waxing rapturous over them for all these years.

Love to ride in one before death... but alas, they're one seaters... lowering the odds that will ever happen by quite a lot!

a reply to: Baddogma

B, D, and E models are two seaters. I've gotten to sit in back of a D model during an engine run.

Just saw this one about airbus.

no barrel rolls though.

Long time lurker, first time poster.

How about some AFSOC MC-130s?



MC-130P retirement video:

vimeo.com...

Dang I love where I live......

a reply to: Sammamishman

At least they mounted their cameras.

In 2011 I was debriefing a LtCol in Bagram when he pulled his camera out of his pocket and told me I just had to see what he recorded. He then shows me this video of him streaking through a canyon at low level, it was an awesome video. But when it was over, I asked him where the camera had been. He said, I was holding it next to the HUD. I looked at him and asked, you were flying at high speed at a low level through a canyon in a warzone with one hand on the stick and the other holding a camera?

He looked at me for a second and said.... maybe I shouldn't show this to the flight safety officer.....

a reply to: Zaphod58

How about these Zaph. Im sure you have seen them before, but its the one at the end which had me laughing

www.youtube.com...

time for new undies I think

a reply to: Sammamishman

Is that guy at 1:23's callsign "Poop"? There must be an interesting story behind that one...

a reply to: nelloh62

Any fighter puke can do a low pass. It takes a real man to pull this off.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Here's one to bring back some memories:



That seams like a lot of stick moving to get that BUFF to move. Lol.

a reply to: Sammamishman

You don't fly a B-52, you throw it.

My father had one, tail number 007 I think it was, that they bent. I mean you could stand on the top near the cockpit, and SEE where the fuselage was twisted. Some sick bastard decided it would make a good training aircraft. The reason I say he was a sick bastard is that one of the training flights required flying by hand, no trimming. Many pilot trainees were seen getting off the aircraft after the flight, rubbing their back, and plaintively asking, "Do they all fly like that sir?"

I think the crosswinds get a little strong at this airport.