I found this and thought I would share. All I can say is that it must have taken nerves of steel to stand there and let this jet fly just above his
head.
Why did the "force" of the jet passing overhead, nearly blow over the camera man, but the guy standing out in front of the camera didn't get moved
at all?
I dunno - I've seen a few of these type of vids - here's a rocking A-10 one...
Now his 'hat' well I don't know the proper term for it but it looks like a ground crews headset. - edit: They come strapped on real
good!
As as for the camera man - well wouldn't you flinch a little - I know I would!! - and the angle looks like the camera operator is crouched to make
the angle make the plane look closer to the guy.
Look at the anhedral of the wings, AND tailplane. This automatically excludes the Harrier, Super Etendard, Jaguar, and maybe the Alpha Jet.
It sounds like a Mirage F1, they are pretty distinctive...
Sweetest job ever.
Watch 1:05 - 1:15... 1:25 good lord.
Love the shape of the Mirage F1...
perhaps the vid in the OP was from the Wild Fly series?
I'm betting it's real. It's not the first time we've seen something similar, particularly with a French Aircraft. Also, it was likely not the wind
that pushed the cameraman down, rather, the cameraman flinching. Even at airshows, people can miss camera shots because they're trying to protect
their ears... because it's so loud, not because of the wind (although a B-1 almost blew me over once, the air was nice and toasty. )
i wish I could have been a fighter pilot, it was all i ever wanted to be as a kid, then had a bit of a little miss sunshine moment when I realised i
didn't have 20 20 vision. a bit like this
My understanding is you don't need perfect 20/20 vision. On the RAAF website it says 20/40 (worse than 20/20), unaided, unguided. I've heard other
sources say up to 20/70, and then there's always Laser Eye Surgery.
Watch the end of Little Miss Sunshine. Dwayne says that if he wants to fly he will find a way to fly.
yeah its more of a slight blindness in my left eye that can only be sorted with a cornial graft. so Im hardly Top Gun material.Nowadays I guess i
would also have a moral problem of dropping bombs on people. don't really like war. Just always had a fascination with Fighter jets.