I went to a pretty cool airshow on the weekend. Got a few pics but the most impressive thing was the C130 under JATO.
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Good luck to the Vic Club racers and we'll see ya'll for a BBQ when I get back!
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I went to a pretty cool airshow on the weekend. Got a few pics but the most impressive thing was the C130 under JATO.
See Video
Good luck to the Vic Club racers and we'll see ya'll for a BBQ when I get back!
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Nice,
I take it you're in the States then?
Not very often you'll see F18 & F16's in NZ.
Good shot of the Herc, so did the US not have any globemasters on dusplay? They make the hercs look like a joke!
Is that F4's (first photo) the display team are using?
Last edited by Dafe; 21st June 2006 at 06:54.
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you mean A4 ??Originally Posted by Dafe
Ive run out of fucks to give
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Definately not F-4 or A-4s.
Looks like the french display team - dunno what they fly nowadays, but the colour scheme should be all white with a yellow stripe along the back...
(p/t)
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They arent Mirage are they?
Im assuming that Dafe would have a good idea what the Skyhawk looks like as he was an avionics tech for them (am I right mate?).
Question: is the Jet assist used for short takeoff, or very rapid climb rate?
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You're onto it Skels!
Nope, They definately ain't Heinemann's Hotrods! aka A4-K's.
Two years of working on those, I think I'll one if I see one.
They look like F4's, But they're too small.
They look very similar to Talons. Almost a cross between a Talon and a Macchi.
Last edited by Dafe; 21st June 2006 at 08:56.
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Not f4 Phantom?
Maybe Freedom Fighters! Like the 'Russian Migs' in Top Gun.
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The F4 has quite a pronounced dogtooth on the leading edge, don't thing it's one of those?
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The first pic is of Alpha Jets from the Patrouille de France team
yes they are alphas. here's an F4 - they are a monster, and you know when one of them flies past - like an F1-11 but noisier
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Beauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutiful!!!
The plane that proved that anything can fly if you put enough thrust in it...
I loved the comment from one of the original squadrons to be equipped with them... "it was so ugly, I wondered if it had been delivered upside down"!
Good to see that there are still a handful flying.
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yeah the old Mig/f5 tiger.....i still cringe at that.Not f4 Phantom?
Maybe Freedom Fighters! Like the 'Russian Migs' in Top Gun
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Thank you!!! Thats what i was thinking... F4, A4, Mirage.. ARE YOU ON DRUGS?
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Okay, maybe that last post was a bit harsh... but here's some explanation.
All aircraft mentioned that were incorrect are low-winged aircraft, you can see clearly in the pic that it is a high wing.
A-4, F-4, Mirage are all full delta/wedge wings, the aircraft in the picture is not.
Aermacchi/Talon (aka Tiger) have similar shape but are both low wing aircraft.
If you go by shape alone the only possibly well known look alikes I can think of are the SEPCAT Jaguar or the Harrier.
Aircraft in picture are as follows: F-4, A-4, Mirage, Alphajet, F-5 Talon/Tiger, and Aermacchi.
I was watching discovery channel last night and there was a program on the development of attack aircraft. They called the F-117 Nighthawk the 'stealth fighter' as most people do and then clarified it as actually being a bomber with a payload of two bombs, and no self defence mechanism. Later in the show talking about 'the future' they showed a situation where an AUAV (armed unmanned aerial vehicle) was escorted by two F-117's... tell me, how does an aircraft unable to defend itself defend another aircraft?
Silly people that don't know anything about aircraft, geez!!! Yeh ok, im a fanatic but atleast I get my facts right
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Dont they call it a mig-24? to my knowledge all Mig's have odd numbered designations. I too cringe at that.
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It's better to not pass and know that you could have than to pass and find out that you can't. Wait for the straight.
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