I got buzzed by a jet fighter

[Steam]

A few years ago we were tramping, and one thundered up the valley BELOW US! We were looking down onto it. It was ducking and banking up the valley, dodging the side-ridges and gulles, very very low.

[CookMySock]

I'm sure I saw this aircraft on the way back from gisborne on wednesday (march 19). It was military-looking jet thing at about 200 feet AGL, 2-3 miles from me, heading south into the hills in the waimana area, not travelling outrageously fast, maybe 200-300kts, at about 1630hrs.. I thought "oh its just the military blasting around the place as usual", but of course the NZ military doesnt FLY combat jets in NZ any more do they... Interesting.

DB

[Mikkel]

The f111 are pretty date too, late 60's or early 70's if my brain hasnt had too many becks and knocks.....

[edit] prettty dated, i'd need a few becks to get it on with an aeroplane

Yep - I guess they slowly started getting sorta replaced by the F-15E Strike Eagle and the F-117. But the F-111 were the ones that was applied to Gadhafi (sp?)... They apparently did a pretty good job.

Aardvark is the NATO designated 'nic' to describe that airframe....just a generic thing....dosent mean much. The Ozzys are the only country in the world to use this aircraft anymore in numbers, a few years back they bought up all the spare parts and as much of the tooling they could as the yanks no longer saw a use for them. This I was told by an ozzy groundy on squadren so I took it as gospel seeing as he worked on them all day everyday.

Oh, I could be wrong - it has happened a couple of times in the past

I just thought it was only used for the ECM version with the big bulby lump on the tail plane and the under-belly target designator. I'd look it right up if I wasn't on my crappy at home dial-up connection.

A few years ago we were tramping, and one thundered up the valley BELOW US! We were looking down onto it. It was ducking and banking up the valley, dodging the side-ridges and gulles, very very low.

A F-111? Don't hang me up on it - but I believe that the F-111B were some of the first planes equiped with radars specialised for *low*-level flight during nighttime - instrument flying.

[Nade]

yes.....the ol' skyhawks used to get pretty low. I remember pilots being given the ol reaming by squadren CO's for flying under transmission wires strung across gullys etc. Have seen damage to Tails from hitting them.
Or the Andovers.....stress meters off the scale after returning from flights....due to pilots being cowboys.....one particular trip I heard of a pilot trying to barrel roll one....weather he succeded I never found out...but even attempting one would be scary enough.
Then there were the mach runs in Ozzy by 2 squadren....the only way to get a skyhawk to break the sound barrier was to put it in a dive and go hard....which they used to do over a beach, starting just off the coast.....aim for an old tin hut on the beach and dive hard....till the owner of the hut turned up on base one day....someone had gotten to close upon pulling out of a dive and passing through the sound barrier and his lil tin hut got flattened by the pressure wave...not sure how true this is but I heard about it back in NZ a few days later. This practice was stopped.

[Kickaha]

yes.....the ol' skyhawks used to get pretty low.:

We used to see the flying down gullys ,we'd be standing on the hillside looking down onto them

We'd hear them coming, they'd pop over the top of the hill down into the next gully, fucking spectacular

[sAsLEX]

Then out of nowhere two skyhawks came up the valley and our level beside us on the mountain.

Those were the days.

Saw the RAF playing in Scotland in some of their new jets up Glen Coe ?sp? and then a few minutes later an old warbird followed it up the valley, I still think the old planes sound much better!

We used to see the flying down gullys ,we'd be standing on the hillside looking down onto them

We'd hear them coming, they'd pop over the top of the hill down into the next gully, fucking spectacular

Looking down on them used to be common from the flight decks of our ships so the dits go

[Quartermile]

Yep - I guess they slowly started getting sorta replaced by the F-15E Strike Eagle and the F-117. But the F-111 were the ones that was applied to Gadhafi (sp?)... They apparently did a pretty good job.
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F 15's theres a fuggin iconic jet, AWSOME AS!!!

[MisterD]

A few years ago we were tramping, and one thundered up the valley BELOW US! We were looking down onto it. It was ducking and banking up the valley, dodging the side-ridges and gulles, very very low.

Used to get that experience up on the Yorkshire moors at home...but with A10's which I can tell you are surprisingly quiet. I didn't think it was possible to creep up on someone in a jet, but it is....no wonder they give tank crews the shits!

[flyingcrocodile46]

Here are some shots of Northrop's Air Vehicle #1 for the Navy's new F/A-37

This prototype was flown on board the USS Harry S. Truman for catapult fit checks.The F/A-37A supposedly is a Mach 3.5, super cruise stealth fighter/bomber/interceptor with a 1000nm combat radius. Top speed is classified, but probably somewhere in the Mach 4 plus range. Also, it is said that there is no phase interval for this aircraft. It has a 10,000 hour life airframe and engines that require replacement only at failure or signs of trouble. F/A-37A Air Groups are to be based out of Whidbey Island and Norfolk with 12 planes to a squadron; four squadrons to a Group.

One last little tidbit, did you notice the pilot is a woman!"

Wouldn't mind the pilot of this sucker buzzing me.

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...fa37talon1.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...fa37talon4.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...fa37talon2.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...fa37talon3.jpg

and check out this video of Russia's latest and greatest... Wow
http://bobandsylvia.com/FIGHTER.htm

[mowgli]

pffffft whats it like in the twisties though.....

I would be a rough ride I suspect. The pigs have Terrain Following Radar to help the pilot hug the ground at high speed. I've heard that the TFR has two settings - hard and soft - to determine how rigidly it follows the contours.

I'm sure I saw this aircraft on the way back from gisborne on wednesday (march 19). It was military-looking jet thing at about 200 feet AGL, 2-3 miles from me, heading south into the hills in the waimana area, not travelling outrageously fast, maybe 200-300kts, at about 1630hrs.. I thought "oh its just the military blasting around the place as usual", but of course the NZ military doesnt FLY combat jets in NZ any more do they... Interesting.
DB

In that area it was probably a vintage aircraft - perhaps a Hunter. As for the Military. While the Sky Hawks are parked up at Woodbourne the Aermacchis are based at Ohakea and are maintained in flying condition to preserve their value. It's less costly to actually take them flying (and prove them airworthy) than it is to conduct all the necessary checks on the ground. They do just enough to check the aircraft and keep the pilots current.

[Steam]

There's no such thing as an F/A-37, those are shots from the movie Stealth.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/a37.asp

Here are some shots of Northrop's Air Vehicle #1 for the Navy's new F/A-37

This prototype was flown on board the USS Harry S. Truman for catapult fit checks.The F/A-37A supposedly is a Mach 3.5, super cruise stealth fighter/bomber/interceptor with a 1000nm combat radius. Top speed is classified, but probably somewhere in the Mach 4 plus range. Also, it is said that there is no phase interval for this aircraft. It has a 10,000 hour life airframe and engines that require replacement only at failure or signs of trouble. F/A-37A Air Groups are to be based out of Whidbey Island and Norfolk with 12 planes to a squadron; four squadrons to a Group.

One last little tidbit, did you notice the pilot is a woman!"

Wouldn't mind the pilot of this sucker buzzing me.

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...fa37talon1.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...fa37talon4.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...fa37talon2.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...fa37talon3.jpg

[flyingcrocodile46]

There's no such thing as an F/A-37, those are shots from the movie Stealth.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/a37.asp

.. Lol

[Dak]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia2OE...eature=related

[notme]

it was fuckin loud,(like earmuffs loud) I am glad I heard it coming, the vineyard workers over the other side of the mountains, in the awatere vally would have shit themselves well and truly, no warning.

fukin aussie cowboys

Somepink like dis?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8124lhm6d7o
sheer horsepower is COOL.

[Mental Trousers]

Odd this thread comes up, I'm pretty sure I saw a C-17 (Or maybe a C-5, but it was quite stubby) flying over wellington today.,

Don't you mean C130 Hercules?? We don't have any C17's and the 6:00pm News would tell everyone if there was a C5 in the country.

EDIT the Aussies have C17's so maybe it was one of those. If it had a T shaped tail plane it was probably a C17.

.... stuff from the movie Stealth (worth seeing for J Biel in a bikini ) ....

and check out this video of Russia's latest and greatest... Wow
http://bobandsylvia.com/FIGHTER.htm

The SU30 is a modernised SU27, which was very cool when it was originally launched and the equal of the F15. They've never been head to head in combat (afaik) so which is better is academic. The requirement that was eventually filled by the F22 meant that F15 never underwent a redesign along the same lines as the SU27.