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2006-06-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Awesome film of flying fighters 100 feet off the ground

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Posted by Sherry 2006-06-17 13:27|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It is difficulto to say but the planes look awfully like French Mirage F1s. Sirrendering monkeys at 100 foot oof the ground.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-06-17 14:58|| 2006-06-17 14:58|| Front Page Top

#2 My guess: South Africa, from troops on the ground and planes Mirage F1 and Mirage IIIs, Puma Helicopter.

Posted by ed 2006-06-17 15:47|| 2006-06-17 15:47|| Front Page Top

#3 One of my favorites: http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/images/bold_pilot.mpg

Posted by ed 2006-06-17 15:53|| 2006-06-17 15:53|| Front Page Top

#4 My guess: South Africa, from troops on the ground and planes Mirage F1 and Mirage IIIs, Puma Helicopter.

French planes in the USA during one of those red flag exercises: look like Monument Valley.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-06-17 17:08|| 2006-06-17 17:08|| Front Page Top

#5 It's indeed Mirage F1´s.

Posted by Jinesh Angaitch2092 2006-06-17 17:35|| 2006-06-17 17:35|| Front Page Top

#6 But the more l look at it and the less it looks like Monument Valley so you are probably right it should be South Africa. So this isn't Red Flag and these arean't French pilots.

Bummer, I just love Monument Valley (often watch John Ford movies for it) and I would have loved being able to show this movie to people who make racist jokes about French (1), even when the French in question risk his life every day.

(1) It is Ok to make jokes about the French in general, but I hate when the persion implies every French is a coward. I still haven't digested someone sugegsting that a group of French carrier pilots who landed ion the Us were trying to surrender. Landing on a frigging carrier (1) requires steel balls so carrier pilots (and a few other people) should be off limits for this kind of jokes.

(1) Specially when carrier is small and slow (the faster the carrier the easier to land in it) like the Charles de Gaulle and the plane has a long nose and a delta wing like the Rafale fighter.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-06-17 18:06|| 2006-06-17 18:06|| Front Page Top

#7 hokay JFM - we know not "every French is a coward" - somehow though, you've managed to let them get in positions of potential power, like our Democrat party

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-17 18:12|| 2006-06-17 18:12|| Front Page Top

#8 JFM, you have to learn to forgive our American friends :-) It's hard, I know...

Posted by Rafael 2006-06-17 19:13|| 2006-06-17 19:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Cap't Lex of http://www.neptunuslex.com/
A top gun F-18 fighter pilot wrote:

Dad would be so pissed, if he found out.

What really amazes me? Therefs a point or two in there where the videographer - who I swear, canft be much above 50 AGL, and thus is never more that four-tenths of one second from dying, picks up and casually glances at a map, or twiddles with a knob on the instrument panel. Ifve been that low before. Never tried to read a map while doing it, though.

Donft try that at home.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2006-06-17 19:18|| 2006-06-17 19:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Sweet video.

Posted by Mike 2006-06-17 20:11|| 2006-06-17 20:11|| Front Page Top

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