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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: Diesel on June 14, 2012, 03:37:15 PM
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These guys are goooood........
Blue Angels Cockpit Video F/A-18 Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GhhyUtXbjA#)
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:eek :eek :eek Damn they are amazing :-++ :-++ :-++
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Amazing orright! Their precision is awesome.
It looks like helmet-cam, but I can't see how the flying pilot could maintain position while looking out to the side like that. Some shots look like there's a helmet in the cockpit with not camera, which suggests there was a back-seat passenger.
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The whole thing looks like it was shot from the rear seat with a handheld video camera Biggles, there is no way he could get his head with a helmet cam in the angles he did to shoot through the roof. The pilot goesnt have time to look around at other planes and film, he is too busy trying not to hit the other guys.
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Definitely a back seat job. You can see a reflection of the pilot's helmet about mid way through the video, but gee, they are good aren't they!
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Pretty good flying. Shows how little turbulance (and therefore drag) a modern aeroplane puts out to enable them to be that close together. The F18 is a tiny plane for what it can do, and quite powerful too. A bit like the old F111, if you tie a big enough engine to a house brick it would fly. Won't glide very far with a flame out!
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