F22 - Unbelievable

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Originally posted by Tony Lockhart:
No. Why would it be?

Tony

No reason, I was just enquiring.

There are a lot of fakes on YouTube.....

Fair enough, but flying that low is a cinch for the nut-job pilots that fly these things now. Just a shame that they can't do it on the now-so-boring public air shows.

Tony

quote:

Originally posted by Tony Lockhart:
I used to work on Buccaneers. When on exercise in Nevada, they'd sometimes return with tumbleweed wrapped around various bits. And F-16s stood no chance of keeping up at that level. Transonic, on the deck.

Tony

Do you have a link to the AAA camera view from RED FLAG where the Bucc was flying *around* sand dunes, to the soundtrack of the gunners saying " Gee look at this guy, just watch him Oh my gawd..."

I saw it once, truly astonishing ( as was the Shell Haus and Amiens Prison film. )

Mike,

Been looking for that for years! They showed it to us when I was training to work on Tornado in '82, just to rub it in! Poor old Jag and Vulcan in the distance being 'shot down' with ease, then WOOOOOOOOOOSH!!! There goes a Bucc!

I work with a guy who was an armourer on 208sqn, I'll ask him as he knows more than the internet does!

Tony

PS. A, I'm an armourer, B, I'm an armourer, C, I'm an armourer tooooooo.....

Just read the Andrew might be buying F-18F instead of JSF...

As long as they buy high spec F-18s it's a very good idea.

Tony

Mike,

No luck with tracking down that Bucc/Red Flag video. This one will have to do

[URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0-xnaRSL6g&feature=youtube_gdata ]GiBuccs[/URL]

NICE

This one has some of the same clips plus some other grass cutting shots
I am sure the 3rd clip with the Navy Bucc was way out of order & should be up in front of the OC, but nice, very nice

Low Flying

Up, up and away

Mike,

I was given the above link by my workmate. He was on that Gibraltar detachment with 208Sqn, and twelve days later watched as the poor old girls were cut up. Sad.

Tony

quote:

Originally posted by Tony Lockhart:
After chatting with the guys at work, if it came to a dogfight, Typhoon every time. Great power to weight by far, lighter, and has pylons to hang stores off. The F-22 is turning the USAF's noses up. Good, but no cigar.

We reckon!

Tony

Marshalls?

No. I'm at wattisham on the Apaches. Marshall Aerospace would be handy being so close, but nothing there for me at the moment.

Tony

I've sat in the front seat of an AH-64D.

Not much room...

And I'm 6ft 4........ Thankfully the seats are usually removed! Imagine being sat in there with your flying gear, ballistic jacket, personal weapon and the heat of battle. Not nice.

Tony

Just watched the "Megafactories" documentary on the Boeing plant in Arizona which builds all the Apache helicopters.

In the intro was this sound bite:

" an Apache could the first thing an enemy may see on the battlefield...and probably the last. "

Why is it called a "chain" gun?

The rounds are transported from the magazine, behind and below the pilot, to the gun, below the co-pilot gunner by a continuous chain. Like the old machine gun links.

Tony

I forgot to add: it's this powered chain that transports the rounds, not a recoil mechanism, as found in self-loading rifles, for example. On the Apache, the chain is powered by a hydraulic motor.

Tony

Thanks Tony.

Here's a video I shot at work, testing the gun with dummy rounds. Apologies for the poor quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...youtube_gdata_player

Tony

And on Warrior, the co-axial 7.62 chain gun is mounted upside down.