View Full Version : British in Afghanistan playing "chicken" with Harrier jets.
Satellite Weapon
10-12-2006, 09:22 AM
Nasty headline from ITN news http://www.itv.com/news/world_963d32267df357d1cdf21ac47c2a86d3.html
Anyways, I thought this one was better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEffm-O6gd8
a_very_ex_STAB
10-12-2006, 09:54 AM
No this is playing chicken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27FFoo73Nn0
So what is so bad about it?
http://www.youtube.com/v/LAePIjvNPdI&
German Phantoms doing the same: The third one is nasty! :)
http://www.youtube.com/v/ApM_f-jBlP0&NR
OK, no embedding allowed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApM_f-jBlP0&NR
No this is playing chicken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27FFoo73Nn0
I laughed 'til it hurt! You know, I've heard that music a zillion times yet I can't remember where it came from. Please advise!!
Hypno85
10-12-2006, 07:35 PM
I laughed 'til it hurt! You know, I've heard that music a zillion times yet I can't remember where it came from. Please advise!!
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
:)
usa320
10-13-2006, 03:09 AM
No, this is playing chicken.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_PJIbH8Jys
PrivatePyle
10-13-2006, 03:17 AM
Could of been worse, they could of been hovering above him :)
a_very_ex_STAB
10-13-2006, 04:25 AM
I laughed 'til it hurt! You know, I've heard that music a zillion times yet I can't remember where it came from. Please advise!!
Not sure if you mean't the music at the beginning or the classical music in the second half which is the Radetsky March by Johan Strauss.
SiFiOn
10-14-2006, 01:28 PM
The Phantom wins.
SiFiOn
10-14-2006, 01:58 PM
The Phantom wins.
Or maybe the Blue Angels...
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/7371/147395114d8daf66900oe72d17ea5.jpg
Argyll
10-14-2006, 02:00 PM
Love this guys face when he starts to feel the G- force!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xlFTbvVh9E
loganinkosovo
10-15-2006, 07:36 AM
This starts happening in any war zone when fighter pilots run out of targets.
P-51 pilots at the close of WWII were flying under the Eifel Tower, buzzing French girls, buzzing the G.I.s on the ground, chasing German School kids on their bicycles, buzzing German Civilians trying to cross the rhine river just to watch them jump in the river in fear. this was starting to cause casualities due to "Pilot Error" and pissing 0ff the French so the practice was outlawed and punished if the perpetrators could be found.
Mr_ReAp
10-15-2006, 07:54 AM
the thing is, the general public dont understand that soldiers want a little fun aswell, no harm came from those guys playing chicken with the harrier, and the only danger would come from pilot error, yet again its the public overreacting and making out that soldiers need to be proffessional all the time, everywhere at every hour of the day, which will happen.... WHEN THEY ARE WORKING.
IsrTor
10-15-2006, 09:43 AM
the thing is, the general public dont understand that soldiers want a little fun aswell, no harm came from those guys playing chicken with the harrier, and the only danger would come from pilot error, yet again its the public overreacting and making out that soldiers need to be proffessional all the time, everywhere at every hour of the day, which will happen.... WHEN THEY ARE WORKING.
There is no reason to play with guns, a plane flying so low is dangerous anywhere. Its a very basic military(and civilian) rule, not to play with guns. If they want to play those kind of games, theres plenty of civilian ones which don't invlove high speed fighter jets.
Mr_ReAp
10-15-2006, 09:45 AM
i didnt see any guns anywhere.... i saw a harrier jet though, as i said, i see no problem, they were having a laugh which involved no danger
Hydro
10-15-2006, 09:47 AM
There is no reason to play with guns, a plane flying so low is dangerous anywhere. Its a very basic military(and civilian) rule, not to play with guns. If they want to play those kind of games, theres plenty of civilian ones which don't invlove high speed fighter jets.
What guns?
Vandervahn
10-15-2006, 10:01 AM
...no harm came from those guys playing chicken with the harrier,
How about hearing damage for a start?
... and the only danger would come from pilot error,
Yes... and flying hi-speed low-level greatly reduces this margin of error. See the problem?
...yet again its the public overreacting and making out that soldiers need to be proffessional all the time, everywhere at every hour of the day,
Overreacting? Personally, I would expect that expensive planes bought from taxes, flewn by pilots trained with taxes, equipped with weapons bought from taxes would not waste fuel bought with taxes to create funny videos for their leisure. Thats exactly the same kind of tax waste one would criticise with a community that buys unnecessary bridges and such.
Nothing wrong with soldiers letting off some steam.... but should that involve putting their lives AND so much money´s worth of equipment into danger? The "public" is very well in the position to argue about such practises.
Amateur
10-15-2006, 06:10 PM
Or maybe the Blue Angels...
Or maybe greek pilots flying their Phantoms between the trees...
and between the waves...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PF8A11AWTY
Not bad, huh?
Breakfast in Vegas
10-15-2006, 06:22 PM
Civilians and military don't mix, get it? Am always surprised when these kind of things got blown out of proportion in the press.
If the boys want to have some fun, let them have some fun. There are a lot worse things they could be doing because they're bored...
...as for the ultra low altitude flybys, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.. :)
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