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This is pretty cool too. Check the Jags there towards the end. Omani livery, if I’m not much mistaken. Flown by Brit expats I should expect.
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Spaceship Two and moreBy lex, on February 6th, 2008
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Notice the 3rd Jag trying to outdo the first 2, and succeeding? Rockin’!
The Viggie at the begining is cool if you ask me.
1978-USS Nimitz. Me, on the bridge, watching one go off CAT III in burner. It lit up the whole flight deck. COOL!
The Viggie in the video is actually the original “straight back” bomber version, the A3J.
That particular footage appears to be from the initial carrier suitability trials.
Got a good show by the Omani “Jag-yew-ares” south of Masirah. Looking back, it was during the monsoon and choppy, so it must’ve been rougher than a cob for them as they got into ground effect and started leaving their wakes.
Kind of incongrous listening to the Brit expats’ radio calls in that characteristic calm monotone they use while watching them do what they did…
Cool. Cool. Noticably absent from the ‘speed’ category: le Hornet (save the Rhino that appears to be neck and neck with a “puffy white cloud”.)
(Just a wee bit o’ jealousy…from someone who only knows this side o’ 300 k-nots.)
Yeah, but the Hornet made up for it with the vapor effects.
Er….um… Mr. Safety guy… wasn’t the sink rate of that A-4 toward the end almost terminal?
Not an A-4.
My uneducated guess is a Rafale.