A French E-2 Hawkeye shakes Djibouti on a “low level.”
In French, it almost sounds cool.
Almost.
Update: Is it just me, or did they have to slow the music down to, you know: Go with the rest of it?
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Bring Me to Life sounds normal – though I think the version with Paul McCoy is better.
That techno stuff – who knows if that is regular speed or not? I sure don’t. I like hearing french because it makes me thinks about the swimming relay the other day and then I smile.
Is the island on the carrier very far forward compared to USN? Is that to reduce the burble … or widen the landing zone … or ??? Have to suppose The French have reason for doing it; also that the USN has a reason…….
Is it ‘flathatting’ when you are that high agl and that slow ??
That was a joke wasn’t it? I just got it – well after my edit window closed. Time to go home now, where my family doesn’t know the shame I’ve brought on myself.
AWESOME!!!
The USN puts its islands that far back to make the traffic on the roof easier to manage. They weren’t entirely pleased with the layout of the Forrestal class, where the island was considerably further forward, and the elevators weren’t as usefully arranged. My supposition is that the French, having a significantly smaller ship, had to move the island further forward to clear the angle for landing. Or maybe they just didn’t pay attention to the past 50 years of supercarrier building.
Sweeeet!!
Plane pr0n with REAL aircraft.
‘Cuz you know, all real planes have props.
Why do we have the hate and discontent for the Hawkeye? Why can’t we just stick to making fun of the Air Force?
It’s OK though. We all know it’s just fighter jealousy.
Skippy and Nose are probably having multiple orgasisms(sp?) watching this, as well they should. What a great platform the “Hummer ” has been, and continues to be.
Much better Hummer vid here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lGodVaoMdM
Just out of curiosity, the last time the French Navy fired in anger at another navy was at the United States Navy, right?
Who was the last air force engaged by either french naval aviation or the french air force? Probably Israel?
’tis nothing but prop envy Hummer, simple prop envy…afterall, jets are for kids
- SJS
SJS- did you catch the Gucci comm setup the Frenchies have? Far superior to ours. They can listen to one radio in each ear, and another in both. They can set radio volumes individually, vice using the dial on the radio control set that affects everyone.
I wonder if the Frenchies call it the “Hummer” like we do? I wonder what that sounds like in French?
BT: Jimmy T sends.
wiss zees muusach I poosh zees bottons…zen zee latts zey come on….
heelarious!
Uh oh….
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080813/ap_on_re_us/navy_commander_fired
XBradTC: From gist of article I’m betting on a woman or alcohol–or a combination of the two. Perhaps same problem as the “silky-pony?”
Heheh. “Shake Djibouti.” Get it? Heheh.
What a manly airplane…even if it is flown by the French.
Shut up and drive the bus!
Is that what passes for French combat footage? oooooh. Looked more like a UFO hitching a ride on a COD. But, I agree with SJS that jets are indeed for kids, I’m just not impressed.
I guess an AWACS could practically sink their carrier then, huh?
No offense to Hummer drivers, just to Frenchies that think they are big-league. Pfffft….
Curtis,
Probably Egypt in 1956…. they did come out to play…on our side… in Desert Storm, IIRC.
Dunno if they did anything in Kosovo.
Do our Hummers have those spiffy many-bladed props too?
French RF-8s were active in Lebanon in the 80’s, when analysis of TARPS products was generally prefaced by, “poor quality imagery”…
That was okay, but not nearly as great as this Hummer vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMMceEx72sE
One of THE best Navy vids evah!
Rivaled only by the A-10 as a thing of beauty.
Gotta give the French credit on that level.
The E-2 is the smaller much more capable version of the AWACS. Doing with 5 what it takes the USAF 17 to accomplish.
Then again, flying over Croatia, we always got a sinking feeling when the French AWACS showed up. “Zees is Mageec!”
There went the neighborhood.
Hummer:
Yeah, sure did. But us old schoolers learned early on about positioning your right hand just-so enabling deft selection/deselection of radios. It complicated using the lightpen, but that was a crutch anyway
and Jeff – yep, ours got the 8-bladed props first.
- SJS
What the hell’s up with comments?
I posted a comment this morning and it never showed up.
When I tried to re-submit, it said I couldn’t post a double comment. No bueno.
WTF?
You got sent straight to spam-hell for some reason, pard. I’ve rescued your comment and you should be good to go.
That was boring.
Reminded me of……well, it reminded me of flying Hummers!
That was the most dramatic lights test I’ve ever seen.
As for the pass:
(OK) FX HIM-IC (\AR)
Bronze,
I like that video too. Very creative. CO of that squadron is a buddy of mine. Former professional bullrider (ranked top 5 PBR at one time) and an all around great guy. Callsign – “Cowpie” You know how they say when you go to AOCS/USNA don’t do anything to highlight yourself early on? Cowpie showed up in P’Cola with a belt buckle about the size or a garbage can lid.
Thanks CivilianLex!
Nose, that’s cool!
I wonder if everyone here’s seen it?
Too good to miss.
You are not talking about Ken Klothe are you? We never called him Cowpie………..
(However Ken Klothe is a great pilot). I assume he was 125 CO when this video was filmed……….
Hummer,
The individual volume controls are in US E-2’s now I think……….
Ken K = Blood, CO of -123 a few years back
Cowpie was CO of -113, who is featured in the vids…brains behind the show is actually a S-3 transiton pilot type…great stick behind the boat too (just so you don’t think his only talent is putting together sweet youtube vids).
I served with him in 126. We did not call him blood in those days.
Re: “Low level” No ejection seats in Hummer. Ergo a couple of hundred feet extra for Le Madam!