Spill your coffee, or tea what have you

[Letum]

nice moustache

[Coen020]

you've got fancy planes and ugly planes, ugly planes often being still cool looking. But this thing is just horror. Weird nose, no real logical form. just plain ugly.


btw peterpanpan, your vid isn't working. atleast for me it isnt.

Nice catch.

[Sven]

Blasphemy, there is no such thing as an ugly plane, only ugly faces of the pilots who fly it.

[PeterPanPan]

Originally Posted by Coen020

btw peterpanpan, your vid isn't working. atleast for me it isnt.

Nice catch.

yeah, I see that now, thanks. For some reason the 'embed' doesn't work. Just click on the link in the top of the video window and you can then watch it.

[Heliocon]

I didnt get the arrestor hook either, like said if they are coming down slow you would think they would want to ease the plane onto the tarmac instead of losing airspeed fast with the hook and bellyflopping. I mean thats australia and in the summer I wouldnt be surprised to see the tarmac being able to cook an egg on.

Also why didnt they dump their fuel before the landing? Isnt that standard procedure for emergency landings?

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

I didnt get the arrestor hook either, like said if they are coming down slow you would think they would want to ease the plane onto the tarmac instead of losing airspeed fast with the hook and bellyflopping. I mean thats australia and in the summer I wouldnt be surprised to see the tarmac being able to cook an egg on.

Also why didnt they dump their fuel before the landing? Isnt that standard procedure for emergency landings?

That's why they needed the arrestor hook, it was stinking hot and there were a couple of slabs of beer in the fridge, and the crew didn't want too miss out by landing at the other end of the runway, this also explains why one of the crew jumped out leaving his mate behind

Originally Posted by Sven

Blasphemy, there is no such thing as an ugly plane, only ugly faces of the pilots who fly it.

*cough cough*

Originally Posted by Tiger27

That's why they needed the arrestor hook, it was stinking hot and there were a couple of slabs of beer in the fridge, and the crew didn't want too miss out by landing at the other end of the runway, this also explains why one of the crew jumped out leaving his mate behind

yep, here's a pic of the ATC tower

[xnomad]

That bit at the beginning when they fly over the coast very low reminds me of when I was surfing in the middle of nowhere and an F/A-18 did the same to me. Scared the living crap out of me!

[Coen020]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger

*cough cough*

i still think that thing looks better then the f-111.