Other Means Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Harrier or Mirage? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 If you look where the wings are fixed and at what angle they are, it clearly isn't Mirage 2000. Harrier's wings are set up like that, fixed at a rather high point and tilted downwards. edit: well, Mirage F1 has a similar layout for the wings. Can't tell, really. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted September 20, 2009 Author Share Posted September 20, 2009 Yep. That's what I thought. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted September 20, 2009 Author Share Posted September 20, 2009 Bugger - it IS a Mirage. The tailplane isn't canted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Not a Harrier - no anhedral angle on the tailplanes, which on a Harrier is very pronounced, and there appears to be a centreline tank which would be incompatible with the Harrier undercarriage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Mirage F1. Look at the tail. Harrier has those at a downward angle. The story behind is that it's a bet between the pilot and a guy from the FFL in regards to if the kepi would stay on. I guess Chad is a really, really boring place. Not sure weither to compliment the pilots skill and precision or the FFL's balls. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted September 20, 2009 Author Share Posted September 20, 2009 Mirage F1. Look at the tail. Harrier has those at a downward angle. The story behind is that it's a bet between the pilot and a guy from the FFL in regards to if the kepi would stay on. I guess Chad is a really, really boring place. Not sure weither to compliment the pilots skill and precision or the FFL's balls. Where'd ya hear that fella? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Another video site at GeenStijl.nl and I googled around with the info gleaned there and that particular story is uniformly repeated. Ofcourse, it's not a kepi but a beret, that's my bad. And guy=officer, reportedly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Ofcourse, it's not a kepi but a beret... Looks like a forage cap to me, but the picture quality is too poor to say definitively. That's kind of an odd collar he seems to be wearing at the beginning. But maybe that's just hearing protection. Again, hard to say. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 It looks like a Mirage F1M to me. But I wonder if this is not a montage. The soldier's foot closest to the left side does not seem to leave a shadow as he walks, only on the right side do we see a shadow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Maybe he is a vampire. Or a ringwraith. Or maybe the picture quality is just lousy. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Can't be a vampire then, cos they do leave shadows.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 He doesn't sparkle, therefore he can't be a vampire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Have you considered that the guy/officer/undead may have been pre-chambered? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 I thought we demolished that argument years ago? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Can't be a vampire then' date=' cos they do leave shadows.... Are you sure that "shadow" wasn't just painted on to fool aerial recon? Those Swiss are very tricky, you know. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Those are just skillful plywood copies built (with Swiss perfection) to confuse enemies, real things would burn in daylight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Great in a dogfight.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 *groan* Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Clearly a Fido Foo Fighter Mark VII. The Mark VIII had windscreen wipers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Fido didn't make the MkVIII 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Fido didn't make the MkVIII Actually they did turn out a handful, but then it was discovered that the windscreen wipers prevented it from going supersonic, so the rest of the production run reverted to MkVII standards. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pvt. Ryan Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Nope - see - it never made it past the mock-up stage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Nope - see - it never made it past the mock-up stage. Ah, but you mistake the covert CIA Fido Flea Flipper, a black project, for the Mark VIII. The highly advanced Flea Flipper was canceled by the cowardly Carter administration when it was made clear in computer simulations that there was no way to protect innocent civilians on the ground from ejected supersonic poo.. er, debris. The protective anti-radiation sunshade of the Flea Flipper was adapted to the super-secret Catamount XR-9 surveillance craft, but that is a different discussion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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