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fougapilot(at)hotmail.com
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: Them Russian are at it again...

One of the perks of being a corporate pilot is that once in a while you end 

up at the right place at the right time. This year was exactly that. I just 

spent the at the Paris Airshow in Le Bourget. And thanks to a good friend of 

mine who connected me to the right people, we (my co-captain and I) were 

guest in one of the many Corporate lodge and were treated to a very nice 

lunch might I ad.



But back to real stuff...



Having spent all morning running away from one TRW+ after another, we feared 

the show would be cancelled. But immediately after our extended lunch it 

began.



First up was the new French Tiger helicopter. Now here is something I had 

never seen; This thing hovers at about 500' then rolls to the inverted and 

pulls a split S.... Then he went on to do a bunch of rolls, but no loop. The 

last manoeuver was something else; again he hovers, then the tail drops to 

the vertical, slides around 1/2 a fuselage length and recover with 3/4 of 

the loop. WOW.



Then came a slew of the high speed stuff. The Rafale (French fighter) was 

impressive (I guess there is only 2 positions on the throttle; Idle or after 

burner. He did the complete show in afterburner... Going to idle only in the 

last manoeuver, a reverse cuban, where he dropped the gear and landed from 

the vertical...), the Eurofighter also, the F16 lived up to its expectation 

and so did the Tornado. But the one I really wanted to see was the last one 

of the day. The Mig 29. Finally I was going to see the cobra manoeuver. The 

Mig took off, did a bunch of usual manoeuvers, did the tail slide (twice) 

and as he was leaving show center to reposition he had a fart. The LH engine 

threw a flame about 20ft out of the tail pipe. The pilot simply dropped the 

gear and landed  I guess I'll have to wait again. You should have seen 

the Russian mechanics, they were all looking for a rock to hide under.



That pretty much it from the French front,



Cheers,

Dan Fortin

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john(at)nielsenford.com
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:38 am Post subject: Them Russian are at it again...

Here is a U-Tube film clip of that what you described in Paris.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wmAlLnqg5c



John Nielsen

Daniel Fortin wrote:

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 One of the perks of being a corporate pilot is that once in a while you 

 end up at the right place at the right time. This year was exactly that. 

 I just spent the at the Paris Airshow in Le Bourget. And thanks to a 

 good friend of mine who connected me to the right people, we (my 

 co-captain and I) were guest in one of the many Corporate lodge and were 

 treated to a very nice lunch might I ad.

 

 But back to real stuff...

 

 Having spent all morning running away from one TRW+ after another, we 

 feared the show would be cancelled. But immediately after our extended 

 lunch it began.

 

 First up was the new French Tiger helicopter. Now here is something I 

 had never seen; This thing hovers at about 500' then rolls to the 

 inverted and pulls a split S.... Then he went on to do a bunch of rolls, 

 but no loop. The last manoeuver was something else; again he hovers, 

 then the tail drops to the vertical, slides around 1/2 a fuselage length 

 and recover with 3/4 of the loop. WOW.

 

 Then came a slew of the high speed stuff. The Rafale (French fighter) 

 was impressive (I guess there is only 2 positions on the throttle; Idle 

 or after burner. He did the complete show in afterburner... Going to 

 idle only in the last manoeuver, a reverse cuban, where he dropped the 

 gear and landed from the vertical...), the Eurofighter also, the F16 

 lived up to its expectation and so did the Tornado. But the one I really 

 wanted to see was the last one of the day. The Mig 29. Finally I was 

 going to see the cobra manoeuver. The Mig took off, did a bunch of usual 

 manoeuvers, did the tail slide (twice) and as he was leaving show center 

 to reposition he had a fart. The LH engine threw a flame about 20ft out 

 of the tail pipe. The pilot simply dropped the gear and landed  I 

 guess I'll have to wait again. You should have seen the Russian 

 mechanics, they were all looking for a rock to hide under.

 

 That pretty much it from the French front,

 

 Cheers,

 Dan Fortin

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