Video: Flying Through A Desert Canyon In A Mirage Jet

By Monday September 1, 2008





26 Comments
  1. Stars & Bars says:
    9/1/2008 at 4:42 am

    One of the best uses of a fighter jet I’ve seen.

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  2. eyeofthetiger says:
    9/1/2008 at 5:18 am

    Nice audio track, but I want to hear the jets.

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  3. Pete says:
    9/1/2008 at 5:36 am

    Fighter pilots have all the fun..

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  4. Jägermeister says:
    9/1/2008 at 5:47 am

    Very nice video! Reminds me off the French helicopter pilots…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SloCREJoV6o
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDjwdYflfM8
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=224_1196985368

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  5. BigJoe says:
    9/1/2008 at 6:01 am

    Can’t help but think… …doesn’t it look a lot like a pod race I saw once…

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  6. bobbo says:
    9/1/2008 at 6:19 am

    Well, that strikes me as stupidly wreckless. Can achieve every bit the same by dodging clouds and if you are a bit off, no harm.

    I kept my plane low once after take-off from Addis Abbaba and flew low over tribal huts and what not. Went over a ridge and almost got taken out by a flock of birds. Never stayed low again after that, but it was fun while it lasted.

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  7. Greg Allen says:
    9/1/2008 at 6:29 am

    Join the military as a teen and get paid to screw around with a $25 million dollar toy. (and even crash a few, like John McCain.)

    Quite young and use the FREE government training to earn six figures as a commercial pilot.

    Then spend your retirements years complaining when single moms get $437 a month.

    Republicanism rocks!

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  8. TomB says:
    9/1/2008 at 6:59 am

    #7, So what would you do to fix it? Give the mom flight training, too?

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  9. JTE says:
    9/1/2008 at 7:21 am

    Pretty good flying for a Frenchie!

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  10. Paddy-O says:
    9/1/2008 at 8:27 am

    #7 What are you babbling about? You don’t want the US to have Navy, Air Force or Marine Corp pilot?

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  11. Miguel says:
    9/1/2008 at 9:27 am

    Great video, but what really makes it is Johnny Cash’s song! Cooooool, man!

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  12. Unimatrix0 says:
    9/1/2008 at 9:31 am

    Oh yeah….flyin like that is all well and good until someone gets an eye put out.

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  13. Balbas says:
    9/1/2008 at 10:04 am

    What kind of Mirage was that?

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  14. mikel says:
    9/1/2008 at 10:10 am

    It seems to me the jet jockey has it throttled WAY back… I expected to see a lot more speed.
    Unless there’s some reason it can’t reach its limit at low altitude…

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  15. Jim W. says:
    9/1/2008 at 10:38 am

    Extended version via Youtube.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol74hOJtWOA&feature=related

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  16. Paddy-O says:
    9/1/2008 at 10:41 am

    #14 “Unless there’s some reason it can’t reach its limit at low altitude…”

    Inadequate avionics.

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  17. chris says:
    9/1/2008 at 1:26 pm

    I have no basis for this, but I’d guess it’s Israeli. They have good reason to. It goes with the territory they’d have to fly over when making an attacking run. Any potential targets have very poor air wings but lots of ground based air defense. Since most of that stuff is numerous, poorly manned and maintained, and lower end Russian, slower and very low is the way to go.

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  18. Paddy-O says:
    9/1/2008 at 1:33 pm

    #17 “I have no basis for this, but I’d guess it’s Israeli.”

    Israel hasn’t used a Mirage in a LONG time. They fly F-16s.

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  19. BubbaRay says:
    9/1/2008 at 1:38 pm

    It’s a good thing they don’t have the TSA. Some moran would use that multi-instrument probe in front of the canopy as a hand-hold to break into the cockpit. :)

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  20. Jägermeister says:
    9/1/2008 at 1:48 pm

    #17 – Chris
    #18 – Paddy-O

    It’s French airplanes in Chad.

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