Whatever... Real men do it in the dead of night in a helicopter. Listen to the audio closely!

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And, no... This wasn't me.

DustyButt

mmm, so where is this canyon in France???

yogibimbi

He went in petween those 2 pillars an all I could do was sit here and shout "Nu UH DONT DO IT! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK O___O"

I want to join the air force now.

Overheal

Goose: "Jester, Maverick has crapped his pants please advise", over.

Jester to Maverick: "Get You your filthy ass to base and shower, that's an order"!

Maverick: "Roger that, Maverick is calling the Ball and hitting the showers" YEEEHAWWW!

Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass

Man. In. Sane. Imagine if the smallest thing went wrong...

The Magnificen7

extremly hard on the planes engines because of all the dust. I know that because of the Air & Space Museum.

The more you know...

Shub-Niggurath

Woo! Great balls of fire!

Crazy French, i tell ya.

D0rk

"Underpants" is 15% funnier than "underwear". Don't ask how I know this.

TimurY

"Scares the Underpants Out of Me"?
If you have your underpants in you then you might want to get better directions on how to wear them. ;-)

kirby822

That is awesome. . .

--Tito--

Aww man, I was expecting some lunatic zooming through the Grand Canyon at 700 mph. Still, incredible video.

mhlaxp

Got any of the "taking it out of the box" pictures?

VakeroRokero

@DustyButt: Ha ha, I wonder that too. If I was that guys commander, I would slap the shit out of him for being such a moronical dumbass.

The Magnificen7

I think its in one of the French airbase around Djibouti (is it?).

In any cases, it seems that their main occupation is doing cool stunts and posting them on Dailymotion or Youtube.

Turbostraw

@The Magnificen7: Doesn't it! lol! I always wonder how big of a bite he took out of his seat cushion!?

DustyButt

@DustyButt: That ain't real - it's just the video of me playing COD4 i posted on YouTube.

leaverus

@DustyButt: Makes me laugh every time. Oh ye of little faith. OH Shit!

The Magnificen7

@DustyButt: Before everyone starts crying, this happened around 2 in the afternoon tho'.

DustyButt

@yogibimbi: Not France. The ALA has bases in Africa, I'm sure that is where it took place.

The Magnificen7

@DaveExile: That's exactly what I came here to say.

Holyelephant

@Curves: I have pilot friends, and they are crazy. Nutso wacko. That's why I love flyin' (or drinkin') with them.

The Magnificen7

Totally. Fucking. Awesome.

SyphonFilter

ahw come on, Anakin was even closer to the ground, and probably faster.

xenoastro

This one is pretty amazing good too. Extremely low-pass while doing an Immelmann (Rafale).

le Rafale - altitude 10 M
par zimol

plailleur

Does this remind anyone else of the first mission in Rebel Assault?

DaveExile

Of all the pilots I have ever met (or dated) not ONE was what I would call sane. I think sanity is over-rated, (crazy=fun) but I keep my feet on the ground anyway.

Curves

@The Magnificen7: Or a moronical ANYTHING for that matter.

qbrad

I made a post about this in my gaming forums a long time ago. These guys have a ton of videos out, but this is the first time I have seen it cut with jonny cash.
Check out all the videos here.
[www.tacticalgamer.com]

Will get you pumped up for sure. I love the ones when they are over the ocean, and the one that scares the crap out of the people and their dog right at the beginning.

Bamboo

"Just like Beggars Canyon back home!"

thelifeabundant

You should see IMAX Fighter Pilot. I've *heard* it's out there in 1080p WMV and is pretty stunning on the Xbox 360. Low Nevada desert is awesome. Awesome to the max!

TehViking

BADASS

ford4life

that pilot has the legendary Balls of Steel.

lulu321

Boosh.

BooshModo

I'm happy to see that some people have fun with my tax money.
*sigh*

This is very probably Djibouti. There's not such landscape in France, and our army is like british tourists: They tend to be much less civilized when far from home.

fargi

You know, this would be more impressive to me if I hadn't seen B-52's doing literally the same thing at Red Flag through the Nevada desert. Of course, if they went to 90° of bank at 75'AGL they'd drag a wingtip...

pdok

@fargi: Yes, All aircraft should fly at 30,000 feet and in straight lines. Any deviation will be designated as fun and will not be tolerated by the regime.

DustyButt

@pdok: Hit return before I could finish... From what I understand the B-52 pilot was flying the last flight of his loooooong career. He decided to hot dog it and dragged a wingtip, cartwheeled, and ground himself into meat patties mixed with little bits of metal. U.G.L.Y... and tragic.

DustyButt

@pdok: ;)

DustyButt

is it cool? Sure, does the music suck.. Of course

swoyekr

WOW! I always knew fighter pilots got to have some fun along with their low-level and terrain masking training. But to have video for the public to see......well now I'm just freaking jealous!

whiteknight

Kick... ASS!!!

We used to fly low level training in the Navy (S3 Vikings) and they were a blast! I believe our daylight minimum altitude was 200'AGL (400' at night), but I'm sure we broke that now and then. ; )

MyPetFly

WOW

on both vids.. cool for the fighters.. you dumb ass to the chopper pilot.

he must be a redneck. the only thing he didn't do is say " here, hold my beer and watch this!"

RG_Shrike

I will repeat the ...uh... oft repeated maxim: "There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots." Chopper driver is exhibit A. He may be still alive, but I'm guessing he's no longer a pilot. :-P

bahalana

@MastaFalse:

There are rides available in privately-owned fighters and similar. Keep your eyes open and your pennies in a jar. ; )

MyPetFly

Something I will never be able to do in my life. Ah, it's almost nice enough to just watch. BUT FUCK.

MastaFalse

Bold to do it in a Mirage 2000, you hear that they fly like wounded ducks with lead in their underpants at low altitude (due to the delta wing...) The pilots probably just bitter he didn't get a Rafale slot.

McLucky

its sad when you see a video re-posted on live leak ... the watermark is just a dead giveaway

bobbiac

Wow, I've always wanted to fly fighters, aircraft and spacecraft just amaze the hell out of me.

Con Seannery

@DustyButt: We have a saying that you can't ever beat the low altitude record, you can only tie.

pdok

@qbrad: Touche.

The Magnificen7

I wanted so so badly to hate that music.
I just couldn't.

Excellent flying.
And hell as long as you don't crash into something nose-first, at least you have a reset button/ejector seat.

Phenostar

I;m not familiar with African deserts, so I can't rule out this being made in Djibouti or Algeria, but it may have also been made in Nevada. Every quarter or so, the USAF hosts NATO and other allied countries at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas. The Nevada Test Range, where they train, is ginormous and full of rock features like the ones pictured, and nobody except a few coyotes and snakes will care about you flying through the canyons.

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Crim Law Geek

wow.... that pilot has a really good handle on how big his jet is.... i've seen drivers that wouldn't make it through most of those gaps in a CAR....

an1m3fr33k

Where is the Alien fighter spacecraft he was supposed to be chasing?

FinalValgas

I spent one summer working in the northern forests of Canada (we're talking FAR north, up almost to the tundra line, past the 60th parallel). Anyways, I often had to fly by chopper to various regions (I was doing inventory on government property)... There were two pilots that my group used, and one of them was an ex French Combat Copter pilot, and that dude was amazing.

He'd take me down so close to the trees (while flying at top speed) that they'd brush against the bottom of the runners. He could do low speed maneuvers while looking for a good landing place that I still don't think are possible in a copter, and he did them while flying BACKWARDS.

The french have some amazing pilots!

Ravlen

Scary? :B You should grab a copy of Rebel Assault 2 and play the canyon levels, they're more scary than this.

Narfmaster

@pdok:
Great saying...gave me a good laugh.

Darkest Daze

@Phenostar: Yup, I know what you mean. Most country music is steamed straight out of the devil's ass, but there's some classic country that is just great (eg Johnny Cash, Bobbie Gentry, even Dolly Parton).

cbdsteve

@kirby822: Perhaps an 'unboxing' would help him.

unspellable

Now THAT'S Pod racing!

strider_mt2k

Just needs the soundtrack from

STAR WARS

fluf

@Narfmaster: Or the sequence trying to escape (get into?) that crazy ass base. I remember that game and how goddamn hard it was.

The Magnificen7

British pilots are mad insane. Not your normal brand of insane, but a special brand of insane only possessed by the Brits. A former British special ops guy I occasionally work with once told me a story about the first Iraq war, where they gave up searching for a lost squad when the pilot bounced the C-130 off a sand dune - at night. There is no such thing as too close to the ground to a British pilot. If they're not getting dust in their eyes, they're not flying. Mad props.

DWes

this video was really boring. i was waiting for something cool to happen.

jimbut

Vid sorta depresses me when I think about it. I mean, hell, I'll never be that rad.

Then I watch it again and try to pull my eyes back into my sockets.

Lightman

In regards to the plethora of french discussion, the JET is french. Manufactured by Dassault Aviation, and probably either a trainer or possibly semi-civilian owned. Good stuff though.

xaronax

Heck, I have done that hundreds of times at night at as low as 200' AGL and going 480 to 540 fps on Terrain Following Radar flying F-111s. During the front shot in the video it looks like he is getting between 25 and 50 feet for a minute, that is really low. Requires concentration and smoothness but not really that hard to do. The F-111 had a 72 foot wing span and it would get within 40 feet horizontally to obstacles. I personally never went down the Grand Canyon but there were people who did... resulting in new rules that prohibited flight below the canyon rim without permission. That was OK there were some great canyons on the Green River and around lake Powell, too. Once hit Mach 1.15 at about 100 feet trying to catch someone once... in the Range in Nevada. Came over a ridge and slipped over 1.0 going down the back side without even noticing it... Not a good technique; the other aircraft could see where the shock wave hit the ground... not exactly stealthy.

ShishirkanaSparrows

@jimbut: You realize that your comment applies to your comment, right?

takeshi

Sure looks like southern Jordan to me. I don't know what kind of military cooperation exists between France and Jordan, but Jordan looks EXACTLY like that.

There are spots in the Negev in Israel that are similar, but they aren't very big. The video makes it hard to tell if they are flying a long way, or just circling around a smaller cluster of sandstone cliffs.

Amazing.

thunderous_funker

Wait? French pilot? Who was he running from? (Sorry, had to.)

ninjamurf