The Humour Thread

[Baxter]

Love that video! I was amazed how fast that came out after the game....but i guess they had since halftime to make it cause it was already over.

[Stuka]

This made me lol

[ZeroMass]

Eddie, when leaving TeamSpeak:

[Trigger]

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Well is he?

[Stuka]

Well is he?

I have to ask my GF

[sMaat]

I was reading "Fighter Combat" by Robert L Shaw (not a very funny book, but full of tactics) when I came across
this bit about how helicopter pilots should avoid fighters.

"Although no self-respecting fighter pilot would carry a bomb, there is no telling what kind of low-life may be met over a battlefield, so such an attack must be considered. Should some sort of ballistic projectile be seen falling from the enemy aircraft, the helo should immediately turn away from the predicted impact point and make tracks to gain separation as rapidly as possible. The chances of actually being hit by such a bomb are small (especially when it is dropped by a fighter pilot).

I know this is an old post but do you guys remember LHX from EA back in 1990? I wish I could find the exact quote, but in the manual Brent Iverson wrote a little forward about all the research he did to put together one of the first helo sims for the PC. He goes into some of the basics of flight for a helicopter and then describes the helicopter's equivalent to a no engine landing, the autorotation maneuver. The last line in his introduction goes something like this...

"When I first started this project I was always fascinated to watch a helicopter fly, I would always stop what I was doing and admire their beauty. Now that I know more about them, especially their emergency no engine procedures, I'm frighten whenever one gets even close to flying overhead."

Funny stuff.

[Doughboy]

I remember hearing about at least one instance in the first Gulf War where a BEagle killed a helo with a GBU-10. From Wiki:

"An F-15E Strike Eagle fighter/bomber dropped a laser-guided bomb onto a helicopter in the air. The helicopter was on the ground initially loading up commandos, though it took off. Even with it taking off they left the laser on it and the bomb hit it when it was "200 or so" feet in the air. A special forces team on the ground witnessed the event."

After the war they (F-15Es) witnessed Mi-24s massacring refuges but could not "shot" them so they resorted to buzzing them until they were able to bring one down by simply buzzing it. After that incident the brass caught wind of it and they stopped them from doing it again.

[Snoopy]

You lost me as soon as I read "wiki"

[Hobo]

I remember hearing about at least one instance in the first Gulf War where a BEagle killed a helo with a GBU-10. From Wiki:

"An F-15E Strike Eagle fighter/bomber dropped a laser-guided bomb onto a helicopter in the air. The helicopter was on the ground initially loading up commandos, though it took off. Even with it taking off they left the laser on it and the bomb hit it when it was "200 or so" feet in the air. A special forces team on the ground witnessed the event."

After the war they (F-15Es) witnessed Mi-24s massacring refuges but could not "shot" them so they resorted to buzzing them until they were able to bring one down by simply buzzing it. After that incident the brass caught wind of it and they stopped them from doing it again.

I've read that too, but no links that show actuality. I found a reference to it on the Aviationist: http://theaviationist.com/2012/02/10/f-15e-10000/

Though I did find this article that was "originally" published in 1992 and updated in 2010. http://www.ausairpower.net/TE-PGM-ODS-92.html ctrl+f "helicopter"

[Baxter]

http://www.airforcemag.com/magazinea...x?signon=false

There you go, the whole story, the helicopter portion is the last part.