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  • #91
    Originally posted by citanon View Post
    A little off topic, but man, what a video! Can't believe Chogy used to do this for a living, and actually even got paid for it!

    PS, if you are a vimeo member you can download the 1080P original.
    I've seen a lot of Eagle videos, and I think this is one of the best. The comm that starts at about 1:25 gives me goose bumps. That clinical, concise comm is what we worked so hard on in the 1980's, and made the Eagle, and the guys who flew them, so formidable. It was also what made a great flight lead... a guy who could build a picture in his head of the airspace around him, and execute the attack properly.

    The perch setups at about the 6:00 mark shows nicely what real BFM looks like, and why the extreme close spacing of the fight scenes in Top Gun are simply bogus. The flight lead is counting down the thousands of feet, with the "fight's on" call at 6,000' or about a mile.

    Data linking is replacing much of this, and stealth technology, and the long stick in the AIM-120 and equivalent, is replacing post-merge ACM.

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