Zulu Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Some Pics of the South African Airforce at work. The Second Oldest in the World. To Bad we can't protect our country as our primary fighter the Cheetah C has been retired before the Gripen has come into service due to financel problems, the military only gets 1.4% of the GDP adn there is a growing skills drain as many quilified personnel are leaving to work overseas. The Cheetah C a local upgrade of the Mirage III Cheetah C Agressor Aircraft Cheetah C dropping some dumb bombs Cheetah D Two Seater The new BAE Hawk 2 Seat Trainer One of our new Gripens An ex Mirage F1CZ Workhorse of the SAAF the Oryx, (a local upgrade to the Puma) Soon to be retired Alloutte III To be replaced by this the A109 Our Attack Chopper the Rooivalk the Rooivalk doing a complete roll, I believe that it is one of the few choppers in the world that can do this, (Lynx being the other one I know) Will post some more in due course 3 To INVENT an Airplane is Nothing. To BUILD One is Something. But to FLYis EVERYTHING. - Otto Lilienthal [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
159th_Viper Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Mooi! :thumbup: Novice or Veteran looking for an alternative MP career? Click me to commence your Journey of Pillage and Plunder! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] '....And when I get to Heaven, to St Peter I will tell.... One more Soldier reporting Sir, I've served my time in Hell......' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilotasso Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 (edited) the Rooivalk doing a complete roll, I believe that it is one of the few choppers in the world that can do this, (Lynx being the other one I know) The apache also can do it...and the allouette III too. we had french enginners over here monitoring maintenace at my company several years back. Somebody told them we coul do loopings with them. the engineers doubted and said "no way in hell" since they were working for the company that designed them. well a looping was indeed performed leaving the enginners utterly stunned. We didnt tell them we scraped that particular helicopter though. Bent airframe. Edited September 9, 2008 by Pilotasso [sigpic]http://forums.eagle.ru/signaturepics/sigpic4448_29.gif[/sigpic] My PC specs below:Case: Corsair 400C PSU: SEASONIC SS-760XP2 760W Platinum CPU: AMD RYZEN 3900X (12C/24T) RAM: 32 GB 4266Mhz (two 2x8 kits) of trident Z RGB @3600Mhz CL 14 CR=1T MOBO: ASUS CROSSHAIR HERO VI AM4 GFX: GTX 1080Ti MSI Gaming X Cooler: NXZT Kraken X62 280mm AIO Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 1TB M.2+6GB WD 6Gb red HOTAS: Thrustmaster Warthog + CH pro pedals Monitor: Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD Freesync HDR400 1440P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu Posted September 9, 2008 Author Share Posted September 9, 2008 lol but most people argue that the apache doesnt go completly inverted, not sure about the alloouette II but im sure the rooivalk doesnt get a bent airframe! To INVENT an Airplane is Nothing. To BUILD One is Something. But to FLYis EVERYTHING. - Otto Lilienthal [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilotasso Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Alloette III sorry typo. :) [sigpic]http://forums.eagle.ru/signaturepics/sigpic4448_29.gif[/sigpic] My PC specs below:Case: Corsair 400C PSU: SEASONIC SS-760XP2 760W Platinum CPU: AMD RYZEN 3900X (12C/24T) RAM: 32 GB 4266Mhz (two 2x8 kits) of trident Z RGB @3600Mhz CL 14 CR=1T MOBO: ASUS CROSSHAIR HERO VI AM4 GFX: GTX 1080Ti MSI Gaming X Cooler: NXZT Kraken X62 280mm AIO Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 1TB M.2+6GB WD 6Gb red HOTAS: Thrustmaster Warthog + CH pro pedals Monitor: Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD Freesync HDR400 1440P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu Posted September 9, 2008 Author Share Posted September 9, 2008 no worries To INVENT an Airplane is Nothing. To BUILD One is Something. But to FLYis EVERYTHING. - Otto Lilienthal [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kusch Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Awesome! Thanks :) Give me "flying telephone pole" (SA-2)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nscode Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 (edited) Nah... it's not that rare actually. The most impressive I think is the :) PS: and it's not a very new thing either, as you can see ;) Edited September 9, 2008 by nscode Never forget that World War III was not Cold for most of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 Some more pics and 2 movies of the Rooivalk in action http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/Francois/1087/ http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/Dark%20Pilot/3060/ To INVENT an Airplane is Nothing. To BUILD One is Something. But to FLYis EVERYTHING. - Otto Lilienthal [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cola Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Really cool Agusta pictures! I guess there's no hope of seeing the 109 in a DCS module anytime soon so pictures are appreciated. ;) "Well, ya know, she's not pretty like an A129, but more like an AH-64, you get an instant hard-on when you see her." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vekkinho Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 OT but I remember SOKO Gazelle doing loops during Pleso Airshow in 1988! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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