Today I saw a jet fighter plane drive down the road.

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/481/1607061607fn1.jpg

Not something you see everyday. I dont know wether it just landed on the road (Happened before) but yeah, I was just cruising down the road, minding my own business, and I see this fighter jet driving down the road.

My first thought was "WHO THE f**k LANDS A f**kING FIGHTER JET ON THE f**kING HIGHWAY!!!" .

heh, it's one way to beat the radar. :smile:

i thought this was going to be the Australian F-111 that was on the news earlier. it dropped a wheel on take-off, which, when taken into account, made a good landing look bad.

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i eat paint

Nah, this is in South Africa. I took the photo, and it might be on news.

Me wonders if they made the pilot pay the roadtax/vignette.

Is it me, or is there a guy sitting on one of the wings? Weird stuff there happening, a tell ya! :razz:

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Create-ivity - a game development blog

weren't they filming a movie?

Ace Ventura 9: When The Jet Fighter Attacks!

nothing to do with animals this time.

Yes, there is a guy sitting on the wing. I was also wondering about that. Welcome to South Africa, the most random country in the world :rolleyes:

It's a conspiracy!

That's pretty cool. Good thing you had a camera with you, or else I doubt people would believe the story! It's just that crazy.

Hey, awesome. I've got no idea why theyd be moving an aircraft like that around on a road... Perhaps it had to make an emergency/training landing, and they were driving it back to its base.

I do know that thats a Hawk, its usually used as a training aircraft. Not many other fighters would be small enough to drive along a highway.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Speaking of planes: A jet from the airshow crashed into a house a couple miles away from where I live on Sunday.

This was a house

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Was the family home at the time ( I hope not )?

No one died except the pilot.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

You sir, drank too much.

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

yeah, looks like the BAE systems Hawker, mainly used for training purposes but can be armded with serval heavy ordenance.

EDIT: Looks like it's fake, or there's something really wrong with the elevators.

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RUST Gamedesign
pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Just had a good look at it and im sure it didnt land there, if it was there at all.

I noticed and brown spot, couldnt figure it out because it looked blurred and out of focus. But it's the protection canvas you put infront of the motor inlet. So there's no way that plane could have landed there.

If it's real then it might be a mockup.

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RUST Gamedesign
pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Yeah. Im pretty sure they did it for show. Seeing that their is a MASSIVE airshow coming up they proberly did it for advertising or something. Doesnt the undercarage look a bit odd?

Btw, it deferntly isnt a fake, since I took the photo.

That doesnt mean anything to me Jimmi.

i noticed that too, its sealed with a pin that is also used to transport airliners around a airfield with one of those 10 tonners.

Here it is obviously used to transport it across the road, wasnt there any police/MP escort with it? Its an rather expensive plane.

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RUST Gamedesign
pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Who cares, exactly?

Oh, latest update. It is one of the new GRIPPHON FIGHTERS that our country has brought and they where just showing them around.

Who cares, exactly?

It's not something you see everyday? As you said in the GAMER ADDICT thread, when you are an addict real life things become unimportant and boring. One is only interested when a new game is released or something.

Bad post - I meant "who cares if it's fake or not". I think it's an
amusing photo, i was saying "who cares" to peppers military jargon
trying to disprove the photo.

good thing you cleared it for us.

Bad post - I meant "who cares if it's fake or not". I think it's an amusing photo, i was saying "who cares" to peppers military jargon trying to disprove the photo.

Whew! Thanks alot! :smile:
Sorry about that.
I dont think it is fake - as I said - one of our new Griphons.

Its not a Gripen, they have canards. Its definitely a hawk. Maybe theyre just assuming you dont know the difference :razz:

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Its not a Gripen, they have canards. Its definitely a hawk. Maybe theyre just assuming you dont know the difference :razz:

Hehe. Most of the people here arent terribly bright.

No, found out it IS a Gripon. Does have canards, look on the side.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/jas6.jpg
Another image.

Airliners.net to the rescue!

BAE Hawk

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1059508/M/

Gripen

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1080977/M/

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RUST Gamedesign
pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Oh man, I thought the guy on the back was sitting on a horizontal stabilizer :/ My mistake.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Yay, point proven!

Tis a Gripen.

Thanks pepper :smile:

\Yeah Wilson, i thaught that too, then again, i should have know that the hawker had the wings on the bottom of the fuselage and not on top.

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RUST Gamedesign
pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Heh, nice one. Although that I'm sure it didn't land on the road, too stupid, from many reasons.

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Elon Yariv

Elon, it didnt land. It was just doing a display.
Odd though, it had no escort, nor protection. They where literaly lobbing something worth MILLIONS AND MILLIONS around the N2, the most dangerous road in our region (LOTS of hijackings).

Maybe It had just been stolen :razz: