Posted on 04/15/2016 8:09:38 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
A new filming technique has captured the incredible abilities of fighter jets in stunning detail.
The footage, from California-based Blue Sky Aerial, shows Gripen fighter jets flying over Sweden.
In what looks like a computer animation, the multirole fighters manoeuvre into rolls and send out a series of flares at speeds of 345mph.
The video was captured using BlueSky's GSS 520 5 axis system, which can work at speeds of up to 300 knots per hour.
The cameraman was riding in the back of a Saab 105 and filming the Saab JAS 39 Gripen fighter jet cruising over the icy region.
Aerial special, Peter Degerfeldt, who captured the stunning views, used a Red Dragon 6K mounted to a $40,000 Canon 30-300m lens.
'We chose that particular lens as it provided the shortest snout,' the company wrote on the YouTube page.
'No cables, between the Gyro and the cockpit, were used.'
'I could zoom all the way in at 300mm, still rock solid at 300 knots; that's pretty brutal,' Degerfeldt said.
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'It couldn't have gone better, no problem what so ever at those speeds, both in panning or even looking straight down,' said Degerfeldt
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The last two words in that sentence are superfluous.
The author is a fan of $2 dollar words.
Beautiful .......
for later
Yeah 300 knots is pretty slow.
Now do it again with no stabilization so we can compare.
$40,000 Canon 30-300m lens? Not consumer grade.
You would be too if your last name was ZOLFAGHARIFARD
Maybe they are talking acceleration. :-)
A Saab story.
meh... I watched the Blue Angels over Coney Island years ago, it scared the snot out of me! What the F/A-18 Hornet can do was scary enough for me...
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looks very fake
meh... I watched the Blue Angels over Coney Island years ago, it scared the snot out of me! What the F/A-18 Hornet can do was scary enough for me...>>> i was fortunate to watch practice drills over anapolis prior to homecoming. on a boat. you don’t see um you see um and then you don’t see um anymore. blink of an eye and they are coming at each other.
“The author is a fan of $2 dollar words.”
He’s also from the Department of Redundancy Department, as well as being a fan of ICBM missiles and HE explosive.
I’ve got to say, though, the Gripen is a sharp looking plane!
He has a whole list of phrases like that. Keeps it tacked up beside his hot water heater.
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