Dragons in Iraq

[andrewducker]

From a description of life in Iraq

Ali has described several near-miss situations with American aircraft. One time he walked out of his house just as an A-10 Warthog flew 100 meters overhead, firing missles at a tank emplacement a few streets over. Another time he had gone up on the roof to watch a battle as an Apache approached. He waved, and the pilot turned his head to look at him. When armed, the forward vulcan on an Apache automatically moves to track any target the pilot looks at. It did the same to Ali. Safety tip: don't attract the attention of Apache pilots. It's like being coolly regarded by a dragon.

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Comments

[hnpcc]

Argh. Having seen a video doing the rounds of what apaches can do... yeah, don't look at dragons. Or wave at them. *shudder*

[douglasbryant.livejournal.com]

Have you ever been within 20 meters of a helicopter, it's really quite breathtaking.
There I was sitting in my living room, saying something to my X, we both suddenly looked at each other, forgot what we were saying and went the our bedroom. Our bedroom faces the street.
There we could feel and most certainly hear a helicopter floating just outside our bedroom window at about 1 in the afternoon. It took a good 10 minutes to land, police were blocking the street too.
It turns out that the emergancy clinic down the road had a walk in, well crawl in.. After about 40 mins the helicopter left, at this point I remembered the camera sitting on the shelf by the window. Hmmn, oh well, better luck next time. The medicopters are really quite big.

[birdofparadox.livejournal.com]

DUDE!!!

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I would not be that inquisitive, but he's a thrillseeker, I suppose.

[andrewducker]

I've been on board a helicopter - one of the twin-rotor huge ones the British Army uses. Can't remember the name, but it was at an air-show. Very, very cool.