F-16 dodging 6 Iraqi SAM launches on Jan 19 1991
 

Someone not so lucky at 4.50.
Shame the footage is broken up but you can see the stress and hear the work going on.

WOW !

brilliant!

i liked this one as well

absolute nutter

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Not knowing that much about fighter jets, but on the left hand side of that video is what I think is his airspeed indicator. Is he laden with bombs, as he really seems to struggle for airspeed at more than a few points in that!

That was amazing, I would make a crap pilot, could tell which was up or down half the time:)

Thats better than any film footage:)

He should have hit the breaks they'd have flown right by :norty:

On a serious note. That's some quality footage. It's a pity there's no British equivelant footage. Far more cool calm collected.

I've got two mates that are jet Pilots, one flys harriers in the Navy and the other is a Tornado pilot. The pair of them are so laid back its untrue. Both cool as cucumbers.

Considering the number of sorties, and the absolutely insane (on paper) Iraqi air defence system at the time, not many aircraft were lost.

From what it seems he was quite heavy, it might have been his drops that were being such a burden, he might have still using them at the time.

Typical loadout for the 1st War was on an F-16: two drops, 2 x 2000lb unguided Mk 84 bombs, and either 2 or 4 Sidewinders and a Jamming pod.
Considering the temperatures (even being January) and air density flying with this loadout might have been a bit of pain.

I would say that it must have been interesting flying the Tornado over the middle of Iraqi airbases with the AAA they had............. :cuckoo:

Did anyone see the contrails coming up from the ground? :Suspiciou

Found this quote on the site about the video above:


"While the video quality isn't great, this is part of the HUD / VTR tape taken by Emmitt 'ET' Tullia as he 'dodged' at least six SAMs that had locked onto his aircraft during 'Package Q', the first daylight raid on Baghdad, on 19 January 1991. 'Package Q' was the largest single strike mission of the war, and likely the single largest F-16 strike package ever flown into combat.

Sadly the Lucky Devils, flying Block 30 F-16C's deployed from Torrejon AB, Spain, lost two aircraft to SAMs that day with both of the pilots, Mike 'Cujo' Roberts flying 87-0228 and Jeff 'Tico' Tice in 87-0257 being captured and held as POW's.

Another note to this video from Mick Bretz, one of our crew chiefs: "Maj. Emmitt 'ET' Tullia came back squaking code 1. After walking around the jet, he changed it to code 2 (In my mind after what he went through should have been a code 3). His entire Chaff/Flare modules were full!!!!! They never fired off, so all that manuvering was w/out counter measures. Some good flying!!!"

For more information about the Lucky Devils and the Package Q mission, I invite you to visit the Lucky Devils in the Gulf War at:
The Gulf War with the 401TFW/614TFS Lucky Devils
3.7 million pounds of ordinance, 1303 sorties, 42 days, 24 aircraft. The 'Forgotten 1000'.

Mike Kopack"

They found the remains of a Navy pilot, 18 years after the war......

Those SAMs............

Thx for the info Janspeed :thumb:

The intercom chatter reminds me of playing with Americans when on online games ;)

I wonder if this is the guy that went missing after a Mig-25 had scrambled to "defend" Bagdad back in '91.

Well at least they found him.