Exclusive Footage of the New Air chief leading the Flypast

[aliyusuf]

With the advent of the much vaunted and much awaited AESA equipped Thunder Block-III, I believe it is possible that the incumbent ACM will do his fly past on it ... instead of the Block-52 Viper.

 

[Gomig-21]

You can notice the deflection on both wings from the tremendous pressure that is exerted on them as it's going from horizontal flight into vertical. Don't see that too often.

Maintaining PAF's tradition of leading from the front, Air chief's flying in a Block-52D enters the Parade Venue to present salute to the President.

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Couple of other things you can notice in this great photo here:
1) The chief, although most definitely an experienced aviator but he's not a spring chicken anymore like most us old guys lol... it's probably been a while since he's taken the brutal effects of 5 or 6 Gs is my guess... is probably hurting a little bit right there lol.
2) You can actually see the circular disc sensor on the spine of the D model right behind his helmet.
3) Speaking of helmet, that one he has on and the oxygen mask is not the standard US issue helmet & mask. It looks quite different. Any idea who's that maker of that?

 

[Raider 21]

You can notice the deflection on both wings from the tremendous pressure that is exerted on them as it's going from horizontal flight into vertical. Don't see that too often.



Couple of other things you can notice in this great photo here:
1) The chief, although most definitely an experienced aviator but he's not a spring chicken anymore like most us old guys lol... it's probably been a while since he's taken the brutal effects of 5 or 6 Gs is my guess... is probably hurting a little bit right there lol.
2) You can actually see the circular disc sensor on the spine of the D model right behind his helmet.
3) Speaking of helmet, that one he has on and the oxygen mask is not the standard US issue helmet & mask. It looks quite different. Any idea who's that maker of that?

Flew a few weeks before becoming chief....he's been flying a lot more than the previous chief. He's an aviator and an officer. I can assure you it felt nothing to him and it wasn't sustained long enough to get his muscles weakened....he's A1G1.

Helmet is standard American design, mask is an old design that he started wearing when he started flying F-16s in the early 1990s, as PAF F-16 pilots at that time were the first ones to be given the "new" helmets.....the first batches of drivers were known as the "Greys"....

You could tell in another squadron if a pilot had a grey helmet that he most likely was from an F-16 squadron previously...

 

[Myth_buster_1]

The filming by cameramen was highly phatheic and unprofessional. If every one was rehearsing for so many days what were they doing all those days. They didn't practice catching fine shots to make it memorable. It was like shooting old Pakistani film which couldn't show even faces clear

Legend has it PTV imported cameras from North Korea back in 1980s and still same old camera man who is in his 80s.

 

[Raider 21]

The filming by cameramen was highly phatheic and unprofessional. If every one was rehearsing for so many days what were they doing all those days. They didn't practice catching fine shots to make it memorable. It was like shooting old Pakistani film which couldn't show even faces clear

They are trained to take wedding shots....hence more attention to the crowd.....

 

[GriffinsRule]

This is just to dispel the notion the F-16Cs in PAF dont use CFTs ...

 

[hunter_hunted]

Not impressed this F-Shola thing need to be put in hanger JF should be given the lead role

 

[Gomig-21]

Flew a few weeks before becoming chief....he's been flying a lot more than the previous chief. He's an aviator and an officer. I can assure you it felt nothing to him and it wasn't sustained long enough to get his muscles weakened....he's A1G1.

Helmet is standard American design, mask is an old design that he started wearing when he started flying F-16s in the early 1990s, as PAF F-16 pilots at that time were the first ones to be given the "new" helmets.....the first batches of drivers were known as the "Greys"....

You could tell in another squadron if a pilot had a grey helmet that he most likely was from an F-16 squadron previously...

Very cool. Yeah I was just busting the chief's chops. The oxygen mask was very neat to see.
It looks more like the elongated Russian style ones.

The video shows a very brief snippet of the pilot who's wearing the more common, newer versions with the hose coming out of the side.

This is just to dispel the notion the F-16Cs in PAF dont use CFTs ...

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Those are block 52, though. The reference was to any 2-seaters that are earlier block models like the B's wouldn't have carried CFTs.

That's an impressive weapons package. Sniper-XR, AIM-120, AIM-9M, GBU-12 and the monster GBU-24. Also a rare look at the Exelis warfare pod. Very nice.

I like how they cover the serial numbers, lol. But then in the next pics they're clear as day. We do that too, always found that to be a funny paranoia.