Royal Danish Air Force Greenland Flyover – Buzzing Dark Snow Camp
September 2, 2014
We barely had a chance to look up when somebody was alert enough to spot three fighter jets doing a low pass directly over Dark Snow Camp.
I’m guessing they were using the weather station at our site as a navigation check-point for their flyover of the Greenland Ice sheet. Turns out one of the flyers was apparently recording the exercise on go-pro cameras, and the resulting video has had hundreds of thousands of views on youtube. Looks like the Dark Snow base got edited out of the final upload.
Below, one of the pictures I snapped as Jason Box looks up to watch fighter jets scream by us, the morning of August 7.
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September 2, 2014 at 10:29 am
Neat video. It gets even old mud-covered grunts like me pumped up to see fighter planes flying that low and close. I’m surprised Dr. Box wasn’t covering his ears though—-just a single F-16 is VERY LOUD, as are all military jets, and three going by close together at that altitude must have been something to hear.
Book alert. Started reading a new one by Dan Hampton. “Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat from the Red Baron to the F-16”, which is an interesting and lively read and looks to be a definitive work. It’s good to see that the Danish Air Force has recruited flyers with “the right stuff”, i.e. guys who fly fast, low, and pulling G’s in steep banks just for the fun of it. If the Koch brothers ever send some mercenaries up there to interfere with Dark Snow, call on the RDAF and stand back—you’ll be in good hands.
PS You didn’t really get “buzzed”. They did that to us as a “training experience” in the USMC one time. Had a whole company out looking at stuff on a runway and flew an A-4 right over us at 25 feet and 350 knots. Never saw it coming and by the time we looked up, it was a black speck. The pilots must have loved that gig and fought to do it.
The crazies in the Navy do fly-bys of their carriers and other ships at sea at close to the speed of sound and occasionally go over it (which tends to break things). The RDAF could have done that to you and given you something to really remember.
September 3, 2014 at 10:50 pm
The F-35 is on the way in?
September 2, 2014 at 2:10 pm
A subwoofer really does something for that soundtrack.
September 2, 2014 at 6:42 pm
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September 3, 2014 at 1:12 pm
I’m going bald!
September 3, 2014 at 1:46 pm
didn’t have the heart to tell you.
September 3, 2014 at 2:17 pm
This may be the reason why. Bob was clueless too.
http://www.cybersalt.org/funny-pictures/lawn-mower-tattoo
September 3, 2014 at 10:45 pm
The older you get, the less you’ll care. (That probably didn’t help.)
September 4, 2014 at 6:33 am
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