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You people make me sick
Originally posted by JoeBarna
I have my doubts that they are military airplanes practicing an airshow formation.
1. We practice for the conditions we fly, airshows are a day time VFR (visual flight rules) kind of activity.
2. When I did fly formation at night, we flew with limited lighting. Bright white light kills your night vision. Formation lights are a combination of blue and red lights. (Though we did use some white light--they were no where near as bright as the video shows.)
3. That many aircraft at night in such a tight formation? Sorry. Color me skeptical on that one.
I would believe it to be a fake video before I believe it to be military aircraft maneuvers. That and the X-Files music is too over the top.
Originally posted by Phage
Chilean Air Force manuevers
Source
Google translation:
# SANTIAGO, Dec 10 .- The strange "formation of lights" that was seen a couple of days ago in the skies of Santiago, was finally Pillan 14 aircraft from the School of Aviation Fach practicing the graduation ceremony of officers, attended last night by President Michelle Bachelet. According to the Air Force said Terra.cl, over the weekend the group of aircraft flying over a route from the El Bosque air base to San Bernardo. And though the flight is quite noisy, distance is not possible to capture it, which joined the lamps used in the opportunity for fixed and non-intermittent could have caused the confusion of the people. In fact at the base say that every time you perform this kind of night flights, receiving more than a phone call warning of the presence of foreign objects in the sky or UFOs. The alignment observed by dozens of people and caught on video, was due to the maneuvers performed for the Pillan landing.
[edit on 12/11/2008 by Phage]