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If anyone is interested... the cargo plane sitting in the desert there is YC-15.

Also, the jet sounds you hear later in the video are probably Endeavor's chase plane (Gulfstream GII).

It's Seconds form Disaster about a less-than-favorable mid-air meeting between a DHL cargo plane and some Russian airliner full of children going on holiday. The end result of said interaction was that both planes and the people in them were turned into something you'd generally poke with a stick. Unless you were one of the unfortunate bastards various chunks of people and/or planes fell on. In that case, someone else would be poking you with a stick.

Still, I'd rather see Seconds from Disaster as in-flight "entertainment" than United 93.

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>> ^Ghostly:
Can anyone tell me what aircraft this is? Or anything else about what's going on here. The floor looks pretty level and I wouldn't have thought a winged aircraft could accelerate downward that fast unless it was in real trouble or steeply angled nose down. (I'm not calling fake I just want to know more).


I don't know about the type of aircraft, but I'd imagine it's a pretty ordinary military cargo plane of some sort. Winged aircraft can definitely dive fast enough to make you feel weightless (free fall), though you'll want a good pilot if you're going to do it.

In this case, they're making a rapid descent to land in Baghdad. I didn't realize they did them so steep they'd get the free-fall effect, but it makes sense.

NASA sports a plane explicitly for this purpose. Stephen Hawking even tried it.

*spacy

Clinton successfully kept Saddam in check by enforcing the no-fly zone. Cheap, easy, kept his aggression in check and didn't involve the US any more than necessary in the politics on the Middle East. Read the book by Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to George H.W. Bush. Here's what he said before Gulf War II in that notorious liberal rag, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002133

The "reports" that Bush had access to was the raw, unverified intelligence - and what his administration did with it is proof exactly why competent Presidents trust Intelligence professionals to vet it. The Bush team cherry-picked what they wanted to get what they wanted - a long pointless (but very profitable for Halliburton) war and literal C130 cargo planes full of cash being shipped to the control of underlings chosen not for competence but for loyalty.

Please - try to do a tiny bit of moral algebra here, OK? What is Bill Clinton had done exactly the same things?

Reminds me of a FF scene from Lord of War where villagers strip down a Russian cargo plane over night, except, of course, that it's the reverse of this.