Aces low: Russian fighter jet buzzes highway drivers (VIDEO)

Published time: September 02, 2012 16:25
Edited time: September 03, 2012 12:38
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Have you ever seen a supersonic attack aircraft roar right over your head? A driver in southern Russia had this exact experience when an SU-24 warplane flew just a few dozen meters over his vehicle.

The driver managed to record the incident with a dashboard camera. The footage of the warplane flying extremely close to the ground went viral, sparking heated online debate over whether the video was genuine or fake.

Many argued that the video was a fake since the plane's sonic boom came before the aircraft passed the car, not after. One possible explanation for this discrepancy is that the sound is slightly out of synch and ahead of video, which often happens with dashboard recordings.

Viewers identified the plane as an SU-24, a widely used Russian attack aircraft developed in the 1960s. Several claimed that though the SU-24 has been known to fly at such low altitudes during Air Force exercises, those exercises are never performed near federal highways like the one shown in the video.

Others believe the maneuver was a prank played by a daredevil pilot. Russian Air Force officials have not yet commented on the incident.

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Lafayette (unregistered) 22.09.2012 22:24

Perhaps the driver was lucky enough to witness a plane demonstrate rapid deceleration out of super sonic speeds, and this allowed its sonic waves to accelerate at the the speed of sound as it "crawled" over head. 

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Gary (unregistered) 17.09.2012 06:41

RToccupyMoscow wrote in #15 And the driver so happened by coincidence had a HD video camera facing up while this pilot flew over at just the right time??? Russian airforce just planned this out to show off their skills  Its hard to believe, but it seems that in Russia and Ukraine, truckers and taxi drivers and some ordinary civilians have video cameras on the dash of their cars.  It is because there are lots of disputes with car accidents, police, insurance, criminals, etc.etc.  On youtube lately there are lots of videos of car accidents taken from civilian dash cameras.

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Givargi 08.09.2012 04:01

The video is very real. Su-24 is a variable geometry aircraft (and not at all "outdated technology" as some dork up there claims). At supersonic speeds its wings are folded back. Here its wings are obviously extended, and its flying at a subsonic speed. This is a pilot having fun here. The sound precedes aircracft because it is flying at a subsonic speed.Now only Russia can deliver us from Global Darkness.

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