Is this close enough for you ....... ?

**kracken** · 29th July 2007

This flight image sequence was allegedly taken during the filming of a Eurofighter Typhoon from a Hercules 130 cargo bay. Apparently, the director asked the pilot over the radio to come closer and closer and closer, until the pilot got fed up and whizzed right up to the entrance of the Hercules saying: "Would you like it this close?"

Spoiler:

Update: some people are claiming this is a fake. It's not. Sure the plane didn't get inside the cargo bay, but compare the scale of the ramp and the plane in the last image. While there's an optical effect, you can see there that the Typhoon got extremely close to the Hercules tail, if only for a few seconds

**DEC2K** · 29th July 2007

Wud nt the intake air ports suck them in as was on tv program ???

**Fresh** · 29th July 2007

Originally Posted by DEC2K

Wud nt the intake air ports suck them in as was on tv program ???

No, the air inside the plane, though being slightly turbulent due to the speed of the aircraft, will not be flowing and so there wouldnt be enough force on a human to move them out of the plane.

And although Im sure the air ports do suck in a vast amount of air - at those speeds they probably get more than enough just from forward movement of the plane, so wouldnt literally act as a vacuum, more as gatherers of air.

Cool photos though!

**Erad** · 29th July 2007

Originally Posted by DEC2K

Wud nt the intake air ports suck them in as was on tv program ???

There probably harnesed (sp?) in, i wouldn't stand there without some sort of harness unless i had a parachute on my back.

**coin-op** · 29th July 2007

I think if a typhoon got in the tailwash of a hercules it would just fall out of the sky - search for valkyrie accindent and you'll get the idea

**GameKing** · 30th July 2007

if those pics are true then it`s amazing, but I`m of the opinion they`ve been "shopped".

**Mickey** · 30th July 2007

Originally Posted by gameking48

if those pics are true then it`s amazing, but I`m of the opinion they`ve been "shopped".

yeah i think they are, but if they are not, i bet the photoman crapped his pants

**lukese** · 30th July 2007

surely there is no need for him to be that close though? given the zoom on cameras why would they risk it the photo would be no better than if it was zoomed in would it? but im no photo expert.