Flying is fun.

Flying is fun.

Nov 16th 2013, 20:53, by Jesus Diaz on Sploid, shared by Jesus Diaz to Gizmodo

Flying is fun. Here's a Turkish F-16 diving and rolling while firing flares. This one was taken from the Solo Türk, the F-16 solo aerobatics display team of the Turkish Air Force during a display in Girne, Kyrenia, Cyprus.

While diving and turning, the pilot released flares, high-temperature heat sources used to mislead surface-to-air or air-to-air missile’s heat-seeking targeting systems, creating the pyrotechnic visual effect you can see behind the plane.

H/T to Tolga Şansal for pointing us to this shot.

Image credit: Solo Türk

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