Video: Danish F-16 buzzing Storebæltsbroen bridge as seen from the cockpit (from an unsual point of view)

August 23, 2012 Military Aviation

David Cenciotti

The following cockpit footage filmed from a quite unusual point of view shows two Royal Danish Air Force F-16s (not literally “buzzing” but) overflying the Storebæltsbroen in Denmark on a training mission.

Indeed, the camera attacked to the canopy gives a clear view of both the pilot (wearing a JHMCS helmet), the HUD (Head Up Display) and the Storebælt (the Great Belt Bridge), a 18 km long bridge that links the eastern and western parts of Denmark together.

Kudos to the Royal Danish Air Force (Flyvevåbnet) for uploading the video on the official Youtube channel.

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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

hwilker says:

August 23, 2012 at 10:05 PM

Back in the eighties, I remember reading of Luftwaffe photo interpreters in a recce wing being puzzled by a very strange structure on the film from an RF-4E.

The pilots claimed to have photographed – as per mission orders – the bridge over the Fehmarnsund (between the German mainland and the island of Fehmarn). From below. Inverted.

I couldn’t quite believe that, but it’s a nice story.