By: TonyT - 9th August 2013 at 12:23
Dobbins the lowest it came down to was 2000ft I believe, first pass after it formed up over Cottersmore over EMA was a lot higher,
Oz plane when they did a formation on the A340 many moons ago, the Pilot said it was a strange site to see the wing time moving up and down about 30 ft in flight, and that in the aircraft you couldn’t see it, which made formating on it interesting …… mind you if they didn’t flex they would fail. 🙂
As an addition, those outrigger wheels on the B-52 are to prevent the wings hitting the ground as they flex on landing
By: ozplane - 9th August 2013 at 11:11
Thanks dairwin. That’s impressive but it still looks wrong to my untutored eye.
By: Arabella-Cox - 9th August 2013 at 10:55
Not sure I’d like to fly in an airliner whose wings flex quite so much.
By: ozplane - 9th August 2013 at 10:37
Not sure I’d like to fly in an airliner whose wings flex quite so much.
By: Mr Merry - 9th August 2013 at 09:45
Video;
By: Dobbins - 8th August 2013 at 19:56
They flew over Loughborough University about 4 times at about 400 ?? feet. Twas awesome.
By: forester - 8th August 2013 at 17:45
Formation maintains safe distance from fire hazard…
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 8th August 2013 at 14:10
Both known to exhibit flames on start up.
By: TonyT - 8th August 2013 at 11:06
🙂
Was a bit high on the passes.
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