How Low Can You Go? (2014)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoY_1WiKVs

Dutch Yak association Yak 3U high speed low pass

Perhaps the last clip in this 2014 thread?

It will not be long before the “2015 How Low Can You Go”-thread can be opened… 😉

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyEkrdZlzgg

Gepubliceerd op 7 dec. 2013

28-04-1995 Warszawa, lotnisko Bemowo, 42 Eskadra Lotnictwa Łącznikowo-Transportowego, jednostka rozformowana w 1997 r.

These Polish airmen do not seem to trust this An-2 pilot too much… 😀

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZgfcXl5jBs

Pasajes bajos (FMA IA-58 Pucará)
Maniobra Militar (PM) 25/09/2014

This Pucara-clip may be a repeat to some, but these passes are not that well-known. No Aerosmith in this video though!

Hi All,
Some good footage from inside a Ukranian helicopter. :eagerness:

Geoff.

:applause:
Cracking photo of the Jag and a great write up from Dragon flyer.

This photo was taken by my Father-in-Law when he was contracted to work on the Hunters and Jags out in the Oman late 70’s early 80’s.
The story goes that it was only the British pilots that carried out these low level flypasts as the resident pilots weren’t too keen on the Hunter and even less so on the Jag, probably explains why the group kneeling down by the control tower are praying to Mecca!

Jag by Timc63, on Flickr

Thanks Charlie, I’m happy to contribute and answer questions if I can.

Don’t know about anyone else but I’m really enjoying Dragonflyer’s first hand posts here!! Keep ’em coming!:eagerness:

I had to do that (chase a U-2 in a T-38) once when the Duece had a hydro failure and uncertain gear indication. It is not very comfortable when you’re in the T-38! Normal T-38 final turn is about 175kts and final about 155kts (both fuel dependent) and the Duece is doing 160 for the check, which means you (the T-38 pilot) are holding a very mushy airplane as you maneuver. Not too bad staight and level, but as you move around it’s pretty easy to get into the pre-stall “burble” if you bank and pull just a little. You and the guy in the back seat have to split the looking and flying duties carefully to make sure you don’t get into a bad situation.

…on the topic of Lockheed U-2s… 😉

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIGesKR0sVs

…from about 2.20 you will hear engine-sounds. The second pass begins at 3.20 .

Walter Colby Productions shot this video in August of 2010 at Beale AFB California during the high flight of Sagar Pathak.
This U-2 & T-38 flight was in preparation for the High flight which occurred in the next few day.

Well it is historic (A long time ago..) 🙂

Hmmm…how low?? I don’t exactly have the picture (wouldn’t be very spectacular anyway), but many years ago I was flying a U-2 from Arizona to the U.S. east coast for some sensor test work over the Atlantic coast. Given the length of the flight (13+ hours) I was flying at a max range setting vice our normal max altitude setting and passed through the Atlanta Air Traffic Control Center on the way out, but only at about 59,000 feet. The controller inquired about the altitude because we were normally above 60,000 feet (the transponder quit reporting at 60,000 and they weren’t used to seeing an actual altitude). I told him I was flying one of our new “low level routes”. I could hear the entire control center break out in laughter in the background…they must have been having a group discussion of the odd display at the time.

Hi All,
Stratofreighter,
Lovely video matey, never mind the high five what about how close he got to those trees what skill! :applause:
ME262 unidentified airbase taken from this web site excellent WW2 pictures. http://histomil.com/viewtopic.php?f=338&t=3918&sid=84f7b054460260bbb673996b63d8adb8&start=4270:eagerness:

A German Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber pulls out of a dive. Stalingrad, Soviet Union. October 1942.

Geoff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zw4fPT8lZ0

World’s First Wingsuit High Five

And this is very low and VERY fast…

I was an Ag pilot, or crop duster, so the less informed say for many years.

Flying at 1 to 2 feet all day when spraying and a maximum of about 150 ft in vertical 180 degree turns. Less than 20 seconds from spray off to spray on again. I have flown between trees that have touching branches and trees that are closer together than the wingspan of my aircraft. I have landed of a roll hundreds of times, and stopped within a foot of where I need to. You will never see photos or video of this as it is done all day every day as a matter of course. I have flown under power lines that are lower than the height of the rudder top and done it dozens , maybe hundreds of times a day. I have turned after take off with the wingtip brushing the ground or grass for a hundred yards or more time after time.

This is not showing off for a camera, this is the daily reality of Aussie and kiwi Ag pilots.

Military pilots showing off sends a shiver down my spine. These guys are amateurs in the low level world despite their macho pretence. That’s why they smash planes worth millions regularly.

Sexy pictures don’t make you an ace.

HD

I wasn’t going to reply to this as I have a lot of respect and admiration for Ag pilots but……It bugged me so…. I have been on the crew in the back for lots of NoE flying in Caribou’s, Huey’s, Blackhawks and whilst not as often as I’d like Porters.

I’ll say this to you, all the aircrew in those aircraft, fly low (either in transit or NoE) as they are operating in the FEBA and it is not for showing off (as much fun as it was or looking really good) but rather for pure survival with all the bad guys liking nothing better than toasting your butt. It is very well practised, controlled and very very relevant to their mission.

Yes, it is dangerous, but so is the bad guys incoming fire. Yes, it looks spectacular but so does the smoking hole left by a shot down aircraft with the loss of a very valuable crew.

Finally, I have been NoE-ing to protect me and my mates from those very incoming so, nicely I’ll say, please don’t knock what you dont understand.

Hi All,
Also found this Ploesti raid video on the same web page as the image above from the same source some good low level footage. http://ww2today.com/faq

Geoff.

Hi All,
He-177 No other info about where just 1944.

Geoff.

Just spied this on Facebook: Ray Hanna and MH434.

What a beautiful tight smooth display by one of the best ever.What a takeoff,[ they did cut the view to the crowd] so assuming it’s not spliced then vertical then straight into the display.

Just spied this on Facebook: Ray Hanna and MH434.

Sexy pictures don’t make you an ace.

HD

But they’re nice for us to look at….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXrO9i5b858

This is more of a fly-by and less of a “low pass” I think… 😉