How Low Can You Go??

Entropy, Belgian Fougas are still the masters of LOW! The size and design of that plane really helps though. I wonder if anybody has photos of Fouga displays flown at similar height, but upside down? I’ve heard this so many times but never seen a pic of it.

Just saw this on a website. Note the shadow!

I stand corrected with regards to the Sukhoi pic! 😮
Pity though the photographer used such a short shutterspeed that all motion is lost. The pic posted by UKsceneryman (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1027487/L/) is much more impressive 🙂

Here are a few more i found on airliners.net….

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0649815/M/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0661246/M/

i also saw other pix of that show
and those arent fake also
shame that ppl dont trust pix anymore
also shame that some pix are photoshoped because then ppl wont trust real special pix anymore

There’s another fantastic pic of the Sukhoi here now:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1027487/L/

i also saw other pix of that show
and those arent fake also
shame that ppl dont trust pix anymore
also shame that some pix are photoshoped because then ppl wont trust real special pix anymore

That’s such an obvious fake. A taxiing plane with the landing gear removed. A 5-minute Photoshop job. What a shame it made it onto that website.
And look at all those comments… what a joke! 😡

Such an obvious fake, eh?

Well clearly this Chinese news agency has got into the act, then:
http://app.newsgd.com/NewsGD/UI/NewsGDSkin/Gallery/275.aspx?camid=275&picindex=12

who cares keep going…

Olivier

keep going….

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1025605&size=L&width=1000&height=685&sok=&photo_nr=

Cheers,

Olivier

That’s such an obvious fake. A taxiing plane with the landing gear removed. A 5-minute Photoshop job. What a shame it made it onto that website.
And look at all those comments… what a joke! 😡

Whew….

I’m not 100% sure, but I suspect that picture was edited. There is absolutely no sign of blurring of the background through panning the camera following the subject and no heat haze from the exhausts.

Steve

keep going….

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1025605&size=L&width=1000&height=685&sok=&photo_nr=

Cheers,

Olivier

Works OK for me. Dunno how you managed to get it to play upside down, though! 😀

Harvards landing on water upside down! How impressive is that! 😀
Try WinAmp maybe?

I have tried to watch it as well and mine starts okay but then there is a lot of clicking noises over the sound. 🙁
Alan.

Am I the only one seeing inverted Harvards ?

My media player is telling me it can not fully support the format.

For those people interested a video is now available for download of those waterskiing Harvards. Its a 12mb download and can be obtained from:

http://www.flightzone.co.za/media/harvards.wmv

Best wishes,

Martin

One of the last jumps that Canadian paras made was a water drop while training at CJATC Rivers Manitoba. After the drop it was customary for the drop aircraft a C119 Boxcar to do a low pass accross the lake to make sure everyone was clear. Of course it soon became a contest to see who could kick up the largest rooster tail. That was great site seeing a lumbering Boxcar with a rooster tail behind as it came down the lake wish I had a photo to share.

Watch the ground effect on the water of this low pass of a US navy jet:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3861764190972593015&q=aircraft

Tillerman.

Many years ago – 1974 to be precise – I was co-pilot of a Ford Transit making its way along the northern fringe of the Sahara desert when this blighter appeared from the opposite direction.
If he really wanted a roof rack I’m sure he could have found one in the souks of Marrakesh or Tangier, so why was he trying to snatch ours?
Swiss Hunter pilots used to take a a very close interest in climbers and mountaineers, but when you’re half way up that pile of cornflakes that calls itself the Matterhorn the last thing you want to be doing is analysing the camouflage patterns on a passing fighter.
Some time later I had a chat with a Swiss ex-Hunter pilot and bent his ear a bit about this. He laughed and bought me a beer, so I suppose they’re forgiven.

FMK.6John… If you had read the link, you would have had all of your questions answered!!

1. Yes, it really happened, and the photo (and video) was taken by a French news service (Sygma Photo News, Inc), so any ideas of “Photoshop” are wrong.
2. No, they did NOT “allow that one to happen”… it was done WITHOUT permission!

1990, the only year I’ve stayed at the Hall to Sundown (The first display of the B1-B, I ever saw was the last thing in the display). I’ve got some good shots of that takeoff in a slide box somewhere.

that must be the worlds shortest take off. 🙂