How Low Can You Go??

Has this photo been posted?

Paris, March 31, 1984

See also http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/ASM/Web/Site/QT/Eiffel.html

ERRRR!!! WOW! Is that PS or genuine?, I find it hard to believe that the French authorities allowed that one to happen. 😉

I am trying to imagine what the tour guide on the bus was saying—-“And if you look to your right we will be passing the…..OH MON DIEU!!! JE BESOI MAMA 😮 “

John.

In “Tora Tora Tora” one of the “Zeros” is practically scraping the deck with one wing low during the strafing of the fibreglass P40 replicas. An incredible piece of flying.

Incredible flying or a result of an explosion blowing him off centre actually causing a near accident. well that’s the recount of it i heard 🙂

Actually not that uncommon, the closest I’ve come is flying on one float. (now that was stupid!) Much prefer them to wheels on water!! 🙂

By now most of you must have seen these shots of the Waterskiing Harvards in South Africa. Check out the site at:
http://www.flyinglions.co.za/water_skiing.htm

Better hope there isn’t any logs floating around…

Has this photo been posted?

Paris, March 31, 1984

See also http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/ASM/Web/Site/QT/Eiffel.html

There are some great shots in post 201 too. Ray Hanna RIP

There’s some good low flying shots on this link. I don’t know how to make links direct to the entries but look at posts 188 and 197.

Low flying – really low!

Jeeeeeshh!

I would love to the hear cockpit voice recorder for the Tornado near miss 😀 😀

Also some great footage of the notorious Typhoon ‘low pass’ :diablo:

Cheers for the link.

Kev 🙂

Not sure if these have been seen on this thread as I haven’t clicked every single link over the 16 pages but here goes
http://www.macksaviation.com/video.php
Loads of videos from various people and some low flying too

At the risk of infuriating the thrill-seekers, I think that T.6 “water-skiing” stunt is just plain stupid.

By now most of you must have seen these shots of the Waterskiing Harvards in South Africa. Check out the site at:
http://www.flyinglions.co.za/water_skiing.htm

Just seen this pic of an RAAF F111 on A.net. I reckon the people on the roof needed a change of undies after this one!

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Phantom flyby, St Athan!

BR,

Laurie.

It was the guy’s last flight in the Air Force before leaving the mob, so the story goes.

Wasnt this the guy who did a display at Mildenhall in a B-52 named Swashbuckler. I only remember it because of the ground efect takeoff and the fact the wings were bending during the turns. Plus i talked to one off the buff crewmembers afterwards who seemed to think that the airframe had been overstressed. however i cannot remember the year.

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.

DUCK!!!

from: http://www.laahs.com/artman/publish/article_30.shtml

Does this count as low flying?

Paul

Only if it’s a Sopwith Dolphin!

ADrian

A great place to see very low flying is on the RAF radar sites on West Falkland. The attached photo is of a Phantom FGR 2 of 1435 Flt doing a high speed low pass over the No 7 Signals Unit radar site at Byron Heights in Jan 1989 (mid point of my first tour down there). He is at nearly 600 Knots and is climbing!!! To add to this he has just over flown the site Antenna farm (out of the shot on the other side of radar golfball) at no more than 10 feet!!! and missed a stand alone HF radio whip aerial by less than 5!!!!. Two guys that were standing on top of the operations complex (behind the golfball) and the Fighter Controller who was watching from the hatch on the radar’s display cabin all through the aircraft was going to hit them. The phantom was the wingman of a Two ship formation. The leader flew over on the side of the golfball that I was on and I never saw him! Only heard him when he was right on top of me (and got deafened). On my second tour at Mount Alice (751 Signals Unit) in 1999, I saw a Tornado F3 do a knife edge over the site between the Golfball and a 70 ft high microwave link Tower (about 30 meters a part) with the starboard wing again not more than 10 feet of the deck (My camera ran out of film just as he got level with me, the last shot on the film being of a tornado wing!!!). One of the best ones I seen however, was on video of a Phantom flypast over Mount Alice in late 1989. The Guy came over the site, very low and very slow with every thing down (including the Hook). As he dropped below the level of the rock outcrop where most of the observers to the flypast were standing there was a massive cloud of dirt that suddenly flew up over the outcrop as he went into burners to stop dropping into the side of the mountain. the best comment on the video being ‘****’ he’s Low!!!’. Rumour has it that on getting back to Mount Pleasant, the crew got out, the pilot took his bonedome off, and the Navigator punched him! (The Nav later stated on a visit to the site that he was a second from banging out, as he through they were definitely going to pile in). The guys on the Radar Site knew the pilot after this as ‘Mad Dog’.

Low Flying

Does this count as low flying?

Paul

Scanned from page 54 of “Avro Vulcan” by Robert Jackson

Good find of that photo Papa Lima. Thanks for sharing it.

Incase anyone is wondering (like I did), what the red things are in the photo I sent in – they are the tops of red buses, parked up outside the airport – so that shows how low the Vulcan was on approach! My friend was obviously even closer to the aircraft, on the embankment of the runway threshold!

Paul

Crikey! 😀

Vulcan incident at Wellington, NZ

Scanned from page 54 of “Avro Vulcan” by Robert Jackson