How Low Can You Go??

It’s an Aero Commander, good stuff.
I’ve never done any low flying, myself…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQpVI_aldB0

Bob Hoover in a Piaggio (?) enjoy!

TT

An old friend in South Africa gave the brief on water skiing. He does it in a Cub. The recommended technique is to approach the water at normal flight speed with the BRAKES ON, touch down as for a wheeler and apply a little forward stick to maintain a level attitude and there you have it. Simple he says, nothing to it, first time is the worst. On a large lake, he says, you can do flat turns with the rudder but must keep wings level.

Frankly I think to whole business is utter lunacy and if there were to be an incident then the likely repercussions would be appalling both from the insurance and the “endangering” aspects.

Cheers,

Trapper 69

Very true. Water, when approached at speed is very hard, but also usually not flat; a swell ar a big enough chop or wave, or wake from another vehicle in or one the water could very easily undo you. Still the risk-aversion attitudes of display pilots is usually interesting! 😉

An old friend in South Africa gave the brief on water skiing. He does it in a Cub. The recommended technique is to approach the water at normal flight speed with the BRAKES ON, touch down as for a wheeler and apply a little forward stick to maintain a level attitude and there you have it. Simple he says, nothing to it, first time is the worst. On a large lake, he says, you can do flat turns with the rudder but must keep wings level.

Frankly I think to whole business is utter lunacy and if there were to be an incident then the likely repercussions would be appalling both from the insurance and the “endangering” aspects.

Cheers,

Trapper 69

Wasn’t there a case once of a fish strike on an airliner? Something with a bald eagle dropping a salmon I believe 🙂

…or have a big fish jump into the prop 😮

You do NOT want to sneeze when doing that! 😀

Here’s the relevant topic with some amazing pics:
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6462

It’s a disaster waiting to happen though… :rolleyes:

Is that real?, ahh ahhh ahhhhhh CHOOOOOO, WHOOPS,Splash

My God! 😮

Check this out!!! See thread on WIX for more (Warbird Information Exchange)

Actually it’s not a The Aeroplane magazine photo, it is credited to Flight in the publication I got it from. There is also a cutaway below oit of the Anson also credited to Flight, as are all the other RAF photos in the 1938 airshow programme.

Can someone tell me please when did The Aeroplane and Flight each first go on public sale?

That’s the problem with trying to work from memory late (or early!) :rolleyes:

Flight & Aeroplane share photos at a couple of stages of their history, I can say in my defence, and it’ll now be in Aeroplane’s archives I think…

In answer to your question Dave, 1911 – 1968 for Aeroplane, acording to the current magazine’s title page. Flight I neither know (nor care… 😉 )

It’s an Aeroplane (the 1930s version of the mag, like Flight) photo
HTH

Actually it’s not a The Aeroplane magazine photo, it is credited to Flight in the publication I got it from. There is also a cutaway below oit of the Anson also credited to Flight, as are all the other RAF photos in the 1938 airshow programme.

Can someone tell me please when did The Aeroplane and Flight each first go on public sale?

Mirages in Africa?

Apologies if these have been referenced before-these guys are low………

http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-4787.html

Charles Sims was the Aeroplane photographer – here is one of his photos scanned from his excellent (but too slim!) volume “Camera in the Sky”

Meant to post that one myself but never did…

What scares me is that an awful lot of cameras back then had waist-level viewfinders (think Rolleiflex). So if he was using oneof those then that axle isn’t below his EYEline, it’s below his WAISTLINE! 😮

Off for a lie-down to get over thinking about it…

Adrian

PL965, if I’m not mistaken. Am I right in thinking one of the Hannas is in command there?

Wonderful 🙂

You are correct!

It’s a pleasure, James!

Thanks Papa, and for your other recent posts. What would I do without you! 😀

😮

Gloster Gnatsnapper

Charles Sims was the Aeroplane photographer – here is one of his photos scanned from his excellent (but too slim!) volume “Camera in the Sky”

I’m assuming ti’s Finnish – the swatztikas were what made me suspect (and it’s prewar so not captured).

Bit o’ info here.

It’s a shot taken in in the UK in the 30s, pre-delivery to the Finns.

It’s an Aeroplane (the 1930s version of the mag, like Flight) photo – can’t remember who (Russell something?) but they used to do this quite a lot. The photog would stand in the middle of the field and they’d fly the aircraft around him, or over him, or at him…

The Finns marking is strictly not a ‘Swastika’ but it has a different name. Ummm. Can’t remember. The Finns marking is pale blue and ‘stands on the flat side’ while the Nazi symbol was usually black and always ‘stood on the corner’. The problem with identifying them is the vast amount of inaccurate allied caricatures and spoofs, so the simplicity of the Swastika is lost.

HTH