How low can you go?

Thanks Chris for the video which puts it in perspective.

G’day 😉

A great capture

We went Saturday and I thought he was low. Did think he was keeping low to avoid aircraft running in above him and he had been released early by the ATC. As the first pic was taken on the Sunday and the below was Saturday then my initial thoughts were wrong as it was repeated on the Sunday.

Very nice chris 😀

Lovely stuff Chris .:)

video

Well, for what it’s worth, here is a link to my (smartphone) video footage of the Seafire takeoff. Apologies for the quality, but for those who weren’t there at least you get the idea!

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

Agreed Anna. A point I’ve been trying to put across regarding this wonderful picture. 😉

A fine take off shot. 🙂

Ian, there was a member of the safety committee just in-front of us by the fuel bank (at the end of the grass runway).

I’m sure it would have been spotted if it was that serious. Sorry I only said hello briefly on Saturday – not sure if you recognised me!

If, as you say, that the pilot was staying low – this low – to avoid displaying aircraft then this is by definition an unsafe manoevre. Anyway I was always told that climb had to be established before retracting the undercarriage. The aeroplane is too low for straight and level flight. These are the facts and the comment is justified.

Regards

There will have been a Display Director/Safety Committee scrutinising every display. If felt unsafe, the pilot concerned will have been spoken to, I would think. I seem to remember Pino Valenti being spoken to (over even told to stop a display?) in the Fiat G59 some years ago, unless I’m wrong in which case I apologise.

Agreed Anna. A point I’ve been trying to put across regarding this wonderful picture. 😉

Lets just leave it as a great shot chaps! :rolleyes::):) Great flying. 🙂

Robmac – take it easy with the exclamation marks.;) I didn’t say it was dangerous – I have expressed no opinion on the matter at all. I did say that other posters have implied that it was dangerous.

Safety debates aside, that’s a great photo, Dean. Nicely caught! 🙂

Paul

Is anyone here really qualified to make these sorts of judgements on the basis of a photograph alone and other, possibly, unreliable observations? There is no ulterior motive behind the question – I am merely seeking an objective answer.

I. and this is only my opinion. It has a part in Health and safety, but I honestly think that the organisers of these magnificent shows are frightened of the American way of thinking, if anything happens to any individual, they are most likely to be sued.even for the most insignificent incident.
I was in Anthonies Sea food restaurant in San Diego, and overheard a conversation between two women, when one stated she was suing her next door neighbour, as her dog kept peeing on her lawn, and that was in 1986, now we are in the same situation.
What with the health and safety, politicaly correct brigade working overtime as killjoys, we will possibly in the future only see these magnificent machines static in museums.
Lincoln. 7

But its not dangerous flying!!!!!

If it was, every aircraft that lands and takes off is doing dangerous flying!! This pilot flying this Seafire this low was a one off. If every aircraft at Legends did this then I can understand peoples views on dangerous flying, but they didn’t!

Just enjoy the picture for what its posted for….an exhilarating shot of the Seafire this low!!!

Very much so but I don’t think it’s an ‘elf’n’safety problem here – it is the implication of bad or dangerous flying. Much more serious.

If any of you can remember the 80’s and early 90’s at the Fighter Meet, you would have tail chases of warbirds banking and weaving across the runway at heights where wing tips were mere feet off the tarmac leaving dust trails behind them. You never heard folk shout ‘urrr urrr health and safety, health and safety!!!!’ then did you???

Bring back the days of Fighter Meet and Duxford, when aircraft were stunted to thrill the crowds, not demonstrated to the point if they bank too hard the paint flicks off a bit!!

No they are not!!

And to be honest, this is a classic example of how pathetic this health and safety concious country is soddin gettin!!

The picture was posted to show an exciting and somewhat rare view of a classic fighter low, not to break out an all out war with everyone regarding health and safety!!

Its a cracking picture and hats of to the experianced pilots skills in flying this low……..for a reason…………

Here here!

Is anyone here really qualified to make these sorts of judgements on the basis of a photograph alone and other, possibly, unreliable observations? There is no ulterior motive behind the question – I am merely seeking an objective answer.

No they are not!!

And to be honest, this is a classic example of how pathetic this health and safety concious country is soddin gettin!!

The picture was posted to show an exciting and somewhat rare view of a classic fighter low, not to break out an all out war with everyone regarding health and safety!!

Its a cracking picture and hats of to the experianced pilots skills in flying this low……..for a reason…………

Is anyone here really qualified to make these sorts of judgements on the basis of a photograph alone and other, possibly, unreliable observations? There is no ulterior motive behind the question – I am merely seeking an objective answer.