How Low Can You Go??

[Firebird]

Cracking write up and the photos are quite good............


Low level over the sand

[Hatton]

my word

[Denis]

A very old and good friend of mine, Trevor Bailey was at Thumrait at the same time, after serving in the RAF at Coningsby and Wattisham as an armourer, he joined the Sultan of Omans Air force also as an Armourer.
These pics were taken by him at Thumrait, the figure walking down the runway about to be passed by a Jaguar is Squadron Leader Paddy Roberts.
Sorry about the quality of the images.

[JetBlast]

Great shots, regardless of the quality. Can you imagine this sort of flyby at an Airshow

[Propstrike]

G-FIRE at Elstree, Ray Hanna I think.

[DazDaMan]

G-FIRE at Elstree, Ray Hanna I think.

I bet Alain DeCadeneit is glad he never saw that picture!

[John Cooper]

This pic of this Hastings hit the water off Cyprus both the inboard prop tips were peeled back after hitting the sea (PropStrike!)

http://image24.webshots.com/25/9/45/...9phRYPu_ph.jpg

This is an extract from my diary in 1962 when I was on 201 Squadron although it involved a 206 MR3 Shackleton

I also recall an incident with a 206 Squadron MR3 Shackleton where it had been in exercise with a submarine and had the scanner housing down to the third search (ie Scanner fully extended), the pilot was flying so low that he ripped the second and third stage of the scanner housing off by being in contact with the swell running at the time. I recall going over to that kite and standing upright looking into an empty scanner well with splintered plywood all around! One lucky crew.

Anyone beat those two?

[Firebird]

Didn't someone mention on here that the late, great, Stefan Kawowski flew Hunters for the Sultan of Omans Air Force......

Explains alot about his stunning Hunter displays.......

[DazDaMan]

These are via Al George.

Will that do?

[1946]

Several years ago,(90's), Pylon racing was conducted here in Tasmania in the north of the state and called Sky Race. One of the entertainment segments was for a well known aerobatic 'ace' to take off in the Pitts special imeadiatly airborne he would invert the aircraft back to ground level, to within having the prop and tail about a foot off the earth. I watched from the fence at the flight line that after noon where he was just that bit too low. Take off normal, inverted, then the motor screaming stopped, and he came past inverted sliding on the top wing of the Pitts, and the tail leaving a neat furrow in the grass. Misjudged alowance for the tailplane droping and nose rotating around the CofG. Pilot un injured, except for pride, aircraft $30k+ damage.

[Andy_Young]

There is of course the Hercules that hit the guy standing on top of a Landrover at Cirencester a few years ago....

[Dave Barrell]

Check out www.aviationpics.de - there's a few low ones on there..

DB

[JDK]

Below sea level?

A certain aerobatic ace flew his Bucker Jungmeister in Monaco harbour in the thirties with the fin deliberately in the water. Given that he was in controlled flight, and finished the display, unlike everyone else who's gone below that ground/sea level, I reckon that's a win.

[B-17man]

Cannot recall what year
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VAPIR ONE V5.0 VAPORIZER

[willy.henderick]

Years ago, during an Air Show in Gibraltar, a Shackleton hit the runway with the scanner

[adrian_gray]

Sadly I cannot remember who, where etc - except that it was probably mid 80s.

Not so long ago I was channel hopping and caught onto someone talking about planes, with a little film of someone flour bombing with a Piper Cub in D-Day stripes.

Turns out it was "TV Nightmares" - or some such drivel. Anyway, the chap being interviewed had been a local news reporter and was reporting on whatever the event was. Some bright spark arranged for him to be stood there with a mike and the Cub would bomb him - mug!

So there he is, stood like a lemon waiting for the bang, when the cameraman realises that the plane is just too close and flinches. Moment of impact missed, you just see the plane belt through the camera shot and a pair of legs sail up and over - think a clotheslined rugby player!

The pilot had decided to go REALLY low and REALLY slow to give the chap hanging out the door with the flour a good shot and they HIT the guy with the leading edge of the wing.

Incredibly both reporter and Cub survived - the head-shaped dent in the Cub's wing had to be seen to be believed, and I don't suppose his skull looked any prettier.

No doubt there are several morals to this story...

Adrian

[Stieglitz]

I have always liked the many pics of the LOW passes of the Belgian Airforce Fouga MT48. PS: This year is the final year of the Fouga in service with the Belgian Air Force. It is to retire in october.

To see several great pics, click HERE

J.V.

[STORMBIRD262]

This is one of my favorite's.

Cheer's all , Tally Ho! Ho! Phil :diablo: .(must crash now," Gut Nacht " )

[old eagle]

"Borrowed" this one from a web site some time back...presumably DB in Sally B ??

DC

[Colin Wingrave]

so how low do you go before you call it a landing??? is that Don Bullock again in the B17 and is that Andrews Field ?

[adrian_gray]

so how low do you go before you call it a landing??? is that Don Bullock again in the B17 and is that Andrews Field ?

Countryside is about right for Andrews field. However I've checked Multimap and although I can't remember for sure what pylons look like on the OS map I can't see anything that might be a power line. I reckon it's somewhere else.

Given that Don Bullock was apparently Ted White's partner in Euroworld I don't think it can be anyone else at that height in Sally B...

Adrian

[STORMBIRD262]

Nice, anyone remember the Video shot's of that Mad Yank Airforce pilot that liked to fly a B-52 in ground affect over and past his buddie's having a picnic .(they took the shot's )

Last time he ever did it was across an airfield and crashed killing all on board , Don't remember now which base , was quiet some year's back on the tele new's.

Cheer's all , Tally Ho! Ho! Phil :diablo: .(Now I must really go before I colapse off this seat, having M.S. is a real B*tch )

[Transall]

Below sea level?

Hi,

Indeed, below sea level.
French pilots do this in Djibouti, where some desert is well below sea level.
It's been done in F-8E (FN) Crusaders and I don't doubt they've also done it in F-100's, Mirage III's, Mirage F-1's and Jaguars.

Cheers, Transall.

[willy.henderick]

Jochen,

Where are the attachments?

[Propstrike]

Re; Sally B down in the weeds, looks like Barton to me. Great shot!

[ALBERT ROSS]

Countryside is about right for Andrews field. However I've checked Multimap and although I can't remember for sure what pylons look like on the OS map I can't see anything that might be a power line. I reckon it's somewhere else.

Given that Don Bullock was apparently Ted White's partner in Euroworld I don't think it can be anyone else at that height in Sally B...

Adrian

Could be Fenland Airfield, Holbeach St. Johns 4th Sept 1977 as I have some very similar shots taken that day.

[Helican]

I have a video of a reporter talking about the Spitfire and its legacy, as an intro to something it seems. He is then overflown by a spit at VERY low altitude from the rear...he ducks and starts yelling expletive while the camera-man laughs.
Its priceless...anyone know how I can post a video..or has it already been seen by you guys

[Seafuryfan]

Yes Helican, that vid is well known and was posted on this forum a while ago. Some of our newer browsers may not have seen it - it's priceless, and was I believe originally gleaned from pprune.

Sorry, don't know how to upload video.

[stewart1a]

can i see?

[stewart1a]

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