How low can you go

[ChrisMcD]

This is the first time I have tried a photobucket video link
http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d144/chrismcd3/?action=view&current=ohmygodSpitfirepass.flv (mailto:)

Sorry about the Strine dialect at the end

[Montana]

Hi, Chris,

do you remember the initial scene in the famous "Battle of Britain"-movie - where the "Germans" attack a british squadron of Hurricanes on the ground in France? One of those "Buchon"-Messerschmitts comes in so low for buzzing the airfield, I always really wondered how he made it over the fence!

Another piece of footage I once saw showed a Curtiss P-40 flying so low over a grassy field that - THE PROP CHOPPED THE PILE OF EARTH PUT UP BY A MOLE!

Try to top - err: bottom - this! [8D]

CHeers!

Montana

[Trexx]

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-10/1283790/dsc1304copy.gif


http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-10/1283790/dsc1271copy.gif


http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-10/1283790/dsc1327copy.gif

Only one comment comes to mind here. "They've GOT BALLS!"

Some NARLY low level flying recently by a South African aerobatic team...

[Wuzak]

quote:Originally posted by Trexx

[quote]
Only one comment comes to mind here. "They've GOT BALLS!"

Some NARLY low level flying recently by a South African aerobatic team...




I suppose it means they don't have to wash the wheels and tyres....

[Trexx]

ChrisMcD!

NOW THAT'S A GEM!

Ah! A Spitfire in da' face in da' the mornin'!

[Montana]

Well -

if you mounted those T-6's on THESE wheels:


http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n149/montanamotor/dhultquistcub35s.jpg


by: http://www.akbushwheel.com/


- you could actually PARK them on the water, I guess... :D

Go to akbushwheels' "Picture of the Month" and browse the gallery.

There's nothing that doesn't exist under the good ole Sun, I tell ya', bros!

Cheers! [8D]

Montana

[Lightning]

Hi Trexx,

quote:"They've GOT BALLS!"
And they're probably WET!

Regards,
Lightning

[ChrisMcD]

Spoilsports

A senior pilot with Cathay Pacific Airways has been sacked for an "unauthorised low-level flypast" of a new Boeing 777-300ER in Seattle last month, Flight International reports. Ian Wilkinson had just taken delivery of the aircraft on 30 January and, after take-off from Everett Airport en route to Hong Kong with about 50 to 60 passengers on board, including Cathay Pacific chairman Christopher Pratt, returned to the airfield for "a low-level flypast with the landing gear up":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7hpVH1IAQM

News sources say Wilkinson had obtained permission from the tower for the stunt, but not from his employers. While onlookers applauded the low-level pass, the plane's passengers were said to be "stunned into silence". When footage of the Top Gun escapade subsequently found its way onto the internet, it revealed Wilkinson had taken his charge just 28 to 30ft above the runway.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/777_flypast/

Mind you - in a 777? After Heathrow last month??