How low can you go ?

[abbacab]

For your viewing pleasure - the Froggie Air Force enjoying life.

French Air Force (http://www.drunkencat.com/media/1131925689/Extremely_Low_Altitude_Flying)

Beware dialup - clip is about 9 Meg.

[Spurlash2]

I don't know; you spend all day enjoying yourself on some sort of standby somewhere near the Atlantic coast, and then go and spoil it all by recklessly enjoying yourself at ridiculously low level. Sheeeeshhh:ok:

[brit bus driver]

Fack me Gwant....................:ok:

[ShyTorque]

That's not low.

I know someone who flew a lot lower than that over the water. He's dead, mind. :ugh:

;)

[4Greens]

You are low flying when you have a negative reading on the RA.

[FJJP]

If the Buccaneers flew that high they'd get a nosebleed....

[The Helpful Stacker]

I heard that those Buccaneer types often had to pull up to put the undercarriage down.

[RileyDove]

A friend toldme once that one of the AF checks was to look for tree debris on the airframe!

[PerArdua]

Buccs at Lossie often had tree strikes with associated ferns and leaves in the intakes and wood pidgeons were common, always wondered if they had been happily sitting in their nest minding their own business when....a free ride in a Spey 101 was delivered..

PA

[Bluntend]

I heard a rumour of a Buccaneer on Red Flag or some similar US exercise that suffered an 'eagle strike'. Analysis of the damage hinted that the bird had been sitting on a cactus at the time as the Bucc's leading edges had cactus needles sticking out of it. Not sure how true this strory is mind...

[squigs]

why dont ye ask Will Young how low the plane can be really flown....now he really flies by the seat of his pants!:ok:

[ShyTorque]

"he really flies by the seat of his pants!"

Actually, I heard he puts his flies by the seat of someone else's pants..... :suspect:

[squigs]

quite correct shy torque....wonder did he perform any "mid air refueling"....of course the cockpit configuration wough greatly affect "refueling " proceedure!:E

[Wycombe]

I hope he didn't really fly with Mr Beachyhead - that really would make me sick :E

Does confirm what many have said about "Top Gun" as a movie though :ok:

[squigs]

there was no need for confirmation, i mean, the volleyball scene....there was no need what so ever....having said that, the film always makes me laugh. They kept the boys from "stoke on trent" happy and made people laugh, perfect combination if you ask me. Bring on another homomachoistic flick!!:ok: :8

[Ruu123]

Talk about low.. Come to think of it, forget bird strike.. dolphin strike anyone? :-)

[Epsilon minus]

So has anyone got a video of low level Bucc flying then?

[r supwoods]

How Low ..This Low ... note prop tips... :uhoh: http://www.micom.net/oops/P51gear-up.jpg

[VigilantPilot]

I'd call that a landing! How about inverted?

http://www.iac78.org/images/su26a.jpg

Beat that! :}

[Runaway Gun]

Oh, his tail isn't even moist.....

[VigilantPilot]

Kind of getting off topic, but the above picture in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=vy8evhya_9E

:oh:

[BDiONU]

More mirages low flying in Tchad here
http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos.php?action=lists&id=2
but the whole site contains many more excellent videos. If you can spare the bandwidth download the 623Mb La Mirage Du Tchad!

BD

[Gainesy]

From the amount of flap, looks more like the Mustang is doing a wheels up. And from the perfect positioning of the photographer, more likely pre-meditated?

The Sukhoi mate is clearly barking mad.:)

[treadigraph]

Mustang was indeed a pre-meditated gear up landing Gainesy, so far as I can recall both main gear legs refused to come out to play! I think damage was relatively light.

Saw a pic years ago of a Greek PA-31 with Q tipped prop blades - except they hadn't been done professionally by Colemill, but by way of a low pass (allegedly!). At least one tip was bent forwards. :}

[The Swinging Monkey]

I wasn't on board, but there is a well-known story of the Shak that was doing radar homings to the buoy in 807. The radar op called 'radar u/s' just as the crew called on top 'now, now, now' only to find that the aircraft had hit the buoy and knocked off the radar 'dustbin' sitting beneath the aircraft!

Kind regards to all
TSM

[Paterbrat]

Bit sly rolling over so's he can see how far away the water is...