How Low Can You Go

[OzPax1]

Apologies if this YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqgCHof3f0Q) video has been posted before. Still can't quite believe how low those French pilots get in their Mirage's....! :ooh:

[DJRC]

It's one thing to do it in a fast jet, but a tanker on the otherhand.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgUM_-cKCVA

:eek:

[Talking Radalt]

Jeezus-titty-fuc&ing-christ! :eek: :ok:

[OzPax1]

:eek: Shiiiite...He almost hit the trees......!!! :eek:

[mbga9pgf]

:eek: Shiiiite...He almost hit the trees......!!! :eek:

I think thats the sort of behaviour that gets a captain a broken nose.... from the rest of the crew :ooh:

[airborne_artist]

French, in Chad I think.

[OzPax1]

And another one! http://www.youtube.com (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9T51UsuaPU&mode=related&search=)

[Truck2005]

Has anyone seen the shoots of a Typhoon nosing up to a Herc ramp in flight, (taken from on the ramp)? Seen the pictures at work but cannot download them to my machine, (limited privs etc).
What was the purpose of it?

[jwcook]

They were making a promotional video..
there some here http://www.eurofighter.com/Medialibrary/Video/
I think its the uncertain world one!! but I could be wrong!!.

cheers

[aviate1138]

Truck 2005 said "Has anyone seen the shoots of a Typhoon nosing up to a Herc ramp in flight, (taken from on the ramp)? Seen the pictures at work but cannot download them to my machine, (limited privs etc).
What was the purpose of it?"
Don't be fooled by the use of a long focal length lens. The Typhoon was not 'nosing up' to the ramp but some way behind. Mind you closer than I would
want to be! Got my attention when I first saw it. :)
Aviate1138

[Truck2005]

Thanks for that, cleared up a few arguments at work, some thought he had forgotten his butty box! As an engineer I hate seeing a perfectly serviceable aircraft being put too close to another perfectly serviceable one, particularly in flight:=

(In this case it might damage the Herc, especially when the urinal decides to unblock)!

[OzPax1]

Re: low flying tanker...according to "biggrecian" on youtube:
"Why is this dangerous?
The pilot will have had low level flying training - and would have been experienced on type.
Outside normal operating procedure but I'm sure it was safe. "
:hmm:

Is that Danny's flying pigs I see going past! :rolleyes:

[StbdD]

..... and then someone started shooting.

[OzPax1]

..... and then someone started shooting.


Flying Pigs Shoot Down Game (http://www.indiaarcade.com/game/20242/If-Pig_s-Can-Fly-Then-Pigs-Must-Die.html) :E

[Hempy]

They're French, flying that low and that fast; my question - who are they running away from??

:}

[OzPax1]

They're French, flying that low and that fast; my question - who are they running away from??

:}

For some reason Hempy your comments made me think of Monty Python......! Can't think why....??? :E

[OzPax1]

He says he not gonna Flinch...But....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye_U-5fB9ok&mode=related&search= :}

[False Capture]

I loved the KC-135 flypast.:eek:

That tanker skipper is the probably the French equivalent of BEagle.

[BEagle]

NON!

The only tanker* flypasts I ever did were strictly kosher.

Apart from one I got slightly wrong when I forgot to reset QFE (we didn't have rad alts) doing a 'Sunset Flypast' of the OM. I gather it looked quite good though......

But not as impressive as the 3-ship flypast to commemorate the VC10 40th anniversary which I saw last year. THAT was truly outstanding!!








*Can't say the same for Vulcan B2 XL319, RAF Honington, 17 June 1978 though.......

[Fg Off Max Stout]

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/bofns/Flyby.jpg
Would that be this one? I'm surpised the ensign isn't flying directly towards the intake of those Olympii, given the proximity! Wouldn't be the first time a parade square's occupants have lost their hats either!

[jindabyne]

Don't think so Max - car and aircraft paint job of an earlier era; and I don't recognise either of the saluters. (The one on the left is probably thinking 'Oh s**t, what's he going to say about this?')

[BEagle]

I think that's a B1A at Swinderby in about 1965-ish? Before my time.













Height's about right though.....

[BIG MACH]

Anyone got the vids of Buccs at Red Flag kicking up sand with wingtip vortices. Missile batteries could'nt depress low enough for a 'kill'.

[oldbilbo]

In the late 70's, the SAAF B12 Cans and S.50 Buccs were on frequent strike missions against Cuban ground formations, with East German and Russian 'advisors'. As one might imagine, 'surprise' was the main defensive armament against the MRR triple-A and warning radar.

The SAAF Cans adopted the RAFG techniques of ultra-low level approach, climbing to delivery height, then unloading back down again for exit. One result of that procedure was the paint being stripped off the under-fuselage by the flat tops of the mopane ( acacia ) trees. On one occasion we went in below the Pumas and Super Frelons carrying in the 'follow-up' force. We wanted to deliver from below 100', but the weapons techies reminded us about 'chain sympathetic detonation' or summat, so 250 feet was about the lowest we were cleared for. ;);)

Then there was the bomb-bay full of empty beer bottles dropped from 10,000 feet, at night. 'Evil spirits in the sky' noises. Talk about PsyOps! Some of the Cubans didn't stop running 'til they got to the ocean.... :):)

[BEagle]

My late father's business partner had flown the mighty RN Swordfish (and later the Albacore) during WW2 and used that beer bottle trick over the desert....

Though probably not from 10000ft!

They'd spot a Bedouin camp fire, then overfly it and lob out a few beer bottles. This caused the Bedouins' sheep to scatter in all directions, pursued by angry Arabs. Whilst this mayhem was going on, they'd glide down to low level with all lights out, then go roaring across the heads of the nearest bunch of sheep-chasing Bedouins to add to the sense of hilarity.

:rolleyes: