DH Hornets fly under bridge

[treadigraph]

Hmmm, wouldn't be a Chalk's Mallard from Nassau Harbour would it - the Paradise Island bridges look as though they might offer enough room underneath?

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Hmmm, wouldn't be a Chalk's Mallard from Nassau Harbour would it - the Paradise Island bridges look as though they might offer enough room underneath?

Indeed it was, although at the time (mid to late 80s) the second bridge hadn't yet been built.

[treadigraph]

Blimey!

I was over in Miami a few times around 1990 and each time planned to do a trip with Chalk's on a Mallard "next time" which eventually was 1999 - and they weren't flying at the time! I was over again a couple of years later when they were flying, though not from Watson Island. There never was a "next time"...

[Herod]

Originally Posted by Warmtoast

Wiki has an interesting article about Alan Pollock's flight through Tower Bridge in the 1950's.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker...ridge_incident

Actually 5th April 1968. He was more than a little upset that very little had been done to commemorate the 50th of the RAF. More was done for the hundredth, perhaps to avoid another. Many of us wished we had done it, but never had the aircraft or the guts. I never flew fast jets, and wasn't that brave/stupid. Well done Alan

[sycamore]

DRUK,I recall that in the mid `60`s an RAF Shackleton MK3 had an engine problem ,possibly en-route to/from Gib. and diverted to Montijo,going under the bridge,virtually in `ground effect`,as they couldn`t start one of the `jets` (4 Griffons+2Vipers)..

[Aerials]

That event was described in post #55 here Low Flying under bridges (Updated)
There are several interesting tales that closely relate to those in this thread.