Shocking example of low flying
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Many years ago a PPL buddy & I were doing a leisurely (& almost certainly illegal) practice approach to the disused Gaydon airfield in the UK Midlands in a PA28 . At approx 200 feet AGL we were just about to break off the approach and turn away when two Harriers in line astern passed under us doing a great deal more knots than we were making. They were following the ex-V bomber base runway heading en route to the Welsh valleys. We drove home without saying a word to each other & never went near Gaydon again.
I've often wondered whether they had actually seen us...
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I've often wondered whether they had actually seen us...
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50 Agles.....
Hoooooold On a Minute! This isn't even a real beat-up, George Lucas hasn't signed over the rights for this to be remotely considered a good poop flypast......so until someone sticks a real beat-up pic on the post I officially declare this link null and void till we get a no Sh*@t beat up pic where the groundies have to run back into the hangar after knock-off when one of the lads smokes the joint.........!
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Sorry guys not sure if able to get this link working, but surely the true meaning to 'Beat Up' and just what fox 3 ordered!! Please enjoy
http://www.55srwa.org/0106/06081104.html
Hope it works.http://www.55srwa.org/0106/06081104.html
http://www.55srwa.org/0106/06081104.html
Hope it works.http://www.55srwa.org/0106/06081104.html
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Wow it worked!
Anderw Brooks site is well worth a look if you want to hunt down some old gems. Follow the link to the Buccaneer page if that is what floats your boat.
Not quite as low as my last post but its well worth a look for a selection of LL Jets, I love the one looking into the Jag cockpit!
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...display_dd.htm
Also check outhttp://www.warplane.co.uk
About the only place you are going to see a Herc J flying low level!
A bit of a spotters heaven, low level photos and vid clips of everything from tutors to helos.
Anderw Brooks site is well worth a look if you want to hunt down some old gems. Follow the link to the Buccaneer page if that is what floats your boat.
Not quite as low as my last post but its well worth a look for a selection of LL Jets, I love the one looking into the Jag cockpit!
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...display_dd.htm
Also check outhttp://www.warplane.co.uk
About the only place you are going to see a Herc J flying low level!
A bit of a spotters heaven, low level photos and vid clips of everything from tutors to helos.
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Please everyone keep posting the pics, I won't get any work done, but so what. For those of you who fly and still love it imagine what its like to love something that is a complete mystery to you. One of these days... there is a PPL in my future
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Good effort Salad...Now thats what I'm talking about
I first saw one of the originals from that set back in NZ. One of the controllers in NZ was based in southern Oman on UK loan service and was on the tarmac the day the boys beat the living Cr*p out of the place (one of the many days I believe, the early 80's seemed pretty wild down there!). There is a series of them and some video too.
Nice One
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While doing some para training near Bloemfontein a certain DC3 crew used to do the odd shoot up of the packing and gathering area we used near the airfield. On one occasion the came in between two military ten man tents and as well as flattening tents and occupants with their wash they upset a couple of packers who had canopies laid out for packing. After that there was always one packer keeping a weather eye out for the Dak and if they could hear it but not see it they got pretty antsy and lay down on the partially packed 'chutes.
Unfortunately the Dak was damaged on the last day of the course when the beast nosed over while doing engine run ups. It left two gouges in the runway and had to be carted away on a low bed trailer and we finished up jumping an assortment of helos and converters. (For a definition of converters see the thread regarding flying a Kudu on the African Aviation forum.)
Unfortunately the Dak was damaged on the last day of the course when the beast nosed over while doing engine run ups. It left two gouges in the runway and had to be carted away on a low bed trailer and we finished up jumping an assortment of helos and converters. (For a definition of converters see the thread regarding flying a Kudu on the African Aviation forum.)
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... the undisputed champs in the southern hemisphere
A 50' pass (was our legal low flying minimum) at the HE range in the central North Island of NZ.
I'll start by saying that this clip is shown by the RAAF flight safety office as an example of supposed dangerous low flying! What a load of cr@p - they (I mean we!) get excited by by flying at 150' through the "mountains" (read: low hills), and don't know any better.
Ahh the memories!
Coming at ya or;
Coming at ya #2 or;
Coming at ya #3 .
This one had the Thai tower controllers diving for cover as we departed Korat for Kuantan. Flypast Korat
Fox 3, you were privvy to a few choice "arrivals". Don't you have any piccies of the mighty Douglas to post here??
ExDD
I'm still a fan of this one... I'm pretty sure that the pilot here is now flying with the RAF.
I'll start by saying that this clip is shown by the RAAF flight safety office as an example of supposed dangerous low flying! What a load of cr@p - they (I mean we!) get excited by by flying at 150' through the "mountains" (read: low hills), and don't know any better.
Ahh the memories!
Coming at ya or;
Coming at ya #2 or;
Coming at ya #3 .
This one had the Thai tower controllers diving for cover as we departed Korat for Kuantan. Flypast Korat
Fox 3, you were privvy to a few choice "arrivals". Don't you have any piccies of the mighty Douglas to post here??
ExDD
I'm still a fan of this one... I'm pretty sure that the pilot here is now flying with the RAF.
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What can I say.....bloody legends! I will dig out some of my old footage and get it into net form.....I guess as the Douglas is almost an icon of the RNZAF past now (pending the sale) we can get away with throwing around some pix and footage of the good old days!
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Wycombe,
I'm afraid the C130 piccy you mention is a spoof. It's a montage constructed by my loadie and the station photog at RAF Stanley in early 1986. They had great fun getting the Medical Centre staff to pose for the 'diving out of the way' bit! No-one seemed to question why the SMO was on top of the SMC ISO container. The piccy of the Herc used in the montage was taken of an aircraft on short finals by a very brave chap who sat in the undershoot.
Great days - and there was some very serious (and usually unrecorded) low flying there. The F4 wearing the farm's HF aerial was during this period.....
Scroggs
I'm afraid the C130 piccy you mention is a spoof. It's a montage constructed by my loadie and the station photog at RAF Stanley in early 1986. They had great fun getting the Medical Centre staff to pose for the 'diving out of the way' bit! No-one seemed to question why the SMO was on top of the SMC ISO container. The piccy of the Herc used in the montage was taken of an aircraft on short finals by a very brave chap who sat in the undershoot.
Great days - and there was some very serious (and usually unrecorded) low flying there. The F4 wearing the farm's HF aerial was during this period.....
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True, I was airborne on the last day but in the A4 formation, so had a different perspective.
We had left the singleton to it, and were giving one of the lad's parents farm a quick serve up.
Amazingly, we never did put any of their stock through a fence in the many years that we were over their house. Puts pay to a lot of the cockies stories about the "prize bull" doing a runner over cliffs etc.
Conversly, we did manage to clean up a few ostrichs in Aussie during a 4v2 bounced interdiction trip. The tap happened right over one of those hobby farms, and went on a bit longer than the 2x 360 reaction rules.
I will take the honour of flying the last sortie by 75 Sqn in an A4 to deliver NZ6213 to Woodbourne on 18 Dec 2001.
We had left the singleton to it, and were giving one of the lad's parents farm a quick serve up.
Amazingly, we never did put any of their stock through a fence in the many years that we were over their house. Puts pay to a lot of the cockies stories about the "prize bull" doing a runner over cliffs etc.
Conversly, we did manage to clean up a few ostrichs in Aussie during a 4v2 bounced interdiction trip. The tap happened right over one of those hobby farms, and went on a bit longer than the 2x 360 reaction rules.
I will take the honour of flying the last sortie by 75 Sqn in an A4 to deliver NZ6213 to Woodbourne on 18 Dec 2001.
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The last fly-by: Ohakea, 13th December 2001, by the CO 2 Sqn?
I could e-mail it to someone who can post it
I don't seem to have the brouse facility necessary for attachments!
It's an unusual aspect!
I could e-mail it to someone who can post it
I don't seem to have the brouse facility necessary for attachments!It's an unusual aspect!
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Gentlemen, I fear we may have seen the last of the mighty A-4K; but I promise you this:
While there is breath in my body, those lost Squadrons, 75, 14, and 2, will live again.
They do but sleep.
So mote it be.
While there is breath in my body, those lost Squadrons, 75, 14, and 2, will live again.
They do but sleep.
So mote it be.
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Thank you ex-DD.
Watch this space folks! The view is an A4 seen passing the Contol Tower which is 80' high, and people on the roof of the Crash Bay next door, a single storey building, are looking straight at him!
http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...ne/Flypast.jpg
Watch this space folks! The view is an A4 seen passing the Contol Tower which is 80' high, and people on the roof of the Crash Bay next door, a single storey building, are looking straight at him!
http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...ne/Flypast.jpg
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Scroggs
Ah well, it had me (and obviously a lot of others) fooled...having witnessed some Albert antics in other places, it didn't seem too far-fetched!
Heard the story about the F4 WIW in the FI a couple of years ago - nice to know that not everything is myth & legend!
Now, supersonic run & breaks, is that apochryphal aswell?
Heard the story about the F4 WIW in the FI a couple of years ago - nice to know that not everything is myth & legend!
Now, supersonic run & breaks, is that apochryphal aswell?
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Now, supersonic run & breaks, is that apochryphal as well?
A certain F4K managed quite nicely to wake all us on Ark with a supersonic run at <100ft, one sleepy afternoon. After much sweating and discussion with lots of senior officers, the pilot was (eventually) exonerated when the Machmeter was tested and found U/S.
Quite what speed he thought he was doing was carefully avoided
Quite what speed he thought he was doing was carefully avoided