Shocking example of low flying
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I know, disgraceful
It made me puke into the bushes just behind it, back in 1996. Or that might have just been the amazing quantity of alcohol I had consumed the night previously, then been through that full motion simulator thingy.
It's the X-wing on the pole outside the FMS at EuroDisney...
It made me puke into the bushes just behind it, back in 1996. Or that might have just been the amazing quantity of alcohol I had consumed the night previously, then been through that full motion simulator thingy.
It's the X-wing on the pole outside the FMS at EuroDisney...
Doh, what a let down....was expecting to see that photo of a bloke jumping off the top of a container with Albert looming large in the background 
If someone has it, please post it
If someone has it, please post it
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Oh well, must get a better photo editing suite! Just got back. Bizarrely, the most relaxing holiday I've ever had. Thoroughly recommended. Stayed at the MyTravel Explorer which has just opened. v. pleasant.
However, back to the point. There are of course some cracking low level shots. The works of Snapshot spring to mind (whatever happened to him?) and of course the Kemble Gnat.
Does anyone remember the Peugeot 205 ad that was on at the cinemas, where the Albert seemed to bounce off its roof?
What have you got, boys and girls?
However, back to the point. There are of course some cracking low level shots. The works of Snapshot spring to mind (whatever happened to him?) and of course the Kemble Gnat.
Does anyone remember the Peugeot 205 ad that was on at the cinemas, where the Albert seemed to bounce off its roof?
What have you got, boys and girls?
......and if anyone has got a copy of the photo taken from the top of 12 Sqn's hangar at Honington on 17 June 1978 of a certain Vulcan flypast between the hangar and the tower at 80 ft on the rad alt err...allegedly, could I have a copy please?
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Low flying, you want?
Riding motorcycle out of Ipswich to the south, late eighties. Mid-Autumn or early Spring day, can't remember, about 1630, still daylight but getting dim. Wx - VRB05KT 1000 OVC004 08/07, one of those damp, dewy days with lots of mist. Coming up the hill to the junction with the A14 I thought I would enter cloud.
Halfway up the hill, thunderous noise from the left. Tornado suddenly appears in plan view banking hard right, passes over roundabout in front of me, wings swept, right wingtip about sixty feet from ground, vanishes back into cloud.
Don't know how he missed the pylons that in those days reached right across the Orwell river. Don't know what he was even doing at that height when he could've just pulled up.
But it was the best low-flying show I've ever had. More please!
Halfway up the hill, thunderous noise from the left. Tornado suddenly appears in plan view banking hard right, passes over roundabout in front of me, wings swept, right wingtip about sixty feet from ground, vanishes back into cloud.
Don't know how he missed the pylons that in those days reached right across the Orwell river. Don't know what he was even doing at that height when he could've just pulled up.
But it was the best low-flying show I've ever had. More please!
Circa 1980 heading east from Talyllyn (up the pass) when I spied a Phantom F4 come through the "gap" at the top of the pass. I was sat on my Honda VF 750 at traffic lights half way up the pass.
Why, I do not know, but I flashed my headlights at it.
As it passed below the level of the road (measured 50' AGL) I looked straight at it and as it passed the Nav gave me the "V"'s with a white gloved hand.
Magic!!
Why, I do not know, but I flashed my headlights at it.
As it passed below the level of the road (measured 50' AGL) I looked straight at it and as it passed the Nav gave me the "V"'s with a white gloved hand.
Magic!!
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I once saw a lot of photos being taken of a pair of Buccs taking off from the Finningley airshow circa 1992 (give or take a year) - never saw the result. I would REALLY like to get hold of a copy;-)
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The year was 1989, having left IOTC after beiong temporarily crippled. I went selling Photocopiers, and was asked to deliver one to Three Sisters Race Circuit near Wigan.
I stepped out of the office whilst the bloke there took a phone call, to see a Sea Harrier doing circuits. V. Odd thing to see in the middle of Wigan.
Anyway, this went on for a few minutes. The Harrier disappeared behind the hill at the far end of the track, popped up and zapped over the top of us at not very high off the ground.
After picking ourselves out of the dirt, someone pipes up, "AH, I know who that will have been"
Apparently, the day before, some geezer turns up in a battered mark one escort and says he wants to have a go at Kart racing. He has a lesson, and by the end of the day he has imporved so much they put him in a race, in which he does alright. In the general conversation, he says," I am a Sea Harrier pilot." as you can imagine, it was the old " Yeah right you are" routine, but as a parting comment he says that he is on his way back to meet the ship tomorrow and he'lll "pop in "
Now THAT, was style.
I stepped out of the office whilst the bloke there took a phone call, to see a Sea Harrier doing circuits. V. Odd thing to see in the middle of Wigan.
Anyway, this went on for a few minutes. The Harrier disappeared behind the hill at the far end of the track, popped up and zapped over the top of us at not very high off the ground.
After picking ourselves out of the dirt, someone pipes up, "AH, I know who that will have been"
Apparently, the day before, some geezer turns up in a battered mark one escort and says he wants to have a go at Kart racing. He has a lesson, and by the end of the day he has imporved so much they put him in a race, in which he does alright. In the general conversation, he says," I am a Sea Harrier pilot." as you can imagine, it was the old " Yeah right you are" routine, but as a parting comment he says that he is on his way back to meet the ship tomorrow and he'lll "pop in "
Now THAT, was style.
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Or for video footage of low level, try the clip of the two-ship F4 flypast over Sovereign's parade graduation at RAFC Cranwell.
No 2 passed over parade ground below height of College Hall before correcting to 250' smack over parade. NCOs and CWO running about in aftermath trying to recover hats, Standard etc. Magic!
Clip is used in Flt Authoriser's Cse at RAF BP, so must be available somewhere. Anyone? Anyone?
No 2 passed over parade ground below height of College Hall before correcting to 250' smack over parade. NCOs and CWO running about in aftermath trying to recover hats, Standard etc. Magic!
Clip is used in Flt Authoriser's Cse at RAF BP, so must be available somewhere. Anyone? Anyone?
It was subsequently assessed as 72 ft a.g.l.......
Which wasn't as low as a video I once saw featuring an F4 and a very close encounter with a Malvinas mountain radar site!
Then there was 'Blockoff' practice at Akrotiri. You were allowed to make an approach on the southern taxiway....as long as you didn't touch the wheels, you could go reasonably low. Like about 1 ft if you were careful.....then went past waving at the folks in the ATC tower. Probably banned nowadays though
Which wasn't as low as a video I once saw featuring an F4 and a very close encounter with a Malvinas mountain radar site!
Then there was 'Blockoff' practice at Akrotiri. You were allowed to make an approach on the southern taxiway....as long as you didn't touch the wheels, you could go reasonably low. Like about 1 ft if you were careful.....then went past waving at the folks in the ATC tower. Probably banned nowadays though
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Back in the mid-80s when I was a pongo pilot flying a Gazelle in Belize, I was doing range control for a pair of Harriers from 1417 Flight (GR3s back then).
After all the flashes and bangs they went off for a spot of 1v1 while I headed on back to APC. A few minutes later while trundling along at about 100 ft agl, the pair of them passed underneath me at about 450 kts.
Class.
After all the flashes and bangs they went off for a spot of 1v1 while I headed on back to APC. A few minutes later while trundling along at about 100 ft agl, the pair of them passed underneath me at about 450 kts.
Class.
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Low flying
When I was 7 or 8 we were going to Bristol Zoo on a day trip (this must have been at least 30-31 years ago) I saw a Vulcan fly UNDER the severn Bridge!
Very impressive it was too. The bridge seemed to shake - it was heading down the Bristol Channel at a fair clip.
Very impressive it was too. The bridge seemed to shake - it was heading down the Bristol Channel at a fair clip.
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