Shocking example of low flying
 

Behaviour such as this does nothing to promote the cause. Whoever the pilot is - you should be ashamed of yourself


http://publish.hometown.aol.co.uk/de...ges/lowfly.jpg

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...

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 :D

If someone has it, please post it

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?
:ok: :)

Wycombe, wasnt that the same guy who lost his head, so to speak, at South Cerney?

It ain't low flying if you can take a photo from below................

......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?

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!

Wasn't you by any chance was it Beags? (Allegedly)

ICATQ!!









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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!!

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;-)

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.

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?

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!:E

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:ugh:

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.

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.

First try at a vid link:E


not low but bloody fast

Chuck

Chimbu chuckles
Was it just me, or is there a marked pitch change during that little clip?

No I saw it too:ok:

Chuck..

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...

- P. :ooh:

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 hanger after knock-off when one of the lads smokes the joint.........!

:E

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

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.

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:D :D

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

:ok:

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.)

See, them yanks can do it, click on that f15. :rolleyes:

http://www.scramble.nl/photogallery.htm

... 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. :ok:

http://www.gibstuff.net/a4_alley/ima...RN_Carrier.jpg

EDD
 

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!

:E

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 have an excellent shot of a Skyhawk on the very last flypast, but I can't seem to post an attachment:confused: :*

I bet you haven't seen it DD!

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.

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!

Samuel,

Check your pm's .

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.

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

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?

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 ;)