How low can you go?

[Aircav]

Mossie and Phantom

[beowulf]

not low but still very nice to watch 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcbHKafEaUs

[nev]

Is the Phantom one the guy who was on his last flight and decided to "go for it".  I recall he got in trouble, but as he was leaving the mob, only so much they could do.

I have seen a picture, taken at RAF Binbrook in '89 as the flight ops were winding down, of a Lighting doing a touch and go on the apron!

[Aircav]

USAF F-4D



And a Greek "E"

[Spey_Phantom]

this is how WE do it, "Belgian Air Force"-style  

Alpha Jet,
watch the last aircraft fly by, that is really low  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byLplPe-_2k

Airbus A310
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrYjWsqBaJY

F-16AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MNVDkH5AZ4

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Always enjoyed that Alpha Jet sequence, one of my fave's. Never seen that F-16 footage before. And as for that low-level F-4D.... think I just died and went to Phantom Heaven !!

Ian

[PR19_Kit]

And as for that low-level F-4D.... think I just died and went to Phantom Heaven !!

If he'd got any lower with that starboard wingtip that's probably where he'd be too........

[Aircav]

This is cool for a 747. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgusXzo6omU&feature=related

[Spey_Phantom]

i dont know if someone posted this already, but hereare some low German F-4F's 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxOh7SGSIQQ

[pyro-manic]

That 747 one was good. I remember at the Kemble airshow a few years ago, the RNZAF had a 757 doing a demo, and it pulled into a very hard right turn immediately after clearing the runway on takeoff. Very impressive seeing something so large pulling a turn like that.

[Martin H]

Is the Phantom one the guy who was on his last flight and decided to "go for it".  I recall he got in trouble, but as he was leaving the mob, only so much they could do.

Yep thats the one, Even thou he was on his last day, they could have court marshaled him. But most likley bribed the St Athan station commander with a few bottles of single malt to forget about it.

I have seen a picture, taken at RAF Binbrook in '89 as the flight ops were winding down, of a Lighting doing a touch and go on the apron!

Oh that became quite a frequent event in the last days of the Lightning force. The pilots were basicly told to go out and play, and find out what the Lightning could realy do. And it didnt matter if they bent a few in the process.
Apparently the true max altitude for the Lightning is still on the secret list..althou its also claimed that no one realy knows just how high they could go. (there are stories of Lightnings intercepting over flying U-2's....from above)

[PR19_Kit]

(there are stories of Lightnings intercepting over flying U-2's....from above)

I know Meteors that could do that........... 

[nev]

Apparently the true max altitude for the Lightning is still on the secret list..althou its also claimed that no one realy knows just how high they could go. (there are stories of Lightnings intercepting over flying U-2's....from above)

My dads told me about that in the past - IIRC the trick was to go all ballistic and follow a parabolic flight path, passing the U-2 on the way down

[Mossie]

A few unusual types doing low flying shenanigans from Airliners.net:


A310 ATP Air Portugal


An-30 Russian Air Force


Preserved B-17G


Preserved P-51D


Piper Pawnees crop dusting


Saunders Roe Princess   Imagine the sound from those ten engines!

[Mossie]

Some more:


737 Aerolineas Argentinas final flight


Canadair CL-44 Aer Turas


Fokker F-27 Troopship KLu


Tornado GR.4 RAF, kind of a normal day at the office for these guys....


Tornado F.3 RAF  ....but not so much for the F.3, more used to being high in the clouds.  This is in the Machynlleth loop (known as Mach loop) that features in Kits link.  The F.3 is passing a mountainside & this is taken from above the aircraft.  You can even see the back seater reading his map!