How low can you go?

beowulf · August 27, 2011, 03:10:49 PM

wasnt that the harrier that crashed at khandahar a few years back?...still not released the cause as i remember...might be wrong tho

beowulf · August 29, 2011, 04:49:20 AM

plane?.....who needs a plane?

check out 1:20 to 1:50

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k&feature=player_embedded#!

Leading Observer · August 29, 2011, 05:08:37 AM

My father tells a tale of his National Service days at Horsham St Faiths. There was an aussie pilot flying Hornets who used to take off for circuits and then time his run back over the airfield to co-incide with the NAAFI wagon crossing the end of the runway. He would feather his props and come over the threshold virtually silently, re-starting just as he passed over the wagon

Station Commandant evidently had to issue a reprimand with a broad grin on his face.

pyro-manic · January 14, 2012, 08:44:36 AM

Bit of a bump, but I thought this was quite a nice one, and an aircraft not seen often enough:

8 Sqn Venom at Sharjah, 1960.

And some Hunters, again in the Middle East.

From www.radfanhunters.co.uk

scooter · January 14, 2012, 11:43:09 AM

How about minus 38,500 thousand feet?

PR19_Kit · January 14, 2012, 02:00:47 PM

Quote from: scooter on January 14, 2012, 11:43:09 AM
How about minus 38,500 thousand feet?

Ah, but did anyone take a piccie of it down there?

The IAF may have some piccies at negative levels flying over the Dead Sea perhaps?

Captain Canada · January 14, 2012, 08:54:23 PM

Agreed, the Venom is an a/c not seen enough. Always wanted to do a bunch for the RCAF and RCN. Someday....

The first Hunter pic really does it for me. The fort, the tents, the fenced in compound, the Austers.....wicked shot !

Mossie · January 15, 2012, 02:04:35 PM

Yeah, very impressed with the Venom!

I agree, we need modern mainstream injection kits of the Vampire & Venom. At least Revell have re-released the venerable old Heller Vampire.

pyro-manic · January 15, 2012, 02:36:08 PM

Indeed. Perhaps Airfix will get to it at some point. I just hope it's not someone like Dragon, who will charge obscene amounts for an overly-complex kit...

rickshaw · January 15, 2012, 05:13:19 PM

I've been trying to figure out how they got those Hunter pictures. I suspect they were taken from the nose of a Canberra.

pyro-manic · January 15, 2012, 06:36:58 PM

Actually from the nose camera of the Hunter FR.10 flying immediately behind it.

MilitaryAircraft101 · January 15, 2012, 10:01:04 PM

The topmost Auster in the first Hunter image nearly fooled me into thinking it was a flying biplane Auster

That Hunter one would be great to get framed

pyro-manic · February 23, 2012, 08:09:08 AM

Here's a great one of a Spanish Bug right down on the deck: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39984696@N08/6775118920/

PR19_Kit · February 23, 2012, 08:18:13 AM

Someone, who'd better remain nameless, described a low pass by a 208 Sqdn. Buccaneer pilot who, on his last military flight before retirement, requested a 'Goodbye Fly-past'. When permission was given he flew the aircraft between the Tower and the adjacent hangar BELOW the level of the Tower balcony!

Apparently there are piccies somewhere, but they are very closely guarded.

Riksbar · February 24, 2012, 01:55:52 PM

I remember seeing aircraft leaving the Tees-side airshow the morning after from the control tower balcony as a kid back in the 70's when my mum worked, there and I definitely looked down on the top of a Bucc and a Lightning going between the tower and the nearest hangar. I was also told stories of a Vulcan doing the same.