How low can you go?

[pyro-manic]

It's not "photoshopped". By which you mean "composited", created to show something that didn't happen. It is post-processed - it's had the shadows lifted to reduce the contrast between light and dark, and show details which would otherwise be obscured in the shadows. This is probably what's caused the smoke to look slightly odd.

[PR19_Kit]

What about the reflection of the marshaller in the nose cone then? And how come the photog isn't dead?

[pyro-manic]

It's not a reflection of a marshaller. It's the reflection of the aircraft's own shadow on the runway, and a couple of little fairings on the Iskra's nose, shown in the photo below:



And the photographer was probably a fair distance away with a very long lens (400mm or more I would suggest), giving him plenty of time to duck down, and the pilot to pull up and away. The guy is good - his website's here, and is very impressive: http://www.air2air.net/

[Mossie]

Buchon beating up Breighton:



Found here:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=860609

[PR19_Kit]

I wonder if the CAA had a few words about that...........

[Martin H]

they will once Dave see's that photo lol

[NARSES2]

That's what I thought 

[Captain Canada]

What a great shot ! Be cool to have been one of those lucky buggers.

[Rheged]

Tidying the attic at Mum's house, I found my stash of "Giles" cartoon books. The first ever book has a cartoon from mid 1944 of a Dutch mother leaning out of her windmill shouting to her children " Come out of the road, you'll get run over!"  Rapidly approaching up said road are a gaggle of Mosquitos at about two feet three inches off the deck.

[PR19_Kit]

Hehehe, I can remember that one too. 

[NARSES2]

Use to love Giles. Bullied my dad into buying the Express (and him a good Labour man  ). One of the highlights of Christmas was getting the Annual

His biography is interesting. One of the first into Belsen and he found out the camp commandant was a Giles fan ! Apparently said Commandant gave him his swastika armband which Giles then put away in an old shoebox. It was found when he died. Giles comments that he found it very strange to be discussing cartoons and drawing with a man who'd run the camp

[Captain Canada]

Cool. Be nice to see a pic of it if you can get one. Off to Google it myself 

[Librarian]

Found here

http://www.haynes.co.uk/mosquito/mosquito-gallery.htm

[pyro-manic]

Not super low, but low enough. Prototype Shackleton, Farnborough, 1951.


https://flic.kr/p/qkYcst

[Captain Canada]

Way cool. I see how that cartoon would have piqued the imagination of many a young fan....and that Shak pic is just brill. Would have loved to have heard that one.