Vertical & Low

[CINDERS]

Was looking for a particular picture taken in WWII by a PRU spitfire where the camera catches a German soldier outside a building and your not far above his head pretty much below the 2nd story the plane was. Lucked out there but found some others of the 2 best allied fighters that you may enjoy going vertical and pretty low.

I wonder what the guys in the golf buggy thought! as I reckon that port wing tip is no more that 4' off the ground and I doubt the other wing tip is above those trees in the background that sir is a very low level turn I mean that wing tip is below those guys heads in the golf cart???

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[browningautorifle]

Yahoo...

[muffett.2008]

Back in the 60's, on firepower Demo's, the Sabres would come in from behind so low, they set fire to the grass.

[30Three]

This is a famous low flypast clip of a Spitfire almost giving Alain De Cadenet a hair cut! Very funny and superb flying.
Keep your eyes on the RH side of the screen to see the approach, because it's below tree level!

[browningautorifle]

a famous low flypast clip of a Spitfire

It always talks about it being a surprise low pass, no such thing. It would have been better too if he hadn't been such a girl about it after. I always loved the low altitude performances of military aircraft.

[mrclark303]

Some of the best low level flying I have experienced is back in the early 1990's on the ingress route to the Otterbourne ranges, I can clearly remember RAF Tornado GR1's at extremely low level, terrain following, hugging the hills and blasting suddenly over your head at high speed... Great fun to watch!

[CINDERS]

Bit like this MC303

[browningautorifle]

That's the idea...

[mrclark303]

Oh yes, great pic, that looks like the "Mach loop" up in the Snowdonia National Park, fantastic flying there too.

I happened to be up that way a few weeks before the Harriers were withdrawn back in 2010, some fantastic low level Harrier formation flying, while everyone qualified and current on the type tried to wangle a final flight before the premature demise of the fleet

[Peter Laidler]

I've told it before and tell it again. During the early 90's here during some air/ground re-supply exercises here an RAF Herc pilot observed a couple (?) or crunchies standing on the top of a Bedford truck at the southern end of the exercise area, drop zone and former runway. Clearly taking some photos of the action of course. After a couple of relatively simple 'tug-outs' (parachute just to pull out.....) the pilot turned slightly to give them a better view of a) his aircraftsmanship and b) their photography skills by flying low and slow overhead. Unfortunately his flying was a bit too low and one propeller blade zapped the crunchie on the top of the Bedford, blew the other off his feet and down onto the ground and showered the rest in, well....., all sorts of stuff! It was probably a superb action shot but the accident investigators never found the camera.

Sad but true