albob

Some spectators at Waddington get a 'closer' look at a Typhoon !!!

Cpt Jack Sparrow

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bloody hell he nearly took the under carriage off

yabbadoo4

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took this one of the arrows lead aircraft taking off at inverness airport. the end of the runway goes over this little road and as you can see by the height of the people they were pretty low! was awsome seeing them that close.

tony de wonderful

They took some *****. There is a video on youtube of a Russian jet literally skimming the grass. I'll try and find it.

Edit: here it is.

SiPie

The Russian one

Oldun

Naaaaah......

THIS is low flying

360ste

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Suppose that is one way of washing your plane.

stedee

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thats not a russian one btw ,they are argy bargies

Leslie

That was not that low, we used to do a short landing with the Vulcan lower than that-it is not very difficult to do anyway. The final bit of a Lightning approach was lower too-I was convinced we were going to touch the approach lighting at first with that aircraft until I got used to it.

Pretty embarassing if you got it wrong though!

Les

JDM_333

Awesome video - can't imagine the pilot cringing slightly at all hoping the landing gear wouldn't clip the wall...!

Not a chance of aborting either, wouldn't have gone down too well roasting most of the farmers field and spectators / road.

Wurzel

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Saw a harrier pilot at Farnborough air show come in lower his wheels skim the ground just enough to spray dirt everywhere and then gave it some beans again and and buggered off, he more or less bounced his plane off the ground.

JDM_333

My parents used to drag me to most of the old airshows, especially Mildenhall (I remember the F117A when it was first displayed there, you had to squint to see it as it was parked surrounded by rope some distance away from the plane itself and 3-4 armed "marines"). The last Mildenhall air show I ever saw I think was the first one the Apache gunship was on display (flying).

I once remember watching a Northrop land (somwhere, I can't remember where they were based I was very young, out in Suffolk / Norfolk somewhere, I don't think it was Lakenheath) - it was not an air show and as it landed (not a hard landing) and taxied one of the wing tip mounted AA missiles suddenly dropped off the pylon, it didn't skid it just literally dropped and stopped instantly, quite funny thinking about it now - clearly weighed a bit! anyway the pilot stopped the plane immediately, turned the engine off and then nothing happened for about 30mins until eventually one of those robot / remote control devices with tank tracks and a camera came out and studied it for a very long time.

Eventually some length of time later a truck came out and loaded it up (carefully) before taking it away - then the pilot fired up the plane again and was allowed to taxi in.

Talk about suspense!!! I bet the pilot was ........ himself!