Thread: Low Fly-by

Awesome, what a laugh!

I saw one go lower at the Maroondah airshow in about 1980.
Aerospatiale single engine was wowing the crowds with low turns, until his wingtip touched the ground.
The pilot survived, but I believe his legs were pretty mangled. Its embarrasing when they go just that bit too low.
Not too clever.
In terms of close , the Spitfire was LOW, but the Phantom was the most impressive.
Best for me is an A10 which came from below me once in Germany when I was driving along a ridge.
Regards Philip A

Plane 1, Reporter 0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onXF3uaGCtg

Not quite as low, but impressive given the size of the plane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZT4BdI7STE


And for some nice chopper work:
Neat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXNCZlQcvGw

Crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRHDNnuZ4T8

Insane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjYUMXcHIZ4

I put this up a while ago but its worth a revisit for anyone into aircraft

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aviation_videos.htm


Martyn

Originally Posted by awabbit6

I had a video sent to me of a low fly-by of a plane.
This got me looking for the lowest fly-by video I could find.

This is the best I've found so far:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S61zL...related&search=

I reckon it would also qualify for "the most soiled white trousers" video too!!


Can anyone go lower??

Did Ray send it to you as well?

Originally Posted by Ben

Plane 1, Reporter 0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onXF3uaGCtg

I found this one, but decided that it really doesn't count as a fly-by. Must've hurt like buggery!

Originally Posted by Ben

Not quite as low, but impressive given the size of the plane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZT4BdI7STE

This is the one that was sent to me and got me start on this search. Very impressive!

Originally Posted by Ben

And for some nice chopper work:
Neat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXNCZlQcvGw

Crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRHDNnuZ4T8

Insane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjYUMXcHIZ4

I didn't think to look for helicopters. The first one is the best IMO.
I had a student in the Cisco TAFE course I taught who spent time in NT rounding up cattle in a helicopter. I always thought that would be great fun. When I can, I compete in bitumen motorkhanas and too me, this would be like a 3-D motorkhana in the air!

The tunnel run in the last one was probably the lowest!

Originally Posted by barryj

Did Ray send it to you as well?

Yep. Ben's link to the YouTube version is much better quality.

I will have to get the footage my brother made.
It is fake but was very well done.
He filmed the freeways in Melbourne and then superimposed an fa18 flying down under the overpass before hitting the afterburners and going vertical.

very funny to watch