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Low Flyby: Holy $%#^&!
- Thread starter Arshad
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Holy crap! That was, what, two feet or less?
If I were there I'd give mad props to the pilot and then kick him in the sack repeatedly.
Another vid shows 3ft from the ground.
Bah, thats plenty of room.:wink:
That must've been plenty loud.
Thats lower then my car lol.
How do you judge height when you cannot see how close to the ground your belly is?
Try doing it in something bigger....
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This dude didn't even flinch....
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This dude didn't even flinch....
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It really isn't that hard, we do it everyday when we land. :wink:
As impressive as it looks, these flybys are not that big of a deal. It's the last 5 feet that is tough to judge though...
The computer in the cockpit counts 500, 100, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10 and then you're on your own.
I get landing everyday, just seems like a fairly large gray area. I would feel better practicing in say a corn field to be able to judge how close I am. Plus any rise in the ground could potentially catch you out.
I get landing everyday, just seems like a fairly large gray area. I would feel better practicing in say a corn field to be able to judge how close I am. Plus any rise in the ground could potentially catch you out.
Ya, that rising terrain can get you....
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well, the guy in original video definitely wasn't landing. maybe someone with video-editing skills could capture the frame of the left side screen cockpit shot showing the moment when the guys on the ground are scattering. f-in kids, lol.
This pic has always been a fav of mine (note that the B-52 appears to still be descending or at least in a nose down attitude):
"This is not photoshopped. It happened in early 1990 in the Persian Gulf, while U.S. carriers and B-52s were holding joint exercises.
Two B-52s called the carrier (USS Ranger) and asked if they could do a fly-by, and the carrier air controller said yes. When the B-52s reported they were 9 kilometers out, the carrier controller said he didn't see them. The B-52s told the carrier folks to look down.
The paint job on the B-52 made it hard to see from above, but as it got closer, the sailors could make it out, and the water the B-52 jets were causing to spray out. It's very, very rare for a USAF aircraft to do a fly-by below the flight deck of a carrier. But B-52s had been practicing low level flights for years, to come in under Soviet radar.
In this case, the B-52 pilots asked the carrier controller if they would like the bombers come around again. The carrier guys said yes, and a lot more sailors had their cameras out this time."
"This is not photoshopped. It happened in early 1990 in the Persian Gulf, while U.S. carriers and B-52s were holding joint exercises.
Two B-52s called the carrier (USS Ranger) and asked if they could do a fly-by, and the carrier air controller said yes. When the B-52s reported they were 9 kilometers out, the carrier controller said he didn't see them. The B-52s told the carrier folks to look down.
The paint job on the B-52 made it hard to see from above, but as it got closer, the sailors could make it out, and the water the B-52 jets were causing to spray out. It's very, very rare for a USAF aircraft to do a fly-by below the flight deck of a carrier. But B-52s had been practicing low level flights for years, to come in under Soviet radar.
In this case, the B-52 pilots asked the carrier controller if they would like the bombers come around again. The carrier guys said yes, and a lot more sailors had their cameras out this time."
Ha! That's my uncle! Captain Moyano from Bolivia FTMF!!!
We have so many amazing pilots in our family, his dad (my godfather) was one of the first in latin America to do commercial routes
Oscar
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We had a B-52 "shoot an approach" to the USS Enterprise and he got to the point of calling the ball.
