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Posted: 12/4/2012 10:57:37 PM EDT

Be warned, there's some nice NSFW pics sprinkled in along with the flying pics.

http://thebrigade.thechive.com/2012/12/03/vintage-flying-lowa-mix-of-crazy-and-huge-balls-88-photos/

Posted: 12/4/2012 11:04:12 PM EDT

[#1]

Some cool pics there

Posted: 12/4/2012 11:07:50 PM EDT

[#2]

That's some of the craziest stuff I've ever seen.

Posted: 12/4/2012 11:10:11 PM EDT

[#3]

Pic 36 looks like the rear seater has a kid in his lap.

Posted: 12/4/2012 11:22:08 PM EDT

[#4]

. Awesome link

Posted: 12/4/2012 11:41:21 PM EDT

[#5]

Wow! Some of those are downright nuts.

Posted: 12/4/2012 11:47:05 PM EDT

[#6]

What is so dangerous about flying low? Avoid the trees but otherwise, what's the difference?

I understand why helicopters have trouble flying low - ground effects. No such issues with planes.

Can anyone explain it?

Posted: 12/4/2012 11:47:27 PM EDT

[#7]

These guys are the craziest. Water skiing with an airplane ..............

http://www.flyinglions.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=29

Posted: 12/4/2012 11:52:36 PM EDT

[#8]

Very nice man

Here's one for you...

DH Mosquito (Very cool)

Posted: 12/4/2012 11:56:55 PM EDT

[#9]

^^ Yeah, I think that you'll have to stand on the brake pedal in order to be able to wash your wheels like they do.

Posted: 12/5/2012 12:04:35 AM EDT

[#10]

I see the still in there, but video is great !

Posted: 12/5/2012 12:11:28 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

I see the still in there, but video is great !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Lav2IOsjE

I've seen that one before and it's really cool

BTW, the vid' I posted a couple above yours is an Aussie/Kiwi crew flying that Mosquito over Auckland after they

re-built it for an American buyer.

Kind'a-Sort'a sad that there's so few of them around these days...

Posted: 12/5/2012 12:15:58 AM EDT

[#12]

This one looks like it may have fucked that F4 up....

Posted: 12/5/2012 12:33:11 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
These guys are the craziest. Water skiing with an airplane ..............

http://chivethebrigade.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/vintage-flying-low-500-48.jpg?w=500&h=297

http://www.flyinglions.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=29

http://www.flyinglions.co.za/images/stories/dsc1421_1.jpg

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If any of you are curious as to where the line between ballsy and stupid is, check a few feet above these guys.

Posted: 12/5/2012 1:16:09 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
This one looks like it may have fucked that F4 up....

http://chivethebrigade.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/vintage-flying-low-500-40.jpg?w=500&h=342

That looks like an RAF roundel painted on the engine inlet, or a slight possibility it's an RAAF roundel. Australia leased some F-4's from 1970-1973 while the RAAF was waiting for it's F-111's to be delivered.

Posted: 12/5/2012 3:08:45 AM EDT

[#15]

Many years ago we had an F-4 in our hanger that had about a three foot chunk missing from its reat stabilizer. Had vegetation spreads on the tear.

Posted: 12/5/2012 3:22:56 AM EDT

[#16]

Lots of low flying
aircraft. Even one taken in Windsor. About the 4^th last
photo. But all interesting shots.

On a
particularly hot day, a Royal Australian Air Force English Electric A84 Canberra
bomber drops to within 25 feet as thrill-seeking mechanics get ready for the
visceral experience of 13,000 lbs of Rolls Royce Avon power full in the face.
RAAF Photo
They loved to fly low in World War
Two

'One
more beat-up, me lads.' Flying Officer Cobber Kain, DFC, a New Zealander and the
RAF's first ace of the Second World War, is seen here in France performing a
low-level flypast. Kain, it has been said, clipped the ground with the propeller
throwing grass into the radiator.

A
Douglas A-20G Havoc night fighter of the 417th Night Fighter Squadron does a
little daylight low flying down in the weeds possibly near the Orlando, Florida
base where they were formed. Their first deployment was to Europe where they
immediately re-equipped with Bristol Beaufighters. Today, the unit still trains
for a night time job, but flying the F-117 Nighthawk or so-called "Stealth
Fighter”.

A P-40
flies down the beach at extreme low level, as Marines practice an amphibious
landing somewhere in the Pacific. In order to get this photo, the photographer
standing on the beach would have had to have his back to the oncoming P-40
trusting that pilot would do a "buzz job” of the beach and not his hair. Photo
via Project 914 Archives, Steve Donacik

A
squadron of Luftwaffe Ju-52 Junkers stream low over the Russian countryside near
Demjansk, south of Leningrad. In February to May of 1942, the Germans were
surrounded by the Red Army. Supplying the Germans during and after the
"Demjansk Pocket”, was the role of the air force. Here, low flying in the slow
transports was more a survival tactic than a joyride. Photo via Akira
Takaguchi

Thought to have been taken in the region of
Canterbury, New Zealand in 1944, this shot of an Airspeed Oxford scaring half
the waiting airmen while the other half remain calm, is a beauty. Photo via Joe
Hopwood.

A
USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt at extreme low level. Note that the sweep of the
camera's pan has bent the buildings in the
background

Another shot that has the same effect of
bending the buildings in the background (see previous photo). Like our own
Spitfire XIV RM873, Griffon-powered PR Spitfire XIX PS890 was sold to the Royal
Thai Air Force after the war. She is seen here with 81 Squadron markings and
being put through her paces down low at RAF Seletar, Singapore in the summer of
1954 just before her sale. In 1961, PS890 was donated to the Planes Of Fame
Museum in California. It was eventually restored and took to the skies again in
2000, albeit with clipped wings and contra-rotating props. It was then
purchased by Frenchman Christophe Jacquard and taken to Duxford for the wingtips
to be added and a single 5-bladed propeller installed.

While
researching images for our P-40 stories over the past year I came across a
massive collection of marvelous wartime photos - mostly of P-40s collected by
Steve Reno. This P-40 pilot is risking his life only a little less than the man
taking the photo of this ridiculously low level pass across the runway. He’s
not much higher than he would be if he was standing on his landing gear! If you
trace the invisible line of his prop arc, this skilled numbskull’s tips are only
about 4 feet off the ground. Photo via Project 914 Archives, Steve
Donacik

Some
aircraft, such as this Spitfire, reach that fine line between crashing and
flying low... about 12 inches too low in the case of this 64 Squadron Spitfire
with shattered wooden blades. The aircraft, no doubt shaking badly was nursed
back to the safety of an Allied base.

An
Allied pilot flying a Macchi 200 buzzing Taranto, Italy. It sadly proved that
these kind of stunts aren't without danger as the pilot hit a member of the
ground crew and more or less decapitated him. The pilot hadn't noticed a thing
and after landing was confronted with a dent in his wing's leading edge,
containing skull fragments.

I
didn't want to include any shots of an aircraft landing or taking off, just low
level flight, but this shot of a Lockheed Harpoon/Ventura dragging its wing in
the turnout is interesting enough to include

A P-47
of the 64th Fighter Squadron, while on a mission to Milan, struck the ground
during a low level strafing run. Despite the bent props and crushed chin, the
pilot nursed the Jug 150 miles home to Grosseto. Photo via Hebb
Russell

Film makers love low level
flying!

Not
actually a scene from the Second World War, but rather the opening scene in the
great film A Bridge Too Far. A school boy watches over his shoulder as a recce
Spitfire rips up a cobbled road in Normandy.

Modern
day photographer Murray Mitchell captured this action shot super low B-17 Flying
Fortress performing for a film crew and followed by a P-51D Mustang and a P-47
Thunderbolt. Photo via http://www.murraymitchell.com/

A low
fly-past during the filming of the Steve McQueen-Richard Wagner film, The War
Lover. Nothing like a good buzz job to get the juices flowing, in this case
one of the War Lover ex PB-1Ws being flown by John Crewdson for a key
scene in the movie. Crewdson reportedly flew the airplane solo for the
sequence. Photo by David M. Kay

Unoccupied desert and sun-baked boredom causes
low-levelitis

A
particularly heart stopping photo of a Hawker Hunter of the Sultan of Oman 's
Air Force beating up the base at Salalah. The Sultan employed mercenary Brit
pilots to fly Hunters and Strikemasters to help put down the Dhofar rebels in
the south. They clearly were bored from time to time! The rebellion ended in
1976, the same year I visited Oman.

A
Hawker Hunter pilot of the Sultan of Oman 's Air Force (SOAF - possibly a former
RAF mercenary) shrieks across the ramp on an Omani air base. Photo viaPatricksAviation.com

In the
shimmering white heat of an Omani summer day, a Sepecat Jaguar adds superheated
jet exhaust to the miserable mix as its pilot shows off for the ground personnel
watching from the shade. In 1990, the SOAF was renamed the Royal Air Force of
Oman (RAFO). It is not known if this is a SOAF or a RAFO
Jag,

But forest, buildings and mountains make it more
exciting

A
Dutch F-16 with burner lit seems to follow the turn in the road. On the ground,
Dutch airmen stuff fingers in their ears as he passes over
head.

Testosterone fired,
speed addicted, and happy-to-still-be-alive youth were the primary source of
pilots of the Second World War. At 6 foot, 4 inches, I would't want to be
standing up on the runway for this beat-up by a Mosquito. This aircraft had the military serial number RR299
and was built as an unarmed, dual control trainer at Leavesden in 1945. It
served in the Middle East until 1949, when it returned to the United Kingdom.
It then served with a variety of RAF units, this service being interspersed
with periods in storage. The aircraft was retired from the RAF in 1963 and was
acquired by Hawker Siddeley Aviation (now British Aerospace) at Chester. The
first Permit to Fly was issued on 9 September 1963. The aircraft continued to
be based and maintained at Chester and typically flew around 50 hours per year.
Photo RAF

Saab
test pilot Ove Dahlen flies a mini-counter-insurgency aircraft variant of a
trainer, known as the Malmo MFI-9B, between houses in Sweden. The concept of a
super-light, super-cheap attack aircraft with hard points for rockets was not
well received and SE-EFM was eventually sold (as all other MFI-9B trainers were)
as a civilian sport/general aviation aircraft, but for a while it was a bad-ass
attack aircraft clearly capable of sneaking around buildings. Though SE-EFM and
the purpose-built mini-COIN concept did not take hold, 5 airframes of the MFI-9B
trainer, known as the Biafra Baby, were fitted with rockets and employed in the
conflict in Biafra.

Bombers do it.

This
is my favourite of all the low level shots, as the people (except the man on the
left who is smartly covering his ears) have no idea how low this Avro Vulcan
really is as it sneaks up behind them. The flag is at half staff, so this most
likely was a sad occasion, but there were no doubt some shrieks and some olympic
flinching when the sound reached them.

A
British-based B-17 beats up a grass field

The
Canadian Warplane Heritage Lancaster drops down to the infield of the Saskatoon
airport.

Royal New Zealand Air Force Short Sunderland
doing a touch and go at Wellington airport in 1959 - Surely no-one can go lower
than that! A touch an go in a wheel-less flying boat is not recommended. You
couldn't get a damn slice of pastrami between the hull and the runway. There
exists a crystal-clear shot in one of the RNZAF flight-safety publications that
showed the aircraft just after it had done the "touch and go" clearly showing
the bilge water escaping. Spectators were treated to a shower of dirty bilge
water as it climbed away.

Another Sunderland being 'demonstrated' at Port
Elizabeth, South Africa, may not be as low, but the pilot gets full degree of
difficulty points for having two props feathered!

Thought two feathered
engines on the same side was impressive for low level flight? How about three
feathered and 20 feet below? This Avro Lancaster appears to be post war with
the nose turret de-actvated and a dome in the dorsal position. This is a very
foolish maneuver. The aircraft can't be flown on a single engine. It's done by
a dive, a high speed pass and a zoom climb at the far end of the runway with a
mad scramble to unfeather. The situation gets serious if the first unfeathering
knocks the generator on the good engine off line, leaving only battery power.
Photo via Blake Reid

Rhinos LOVE to do it.

An RAF
Phantom II in full burner passes between two hangars at an RAF base. There isn't
a Rhino-driver alive who didn't love dropping his locomotive-sized Phantom down
to the hard deck and pushing the throttles right past the
detents.

Like I
said before, Phantom drivers love it down low.

Flying
even lower than the Greek economy is this GAF F-4 Phantom II picking its way
through the bushes.

Down
low, add in a little rock and some flat water and the fun escalates. Not sure
what air force this one belongs to.

A
Panavia Tornado spews heat, gas, and vapour as she howls from the runway with
her wingtip a few feet off the ground.

During
an air show at RAF Wethersfield in 1964, a Belgian Air force pilot in a North
American F-84 Thunderjet flies not only feet off the ground, but apparently just
feet from the crowd. Times have changed. While perhaps not as exciting for the
spectators, but certainly safer.

The
legendary Ormand Haydon Balllie checks our wheat production at a farm outside of
Duxford in 1974 in his T-33 (RCAF 21261) The Black Knight. Born in Devon,
England during the Second World War, OHB moved to Canada in 1962, joining the
RCAF. He would become a well known warbird collector and pilot after his
service.

Another crazy low pass by Ormand Haydon Baillie in
his Black Knight T-33 Silver Star. The spectacular paint scheme is based on an
RCAF design for 414 Black Knight Squadron that flew the type. Vintage Wings of
Canada is proud to have been part of 414's history. The squadron was disbanded
in the 1990s. However, in December of 2007, approval was received for the
squadron to stand up once more, this time as 414 EWS (Electronic Warfare
Support) Squadron. Belonging to 3 Wing Bagotville, the squadron is based in
Ottawa and is composed of military Electronic Warfare Officers who fulfill the
combat support role, flying on civilian contracted aircraft. The squadron was
re-formed at the Vintage Wings hangar at the Gatineau Airport on 20 January 2009
to operate the Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet provided by Top Aces
Consulting.

Haydon-Baillie died in Germany in a P-51 Mustang on July 3,
1977.

With
speed brakes out, I am not sure whether this is a shot of a pass or a wheels-up
landing for this British Electric Lightning

This
Sukhoi Su-30 could be going Mach .98 or it could be
hovering.

Even airliners do it

The
Human Fly, a stunt man by the name of Rick Rojatt, makes a low pass on top of a
DC-8 flown by the legendary Clay Lacy in front of the grandstands between events
at the 1976 California National Air Races at Mojave. The aircraft is ex-Japan
Airlines JA8002. It was owned and operated by American Jet Industries in 1976.

A
Boeing 707 of Air Zimbabwe, flown by Darryl Tarr doing a low level, high speed
flypast in Harare in 1995. According to witnesses, this was not the lowest the
pilot flew. Tarr says that his radar altimeter read 6 feet beneath his keel at
one time. Many believe that the flight was unauthorized and that Tarr was fired
because of it, but he states that he made two flights) and they were both
authorized. He recounts the facts of the flight in fine detail: 1. Three Crew
members only on-board (Flight Engineer, First Officer, and myself) 2. Non-
Revenue Flight (or non-commercial flight as some prefer) 3. 12,000 KGs of Fuel
(2.0 hours endurance) 4. VREF Approach Speed Flaps 40 was 116 Knots (I was
flying at 125 Knots) 5. Radio Altimeter call of 30 feet (from the FE), will be
my cue to initiate a Go-Around 6. Back-up call from the F/O, plus visual cues
(outside references due to the pitch attitude) 7. Rising ground and the fact
that the aircraft is rotated towards +15 degrees in a Go-Around, the empennage
will initially rotate downwards and get lower to the ground which was accounted
for (as depicted in the photo, the aircraft is climbing) 8. High Speed Fly Past
(which is not shown here), was at the Barbers Pole of 375 KIAS (due to the
density altitude at Harare True Air Speed was 400
Kts)

A beach makes a good open area to fly low
in.

I
can't even imagine how amazing it would have been to be on the beach this day to
see a Consolidated B-36 "Peacemaker” fly down the line between water and sand.
If he passed right overhead, both wingtips would be a spectacular 115 feet away
in both directions. Designed for altitudes in excess of 35,000 feet, the
Convair was a rare sight this close to the ground in level
flight.

A
spectacular shot of a Fairchild Provider flying low over sunlit waters... one of
my favourite shots! via Blake Reid

Sometimes, the difference between ground and
aircraft is quite literally... inches. A Piper Cub comes as close as possible to
a wing strike without damage.

The
twin-engined Diamond Star Twin rips along a beach. Judging by the number of
cameras at the ready, this was not an unauthorized fly
by.

The Navy loves to do
it

An
Australian A-4 Skyhawk flies well below the deck of HMAS Melbourne
.

One of
the most celebrated images of a low pass is this shot of F-14 Tomcat driver
Captain Dale "Snort” Snodgrass making a curving pass alongside USS
America. Many web-wags have stated that this was unauthorized, dangerous
or that it even was a photo of a Tomcat about to crash. However, Snodgrass
explained: "It's not risky at all with practice. It was my opening pass in a
Tomcat tactical demonstration at sea. I started from the starboard rear quarter
of the carrier, slightly below flight deck level. Airspeed was about 270 kts
with the wings swept forward. I selected afterburner at about a half-mile out,
and the aircraft accelerated to about 315 kts. As I approached the fantail, I
rolled into an 85-degree bank and did a hard 5-6G turn, finishing about 10-20
degrees off of the boat's axis. Microseconds after this photo was taken, after
rolling wings-level at an altitude slightly above the flight deck, I pulled
vertical with a quarter-roll to the left, ending with an Immelman roll-out 90
degrees and continued with the remainder of the demo. It was a dramatic and, in
my opinion, a very cool way to start a carrier demo as first performed by a
great fighter pilot, Ed "Hunack" Andrews, who commanded VF-84 in
1980-1988.

A B-52
slides down the port side of USS Ranger (CV-61) in its typical nose down
cruise attitude. Though it looks like it, 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 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's engines 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
penetrate under Soviet radar. In this case, the B-52 pilots asked the carrier
controller if they would like the bombers to come around again. The carrier
guys said yes, and a lot more sailors had their cameras out this
time. Photo was
taken from the plane guard helicopter

In 2009, a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet crew got
permission for a low-level demonstration flight as part of the opening ceremony
for a speedboat race on the Detroit River. This is what it looked like for Motor
City residents. Officials waived rules to allow the Navy flyers to swoop under
100ft along the waterway. One resident said, "I couldn't believe how low they
flew and how close they came to our building. I'm sure the pilot waved at me."
Photo: AP/The Detroit News, Steve Perez. Originally spotted at the
Daily Mail.

A
Greek F-104 turns out after a high speed low level
pass.

The
Spitfre MK923, belonging to Hollywood actor Cliff Robertson of Baa Baa Black
Sheep fame, and flown by Jerry Billing, does a extreme low pass over a grass
strip at his home in Essex County, Ontario. From 1975 through 1994 the Billing
air strip was a prime spot to see Jerry practice in MK923. People would line
the 5th Concession Road to watch Jerry wring out the Spit. Cliff Robertson,
famed for playing JFK in PT 109, died in September of 2011. Photo via Bob
Swaddling

The
legendary, extraordinary, Ray Hanna a New Zealander makes an extreme low level
pass in a Spitfire down pit lane at the Goodwood auto racing track in England in
1998. Sadly, with the death of Hanna, we will not see such feats
again.

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Posted: 12/5/2012 3:23:57 AM EDT

[#17]

#88

Posted: 12/5/2012 3:29:58 AM EDT

[#18]

Believe it or not, I know the guy doing this right here. We are friends

Posted: 12/5/2012 3:37:42 AM EDT

[#19]

nice

Posted: 12/5/2012 3:40:28 AM EDT

[#20]

Great pics.

Posted: 12/5/2012 3:41:26 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
What is so dangerous about flying low? Avoid the trees but otherwise, what's the difference?

I understand why helicopters have trouble flying low - ground effects. No such issues with planes.

Can anyone explain it?

If you make a mistake you have zero time to correct. Altitude equals safety.

Posted: 12/5/2012 4:22:33 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

Quoted:
What is so dangerous about flying low? Avoid the trees but otherwise, what's the difference?

I understand why helicopters have trouble flying low - ground effects. No such issues with planes.

Can anyone explain it?

If you make a mistake you have zero time to correct. Altitude equals safety.

+1. And, ground effect is not an impediment to flying. It's simply a product of flying low (roughly within a rotor-disc distance above the ground). It actually lowers required power settings and makes flying / hovering very stable.

In a very short version: Ground effect alters the airflow down into the rotor system. With the ground just under the helicopter, the induced flow (air coming down into the rotor system) is altered and reduced. This reduces drag on the blades, allowing the pilot to use less power to maintain a hover or to fly (to an extent, or to a certain speed). At roughly greater than a rotor disc above the earth, the flow of air through the rotor system is no longer altered by the ground, and the air becomes 'dirty' as it swirls back into the rotor system--thus requiring more power to maintain a hover. If you were to pick up off the ground in a hover that requires say 75% torque, and that gave you a very slow rate of ascent, you would climb straight up (with no forward airspeed) until you reached roughly a rotor disc distance above the ground. You would kind of level off at that point and probably start to descend until you got back into ground effect. If you are very stable and consistent, you can just sit there and yo-yo up and down back and forth between IGE and OGE (In ground effect Hover and Out of Ground Effect Hover) with no power changes--kinda neat.

Ground effect also happens to fixed wing aircraft in the same way, and provides increased efficiency (lift) within roughly one wing-span distance above the ground.

ETA Those are some of the coolest photos I've ever seen.

Posted: 12/5/2012 4:32:40 AM EDT

[#23]

Posted: 12/5/2012 4:39:00 AM EDT

[#24]

Yeah those are nuts.

Posted: 12/5/2012 4:44:35 AM EDT

[#25]

Awesome pics. Reminds me of the times I cleaned green residue off of dad's Ag-Cat prop at the end of the day (cropduster - semi retired). There were times when I cleaned tree leaves out of the oil cooler intake as well.

Posted: 12/5/2012 4:58:35 AM EDT

[#26]

Helicopters have trouble flying low?

Whaaa?

No. We fly low better than anyone. I can stop. Fly sideways, fly backwards, spin around, all while staying a foot or two over the ground. Ground effect helps the efficiency of our rotor system.

Posted: 12/5/2012 5:03:30 AM EDT

[#27]

This is in my office, given to me by my grandfather. I've been told my uncle (his son) was backseat for this one...

Posted: 12/5/2012 5:03:48 AM EDT

[#28]

I like #5

And this one

Posted: 12/5/2012 5:09:38 AM EDT

[#29]

I saw one of these fly into NAS Millington TN when I was a kid. Vought F7U Cutlass. They were a piece of shit that killed too many pilots.

One of my earliest memories in life is one of these cartwheeling across the field right in front of me, killing the pilot.

Posted: 12/5/2012 5:29:29 AM EDT

[#30]

In reality super high speed, low level passes are stupid and dangerous. I know of two USMC F18 pilots that ended their careers showing off.

The ground will always win.

Posted: 12/5/2012 5:48:38 AM EDT

[#31]

those old warbirds are sexy as shit

Posted: 12/5/2012 5:54:17 AM EDT

[#32]

Tag for home and a bigger screen.

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Posted: 12/5/2012 6:18:16 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Helicopters have trouble flying low?

Whaaa?

No. We fly low better than anyone. I can stop. Fly sideways, fly backwards, spin around, all while staying a foot or two over the ground. Ground effect helps the efficiency of our rotor system.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/akscott60/image-4.jpg

I think he is talking about vortex ring state.

Posted: 12/5/2012 6:27:09 AM EDT

[#34]

might just be compressed depth of field from using a telephoto lens that makes the trees appear closer to the F-4 than they really are...

Quoted:
This one looks like it may have fucked that F4 up....

http://chivethebrigade.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/vintage-flying-low-500-40.jpg?w=500&h=342

Posted: 12/5/2012 11:38:49 AM EDT

[#35]

very cool

Posted: 12/5/2012 12:07:55 PM EDT

[#36]

Great pics!

Posted: 12/5/2012 12:54:52 PM EDT

[#37]

Posted: 12/5/2012 1:22:19 PM EDT

[#38]

I just love the P-47.

All time favorite airplane.

Posted: 12/5/2012 5:06:32 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
I saw one of these fly into NAS Millington TN when I was a kid. Vought F7U Cutlass. They were a piece of shit that killed too many pilots.

http://chivethebrigade.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/vintage-flying-low-500-56.jpg?w=500&h=373

One of my earliest memories in life is one of these cartwheeling across the field right in front of me, killing the pilot.

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Those F7U's did look cool though. Along with the Skyray.

Posted: 12/5/2012 5:24:45 PM EDT

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I just love the P-47.

All time favorite airplane.

+1...who don't love a "jug"

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