The Lowest flyby ever???

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I'll see your bowing to the crowd and raise you the "Kulbit" back-flip!

Oh.


My.


God!

As someone who's only just got used to seeing planes do stall turns at the top of a vertical climb, I'd be convinced it was going to crash every time!

 

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This one always raises a smile...a couple of squaddies by the airfield fence and a Harrier pilot.

And I like the fact that judging from the comments, someone didn't think Harriers actually existed.

Actually my 'favourite' Harrier trick is when they come up from behind a line of trees or something, very slowly and stealthily, and then blast forwards over you...
And that thing they do at airshows, bowing to the crowd...[/QUOTE]


Awww this brings back memories
As a kid living on an inactive airfield in the early 70s (RAF Syerston near Newark...anyone know it ??), it used to be used for millitary exercises every once in a while.
My bedroom used to overlook the perimeter about 500 yards away...one morning i get woken to a howling screaming mental moise like i never heard before
Leap to the bedroom window......theres a Harrier, hovering just on the treetops...500 yards or so from my bedroom. Yesssssssssssss ....the thing kids dreams are made of.

We used to cycle along the runway..actually we used to get everywhere, avoiding the MPs who used to show up once in a while and chase us off ... so cycling along the runway...the Chipmunk trainers used to buzz us as they did dummy landing runs on the same runway.....awesome ..great memories.

 

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Whilst messing about on youtube I came across this little corker...a guy standing outside an airbase watching A-10s take off:



Now, please feel free to calculate the exact moment you'd be filling your pants!

Oh I luv 'airies' - got told I was a pilot in the 2nd world war once by a psychic

The A10 is a slow plance but HIGHLY manouverable !