Ultra-low flyby of a DC-3!

[Pussy]

Aviation stories are just as interesting as bike ones, IMO.
I'm sure a lot of people on here agree with that

"There I was, 10,000 feet... inverted... nothing on the clock but "Smiths"...... "

[quickbuck]

"There I was, 10,000 feet... inverted... nothing on the clock but "Smiths"...... "

Shooting your watch with your hand again???

[Zedder]

Aviation stories are just as interesting as bike ones, IMO.
I'm sure a lot of people on here agree with that

Yep, more of them would be appreciated. Come on Pussy, any other topdressing ones?

[Pussy]

Yep, more of them would be appreciated. Come on Pussy, any other topdressing ones?

Mate... I could fill pages with it. Funnily enough, when you're actually doing the job, you don't think "pilot shit".
Sometimes you can have $2,000.00 worth of product sitting behind you, that has to be spread accurately. And that's what you focus on.
If you make a fuck-up spreading say DAP, you can leave results that even Stevie Wonder would be able to see.
You've got to remind yourself all the time that it is quite a dangerous occupation, and treat it with respect.
I have been known to have a bit of fun doing the job, however....

[FJRider]

Yep, more of them would be appreciated. Come on Pussy, any other topdressing ones?

I know of one group of bikers (gang actually) who chose to hassle a top-dressing pilot at a pub. (he was having lunch at his local) End result ... pilot dumped a load of fert on the moving gang as they moved on to the next pub. Police "couldn't identify" the pilot responsible ... (THEY made a complaint)

[Pussy]

I have been known to "accidentally" open the hopper doors whilst flying above some people....

[Berries]

Aviation stories are just as interesting as bike ones, IMO.
I'm sure a lot of people on here agree with that

I'd say far more interesting, possibly because there won't be a rozzer hiding behind the next cloud.

[Pussy]

I'd say far more interesting, possibly because there won't be a rozzer hiding behind the next cloud.

All well and good.... EXCEPT.... your first little fuck up can very well be your last.

[Winston001]

the scariest of all these was after a particularly exhausting tramp in the North Wales mountains.

Walking/stumbling along the road about half a k from journeys end,wet and knackered , an RAF Harrier (I think) approached silently from behind me doing mega speed at an incredibly low altitude....

Lovely story Marty. Many years ago I was crawling out of a tent in Pitlochry, Scotland when two Jaguars passed over at about 50 feet. It was early morning gloomy overcast and these monsterous jet aircraft simply appeared between the mountains at floor level, across the castle, up the loch and gone. In the blink of an eye.

Still sends shivers down my spine.

[nudemetalz]

Lovely story Marty. Many years ago I was crawling out of a tent in Pitlochry, Scotland when two Jaguars passed over at about 50 feet. It was early morning gloomy overcast and these monsterous jet aircraft simply appeared between the mountains at floor level, across the castle, up the loch and gone. In the blink of an eye.

Still sends shivers down my spine.

you mean like this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hewtAXhWn58

and Harriers:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRfDsSnLtE4

and this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bU5PTcNzc4


Doncha just love Harriers !!

[Berries]

All well and good.... EXCEPT.... your first little fuck up can very well be your last.

Just like bikes then, but much more impressive.

I remember one flight from Dunedin to Wanaka where the cloud came in and we had to follow the Clutha River at, ahem, quite a low level. Could have touched a couple of those ridges up by Clyde, in fact I think the wheels did at some point.

[FJRider]

Just like bikes then, but much more impressive.

I remember one flight from Dunedin to Wanaka where the cloud came in and we had to follow the Clutha River at, ahem, quite a low level. Could have touched a couple of those ridges up by Clyde, in fact I think the wheels did at some point.

There's an RNZAF exercise at the Alexandra airport at the moment. A Herc' is floating about at low levels ... it comes through the gorge quite low.

[Macontour]

I love aircraft low flying. The sound of the old WW2 aircraft sends a shiver up the spine as does the skills and cojones and speed of modern jets and pilots.

Years ago I managed to get to the Reno Air Races, dozens of highly worked over Mustangs, Corsairs and so on all getting thrashed around pylons out in the desert. A special visitor was an SR71 Blackbird that was returning from "a secret mission with a round trip of about 6000 miles" or something similar. It was late 80s when I was there so the guess was that was the old Russia the aircraft had been visiting.

[Swoop]

What???........

HE WAS SAYING HOW LOVELY THE 3-COURSE IN-FLIGHT MEALS ARE, WHEN RIDING IN THE BACK!!!

you mean like this:-Doncha just love Harriers !!

*chuckle*
When in the UK in the late 80's I was on a certain RAF base, where there had been a declaration of "non investigation" of a certain type of incident...
If a resident complained of having their TV aerial knocked off of their roof, a payment was immediately made.

Something to do with Tornado LL exercises!

[nudemetalz]

HE WAS SAYING HOW LOVELY THE 3-COURSE IN-FLIGHT MEALS ARE, WHEN RIDING IN THE BACK!!!

hahaha...all I was issued was a couple of earplugs and cargo to rest my feet on while sitting next to a window seat.
Then amazed at how short the Waiouru airstrip is and how the Herk used all of that on landing.