How Low?

ch135146 · Post by **ch135146** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:13 pm

I used to fly CF Twin Hueys over hill and dale at 10 feet. The guys in the following link are lower than that in a Sukhoi fighter:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1 ... &photo_nr=

How about some low flying tales?

FREEFALL · Post by **FREEFALL** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:09 pm

FAKE! ......... IMHO.

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:20 pm

The lowest flying I ever got paid to do was applying maneb on potatoes, thousands and thousands of acres of flying with the wheels down in the rows...or at basically 0 feet.

Also the best flying job in aviation as far as flying goes.

Cat

Lommer · Post by **Lommer** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:47 pm

Yea, IMO it's fake too, hard to put my finger on it though. The focus on the plane is a little different maybe? And no motion blur whatsoever?

Cat, what kind of aircraft did you fly for potato spraying?

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:52 pm

Cub ......Pawnee.........Stearman.....Hughes 300.

And we let the farmers daughters sleep in our tents...after we gave them a work out of course.

cyxe · Post by **cyxe** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:53 pm

Thats no fake.

Canus Chinookus · Post by **Canus Chinookus** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:17 pm

what's that 'thing' sticking out the tail?

cyxe · Post by **cyxe** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:39 pm

Canus Chinookus wrote:what's that 'thing' sticking out the tail?

I think thats the brake parachute container. Not sure.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0898577/L/

jjj · Post by **jjj** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:55 pm

I call fake!

A low fly-bye on a taxiway? No way!!!

jjj

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:00 pm

Of course it is real, some of the flying done by the Russian pilots in air displays is unbelieavable, that is only a simple low pass.

Pinocchio · Post by **Pinocchio** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:16 pm

Clothesliner · Post by **Clothesliner** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:20 am

I think it's fake:

For the aircraft to be in that attitude, it would have to be going pretty dang quick - quick enough to cause more blurring in the background or foreground. If it was taken with a super high speed setting, the picture wouldn't be as crisp. Also, the aircraft seems to be quite close to the edge of the runway (or is it a taxiway?) - you'd think he'd want to be on the centreline.

I'm not saying these guys can't or don't do this often, this picture just looks too good.

Schlem · Post by **Schlem** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:41 am

cyxe wrote:
Canus Chinookus wrote:what's that 'thing' sticking out the tail?
I think thats the brake parachute container. Not sure.

It also houses some sensors for the Radar Warning Receiver among others.

I highly doubt that Airliners.net would put up a fake... I'm sure they researched it throughly if they had doubts. Besides... Russian pilots are nuts!

N2 · Post by N2 » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:46 am

Thank god for photoshop!

BTD · Post by **BTD** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:58 am

I thought it was fake at first too.

Looking closer though if you look in the background just about everyone has their head turned to look.

So unless the guy was taxing near the edge of the runway or something and they just removed his landing gear from the shot.

I dunno

TG · Post by TG » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:27 am

Schlem wrote:Besides... Russian pilots are nuts!

Might even be the bottom of a loop

Schlem · Post by **Schlem** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:37 am

TG wrote:
Schlem wrote:Besides... Russian pilots are nuts!
Might even be the bottom of a loop

I'm wondering why the air to air refueling probe is extended.

Tubthumper · Post by **Tubthumper** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:42 am

It's not a fake. If it were, the airliners.net staff would have spotted it. I read the aviation photography forum from time to time, and there was a member there who had submitted a photo of an airliner taking off. On the bottom of the photo, there was a rabbit sitting in the grass and he decided to 'edit out' the rabbit. I'm a photoshop pro, and this is a very easy edit to do. Well, the airliners.net staff could tell it was done, and he was banned from posting on that site for two weeks because of it. Photos submitted there go through at least 2 screening phases before they're accepted; they're pros as spotting that stuff. Even my photo acceptance rate is only 51% of those submitted, so I know how discerning (in a frustrating way) they are about the photos they accept.

snag · Post by **snag** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:17 pm

Yeah, I'd second that. Airliners.net is VERY anal about their pictures, and they have pros to spot the fakes. Although they really like pictures of seats for some reason.

I'd say it's real. Fast shutter speed, and the motion blur is seen in the background, not the plane. I'd take it real easy on the pull up though...

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:32 pm

What is the big deal about low flying?

All I can figure out is there has to be a lot of non pilots here arguing about something so God Damn simple as a low fly past at an airport...like what in fu.k are they going to hit?

Cat

ch135146 · Post by **ch135146** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:49 pm

Cat Driver wrote:What is the big deal about low flying? Cat

I'm with you here, Cat. Yet, until somebody's done it a few times, it looks like something special. Unbelievable, even.

At the risk of stating the obvious: everything in flying takes a little bit of skill combined with a lot of effective practice.

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Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:53 pm

Just remember the low flying record has been set, and can't be broken.

rightseatwonder · Post by **rightseatwonder** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:34 pm

why isn't there a heat distortion from the exhaust then?

hercdriver · Post by **hercdriver** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:26 pm

If its real, how come there is no distortion (created by heat)behind the jet cone??

snag · Post by **snag** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:55 pm

How much heat distortion are you expecting? You'd still be able to see through it, just like you do in this picture. The background is too smudged already due to motion blur (motion of the camera in this case) to use that as an argument for or against.