I can verify, driving on I 94 in Montana, and coming down one of those long dips in those gullies, in eastern Montana, and have a B 52 come flying about 50 feet over your head at about 400 to 500 knots, will surely make you wet or soil your BVDs...
especially when you see the A/C is below the level ground on the bluffs..
also have seen F 4s and F100s flying at high speed about 25 feet or less off the ground.
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Originally Posted by captain seafire
I replace valve cover gaskets every 50K, if they don't need them sooner...
I'll have to search but I used to have a video of a flyby at a college game that got the pilot's wings taken away. He literally was below the tops of the sides of the stadium.
Here it is. I remember reading the pilot got in serious hot water. On the second shot of it you can see the guys in the press box looking down at the plane.
I can verify, driving on I 94 in Montana, and coming down one of those long dips in those gullies, in eastern Montana, and have a B 52 come flying about 50 feet over your head at about 400 to 500 knots, will surely make you wet or soil your BVDs...
especially when you see the A/C is below the level ground on the bluffs..
also have seen F 4s and F100s flying at high speed about 25 feet or less off the ground.
I was out with my dad hunting pheasants in southern Saskatchewan in the late 60's. We were travelling south on a gravel road at about 50 mph, crested a hill, and met a B52 flying north at about 400 mph. Scared the bejabbers outta us!
Apparently SAC used to do those low-level exercises all the time down that way.
"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars
When I first moved to Wyoming SAC used to run low level flights out here with B-52, B1B and F16. Had the schitt startled out of me several times. Could never prove it but sometimes I swore they did it on purpose when we were out working. Laughed about it after we cleaned out our shorts....hell I enjoyed seeing those birds!
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Probably not, elk76. There's just no way to see a guy on a tractor (or whatever) at that speed and altitude in time to intentionally buzz him. Or see him as you pass over, for that matter. When flying like that you have to focus hard on the horizon, because your plane goes where your eyes go - and if you look at the ground just ahead of you ...
I was shooting rifles with a friend a couple years ago and we had this dude do a fly by. A grass 1,500'(?) grass runway is right below him. To my (the weirdo with his arms in the air) left is a shooting house that we shoot out of. We saw this big C130 (?) coming at us from the west, we jumped out of the SH and watched him fly by at a very low altitude. I believe he saw us, them swung around to the south and came up by us at maybe 50' off the deck, hit the end of the runway and them banked hard to his right, heading east again. Never to be see again......
I asked a few people if he could have landed on that grass strip and they said sure, but wouldn't be able to take off afterward.
I have another shot of him going by a second after this picture and you can read his tail numbers....I don't think I'll post that one!
It's only a still, but this is how I flew many of my 300 combat missions ...
You flew 300 combat missions in THAT!? Seriously? Unreal.
(just went to your bio page. Wow! I'll be buying / reading your books once I finish my current Baldacci)
Originally Posted by Archerhunter
Quit giving in inch by inch then looking back to lament the mile behind ya and wonder how to preserve those few feet left in front of ya. They'll never stop until they're stopped. That's a fact.
It's only a still, but this is how I flew many of my 300 combat missions ...
You flew 300 combat missions in THAT!? Seriously? Unreal.
(just went to your bio page. Wow! I'll be buying / reading your books once I finish my current Baldacci)
You will enjoy every minute of them too. He is the quintessential BTDT guy. I can verify from his second book he really musta went on a Huey mission, described some of the stuff we did to a tee.
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Yes I did, crockett. Most of them over Cambodia in that little gray plane, no national markings, in civvie clothes, no ID, and my right-seater was a NORTH Vietnamese captain. We got the REAL "Mission Impossible" speech about being disavowed. And that is no chit.