How low? This low! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06o7fzcE1Hk#t=15) :blink:
That's just got to be at Waddington, a crazy place to stand right on the runway centre-line.
I can't get over the idiots standing on step ladders, etc., to get even closer to the aircraft when it comes in! I wonder, has an aircraft ever hit somebody there? :banghead:
Some years ago one aircraft landed short and hit the A-15 itself before demolishing the fence and carrying on to the runway, I can remember seeing photos of the tyre marks on the road at the time.
Normal landings there mean the aircraft clears the fence by only a couple of feet so that Turkish F-16 wasn't all that low for Waddington really. It's pretty stupid for spectators to be in that area anyway, there's flashing lights and sirens and damn great signs saying DON'T go there when an aircraft is landing, and they'd get a much better view from the proper viewing site that's a few yards south of the threshold!
Aren't there standard "dents" in the hedge from landing Tiffies anyway?
Not a lot different to the approach to St.Maarten's airport is it ? Only they're 747's etc landing right on top of everyone
But there isn't a main road runing past the end at St Maartens.
No, but there's a beach ----- where everybody goes and sits to watch the planes land ---- right over themselves
Quote from: kitnut617 on July 10, 2014, 05:25:49 AM
No, but there's a beach ----- where everybody goes and sits to watch the planes land ---- right over themselves
Yup, it's definitely a interesting spot :rolleyes: If you ever go there make sure you go the French half of the island. Lovely place, like stepping back in time
When the 747's land, their wheels contact the runway just meters away from the beach ----- :o
Quote from: Flyer on July 10, 2014, 05:36:36 AM
Quote from: kitnut617 on July 10, 2014, 05:25:49 AM
No, but there's a beach ----- where everybody goes and sits to watch the planes land ---- right over themselves
I'd like to go there sometime and experience it myself, but I would sit off to the side. I'd also like to spend a day at St Bart's I think it's called, the one with the really steep approach.
Sister-in-law was there several times due to work (beats the daily grind eh?) and despite usually being turned off by anything aviation related, was fascinated watching the landings. She said it seemed to be a sport to run by as the jets were landing and she saw several people get moderately hurt being blasted by sand.
Compilation of low passes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zli3RAXz9e4
Some of those guys are un-hinged! :o
But what happened to the F-14 that blew up after its low pass? That looked bad!
Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 31, 2014, 04:03:40 AM
Some of those guys are un-hinged! :o
But what happened to the F-14 that blew up after its low pass? That looked bad!
Either bird strike or engine failure. Two chutes into the water though.
Link isn't available right now......but I was watching a vid the other day of the arrivals at Waddington last year. Wow !
:cheers:
When I worked for a customer in Lincoln I always stayed in a hotel to the south of the City and DEMANDED a room on the top floor (there were only two...) at the rear of the hotel. The reason was that it was around 200 yards north of the approach path to the Waddington 20 runway, the one where they pass LOW over the road, and I had some superb views of all sorts of aircraft. :thumbsup:
You have me daydreaming now kit....what a sight that would have been !
:wub: