Yahooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uh-oh, he forget to lower his LG!

YAHOOOO is right.........thats crazy[8D]

YEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

You wouldn't see any US pilots doing that with our planes...........

My instinct tells me that he wouldn't dare do that if he wasn't getting any ground effect.

Nice pic.[&:][X(]

Forgive me if I'm wrong but it seems that when I read Chuck Yeager's book about 20 years ago he talked about taking an F-86, I believe it was, out across a dry lake bed at Edwards. He was at speed and couldn't get the plane to descend out of ground effect. I believe he said he had both feet pushing on the stick and it wouldn't descend...like I said it's been a long time.
I saw the Russians fly the Su-27 at the OKC airshow in '89 and then the Mig-29 a year later at the Alliant airport north of Ft Worth. The planes and pilots were the best I had ever seen!
They could really fly!
JLK

Fifty years ago when I was a F2H-3 Banshee pilot at NAS Moffett, we were training for nuclear weapons delivery. By necessity, if it came to war, the method of delivery would be from a very low altitude from the ship (USS WASP) to the target.

As a consequence, we were encouraged to practice navigation "on the deck." In other words, flat-hatting was not only permitted, it was encouraged. There was no speed limit of 250 Kt below 10,000' in those days. The Banshee could fly at low altitudes (a few feet off the surface) on a single engine, after getting up to speed, and get the necessary range. When approaching initial point, we'd light off the other engine, and proceed at high speed, and execute a loft maneuver to deliver the weapon on the target.

The bulk of the practice bomb drops were conducted from NAS Fallon, and we'd deploy for a few weeks at a time, and it was a ball. I can't remember the exact details, but it seeems to me we were flying about 5' off the deck at 400 knots or so to the IP, or directly over the bulls eye target and execute the loft maneuver and finish it iff with a Half Cuban 8 down to 5' over the sagebrush in the escape phase.

God be with the days![8D]

No wonder you see pics and vids of those things crashing all the time...the pilots are doing some crazy ass **** with them...

What's crazy about it? Every plane flys at that altitude above the ground at least twice every flight. The plane wants to pitch up when you're down that low, and that plane in particular is fly-by-wire, so it's as stable as you can get at maintaining a precise altitude.

Now thats more like it.

on anohter note, i hate the look of that ariplane, with its cockpit angle, it look like it was bent or something

Maybe this is more to your liking?

Disclaimer: No photographers were harmed in the making of these photos. (but it was apparently close!)

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One of the pilots reported he lost his Airspeed Indicator.

Back aboard the WASP they discovered he had a flying fish impailed on his pitot tube.

I did that, for about 100 yards across the field, just before we hit the hill! [X(] Ground was rising faster than the plane could rise. Not fun. I would have rather been in that jet. That would rock hard!