How low can you get?

[chrisgee]

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Forgive me if this doesn`t work it`s the first one I`ve done. I know it`s not really boaty apart from the beach but it `s quite spectacular none the less

 

[Bajansailor]

Do you want to create a 'Where is it?' quiz with this photo?

Altho' I think it is rather easy, and somebody will 'get it' immediately......

Very impressive - and the suntanners dont look too peturbed....

 

[Aardee]

St Maarten??

I know they come in low, but there's a whiff of Photoshop about that one (for a start, the people should be ducking)

 

[chrisgee]

I suspect you are correct but it makes a change from boaty pics
buts lets see who else knows where it is?

 

[pvb]

Yes, it's Maho Beach. There are some good videos of it on YouTube, too.

 

[rickp]

I dunno - this seems VERY low

Rick

 

[chrisgee]

No photoshop -they don`t duck as they`re used to almost every landing this low -- or possibly lower as you can see on the you tube post.

 

[Yala]

I remember watching in amazement as the group of 50 something ex pilots we had been cruising with lined up to hang on to the wire fence just behind where these planes take off in LSt Maarten! As the pilot of the KLM 747 gunned the engine they all left the ground hanging on for grim death with the biggest grins I have ever seen spread across their faces!!!
Looked like a string of particularly grubby washing.

www.gerryantics.blogspot.com

 

[PeterGibbs]

Nah - it's noting much. Until you can see bystanders actually being processed through the turbines of the aircraft.

That's low !!!


PWG

 

[chuckaduck]

can you go lower ?

see

here

 

[chuckaduck]

Re: can you go lower ?

beat this Landing

 

[snowleopard]

I've sailed along that beach and had to divert to avoid an incoming jet well below mast height.

 

[chuckaduck]

Re: can you go lower ?

or more scary here

 

[chrisgee]

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the sign says it all

 

[jimbaerselman]

Re: can you go lower ?

Kai Tak in Hong Kong was very similar until they lopped the top off a mountain on the approach path.

Now for a real low and dirty, in around 1960, a Hawker Hunter jet flew between the decks of Tower Bridge. The pilot left Her Majesty's service shortly after . . . but he's still alive. A rare example of that genus; old, bold pilots.

 

[chuckaduck]

Re: can you go lower ?

I remember being in snowdonia mountain walking years ago and seeing low flying hunter jets flying below me it was an amazing spectacle

 

[chuckaduck]

Re: can you go lower ?

mind you this is scary

 

[chuckaduck]

Re: can you go lower ?

or this

 

[chuckaduck]

Re: can you go lower ?

and here

 

[Twister_Ken]

Re: can you go lower ?

or this