Extreme low level flying...

[Gnomey]

Does a little bit. Although I'm dubious that counts as flying as it is actually on the ground a bit!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Actually looks like it's heading for a belly landing and 'yes', radio controlled.

 

[Wayne Little]

brace for impact....

 

[Trebor]

HOLY!.........never seen a C-47 go this low!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8kt2vDm3Mw

 

[Lucky13]

Just saw it on FB, almost hit the deck myself!

 

[vikingBerserker]

DAM!

 

[Trebor]

I know, right!? I think something would be soiled, after that! the tips of those props are what...2-5 feet of the ground? o.o

 

[Geedee]

Now just add two more engines

 

[evangilder]

I could be mistaken, but wasn't that B-17 low pass flown by Paul Mantz?

 

[evangilder]

HOLY!.........never seen a C-47 go this low!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8kt2vDm3Mw

Holy cow!

 

[stona]

Does anyone else think that the 'scale' of the grass and the DC3/C47 don't quite match?
Steve

 

[Gnomey]

Awesome!

 

[gumbyk]

Found this one in my Grandfather's stuff. Not sure where he got it from, he was never in the RNZAF

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I could be mistaken, but wasn't that B-17 low pass flown by Paul Mantz?

I believe you are correct Eric.

 

[Airframes]

I believe you are correct Eric.

Yes it was. t was filmed at Bovingdon, near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK, the same airfield (now a prison) used for a number of movies, including '633 Squadron' and 'Hanover Street'.
There's a great 'still', taken from the top of the Control Tower, showing the 'Fort' just a couple of feet off the deck, in Roger Freeman's 'B-17 at War' book.