How Low Can You Go?

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Lucky13

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In the US, we seem to do around 200-500 feet; the Israeli's from a brief HUD footage on a documentary on the attack on Osirak seem to do around 50-150 feet; then the British, French, and Swedes come in below them at 30-50'.
 
The Spitfire that made the whole "low pass" thing, a thing...
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Still from a C-47 video I posted in the video section, last year (I think)...
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...and finally, what I've read, that is regarded as the lowest pass ever. This guy is supposedly less than 3 feet off the ground...
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...one more...On Quora someone asked, "What's the lowest a plane can fly?"
This picture came with the accompanying response of, "Frank Tallman & Paul Mantz got fairly low for this scene from 'The War Lover' - looks like 15 feet to me"...

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