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But you've got to be pretty idiotic to sunbath on the extended centreline of a runway like that too. Doesn't take much to go wrong to ruin your day.
 
The PBS show Nova recently did an episode about the Dambusters raid on the German dams. In some of the associated footage, they showed USAAF B-24s practicing low-level runs with bombs remarkably like (and based on) the Wallis design used against the dams.

Some of the practice runs were done at nine feet. As in 108 inches or 274 centimeters.
 
I know a couple of guys who drug their wheels for an extended period prior to landing on a gravel bar (and saw their video to prove it). Apparently it works well with a Super Cub on bush tires, but not so well on a C-185. I was told they burned up the wheel bearings on the 185...but that is nothing like a higher-speed formation flight! These guys were not exactly in landing-configuration!
 

Like this?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8IUNQcN5U0

That's a local guy with a very highly modified pacer...
 
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