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Looks like one of the S-61Ns owned by Construction Helicopters. Cheers

I saw Comets, both long-nosed and short-nosed flying over every day back in the early 1970s in Ireland. Our house was under the approach path, and about seven miles from, Dublin airport. I always thought they were a graceful looking aircraft. The French Caravelle was another attractive plane...

If I remember correctly, that flying sequence is from a Steve McQueen movie called The Warlover, from the early 1960s (when B-17s were still plentiful, and not considered valuable!). Cheers

My first experience with an A-10 entailed low flying, and was during a BnFx (Battalion Field Exercise) on Fort Hood. We Marines had flown in via C-130 from Camp Pendleton to play with the Army. As a machine gunner, I was dug in in a fighting position just below the military crest of a hill...

The SP actually stood for Special Purpose. ;) The aircraft was designed for maximum range on long-haul routes. Very high seating capacity was not needed, so a major weight saving could be accomplished by doing away with unneeded fuselage length, which also had some aerodynamic benefits...

He's a good fellow, I do hope he returns. I wish him well with the other priorities, that he may get them sorted with a benevolent outcome. Cheers

Oh, I don't doubt that! But once it does, we'll see computer error crashes more and more. It's a fact of moving machinery, there are going to be crashes eventually. And the more there are, the more often 'eventually' will occur. Cheers

As things become more automated, there will be more and more cases of "computer error", like the driverless car that failed to see the 18-wheeler recently, or the Airbus that flew under power into the South Atlantic with both pilots pulling on the controls. Because of a failure in the...

Watched an SR-71 do a low-level performance at an airshow (late 1970s), it was VERY impressive and agile, and blew diamond shaped flames out the afterburner. :) I was suitably impressed, because all you ever heard about them was high and faaast, it was cool to see one thundering around low. I...

Yessir. He departed this earth for the last time on January 16th. https://www.nasa.gov/astronautprofiles/cernan Picture is of Cernan on the moon, December 1972 Cheers

Rest well, sir. Cheers

That B-17 low pass was from a "Don't mess with Texas" anti-littering campaign commercial a few years ago. It really was that low! Cheers

Back in the barnstorming days, they commonly built structures on the airfields specifically for the aeroplanes to fly into. They were, obviously, built of very light weight materials rather tenuously held together. The planes were often destroyed too, and a few pilots due to miscalculation...

Here's my boy at work yesterday. Pertinent thread material - the Osprey he is in is flying LOW! You can't tell from this picture, but he sent video too. It was aerial-re-qual-with-the-M240 day. Cheers Edit- added some more pictures. He stressed that the burst in the water in the last...

Those are my two boys! I'm the old fat guy in this one.... ;) Cheers

I have now done so! We just welcomed him home from his deployment late Friday evening. My older boy and I went up to the base in NC, Patrick didn't know anyone was coming to greet him, so it was a pleasant surprise for him. Having never been up close to a V-22 before, it was nice to get a...

I personally don't consider takeoff/landing photos as "low flying", and the rest are at altitude, but I'm putting some pictures on here anyway. Why? Because my younger Marine son is crew on the lead Osprey in the photos. :) Photos are from Spain, over the Med, and (unknown) on their...

Pour vous... 1- B-29 Doc being prepped for moving by Tony M ("towing" her) and his crew at China Lake in 1987. Same range that FiFi was saved from. 2- Tony M with Doc in 2016 3- Doc running her engines up. Cheers

If you amend that to "Naval Aviators", I'll agree with you. Marines fly on/off carriers too. ;) Cheers

Good save on the E-2, it fairly dribbled off the deck. That cable did a lot of braking before it let go. But, if he was doing it right, he was still at full power on the engines when the cable parted. The pilots must have done everything right, and quickly. I see the gear was already up...