Flying Low Friday

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 06/07/2019 at 11:15 • Filed to: wingspan, Planelopnik

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Talk about down in the weeds......

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 06/07/2019 at 11:26

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Nuts. Looks like a Super Tucano or similar. The US variant is the primary trainer of the USAF and USN. I’ve previously compared them to a Monster Miata among planes.

Somewhere in South America? I have a hard time believing he’d get away with this in the US or Europe.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 06/07/2019 at 11:29

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Comments say it’s a Pilatus, maybe in Croatia. But yeah, that’s nuts. 

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 06/07/2019 at 11:35

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D’oh, that’s what I meant. I get the Pilatus and Tucano mixed up a lot. The Pilatus is actually the basis for the US trainers. They’re ridiculously similar.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 06/07/2019 at 11:57

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I was going to suggest Texan II, which would be Pilatus, IINM.

Bob Hoover once said, and I paraphrase, “It's not how low you can fly, but how precisely you can control your aircraft.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Ash78, voting early and often 06/07/2019 at 11:58

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But Tucano would have been in the same genre...

McMike > ttyymmnn 06/07/2019 at 12:01

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I’m gonna to let you keep posting all the low altitude flights and passes in a minute, but Chris Georgaklis is the greatest low pass flyer of ALL TIME.

And still holds the world record at 0' -0" AGL

ttyymmnn > McMike 06/07/2019 at 12:03

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So many questions about this....

SnowShark > ttyymmnn 06/07/2019 at 12:19

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https://www.insideedition.com/headlines/10345-pilot-takes-off-from-belly-of-plane-without-landing-gear

ttyymmnn > McMike 06/07/2019 at 12:20

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Pilot was 85 years old.

http://fort-pierce.net/exclusive-plane-skids-takes-off-without-landing-gear/

ttyymmnn > SnowShark 06/07/2019 at 12:22

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Follwing his harrowing close call, Georgaklis has decided to retire from flying and will sell his plane for parts, minus the propellers.

And engines, presumably. This guy just totally screwed up and doesn’t sound like he wants to own it. At least he stopped flying, which is a tacit admission of what he did.

ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy > ttyymmnn 06/07/2019 at 14:14

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My jaw dropped with that GTA stunt at the end.

McMike > ttyymmnn 06/07/2019 at 14:17

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Pilot was 85 years old .

And still world champion.

ttyymmnn > ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy 06/07/2019 at 14:29

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Damn. I hadn’t even made it to the end. That was nuts.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 06/07/2019 at 22:34

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Much of that flight is questionable, but the bridge stunt was definitely  illegal if this happened in the US.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 06/07/2019 at 23:50

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Definitely not in the US.

Flavien Vidal > ttyymmnn 06/09/2019 at 20:41

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That really old one from my home country is pretty cool to watch too, much higher speeds obviously...

RacinBob > ttyymmnn 06/09/2019 at 21:02

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Sooner or later he gets burned. So what, s tupid is what stupid does.  

ttyymmnn > McMike 06/10/2019 at 00:18

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Here’s a runner up.