Lower than a Snake's Belly in a Wagon Rut, or Flying Low is Fun! Some amazing photographs of pilots indulging themselves (and unnerving those of us stuck at ground level.)
My favourites:
- A B-52 cruising below deck level.
- The South African aerobatics team getting their feet wet.
- An English Electric Lightning poised to slam on the power and take off like a scalded cat.
- A Vulcan sneaking up on a graduation parade at RAF Swinderby.
The last two get extra marks from me because in the 1970s and 1980s I saw those types at umpteen air displays; they seemed like they'd flown in from a Century 21 production. The Vulcan, in particular, looked like an aircraft from fifty years into the future. In fact, it was designed in the late 1950s and had long since abandoned the role it was designed to fulfil, i.e. carrying Britain's nuclear deterrent.
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