Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Pilots!

     Don't diss 'em.  Just don't.

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7 comments:

Comrade Misfit said...

Seen the one of the guy flying a Bonanza under the Eiffel Tower?

JD Rush said...

Serious question. Was that a sanctioned stunt, or the early 20th century version of Youtube hooning videos?

DJ said...

Flying through it is safer than driving around it. There is a traffic circle around it, twelve lanes wide, with twelve streets converging thereon. It's the damnedest piece of traffic engineering I have ever seen.

Roberta X said...

C.M.: Sure did! Bet he didn't get invited back.

JDR: Totally unsanctioned. The (linked) backstory is fascinating.

fast richard said...

Cool! I had seen stills of that, but never the film footage.

Larry said...

I flew an F/A-18 under the Gov. Thomas Johnson bridge near NAS Patuxent River MD.

In the simulator. I'm not completely crazy.

John A said...

That is probably the first time it was done.

Then there was the RAF guy who did the same during WWII, and strafed a German government office/barracks, despite the large NAZI flag hung from it...