The lowest C-47 pass possible

hbtcoveralls · **Joined:** Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:51 pm **Posts:** 151

Speaks for itself. sure glad I wasn't aboard that Aircraft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15DcHmuu ... e=youtu.be

old iron · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:47 pm

A similarly low pass by a different DC-3 can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyUJIC6I ... re=related

wls3 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:14 pm

How about with one prop feathered?

mazdaP5 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:33 pm

They must have ran out of chutes.

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:27 pm

I squirmed around in my chair just watching that. I felt the need to run away.

vernicator · **Joined:** Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:42 am **Posts:** 350

carlisle1926 wrote:

I squirmed around in my chair just watching that. I felt the need to run away.

Me too! On the plus side, buddy didn't have mow the lawn anymore that day. SWEET JEEBUZ! :shock:

CoastieJohn · **Joined:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:37 pm **Posts:** 1380

old iron wrote:

A similarly low pass by a different DC-3 can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyUJIC6I ... re=related

I've seen this one before when I was in Iceland. It's got a pretty interesting history.

Tiger Tim · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:07 am

Do passes like that just look wrong to anyone else? I mean safety and legal issues aside it's just not what the plane was made for so it looks out of place to me when it's so low to the ground. It's like showing off your minivan by drift racing it. That higher pass by the yellow-cowled actually looked more impressive to me but your mileage may vary.

-Tim

p51 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:43 pm

Reminds me of a vet who told me once about wanting to buzz a C-47 as low as possible in England right before the Market Garden jump. He took it out across a training DZ and got so low, he said his copilot admitted later to losing control of his bodily functions, certain they were going to belly land. He said they pulled out and somehow the ship felt ‘rough’. When they went around and landed, his crew chief was standing there was a shocked look on his face. He found all the tips of his props looked sandblasted and twin shallow ruts were found across the field. He’d dug the tips of the props into the grass for at least a hundred yards. He had photos to support it, too, of the prop tips and the ruts. I hope he finally got those photos into a book somewhere, it was the closest buzz job you could ever do without bellying in, I’d think.

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