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Postby Marlin » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:28 am

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Re: how low can you go?

Postby cspyro21 » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:52 am

Apparently, that low ;D
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby ozzy72 » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:57 am

So many people just want to be me ;D
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby Ecko » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:21 am

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Re: how low can you go?

Postby C » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:22 am

Lol. This was on PPrune the other week. Very clever bit of editing was the final conclusion... :)

Interesting thought to consider though..
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby Craig. » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:29 am

Chris these guys are for real. There is a discussion on anet about them with a link to the teams actual website with I believe video evidence. Its not really hard to believe this being done. Think of it like water ski'ing you go fast enough across it you'll be ok for surface tension and so on. Slow down or hit it wrong and well, bye bye plane.
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby C » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:34 am

Chris these guys are for real. There is a discussion on anet about them with a link to the teams actual website with I believe video evidence. Its not really hard to believe this being done. Think of it like water ski'ing you go fast enough across it you'll be ok for surface tension and so on. Slow down or hit it wrong and well, bye bye plane.


I was thinking the same looking at the first shot, noticing the far aircraft only has one wheel on the water...

What they don't tell you is that the water's only an inch deep ;) ;D

And they can't be British either - the CAA would have a coronary... ;D
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby Hagar » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:34 am

I never thought this was edited for one minute. I believe 'water-skiing' on rivers is/was a common sport by crop duster pilots after work. I have a video somewhere showing it being done (in Stearmans if I recall correctly).
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby Jakemaster » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:34 am

Thats normal routine, it saves time when they land cause they dont have to clean the wheels ;D
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby BFMF » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:53 am

That's pretty low ;D
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby Chris_F » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:57 am

I think it would be quite a challenge to go any lower than that though...
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby ozzy72 » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:02 pm

The RMS Titanic managed to go quite a bit lower Chris ;) ;D
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby SkyNoz » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:13 pm

The RMS Titanic managed to go quite a bit lower Chris ;) ;D


lol, that's amazing it it's real, I think it also might be editeid coz it's hard to find ur alttitude that low. ::)
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby Craig. » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:19 pm

Its not edited. Why is it so hard to accept these things. ::)
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Re: how low can you go?

Postby C » Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:26 pm

Its not edited. Why is it so hard to accept these things. ::)


Because physics says so! ;) :) ;D
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