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Typhoon Jet Skims People's Heads

submitted by mintbbb

1 decade 3 weeks ago

YouTube Description:

'Low approach from this Coningsby based 41 Sqn Typhoon. It was arriving at Waddington on the Friday before the airshow weekend, to take part in the static displays. Well this came as a shock, the rate of descent was so quick.Either very skilled or very lucky, you decide..:P

I'm saying SKILL!'

4 Comments

ant

says...

*fear *wtf

siftbot

says...

Adding video to channels (Fear, Wtf) - requested by ant.

Payback

says...

Wind shear maybe.
Pilot error probably.
Pilot giving the people what they want most likely.

kceaton1

says...

It looked like wind to me. If you look closely, just before he gets within about 400 or so yards from the first line of people you can see the backside of the plane getting pushed downward. It seems to keep getting pushed down for a bit after it starts (like two-three seconds). I imagine he freaked out a bit at first being so close to the runway (I assume, as he was so low and going relatively slow), but increased throttle a bit and evened things out...

But, man, that fence was getting pretty damned close and we have no idea where the runway was (if there was one on the other-side, but since it was labelled as "approach" I'm assuming there was one on the other-side).

But anyway, I'd say it was skill and a good recovery from a very nasty wind shear at a VERY horrible time.