Simviation Forum - how low can you go?

Mar 16^th, 2006 at 1:28am

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Reply #1 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 2:52am

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Apparently, that low Grin

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Reply #2 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 2:57am

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So many people just want to be me Grin

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Reply #3 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 5:21am

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Reply #4 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 5:22am

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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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Reply #5 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 5:29am

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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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Reply #6 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 5:34am

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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 Wink

And they can't be British either - the CAA would have a coronary... Grin

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Reply #7 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 6:34am

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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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Reply #8 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 9:34am

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Thats normal routine, it saves time when they land cause they dont have to clean the wheels Grin

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Reply #9 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 9:53am

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That's pretty low Grin

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Reply #10 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 9:57am

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I think it would be quite a challenge to go any lower than that though...

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Reply #11 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 2:02pm

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The RMS Titanic managed to go quite a bit lower Chris Wink

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Reply #12 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 2:13pm

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The RMS Titanic managed to go quite a bit lower Chris Wink

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. Roll Eyes

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Reply #13 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 2:19pm