Helluva a flyby...
 

Cool trick, but was it worth the pilot's job? :rolleyes:

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Story:
http://gizmodo.com/360301/pilot-gets-fired-after-extremely-low-flyby-in-brand+new-boeing-777

...and the alleged moronic pilot...
http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/...ouarefired.jpg

Obviously unfamiliar with the French experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kHa3WNerjU

Yeah, I still don't get why that was a problem.

Maybe Joe, Jess or Scott could chime in, but I think ripping up the departure or arrival airport is standard fare on a delivery flight...... :)


I have more than one letter on my file for inducing/suggesting similar operations.....

Cheers

It might be 'tradition' but doing so without asking the 'right' people is always going make life difficult..

It would appear that the 'right' people's permission was not sought....and the 'right' people in this case may well have nothing to do with the location of the fly by or flying rules and regs...but may have been in another location.. possibly in the Far East...;)

They are possibly more concerned with appearances than safety....

Thats too bad, Its funny but most times when I go into a controlled field the tower will ask if I could do a fly by, many have asked, and I have buzzed the tower before, right by the window, never a problem here. But then it was in a 1918 SE5a

I think the tower and 'people' in the a/c were OK with it.. but home plate, when they saw the youtube vids and pics were les impressed...

Here is a clip of the test pilot rolling a 707 in its test stages, ahhh the good ole days!

http://www.madskies.com/99/rolling-707/

The aircraft needed a clearance to do that from ATC, so it is safe to say that the tower was okay with it......

Cheers

I don't have sound on the puter here at work .

Wondering if it was an aborted landing ( note landing gear ) .

Guess I'll replay at home .

SxS

Around here, the standard procedure for a "zoomie" is to call out a "missed approach" thus requiring a "go around". ;)

Negative ghostrider, the pattern is full.

A retired PanAm captain I know used to tell me stories of long, boring trans-Alaska flights in DC-9s (before he flew for PanAm) where they'd entertain themselves by getting about 20' off the deck and chasing caribou.

Supposedly a guy he knew actually had to SPIN a 707 during certification too. Great stuff if true.

Political BS going on here. Everyone approved but evidently he had not asked the companies permission so they canned him. He is appealing the decision...

Last commercial aircraft delivery from the Douglas Long Beach (now Boeing) facility. Flew by like a fighter making a strafing run followed by the traditional rocking of the wings.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1204229548.jpg

Were the heck did you get a Scouting Experimental? Was it surplus in the US before the war ended or did it make the trip across the pond twice? Inquiring minds want to know!

I wish it was original!! Its a replica I built back in the 80's

saw a clip of a 747 doing a roll one time

A guy I used to hangar with was a corporate pilot. He had a little Grumman Yankee and one year he decided to invite an old WWII pilot to ride with him to the Oshkosh fly-in for a day. They flew direct across Lake Michigan and the corporate guy let the WWII guy fly while he took a nap. The WWII guy got bored and figured since they were beyond gliding distance from shore, he dropped down on the deck. A little later, the corporate pilot awoke to find they were just off the water in the middle of Lake Michigan!

I myself will not fly SEL over large expanses of water, but the corporate guy was not happy that day I can assure you.

Back in 82 or so we had a SR-71 make a "emergency" landing at McDill AFB, FL. He was doing a recce of the Faucklands and something went "wong with the aircraft and Mc Dill was the closest AFB to put her down..

They quickly put it {SR-71] in one of the hangers.. [red rope of death around it] .. but within 2 days everyone knew it was there > maintenence guys flew in > fixed the SR and base paper announced when it would depart Mc Dill..

Departure day .. the "haboo" took off > to the south > no nose abatement requirements to the south... he did a slow pass over the base ... and lined it up over the runway at maybe 100 ft >> and lit the burners.....

Incredible.... just incredible..... he just zoomed down the runway > and at the end > pulled the nose up into probablly a 60 degree climb .... and climbed and climbed .. until he was out of sight....