Very, Very Low!!

We've all seen pictures and videos of jets flying low level.  These are some of the lowest you'll ever see without actually touching the dirt.  This is another bit of information we received from Atze.  Thanks dude.

The setting is southwest Oman at a base called Thumrait in the mid '80s.  The pilots are all RAF on secondment or ex-RAF. (FU note: we're not sure what that means.)  The story behind the flattened car with the fortunate to be alive driver standing beside it is that the driver was one of the Hunter pilots driving up the highway to Muscat some 300 miles away. His chums knew he was enroute and had set out to ambush him -- but not quite to such an effect as it turned out.  

The guy in the car checked his rear view mirror when a Jaguar (the aircraft not the car) passed close by to one side and saw he was about to be overtaken by another Jaguar.  He flung himself across the passenger seat as the strakes on the underside of the Jag dinged his roof and flattened the car.  

The Jag pilot was sent home in disgrace a few days later.

Take a look at how low these guys liked to go.

Pull her up big boy!!

That's about HAS parking height.



Beware of aircraft in tow.



Hello there little ground person.



Oman seems like a good place for a convertible.