Low Overpasses

[Romantic Technofreak]

Surely everybody of you knows St. Martin Island in the Caribbean. The landing approaches on the airport there are a famous and spectacular sight. And if you like to get blown, keep your position and wait for an aircraft to start its take-off run...!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/433f77c9.jpg

Also, if you like to do leasure driving on Saint-Barthélemy island, better keep your head when you are in close distance to the runway...!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/e75e200b.jpg

The same can happen in Europe too. When you travel the highway near Barcelona, it may happen the Gothenburg Parachute Club coms in a bit too low for jumping:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/829c02ec.jpg

If you like to travel in Asia, enjoy Pokemon and have no fear they might get entangled in the Tokio electric wires, watch them take off (just ignore the UFO in the right upper edge, it is meaningless):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/9955e1f8.jpg

[Romantic Technofreak]

Not only a metropolis, also the most remote places in the Philippines now are connected to the global air transport system - with expectable consequences:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/876e0e7c.jpg

North America is not an exception. Especially not when North American's F-100D comes in, it is not of much use to seek for shelter behind the Bellanca Cruisemaster:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/109fc8c3.jpg

While watching the air show in Reno, you better give way to the F-22, even if you may have the right of:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/8d307862.jpg

On the shore of the Black Sea, people are considering the meaning of life. The passing Diamond DA-42 gives a hint to Romanians:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/c84a618f.jpg

[Romantic Technofreak]

(First time here? Scroll up please!)

While in Russia or Ukraine, the Beriev A-42 fulfills the same purpose:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/def37903.jpg

Not far from there, you can have shake-hands with the pilot of a powered parachute - while only one of you is in the air, of course:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/0d2d101a.jpg

What to learn from that all? Especially in your right upper edge,...:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/f842cdf7.jpg

Regards, RT

[Lightning]

Hi RT,

A marvellous presentation! You never disappoint.

(Did you notice the tricks that the camera's shutter played on the propellers of the Diamond DA-42?)

Regards,
Lightning

[Romantic Technofreak]

Thank you Lightning! I noticed that, but without thinking much beyond.

Regards, RT

[GregP]

Great shots, Holger!

Thanks!

[Double T]

Well done RT!

Tim
PS: I never heard of a Diamond DA-42, but I'm Googling it now...

[Romantic Technofreak]

Well, people in the 50s of last century were not yet well accustomed with circumstances like they are now in St. Martin island. So, it must have been an ear-shocking beach experience when the B-36 came buzzing around:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/f9f74a3c.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/853bd682.jpg

Just new catch:).

Regards, and many thanks, RT

[Wuzak]

Not exactly low....

This is taken from an aircraft that has just left Hobart airport bound for Melbourne.

The single runway is oriented NW-SE. This plane obviously took off towards the south, and then turned north again. The beach is Seven Mile Beach.

http://www.warrenwilliams.co.nz/2008/DEC_1259.jpg

From Warren Williams Blog (http://warrenwilliams.co.nz/blog/?cat=6).

On the other end of the airport is the Tasman Highway - the highway linking Hobart with the east coast, and just the other side of that is Barilla Bay.

Oysters are farmed there, and are supposed to be very good, but I wouldn't know, not liking oysters!

You can find the airport easily by searching for "hobart airport tasmania" in Google Maps, and I guess Google Earth

[Wuzak]

Not an overpass, but certainly low flying....

http://www.gunslot.com/files/gunslot/images/58005.jpg

I understand that these Wing in Ground Effect craft can make short hops at higher altitudes, so they can avoid surface obstacles.

[Johnny .45]

Wow...those are pretty cool photos. I'd never heard of the Diamond DA-42 before...a diesel powered plane! I'm a oil-burner fan of sorts, but the only diesel aero-engine I knew of was the Jumo 205 from before WWII. It's impressive to think of the technology that must have gone into designing a small, light diesel with power output like that.
And where did the photo of the Beriev come from? I thought they only made a couple of prototypes of those planes. Is that an old photograph from the 1980's or something? I hear that they have been talking about putting the A-40 back into production, which would be kind of cool...Russians seem to love their jet-powered flying boats.
And the "Beware Of Low Flying Aircraft" sign is really funny; I wonder if it is really damaged, or if it was made to look like that as a joke. I've seen signs like that before.