Photoshop? :confused:

Somehow the scale does not look right...

The guy on the balcony looks pretty calm about it all. That would have been enough to send me to the clothes laundry.

considering how close that is ya, I would be anything but calm. Ive seen on several occasions a trio of F-18's do flybys while spending time in Greece, and although they were much higher they were quite loud and not exactly discreet. Now imagine being waken up by that plane.

We used to have scenes like that many times a day at our old "Kai Tak" airport.

Not only could the pilots see the television sets in the appartments below. They could swear they recognize the programs that the people were watching. Needless to say, it was quite a scary experience for passengers next to a window seat, especially since the aircraft had to make a sharp turn just before landing.

Kai Tak airport was deemed the second most dangerous airport in the world but no major accident had happened there. It could be because pilots and airlines took it very seriously. Looking back, we were very lucky indeed.

Derek

I'm pretty sure this was Maverick, buzzing the tower again.

Also, as photoshop'd as this pic below seems, I honeymooned in St. Martin, and the runway is really this close to a beach. Crazy.

the guy on the balcony probably didnt have time to be anything but cool about it.

That jet was probably hundreds of miles away by the time something registered that a jet just buzzed him and something was running down his leg

On the F18, it has a wingspan of about 37-40 feet. With the scale of that picture(based on standard housing practices, and confirmed by a human's average height, and the person out there, the wings look to be 30-31 feet! That plane is VERY close! Further, it looks like it is moving AWAY from the building, so it was CLOSER!

That 747 picture, by contrast, is no where NEAR that F18. 747s are HUGE! From the bottom of the picture, I figure the 747 is probably about 200+ feet in the air. The building on the near left is probably 50-60 feet tall. The buildings off in the distance are obviously quite large. The entire 747 is about 231 feet long. Though I doubt the road in the center is that wide, I ALSO doubt the buildings in the far off distance are 38 feet wide. So the plane isn't all that close.

And I've been close to a military jet on the ground starting to take off.(The air national guard takes off from a runway used by an airport I use) I SWEAR the building shook. I don't think I would have been comfortable on a balcony like that. YIKES!

Steve

go look out on youtube. There are some insanely low fly overs on film. There are a couple from the middle east where f16's blow over a ridge that an army squad is patrolling. You can see the f16 enter the valley a the base of the ridge then he disappears and seconds later he comes over top of the ridge where the soldiers are and he's so close to the ground that the wind from him passing over blows dust and one soldier's unsecured helmet off.

I dont know if he did it on purpose or not, thats pretty damn close even for a fighter. He probably had a pucker factor of about 10 on that pass

That crosswind landing, I would have to admit, was the coolest plane landing Ive ever seen.