I got sent this story from a friend, not too sure if the photo is real, or the story (must be translated from Russian into English).
Thought it might be of interest to some anyway.
http://imgur.com/gallery/JPGGF0w
Enjoy
Paul
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Mig Flies under Bridge
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Ghastly Whisper
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Re: Mig Flies under Bridge
Not a chance its real, that pic would have come out years ago if it was.
Re: Mig Flies under Bridge
Thats so bad! The planes not even at the right angle to have flown under the bridge. Brilliant.
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ultraburner
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Re: Mig Flies under Bridge
I think the bloke stood watching (bottom right of picture) may have been a little more animated if it was "real"!!!
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paullangford
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Re: Mig Flies under Bridge
TASS "Propaganda" maybe ?
Re: Mig Flies under Bridge
Is that real 
As Selwyn Froggett once said ' You've more chance of knittin' fog, mate'
Ludicrously bad picture
Best regards
Paddyboy
As Selwyn Froggett once said ' You've more chance of knittin' fog, mate'
Ludicrously bad picture
Best regards
Paddyboy
XH558, always the first lady in my life
Just remember, please don't tell the wife
GRIM REAPERS SUPPORTER
Just remember, please don't tell the wife
GRIM REAPERS SUPPORTER
Re: Mig Flies under Bridge
In the late 60s a Hunter was flown under Tower Bridge. The pilot was on the carpet for that, although many people wrote to the papers they'd rather rely on a handful of pilots with that attitude than any number of straight & level characters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hun ... e_incident
On 5 April 1968 Pollock decided on his own initiative to mark the occasion of the RAF anniversary with an unauthorised display. His flight left the soon-to-be-closed RAF Tangmere, Sussex to return to RAF West Raynham in Norfolk; a route that took them over London. Immediately after take-off,[3] Pollock left the flight and flew low level. Having "beaten up"[Note 1] Dunsfold Aerodrome (Hawker's home airfield),[3] he then took his Hawker Hunter FGA.9 (XF442) ground-attack, single-seater jet fighter over London at low level, circled the Houses of Parliament three times[3] as a demonstration against Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government,[2] dipped his wings over the Royal Air Force Memorial on the Embankment[3] and finally flew under the top span of Tower Bridge. He later wrote of the decision to fly through Tower Bridge:
Until this very instant I'd had absolutely no idea that, of course, Tower Bridge would be there. It was easy enough to fly over it, but the idea of flying through the spans suddenly struck me. I had just ten seconds to grapple with the seductive proposition which few ground attack pilots of any nationality could have resisted. My brain started racing to reach a decision. Years of fast low-level strike flying made the decision simple . . .[3]
Knowing that he was likely to be stripped of his flying status as a result of this display, he proceeded to "beat up" several airfields (Wattisham, Lakenheath and Marham) in inverted flight at an altitude of about 200 feet en route to his base at RAF West Raynham, where, within the hour, he was formally arrested[3] by Flying Officer Roger Gilpin.
Although other pilots had flown under the upper span of Tower Bridge, Pollock was the first to do so in a jet aircraft.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hun ... e_incident
On 5 April 1968 Pollock decided on his own initiative to mark the occasion of the RAF anniversary with an unauthorised display. His flight left the soon-to-be-closed RAF Tangmere, Sussex to return to RAF West Raynham in Norfolk; a route that took them over London. Immediately after take-off,[3] Pollock left the flight and flew low level. Having "beaten up"[Note 1] Dunsfold Aerodrome (Hawker's home airfield),[3] he then took his Hawker Hunter FGA.9 (XF442) ground-attack, single-seater jet fighter over London at low level, circled the Houses of Parliament three times[3] as a demonstration against Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government,[2] dipped his wings over the Royal Air Force Memorial on the Embankment[3] and finally flew under the top span of Tower Bridge. He later wrote of the decision to fly through Tower Bridge:
Until this very instant I'd had absolutely no idea that, of course, Tower Bridge would be there. It was easy enough to fly over it, but the idea of flying through the spans suddenly struck me. I had just ten seconds to grapple with the seductive proposition which few ground attack pilots of any nationality could have resisted. My brain started racing to reach a decision. Years of fast low-level strike flying made the decision simple . . .[3]
Knowing that he was likely to be stripped of his flying status as a result of this display, he proceeded to "beat up" several airfields (Wattisham, Lakenheath and Marham) in inverted flight at an altitude of about 200 feet en route to his base at RAF West Raynham, where, within the hour, he was formally arrested[3] by Flying Officer Roger Gilpin.
Although other pilots had flown under the upper span of Tower Bridge, Pollock was the first to do so in a jet aircraft.[3]
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paullangford
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Re: Mig Flies under Bridge
paddyboy wrote:Is that real
As Selwyn Froggett once said ' You've more chance of knittin' fog, mate'
Ludicrously bad picture
Best regards
Paddyboy
Re: Mig Flies under Bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEeOK1P-0gc
Similar vein, a/c & helos over a motorway. They all disappear though, not vanish in the distance.
At 0.06 there is a T34 on the left side of the road.
Similar vein, a/c & helos over a motorway. They all disappear though, not vanish in the distance.
At 0.06 there is a T34 on the left side of the road.