Ultra low AN-124 at Brize Norton 13/11/2016

[The Phantom]

Wowee

That flickr picture is mental!!!

How low can you go?!

[reheat module]

Is it worth the gamble, just for one (perhaps final) image?...
They say "There's one born every minute", - some are born on the stroke of midnight!

[Knife 04]

Accepted Thunder and Stroudy - looking at it more closely he is stood some way this side of centre line but all the same ................would not be stood there with my daughter! Would of made a run for it long before then (but there again would not have put myself in that position anyway)

Darren

[Andy_99]

That was so close to ending in disaster.

[Stroudy]

Is it worth the gamble, just for one (perhaps final) image?...
They say "There's one born every minute", - some are born on the stroke of midnight!

If the bloke with the dog has got a picture I want to see it..

[Stroudy]

Interestingly (bird info alert) there was a Hen Harrier sat in the field right by the hedge adjacent to the road. First one ive ever seen and I could of touched it when it took off to move a short distance away.

Bet the 124 made it move further!

[YellowBelly]

The guy holding the young child is at least 36 mtrs from the centreline, still you wouldn't catch me there with my children and that Behemoth coming down the approach.

Looking at the other pictures on that link, the 124 looks to be at the right altitude coming over the ILS localiser, but then for some reason sinks dramatically over the next 210mtrs to the point were he clears the fence by no more than 2 ft. There's no way he reached the runway threshold before touchdown which is another 205 mtrs further on from the fence, yet alone the normal touchdown area which is 450 mtrs from the fence.

doesn't cover it, very lucky this didn't end with something more serious.

very interesting, there has been concerns that the new A400 hangars are causing a bit of a dead area around the finals point, i wonder if it was a generally windy day and that affected the aircraft

[honest man]

Amazing,one of these left Prestwick yesterday and it was the opposite taking off and was very low over the road I gather

[andygolfer]

I cant quite make out in the rules section if AN-124's are allowed (as it was at a military base, and also presumably carrying military cargo) or not? Mod's please delete if not ok.

Thanks, Stroudy.

i'm sure the sister forum civilian Aviation would welcome it if the mods can't accept it (but i hope they will).

Superb pic and story

andy

And it won POTM on Civilian Aviation! well done Stroudy

[Stroudy]

Thanks very much! Not a bad result for my first attempt.. especially as it was on a smartphone.. all be it with the right settings.

Just goes to show, it doesn't always matter what camera you've got, subject and location can win the day.

Marcus.