Royal Saudi Air Force pilot stuns all with his low level flying skill

[Shahzaz ud din]

Royal Saudi Air Force pilot stuns all with his low level flying skill

RIYADH - The Royal Saudi Air Force possesses an impressive military fleet of military aircraft, but the C-130H Hercules transport is one of the largest among it has. Saudi Arabia currently has 33 operational C-130s.

A bizarre video of Royal Saudi Air Force C-130H Hercules flying extremely low above the ground surfaced on YouTube on Friday, May 19.

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In the short video, which was shot from the ground, an unknown person tries to reach the passing C-130 with a cap or some other piece of clothing. There is no information as to when and where the video was filmed.

 

[somebozo]

And you forget this?? Saudi have a lot of talent..

 

[Beast]

A tactical requirement. Not crazy flying.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

This idiot will get grounded for this.

 

[somebozo]

This idiot will get grounded for this.

If you know little bit about Saudi air-force operational doctrine..low flying is part of their tactics and many Saudi Air-force packs low flying skills at a level which even amazes western observers. Ever since the Israeli raid on OSIRAK, Saudi air-force has calculated the strategic value in low flying skills and invested in radar infrastructure to detect low flying objects.

Prince Bandar bin Sultan was another pioneer of low flying skills and he actually became unfit to fly in a crash involving low flying stunts..but his first public demo of low flying was so risky it even stunned the western observers.

 

[Beast]

This idiot will get grounded for this.

Extreme low flying is part of tactical airdrop requirement. Not Gung Ho act. See my video posted. There are some very heavy cargo like light tanks that need to air drop precisely to ensure it not landed in enemy position.

 

[Armchair]

I know @MastanKhan is going to like this...

 

[Maarkhoor]

This idiot will get grounded for this.

No it is required skill for cargo plane pilots, during 2005 earthquake relief efforts PAF C-130 pilots fly mission with same altitude from areas which don't have runways to drop food and medical supplies.

 

[somebozo]

No it is required skill for cargo plane pilots, during 2005 earthquake relief efforts PAF C-130 pilots fly mission with same altitude from areas which don't have runways to drop food and medical supplies.

Also during Kashmir war of 1948 PAF drop humanitarian supplies..

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Impressive flying skills for such a massive plane with no wheels out

 

[Gomig-21]

Extreme low flying is part of tactical airdrop requirement. Not Gung Ho act. See my video posted. There are some very heavy cargo like light tanks that need to air drop precisely to ensure it not landed in enemy position.

This is ridiculously low, though, lol. Tremendous!

We might be able to calculate (close enough) the distance he was off the ground. If that fellow is 6 feet tall (for example), but he's ducking, so if we straighten him out, it would probably take another body length to reach the bottom of the C-130 lol. So that's 12 ft so approximately 4 meters off the ground! And because it's at a certain degree of AoA, the tail section is even lower!

 

[The SC]

This is ridiculously low, though, lol. Tremendous!

We might be able to calculate (close enough) the distance he was off the ground. If that fellow is 6 feet tall (for example), but he's ducking, so if we straighten him out, it would probably take another body length to reach the bottom of the C-130 lol. So that's 12 ft so approximately 4 meters off the ground! And because it's at a certain degree of AoA, the tail section is even lower!

You are close to it.. the C-130 drop mission routine is about 5 m high.. but this one looks very impressive, with no wheels out and a quite high speed.. looks like an intrusion/penetration flight/exercise (for supply dropping)..way too low for any radars to detect it..

 

[Gomig-21]

You are close to it.. the C-130 drop mission routine is about 5 m high.

Mmmm...where did you get that info, my good brother?

but this one looks very impressive, with no wheels out and a quite high speed..

I'll tell you why the wheels weren't out; because he wasn't low level training or anything like that, he was messing with that crew on the ground! loool.

Many of them do it in many air forces. They love to scare the living daylights out of the grounded grunts.

Just like all these tough-guys are doing, going back to British pilots in WWII in Spitfires.

Even this Brit didn't get as low with his C-130 as that amazing Saudi pilot!

One of the most famous Arab low-level messing around is of course, this awesome Libyan MiG-23.

Of course, the amazingly talented Blue Angles. This is one of the best, low-level. messing around with people on the ground clips you'll ever see! Give them a blast of hot air.

MiG-19 in a scary-low compound pass.

More C-130s messing with ground grunts.

French grunt almost got beheaded by a low helicopter.

Hey and sometimes when you get a little too cocky, you scrape a wingtip here and there.

Or slice a bush here and there lol.

Of course the legendary Anatoly Kvochur. He was the guy who ejected from the MiG-29 at Paris when it was barely 50 meters off the ground during that aircraft's first appearance at that show. Parachute barely opened before he hit the ground. One of the most amazing pilots.

I don't think it gets any closer than this.

If you watch the slow-motion @ minute 2:00 and on, it's unbelievable this guy survived this crash. And it's EXACTLY what happened to that Canadian CF-18 when its pilot was practicing that slow, high AoA and one of the engines flamed out and the jet just banked to the right and went down. But the Canadian guy ejected a bit earlier than Anatoly here.

And probably the winner of all low level scraping of grunts, the Argentinian Pampa.

https://youtu.be/eebBjs507Yc