Anyone want goosebumps? I've got some
right here.
Headphones and and skip to 1:10. You can thank me later
Has a group of old warbirds coming in for a low pass down a canal. A P-40, a Corsair, a P-51 and a mk. IX Spitfire. Each is going for the 'hold my beer' lowest pass, until as usual they're shown up by the brit, cos hard, fast and low is what brit aircraft do.
And make no mistake, that Spitfire is absolutely fucking going for it. Remember, it and the Mustang share the same engine (the RR Merlin). But listen to the noise. The P-51 is playing it pretty safe. The dude in the Spit is almost underwater with the throttles to the stops and you can hear the supercharger pip as it tears past.
And speaking of low level shenanigans, anyone used to watch this?
(skip to 5:40)
Say what you like about 80s cheese, but they had to do everything for real back then, including flying low level during a brown-out caused by a rolling explosion. The series had lots of examples of this, on occasions nudging the tail skids on tarmac hovering in streets or weaving through canyons.
However was doing the flying in the first season (when they had the budget to film fresh sequences rather than re-cycling them as they did later on) had some stones man.