Taking aircraft under bridges

[llondel]

This one got stuck. It's a video clip on the BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-67843833

[Hydromet]

One of our eccentric multi-millionaires and aviators, Dick Smith, promised to take a jumbo under the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Everyone assumed he was talking about a B747. On the appointed day, April 1, he floated an elephant on a pontoon under the bridge.

[unifoxos]

I have taken a (real, not MSFS) 737 sim under the Golden Gate Bridge for a bit of fun, wife, in jumpseat, who paid for it, most impressed.

[Woody]

Seeing as it’s New Years Eve, I’m putting this on the site

[Boac]

'Twas Ray Hanna I think. I just managed to get the BA 737-400 sim under the passenger bridge at Gatwick (there were some scrape marks on the belly........ )

[Ex-Ascot]

You beat me to it Woody. Twas indeed Ray, Boac.

[Smeagol]

My mother, a Wren Bomb Range Marker CPO, during WWII, said she had been over the Forth Bridge (Scotland) in a train and an aircraft, and under it in a boat and an aircraft. A Swordfish I believe and she also stated the pilot faced a court martial for it!

[PHXPhlyer]

One of our pilots, an older guy, very conservative, could not resist the urge, on numerous occasions, after dropping of passengers at the Marble Canyon Airstrip to start Grand Canyon raft trips, to takeoff, drop into Marble Canyon and fly under the Navajo Bridge on the way back to our base in Page, AZ.
It took quite a bit of pressure from management to get him to stop doing it.
I'm sure that there were quite a few of our pilots who had done the same thing; yours truly not being one of them.

There are two bridges across Marble Canyon now but at the time only the northern one was there.
In the photo, the Marble Canyon Strip can be seen on the right (West) side of the canyon on the far (South) side of the highway. Back in the day the strip was dirt and not paved until the early to mid 90's.

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[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

It was paved by late '93 when I used it.
I also resisted the temptation.

[Pinky the pilot]

Only ever flew under SWER* lines. Had to do so as part of my low level endorsement years ago.

Has come in handy once or twice when doing A/T retrieves of Gliders.


* A Single Wire Earth Return power line commonly found in rural areas of Australia.

[Hydromet]

The first time I flew in to Bougainville (Aropa) from Port Moresby, the F27 popped out of cloud and I'd swear I was looking up at a village out the stbd side. Looked up at villages from a Bell 47 many times afterwards, but not after popping out of cloud.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

The A5 Pass was a great place from which to wave up at car drivers, having just swung north and down after crossing Llyn Ogwen.
Several civvies have described to me their disbelief on looking down on fast jets from the M6 in Cumbria, and I have been unable to resist being slightly below a train on the Ribblehead Viaduct (about 100 ft agl).