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Jack Lupton from NZ at the 2019 Valleyfield regatta.

 

 

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According to youtube this happen a lot

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When one is riding on a cushion of air and the boat is sort of an airfoil it doesn't take much to get airborne The boats have a canard that helps to keep the boat at the correct angle. Bouncing off a wave that changes the angle of attack or a gust of wind that driver can't adjust for quick enough and it is rotate time.

 

Both times I went over it was a gust of wind that did me in.

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It simply baffles me it is survivable.

 

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The driver is strapped in and wears a 'oxygen' mask like a fighter pilot.

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 Can I steal your topic for a bit. I was about to make a similar title . This is old and from Norway filmed with a 8 mm camera

 

 

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THIS! is low flying, mates...

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Back in Slovakia during socialism pilots in training would fly under road bridges in soviet jets as a sort of "right of passage". And during military parades soviet jets would fly so low that all the windows in high-rises would be flipped (they were the old spinney type). Unfortunately there were a lot of accidents.

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The low flying award goes to this pilot 

 

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