Douglas C-47 Skytrain perfoms one of the lowest and craziest flybys ever

January 5, 2014 Aviation Safety
David Cenciotti

The following video shows a Douglas C-47 Skytrain (military version of the DC-3 Dakota) performing a low flyby “at a private air strip no one around for miles and there was no dogs cats are birds harmed in the making of this video.”

Once again, an improvised and quite dangerous air display: most probably, you can’t fly a plane lower than this without crashing into the ground nor hitting the camera operator.

According to a user who commented the video on Youtube, the C-47 belongs to the Commemorative Air Force based in Texas but the color scheme and code (3A) worn by the Skytrain in the footage is different from those of the model currently flying with the CAF.

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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

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