How Low Is Low???

[Swiss Mustangs]

What aircraft is that?

North American B-45 Tornado

[Swiss Mustangs]

this also is pretty much 'down on the deck'



Martin

[Mark Nankivil]

That's a North American XB-45 Tornado...

Enjoy the Day! Mark

[Django]

So they are about 3 seconds from disaster, right? Are they practice bombs?

I don't think you'd want to be any lower than this dropping bombs

[Mudge]

EXPAT...It doesn't (to me) look like the Bloch 174/175. The cockpit appears to be farther forward than the Bloch.
IMHO of course.

I'd bet on this one. The Liore et Olivier LeO 451



Notice how little of the vertical stabilizers show above the horizontals, and the windshield is even with the prop arc. Also there is that little window coming back from the nose.

Mudge the visually impaired

[Taigh Ramey]

So they are about 3 seconds from disaster, right? Are they practice bombs?

hairy wrote:


I don't think you'd want to be any lower than this dropping bombs

You are correct those are M38 100 pound practice bombs that were typically filled with sand. They could have a 3 pound black powder spotting charge in the tail. They did have trouble with these bombs skipping back up and hitting the aircraft in training especially when dropped on water. Eventually they used a flat nosed bomb that would not skip.

Awesome photo!

[Larry Kraus]

Fouga23,the airplane is a North American B-45 Tornado.Here are a couple of links with information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-45_Tornado

http://www.47thbombwing.org/

[Ontario-Warbird]

Not low enough

How about this







The Man



Cheers Dave C