This is video shot from Portugal’s Evora Airshow over September 14-16, 2007. Here the same TAP Airbus 310 in the videos below does a low fly by at high speed.

I gotta say it’s pretty damn impressive, but there’s hardly any room for error. As it is, it’s amazing to me that there wasn’t a tip strike in the first pass, or in the last high speed pass, the Airbus’s wake didn’t flip any of the light planes parked along the runway.

I was able to find a thread going on about all this over at Airliners.Net where the mood seems to be quite reserved and (understandably) harsh against the pilot. According to one of the posts, the Captain was/is a Chief Pilot no less, with 4000 hours in type. Also (according to the post) TAP apparently had another Captain in the 60’s who flew under the Tagus Bridge with a 707.

Hmmm… Interesting.
~Capt’n Chris

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