Aerobatic Team Uses Warbirds for Waterskiing

This seems like a terrible idea. Yet somehow they managed to pull it off without catapulting nose-first into the wet.

These photos (and the video below) show the Flying Lions, a South African aerobatic team, performing a stunt in 2006. The trick is deceptively simple: Lower the landing gear, then zip across the surface of a lake while dipping the wheels of their World War II-era T-6 Harvard aircraft just a few inches into the water. 

The photos are nice, but the video below is positively anxiety-producing:

(via Fear of Landing)

Comments

[phliar]

Beautiful!

Hate to nitpick, but that's actually safe, but _only_ in a tailwheel airplane. It's probably the only thing that's safe in a taildragger and deadly in a nose-wheel airplane. (Of course, "safe" is relative -- if the fan stops turning....)