This link for forwarded by one of Alan's friends today. It is fascinating!
http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=19448The first 30 seconds shows a clip from the Top Gun movie when Tom Cruise does a fly-by of the control tower. The rest shows actual LOW PASS FLY-BYS. total time: 3:29. Pay attention to the last one. It is numbered (#1) and it happened during a Blue Angels event over San Francisco. It was the pilots' last show and he had nothing to lose (except his nerve?).
Many of the boats near the flight-path lost windows to the sonic blast.
Some of these planes were probably no more than 10 feet off the ground.
