This is not photoshopped. It happened in early 1990, while U.S. carriers and B-52s were holding joint exercises. Two B-52s called the carrier and asked if they could do a fly-by, and the carrier air controller said yes. When the B-52s reported they were 9 kilometers out, the carrier controller said he didn't see them. The B-52s told the carrier folks to look down. The paint job on the B-52 made it hard to see from above, but as it got closer, the sailors could make it out, and the water the B-52 jets were causing to spray out. It's very, very rare for a USAF aircraft to do a fly-by below the flight deck of a carrier. But B-52s had been practicing low level flights for years, to come in under Soviet radar. In this case, the B-52 pilots asked the carrier controller if they would like the bombers come around again. The carrier guys said yes, and a lot more sailors had their cameras out this time

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 Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are just targets, Nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back." - Hericletus, circa 500 BC

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 Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are just targets, Nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back." - Hericletus, circa 500 BC

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I'm Surprised Panama's still sea level, after all the Push Ups I did down there.

Circa 1985-86 I saw a B-1 doing the same thing, I think it was in New Mexico but may have been Colorado or Wyoming. 

I don't know if they still train like that - it seems like our current threat profile requires the aircraft to fly as high as possible to avoid ground-based air defense, since no potential enemy really has a viable air force. 

B-1B Lancers still perform nap of the earth flying... plenty of sophisticated air defence systems out there in the hands of potential adversarys still.

 

"The degenerative and loony should never be denigrated but, rather, thanked. In their absence, the rest of you would be obliged to fill congressional seats... positions naturally unsavory to the sane and honorable."

Thorax