Legend has it that it that the French legioneres and the Pilots in Tchad were arguing about 'cohones'. The winning legionere said that noone would not dare to fly low enough to blow the beret off his head.
Uhmmmm Luke, the apache does go closer to the ground but it is traveling at a much lower speed plus it doesn't even go right over them, the fighter jet is way more scary because of the speed and it flew right over the guy.
Not convinced by that video. Notice how he doesn't wobble, yet the camera does? Either he's not really there, or the actual buffering he gets from the plane is relatively low. As I said, the camera wobbles, it's not exactly blown off it's stand.
I think it's a trick of angles. The plane is nowhere as low as it appears to be IMO.
Edited to add - I'm refering to the video in the first post.
I guess i'm the most happy person atm then.
I live near an airbase and A-10's reguraly practise above my house. About 500m further there is a huge series of open field where they practise. So cool to hear their guns go off