# Stunt pilot flies plane through tunnel **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236 "2021-09-07T14:25:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/21 "2021-09-08T17:22:01Z")
What happened when you called it in? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/22 "2021-09-08T18:05:34Z")
I was told by someone not particularly authoritative that flying under bridges is often allowed if fog is obscuring the top of the bridge. Like this: [![](https://vastphotos.com/files/uploads/photos/10772/golden-gate-bridge-in-fog-vast-xl.jpg) ](https://vastphotos.com/files/uploads/photos/10772/golden-gate-bridge-in-fog-vast-xl.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/23 "2021-09-08T18:21:02Z")
A plane flew through the Arc de Triomphe in 1919. His wing clearance was tighter. > **[Flying Through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1919](https://www.vintag.es/2019/11/flying-through-the-arc-de-triomphe.html?m=1)** > > For the occasion of the victory parade on the Champs Élysées on 14 July 1919, marking the end of hostilities in World War I, the military co... ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/24 "2021-09-08T19:29:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What happened when you called it in? Pre-cell phone, and I couldn’t see the N-number (it was right below me). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/25 "2021-09-08T19:32:43Z")
Then that is how they got away with it. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/26 "2021-09-08T19:49:38Z")
I guess they took advantage of the timing of me being the only person on or near the bridge, or who had a view of the bridge. I guess if they’re that clever, they can get away with it. ---
**Author:** ![KMS94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@KMS94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KMS94)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/27 "2021-09-08T21:28:34Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > How was he getting away with it? Well, it’s not like the bridge authority is going to shoot it down with missiles or machine gun fire. Perhaps he got in trouble when he landed? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/28 "2021-09-08T22:18:25Z")
> [@KMS94](#): > > Well, it’s not like the bridge authority is going to shoot it down with missiles or machine gun fire. Perhaps he got in trouble when he landed? That’s possible. If he had a transponder, then the local Air Traffic Control would have seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/29 "2021-09-08T22:25:54Z")
About 40 years ago, I attended a day-long symposium at which various people gave off-beat talks on aviation topics. One of them was an air traffic controller whose side-hobby was researching and theorizing about what really happened to Amelia Earhart. And one speaker was Richard Bach, stunt pilot and author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. He told of an incident where, on a sudden impulse, he flew his biplane through a [breaking-wave pipeline](https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/pipeline-wave). ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/30 "2021-09-08T23:19:00Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > He told of an incident where, on a sudden impulse, he flew his biplane through a [breaking-wave] pipeline What, was he _trying_ to advance to the next level plane of existance? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/31 "2021-09-08T23:31:19Z")
Don’t forget the fellow who flew his _jet_ under the span of the [Tower Bridge in 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Known as t[he Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge Incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hunter_Tower_Bridge_incident). ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/32 "2021-09-08T23:35:08Z")
IANA pilot, but this doesn’t look like an especially challenging piece of flying. I imagine, though, that the knowledge he was only a few feet above the ground, with _no_ margin for error whatsoever, had the pilot in full buttcheek-clench mode. ---
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236/33 "2021-09-09T05:27:53Z")
And if anything went wrong, the pilot could just… land? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunt-pilot-flies-plane-through-tunnel/950236.md?page=1)