Low-flying aircraft

Low-flying aircraft may mean:

• Low flying military training
• Nap-of-the-earth, a low-altitude flight used by military aircraft to avoid enemy detection and attack
• Aircraft flying near an airport:
  • Takeoff
  • Landing
• Aircraft flying below the allowed minimum height for the type within an aviation authority's jurisdiction, such as

• Hang-gliders
• Microlights
• Drone (aircraft)
• Balloon (aeronautics)
• Search and rescue aircraft

In the arts

• Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories, a book by J. G Ballard
• Low-Flying Aircraft (film), a Portuguese film originally titled Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude

See also

• Ceiling (aircraft)
• Altitude § Altitude in aviation