Planes passing each other - GIF

[Altair]

Planes passing each other.




Previously:

Planes flying close for a photo shoot - GIF and video
Passenger planes landing simultaneously - GIF
Concorde flying at supersonic speed - photo
Planes landing and taking off in close proximity - GIF
Airshow head-on collision - GIF

[JoeVanGeaux]

Back in the day before cell phone cameras and such, I experienced an incident just like this but a good deal closer when flying eastbound over the Phoenix area. If I wasn't so surprised by the other planes appearance I would have been able to read the tail number.

Another incident a few years later... and even much, much closer ... when flying in the Washington DC area, a B1 bomber crossed under us (T-bone style). If I had been seated on the approaching side it was I-could-probably-have-seen-the-pilot-waving close!

I do not miss those business-travel days AT ALL!

[mccwho]

I have seen this happen to me so many times. Though not usually that close, but still close enough I could what model the other plane was and sometimes it's identification.

[Duke_of_URL]

These days, after Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM) was made available to most aircraft, due to much improved navigation equipment, especially Altimeters, there is only a need to maintain altitude separations of 1000 feet between aircraft above 29,000 feet.

[Saltfever]

Returning from LA a few years ago I notices a P-51 Mustang a few thousand feet below and to the side, headed in the same direction. The contrast in technical progress was striking. There was a pilot sitting behind a hot, vibrating, roaring Merlin V-12 probably pushing a bit over 300 MPH! Here I was, sitting with a few hundred people in quiet, air conditioned comfort, relaxing with a cup of coffee, looking out the window, passing him about 200 mph faster!

[Nick79]

I am NOT a pilot but this just didn’t look dangerously close

[IntheGroove]

This is the reason there are no flying cars...