Pictures of Maho Beach on the Dutch Antilles island of St Maarten have been cropping up on the net for years - usually with people claiming them to be the result of a photoshopping competition.

You see, the island is so small that the main runway is right next to Maho beach and jumbo jets have to fly in very low over the beach to make sure they can stop before the end. This results in holidaymakers having huge airliners just metres over their sunbathing - here’s a bunch of such pictures, none of which are photoshopped.

A lot of plane buffs also hang out on the beach and there’s good videos on YouTube of many planes landing and the beach being blown away as a plane takes off.

Thanks: Andrés Muñiz & Babaganoosh

At a Kuwait air base we see “That Others May Live” written on the ground. This is the motto of the Pararescuemen (or ‘PJs’), an elite team whose duty it is to rescue downed pilots - often behind enemy lines. They also perform civilian recoveries when the only suitable form of rescue is someone jumping out of a plane to save you.

Beside the motto they’ve also painted bigfoot’s footprints, perhaps the logo for an elite team of Pararescue Yeti?

Thanks: James Turnbull