Can you flip a boat with an airplane?

Lets say the boat's 150 pounds. A plane would have to exert more than 150 pounds of thrust to flip it over. Simple? Yes. Problem?

I have never heard of this actually happening. Pilots are usually very careful not to approach boats.

There are a few float planes that use a lake near me. When taking off, they always run up a bit, and any boats on the lake clear and give them a chance. When landing, they make a pass first, and everyone gets along well. Nobody trys to "flip a boat"'

More powerful aircraft that might actually be able to do this, do not operate in proximity to boats. As pointed out, you might set up a stunt, but it is a set up, not real life, and probably illegal.

I do know of a situation where someone fell overboard as a result of an airplane. It was back about 1962, and in those days military aircraft were not too careful about sonic booms. The guy was leaning over the bow trying to net a trout when the sonic boom hit. He spooked and went over the side. It was pretty loud. We listened and could hardly hear the aircraft, so it was very high. We fished my friend out after. We did not wear PFD's in those days. We could swim, couldn't we?

That is the closest I can come to interaction between aircraft and boats. They do not mix well, and usually steer clear of each other.

By the way, rather than flipping boats, it is easy to flip an airplane. If you are on floats, just turn broadside to the wind.

If you are on wheels with a tail dragger, just hit your toe brakes a bit too hard.

Some floats are equipped with wheels. When landing on water, forget to retract the wheels.

Land any small plane on water with the wheels down.

There are lots of other ways.

It can't. Not unless you rigged up a ridiculous stunt. Sure, jet engines are powerful enough to blow a car down the street. But in the real world, airplanes and boats just don't get into that kind of proximity to each other. Boats go on water. Airplanes go in sky.

*** I've heard of seaplanes but I remain insistent that they are a hoax and never actually flew. Now I do like the Blackbird vs. fish proposal however. My best, most reasonable guess would be that if you welded an SR-71 to steel supports and drove them into pilings and pointed its J-58 engines straight at a fishing boat and lit-off each afterburner, then yeah...it could roll a small vessel. But a high speed low level pass right over the top of the boat...no. The energy dissipates to rapidly in too short a distance. IN calm wind, the boat might get some wake turbulence, but it wouldn't capsize.

Not from passing over or next to them, but if the boat was behind a plane taking off it might be possible. It would take very specific circumstances, the boat would have to be in a location that it has now business being in, but given that airports and runways are often in close proximity to the water, it might be possible.

If for some reason a boat was in the water behind a 747 starting a take off run at SFO, I could see it getting blown over. The same would apply to a boat in the Delaware with a heavy departing 9R at PHL. I'm sure there are other examples.

A flying airplane cannot flip a boat at any speed or altitude. The disturbance in the air produced by the airplane is just too small to accomplish it. At most, a helicopter might be able to push a raft around on the water a bit, but it would not capsize.

What kind of plane? what kind of boat. Speedboat? Riverraft (lol)?

A jet engine could easily knock over a small boat. But if you're talking about a Ship, hell no it cant.

How big of a boat? A Canoe is easy. A supertanker? Not happening.

Mach 3.2, 5 feet above the water.