Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[lancslad58]

It's a bit windy out there. ..

[DodgyGeezer]

quite liked this one, (very!) short clip of a couple of Tigercats flying past..

https://www.facebook.com/reel/712957144359953

[demic]

Cirrus identifies as a Harrier.

[FourWheelDrift]

Just hover here, I'll step out and walk the rest of the way.

[Bonefish Blues]

That was properly impressive, at least to a layperson (what is me!)

[RizzoTheRat]

That looks pretty bloody scary to me. The biggest problem is if it's gusty, you could suddenly find the gust stops and suddenly your airspeed is way lower than you wanted. Also wind shear usually means the wind speed at ground level is slower than higher up, so the same problem again.
I think recommended approach speeds are usually something like 1/3 higher than stall speed, but in conditions that windy would you increase your approach speed for a bigger safety margin? But if so presumably you're not getting a high enough sink rate?

[Richie Slow]

RizzoTheRat said:

That looks pretty bloody scary to me. The biggest problem is if it's gusty, you could suddenly find the gust stops and suddenly your airspeed is way lower than you wanted. Also wind shear usually means the wind speed at ground level is slower than higher up, so the same problem again.
I think recommended approach speeds are usually something like 1/3 higher than stall speed, but in conditions that windy would you increase your approach speed for a bigger safety margin? But if so presumably you're not getting a high enough sink rate?

It's a serious risk when you start chasing the airspeed in gusty conditions. I once flew in something like that clip in a Warrior and they have a wing that seems to amplify every tiny change in wind speed and direction. I was a student and the French instructor thought I was good enough to learn from the experience. Just keeping it on the ground when taxying to the runway was challenge enough!

Even on the downwind leg it was tough to stay the right way up. It was a brutal circuit cut as short as I could possibly make it.

[DodgyGeezer]

from the below article (which I thought was very interesting)

https://www.twz.com/air/this-is-what-it-took-to-de...

[GliderRider]

DodgyGeezer said:

from the below article (which I thought was very interesting)

https://www.twz.com/air/this-is-what-it-took-to-de...

The potential for those amunition feeds to jam, let alone the guns themselves, must nave been immense. Presumably a great deal of testing went into each one.

[GliderRider]

Quite a field mod:



6 x .50 cal nose

[Baron Greenback]

[LotusOmega375D]

Saw one fly over at lunchtime today. Nice surprise for a cold February afternoon.

[cherryowen]

Not footage as such, but I found this fascinating (the graphics are really good as well):-

[Brother D]

MD500 has complete engine failure...

https://twitter.com/thenewarea51/status/1765212131...

[knight]

[Bubbas Grill]

cherryowen said:

Not footage as such, but I found this fascinating (the graphics are really good as well):-

Absolutely excellent. Thanks!

For a Habu obsessive like me, it was a tremendous watch.

[GliderRider]

Any clues what this is aircraft is seen over Las Vegas?
Note: its a link to a Facebook reel.

Unidentified aircraft over Las Vegas

[Eric Mc]

Hard to tell these days whether videos are real or fake so I wouldn't even start to speculate. It looks like this old plastic kit from the early 1980s - which was based on speculation about what a stealth fighter MIGHT look like.

[ben5575]

Bubbas Grill said:

cherryowen said:

Not footage as such, but I found this fascinating (the graphics are really good as well):-

Absolutely excellent. Thanks!

For a Habu obsessive like me, it was a tremendous watch.

Fascinating video!

[LotusOmega375D]

GliderRider said:

Any clues what this is aircraft is seen over Las Vegas?
Note: its a link to a Facebook reel.

Unidentified aircraft over Las Vegas

SR72 Dark Star?