Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[Bonefish Blues]

I know nothing, but that looks cool to me!

[owen k]

1945 air show with captured aircraft and v weapons.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c60_1425192966

[Eric Mc]

A similar airshow was held at Farnborough in November 1945.

[Dave46]

Typhoon & Spitfire Display Abingdon 2015 https://youtu.be/gim6O9FtxJ4

Also a couple of 360 videos that you can move round

360 degree video! In the Cockpit of a Hawker Hunter Fighter Aircraft https://youtu.be/65MhbOElCbY
Fighter Jet Patrouille Suisse 360° Experiencehttps://youtu.be/NdZ02-Qenso

[Baron Greenback]

Not quite a full size plane yet but a V22 type ten-engine electric plane prototype takes off



http://phys.org/news/2015-05-ten-engine-electric-p...
Cant link the embedded movie!

[Ayahuasca]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aaW-eyrnixY

Cockpit voice recorder.

Gulf War I Tornado GR1 JP223 attack on an Iraqi airfield.

"We are the boys...they're all asleep in their little beds..."

Tremendous!

[tfin]

Baron Greenback said:

Not quite a full size plane yet but a V22 type ten-engine electric plane prototype takes off



http://phys.org/news/2015-05-ten-engine-electric-p...
Cant link the embedded movie!

Now that is cool, it looks a lot bigger in the photo though!

Needs more engines imo.

[EskimoArapaho]

Showboating lunacy or perfectly planned and safe?

Very close pass: https://instagram.com/p/2gx7zfjHUZ/

[Waynester]

Not completely sure this fits the description of 'Planes' but it's certainly cool & interesting.

Yves Rossy, Jetman


http://youtu.be/Czy0pXRRZcs

Edited by Waynester on Wednesday 20th May 15:17

[Eric Mc]

This may have been posted before but this is quite nostalgic for people of a certain age - and a sign of how much the RAF has shrunk since 1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dy31I_saWM

[Dave46]

Pilot buys himself a Harrier
https://youtu.be/-PHcdn8R4d4

[slartibartfast]

Filmed this the other day at Bruntingthorpe cold war jets day, English Electric lightning,
Avpin start, full power check, taxi, full power, GO!

best watched in 1080p
https://youtu.be/rGfbzhQEJMQ

[slartibartfast]

And another of the Buccaneer, didn't get the focus right in the first scene for some reason.

https://youtu.be/wXFTLqiU0vw

[JeremyH5]

Eric Mc said:

This may have been posted before but this is quite nostalgic for people of a certain age - and a sign of how much the RAF has shrunk since 1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dy31I_saWM

Thank you, I am of a certain age and enjoyed that immensely. I am amazed I missed it when first broadcast, although I guess A levels may have been in the way, or was it girls and beer? Sadly, Raymond Baxter made one uncharacteristic error in claiming that the Harrier was the first British aircraft bought by the USA since the First World War, completely forgetting the Canberra which became the Martin B57, of course.

[FourWheelDrift]

JeremyH5 said:

Thank you, I am of a certain age and enjoyed that immensely. I am amazed I missed it when first broadcast, although I guess A levels may have been in the way, or was it girls and beer? Sadly, Raymond Baxter made one uncharacteristic error in claiming that the Harrier was the first British aircraft bought by the USA since the First World War, completely forgetting the Canberra which became the Martin B57, of course.

The US Airforce flew Spitfires and Mosquitos during WWII, didn't they buy them too?

[Dr Jekyll]

FourWheelDrift said:

The US Airforce flew Spitfires and Mosquitos during WWII, didn't they buy them too?

Not to mention the Beaufighter. And in smaller numbers the Oxford, Anson and Dominie.

[Eric Mc]

I'm not sure if they were formally "bought" as such. For instance, when the US entered the war, the USAAF inherited the Spitfire V equipped "Eagle" squadrons.

[Dr Jekyll]

They weren't the only Spitfires the US used though. Plenty more including VIIIs and IXs were 'acquired', borrowed, reverse lend leased, whatever. Maybe not technically 'bought' but that's semantics.

[gwm]

Dave46 said:

Pilot buys himself a Harrier
https://youtu.be/-PHcdn8R4d4

That was a good short watch, though is his claims about the Harrier being so American genuine? In that, as an uninformed non-aviator, I always thought the Harrier was a British designed and built plane?

[Eric Mc]

Dr Jekyll said:

They weren't the only Spitfires the US used though. Plenty more including VIIIs and IXs were 'acquired', borrowed, reverse lend leased, whatever. Maybe not technically 'bought' but that's semantics.

In a way, it's not. During WW2 the USAAF took on board aircraft it otherwise would not have used in the normal course of events. It is highly unlikeley the USAAF would have bothered with Spitfires or Mosquitoes other than the fact they were available for use in certain theatres and the Brits owed the US a fortune anyway. The really impressive feat is when the US bought British aircraft simply because they couldn't do better themselves. The stand out examples of that are the De Havilland DH4 just after World War 1, the Canberra in the 1950s and, more recently, the Harrier and Hawk.