Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage
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gwm said:
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?https://youtu.be/-PHcdn8R4d4
The concept of vectored thrust from a single engine came from a French man, Michel Wibault. He came up the original idea but couldn't get anybody to take it up. Bristol Siddeley (NOT Rolls Royce) were developing what became the Pegasus jet engine but were unaware of Wibault's work. Wibault took his ideas to Sidney Camm at Hawker Aircraft who contacted Bristol Siddely to discuss the idea of using the Pegasus for vectored thrust.
Neither the RAF nor the Royal Navy showed any real interest in a small subsonic vertical take off aircraft so Hawker decided to build a series of prototypes called the P1127 as a private venture to see if the idea was practicable.
These were flown successfully in the early 1960s at which point the US Marines became interested as they were looking for a ground attack aircraft they could use of their small assault carriers.
Funding under a NATO programme allowed a more warlike version of the P1127 - the Kestrel - to be tested in operational type environments. The RAF and Royal Navy began to show a bit more interest after this.
The Harrier entered service with the RAF in 1969 and with the US Marine Corps soon afterwards.
I may be wrong but believe the Americans had a more open approach to learning to fly it.
Our users were taught what it could do whereas the Americans took it out and chucked it about learning new tricks like 'VIFFing' Vectoring In Forward Flight. This produced diving into a cloud and coming to a dead stop....Rolling to the side or inverted then vectoring thrust to jump sideways or lose height rapidly. They were also using G suits which I don't believe we had at the time. This resulted in them finding that a turn, normally limited by the wing stresses, could be tighter if you applied vector thrust taking the load off the wing and tightening the turn. The limit became the G the pilot could withstand.
Steve
Our users were taught what it could do whereas the Americans took it out and chucked it about learning new tricks like 'VIFFing' Vectoring In Forward Flight. This produced diving into a cloud and coming to a dead stop....Rolling to the side or inverted then vectoring thrust to jump sideways or lose height rapidly. They were also using G suits which I don't believe we had at the time. This resulted in them finding that a turn, normally limited by the wing stresses, could be tighter if you applied vector thrust taking the load off the wing and tightening the turn. The limit became the G the pilot could withstand.
Steve
I filmed this in May this year at Bruntingthorpe, if nothing else it's worth watching for the cartridge starting English eletric Canberra
https://youtu.be/4x9McytJ4m0
https://youtu.be/4x9McytJ4m0
The Making of the Battle of Britain film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxKL9FGkEo
Found it as it was linked from this unrestored BoB film Spitfire that has been in a barn since 1973 - http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!spitfire-mh415/c...
Found it as it was linked from this unrestored BoB film Spitfire that has been in a barn since 1973 - http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!spitfire-mh415/c...
FourWheelDrift said:
The Making of the Battle of Britain film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxKL9FGkEo
Found it as it was linked from this unrestored BoB film Spitfire that has been in a barn since 1973 - http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!spitfire-mh415/c...
really good. thanksFound it as it was linked from this unrestored BoB film Spitfire that has been in a barn since 1973 - http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!spitfire-mh415/c...
Was just watching this on the BBC website and thought it might belong here, that is quite impressive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYbM-3E11Qo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYbM-3E11Qo
FourWheelDrift said:
The Making of the Battle of Britain film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxKL9FGkEo
Found it as it was linked from this unrestored BoB film Spitfire that has been in a barn since 1973 - http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!spitfire-mh415/c...
Thanks for the link, enjoyed that. Found it as it was linked from this unrestored BoB film Spitfire that has been in a barn since 1973 - http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!spitfire-mh415/c...
Have we had an original V1 Argus plusejet running yet? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh3PexhT4Ss
From their V1 - http://www.fighterfactory.com/flying-bomb
From their V1 - http://www.fighterfactory.com/flying-bomb
FourWheelDrift said:
Have we had an original V1 Argus plusejet running yet? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh3PexhT4Ss
From their V1 - http://www.fighterfactory.com/flying-bomb
Prefered scraphead challenge version but still coool!From their V1 - http://www.fighterfactory.com/flying-bomb
Willy Nilly said:
That made me smile! 
Another stowaway, this time with a happier ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_8mdH20qTQ
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