Documentary C5 Galaxy 8pm C5 Tonight.

[Simpo Two]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

facts

You have to remember that these programmes are made by ex-media studies students from the Blair era. They could write an encyclopaedia on human rights and racism, but an aeroplane is a bit too technical.

So many of these progs rely on hype, such as 'If they don't go fast enough they'll all crash and die - oh look they did go fast enough after all, that was close, phew isn't it dangerous.'

[FourWheelDrift]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Only a mile and a half? That's 9000 ft you twonk, the same as RAF Waddington.

1.5 miles is 7,920 feet.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

FourWheelDrift said:

1.5 miles is 7,920 feet.

Statute Miles maybe, however aviation doesn't work in Statute Miles but Nautical Miles. One Nautical Mile being 6000 ft.

I happen to know that Charleston's runway is 9000 ft having operated out of there. Presumably when the programme's makers asked the runway length they were told 'a mile and a half' and didn't realise there is a difference.

Edited by Ginetta G15 Girl on Thursday 12th August 22:07

Edited by Ginetta G15 Girl on Thursday 12th August 22:07

[Doniger]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

The programme was also full of factual errors from the rubbish about the T/O being like a drag launch with power against brakes when you could clearly hear the flying pilot briefing a 'Rolling T/O', to the utter tripe that the a/c needs 120 mph Groundspeed to get airborne. No it bloody doesn't, it needs 120 kts IAS (shock horror it's so fast!) and that is 4 kts below the V1 Stop Go Decision speed of a Nimrod at Max T/O weight and 26 kts below the Vr for the Nimrod.

I love reading your aviation posts

Missed this, will have to see if I can find it on their website.

[topsparks]

Worked on them when we were helping the Yanks out at RAF Mildenhall,went up the ladder that runs up the tail fin to a hatch on top of the T tail,its like being on top of a 10 storey block of flats.

[Eric Mc]

It was a US made programme with an added British voice-over for UK broadcast. I am pretty sure that the script used would have been the original Amerrican script, the only change being the use of metric measures (although there was some non-metric measures used as well).

The use of metric measures in these aviation related programmes is exceedingly annoying as metric measures are generally NOT used in aviation, even in countries where everything else is metricated.

Airspeed is in knots.
Altitude is in feet.

I am pretty sure the titles quoted 2005 as the year the programme was made.

[tonyvid]

Simpo Two said:

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

facts

You have to remember that these programmes are made by ex-media studies students from the Blair era. They could write an encyclopaedia on human rights and racism, but an aeroplane is a bit too technical.

So many of these progs rely on hype, such as 'If they don't go fast enough they'll all crash and die - oh look they did go fast enough after all, that was close, phew isn't it dangerous.'

That programme could have been so much better. I liked the take-off shot that showed a C/U of the front wheels with a huge puff of tyre smoke...so that had obviously tried to pinch a landing clip. The bit in the Gulf, they obviously(again) had no take-off shots from there so just dropped in a few with the field surrounded by trees! Those sort of basic mistakes drive me nuts.

[thatone1967]

damn.... just seen this thread...