Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[RDMcG]

Eric Mc said:

It will need to be restored again. It crashed a few days later.

I flew in a B-25 in Toronto about 15 years ago- quite an agile aircraft actually.

[swampy442]

Eric Mc said:

The pilots of those two Ilyushins must be related.

I presume both aircraft were overloaded?

Reminds me of a Jaguar take off

[marksx]

Eric Mc said:

It will need to be restored again. It crashed a few days later.

You'd be gutted if you'd just packed up the tools

https://www.aviation24.be/miscellaneous/accidents/...

[Dr Jekyll]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fUsuFRGdhc&fe...


F14 meets Vulcan

[MartG]

Whoops - Helicopter accident shows giant AC unit dropping on street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7goj1o0UajU&fe...

No info as to why he dropped it yet

[Baron Greenback]

MartG said:

Whoops - Helicopter accident shows giant AC unit dropping on street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7goj1o0UajU&fe...

No info as to why he dropped it yet

It wlill buff out! shame no showing of dent in ground!

[DavieBNL]

Strange one, almost looks like someone leant on the release button in the cockpit? Nothing seems to have snapped. Moral: Never stand under a suspended load!

[FourWheelDrift]

DC-10 firefighter drop, first clip is low, then watch the 2nd clip - https://www.instagram.com/p/CBObGfcJJ5Y/

[MB140]

MartG said:

Whoops - Helicopter accident shows giant AC unit dropping on street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7goj1o0UajU&fe...

No info as to why he dropped it yet

Sounds like it lost an engine. You can hear the change in turbine noise.

[yellowjack]

Spitfire nose-over mishap...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1350814883521175552

[FourWheelDrift]

yellowjack said:

Spitfire nose-over mishap...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1350814883521175552

Appropriate squadron code and call sign too.

[yellowjack]

FourWheelDrift said:

yellowjack said:

Spitfire nose-over mishap...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1350814883521175552

Appropriate squadron code and call sign too.

That comment got me to thinking about the date of the incident. Three RAF Squadrons wore the 'SH' code, but No. 216 Sqn was transport, and No. 240 Sqn was flying boats, which leaves only No. 64 Sqn as operating Spitfires AND using the 'SH' code.

I'm struggling to identify the particular Mark of the Spitfire in the clip, but I'm going with a three-bladed propeller and cannon in the wings, which would put it as a Mk1B at the very earliest. So some time after June 1940 if a brief scout about on Google has brought up correct information...

[Eric Mc]

I thought it might be a VB.

[Oilchange]

scrolling down from that there's a ballsy move by a Mosquito pilot flying -under- the Eifell Tower !!!

[mcdjl]

Oilchange said:

scrolling down from that there's a ballsy move by a Mosquito pilot flying -under- the Eifell Tower !!!

I can't see that, have you got a link?
Someone says it's from this film https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/919

[MartG]

Old Westland Scout promo film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THnhnVzlx_Q

And another for the Wasp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsEJWwj0mXE

[MartG]

Some nice old helicopters at the Capel Military Vehicle Show in 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmNhPI9l53Q

[yellowjack]

MartG said:

Some nice old helicopters at the Capel Military Vehicle Show in 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmNhPI9l53Q

So you like helicopters, huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mi3awMLJTw

Bucketloads of the buggering things. I was there for this display, along with my four-year old (helicopter obsessed) son. The footage doesn't capture it well either. The AAC brought many of the helicopters in from elsewhere, and the ones from Middle Wallop sort of "sneaked away" while other things were going on, then they formed up behind over behind Danebury Hill Fort. You couldn't really hear them from that distance, so the crowd only really noticed the massed approach when the aircraft lights went on and they started moving toward the airfield. I doubt we'll ever see such a spectacle again...

[MartG]

yellowjack said:

MartG said:

Some nice old helicopters at the Capel Military Vehicle Show in 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmNhPI9l53Q

So you like helicopters, huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mi3awMLJTw

Bucketloads of the buggering things. I was there for this display, along with my four-year old (helicopter obsessed) son. The footage doesn't capture it well either. The AAC brought many of the helicopters in from elsewhere, and the ones from Middle Wallop sort of "sneaked away" while other things were going on, then they formed up behind over behind Danebury Hill Fort. You couldn't really hear them from that distance, so the crowd only really noticed the massed approach when the aircraft lights went on and they started moving toward the airfield. I doubt we'll ever see such a spectacle again...

Bloody hell - I bet that took some practice !

[RizzoTheRat]

yellowjack said:

So you like helicopters, huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mi3awMLJTw

Bucketloads of the buggering things. I was there for this display, along with my four-year old (helicopter obsessed) son. The footage doesn't capture it well either. The AAC brought many of the helicopters in from elsewhere, and the ones from Middle Wallop sort of "sneaked away" while other things were going on, then they formed up behind over behind Danebury Hill Fort. You couldn't really hear them from that distance, so the crowd only really noticed the massed approach when the aircraft lights went on and they started moving toward the airfield. I doubt we'll ever see such a spectacle again...

I went to Music In The Air at middle wallop some years ago, they did a massed helicopter approach while the live orchestra played Ride of the Valkyries. I thought that was impressive but nowhere near as many of them as that video!