Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[Steve_D]

MartG said:

XF-85 Goblin flight testing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F898z4PkKuk

Interesting bit of kit but I'm struggling to work out what it was trying to prove.

Steve

[FourWheelDrift]

Steve_D said:

MartG said:

XF-85 Goblin flight testing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F898z4PkKuk

Interesting bit of kit but I'm struggling to work out what it was trying to prove.

Steve

Was a WWII idea for long range bomber defence that just carried on after the war. Could have proven useful for the nuclear powered NB-36H Peacemaker and Convair X-6 bomber programme that could stay airborne for weeks but that didn't get far.

[MartG]

Steve_D said:

MartG said:

XF-85 Goblin flight testing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F898z4PkKuk

Interesting bit of kit but I'm struggling to work out what it was trying to prove.

Steve

At the time they thought strategic bombers would need a fighter escort to reach their target, but no fighter at the time had the range so they came up with the idea of the parasite fighter which would be carried by a parent aircraft until it was needed

[Eric Mc]

How about this option?

That didn't work out too well either - including one serious and fatal accident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30d59njxIMw

[FourWheelDrift]

Not a video (must be somewhere) but the Russians always had to go one 5 better.

[Trevatanus]

Twilight take off of Concorde from 09R.
Truly magical. Really miss this bird!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7mt6AKKhq4

[DJFish]

Wonderful!
Love the car alarms in the background!

[Dr Jekyll]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e52_1320882209

Unusual F5 footage

[MartG]

When Mythbusters tested whether a supersonic aircraft could actually break windows, I guess they picked the wrong aircraft when they used an F-18...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Mh3dsln9M

F-111 low pass

[Brother D]

Bizarrely being a nerd who has read every aircraft accident report produced, I never came across this incident - amazing lateral thinking (a bit dramatized) but still

https://youtu.be/f5WZBIpEdLU

[Brother D]

Eric Mc said:

How about this option?

That didn't work out too well either - including one serious and fatal accident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30d59njxIMw

Jezus - who thought that would be a good idea? The same guy that with the blimp and retired helicopters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jENWKgMPY

[MartG]

Wheeeee....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-hZv6Fomk

[jmorgan]

MartG said:

Wheeeee....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-hZv6Fomk

Watch me hand brake it into that parking spot.......

[MartG]

The Paradise of Phantoms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB8g_efiKMg

[Dr Jekyll]

Eric Mc said:

How about this option?

That didn't work out too well either - including one serious and fatal accident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30d59njxIMw

There was a UK proposal involving slinging a Gnat under a Vulcan, but fortunately everyone had sobered up before they got round to testing the concept.

[TvrTone]

10 ship Osprey formation

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/508255/10-ship-cv-2...

[MartG]

Dr Jekyll said:

Eric Mc said:

How about this option?

That didn't work out too well either - including one serious and fatal accident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30d59njxIMw

There was a UK proposal involving slinging a Gnat under a Vulcan, but fortunately everyone had sobered up before they got round to testing the concept.

IIRC the idea was to use them as manned cruise missiles, with a nuclear warhead in the rear cockpit. The pilot was expected to bail out before impact

[Bonefish Blues]

Pilot may as well have taken the full ride, shirley?

[MartG]

Bonefish Blues said:

Pilot may as well have taken the full ride, shirley?

I think few would want to emulate Major Kong

[Bonefish Blues]

I guess I was asking how long before delivery a pilot could bale out and have any prospect of survival in that scenario.