Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage
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IL 76 landing on a glacier(?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P9Y-KkdbWU&t=...
Bit of a slide @ 5:20 and towards the end of the clip.
Awful music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P9Y-KkdbWU&t=...
Bit of a slide @ 5:20 and towards the end of the clip.
Awful music
slartibartfast said:
Last night I filmed a V22 Osprey on RAF Donna nook firing 800 rounds of .50 cal.
the noise was amazing!
https://youtu.be/fEbPsWd3Wm8
Great video, thanks for posting.the noise was amazing!
https://youtu.be/fEbPsWd3Wm8
It's amazing that in today's technological world, the foremost military power still practices having a person on the loading ramp of a transport aircraft with a heavy machine gun blasting away at all and sundry. Likewise rolling a big bomb out of the back of a Herc. It's like aerial combat from 100 years ago!
LotusOmega375D said:
slartibartfast said:
Last night I filmed a V22 Osprey on RAF Donna nook firing 800 rounds of .50 cal.
the noise was amazing!
https://youtu.be/fEbPsWd3Wm8
Great video, thanks for posting.the noise was amazing!
https://youtu.be/fEbPsWd3Wm8
It's amazing that in today's technological world, the foremost military power still practices having a person on the loading ramp of a transport aircraft with a heavy machine gun blasting away at all and sundry. Likewise rolling a big bomb out of the back of a Herc. It's like aerial combat from 100 years ago!
I kinda agree with the way they point the guns out the back or drop a MOAB but then sometimes it's the simplest ways to drop a bomb gets the job done.
It may have been posted before but what the hell. I've just spent 41 minutes of my life watching the original 1944 documentary "The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress". I've seen the film ten times or more, but this contemporary documentary is so much more...
https://archive.org/details/TheMemphisBelleAStoryo...
...especially from 30 or so minutes in. The amount of damage these aeroplanes sustained but still got their crews home is incredible. On another thread someone pointed out that the B-17 was over-engineered. Judging by the chunks of control surface they left over Germany, it was a bloody good job they were so well built. Incredible discipline from the crews too. It's just 40 minutes of "Wow!"
https://archive.org/details/TheMemphisBelleAStoryo...
...especially from 30 or so minutes in. The amount of damage these aeroplanes sustained but still got their crews home is incredible. On another thread someone pointed out that the B-17 was over-engineered. Judging by the chunks of control surface they left over Germany, it was a bloody good job they were so well built. Incredible discipline from the crews too. It's just 40 minutes of "Wow!"
That was me who mentioned that the B-17 was over engineered. I also mentioned that this endeared them to their crews.
Early stressed skinned metal aircraft were often "over built" - chiefly because the designers were not sure about the effects of metal fatigue. As a result they tended to make the structure stronger than they really needed to. Another example of an aircraft built in this way was the DC-3, which first flew the same year as the first B-17.
Later designs were more refined and built with a better understanding of metal and its strengths.
The B-24 would fall into that category.
Early stressed skinned metal aircraft were often "over built" - chiefly because the designers were not sure about the effects of metal fatigue. As a result they tended to make the structure stronger than they really needed to. Another example of an aircraft built in this way was the DC-3, which first flew the same year as the first B-17.
Later designs were more refined and built with a better understanding of metal and its strengths.
The B-24 would fall into that category.
yellowjack said:
It may have been posted before but what the hell. I've just spent 41 minutes of my life watching the original 1944 documentary "The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress". I've seen the film ten times or more, but this contemporary documentary is so much more...
https://archive.org/details/TheMemphisBelleAStoryo...
...especially from 30 or so minutes in. The amount of damage these aeroplanes sustained but still got their crews home is incredible. On another thread someone pointed out that the B-17 was over-engineered. Judging by the chunks of control surface they left over Germany, it was a bloody good job they were so well built. Incredible discipline from the crews too. It's just 40 minutes of "Wow!"
Thanks for posting - I had not seen that before - as for the 1990 film (I tend to find that late on a Friday night and end up watching it all) - I did go over to RAF Binbrook when they were filming and they had 5 or 6 B-17s - I think the they had borrowed 3 from the French who were still using them for aerial mapping. Quite a sight and sound.https://archive.org/details/TheMemphisBelleAStoryo...
...especially from 30 or so minutes in. The amount of damage these aeroplanes sustained but still got their crews home is incredible. On another thread someone pointed out that the B-17 was over-engineered. Judging by the chunks of control surface they left over Germany, it was a bloody good job they were so well built. Incredible discipline from the crews too. It's just 40 minutes of "Wow!"
NM62 said:
I think the they had borrowed 3 from the French who were still using them for aerial mapping. Quite a sight and sound.
One of the French B-17s (F-BEEA) was destroyed in a take off accident - http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/oldstuff/belle/belle....FourWheelDrift said:
NM62 said:
I think the they had borrowed 3 from the French who were still using them for aerial mapping. Quite a sight and sound.
One of the French B-17s (F-BEEA) was destroyed in a take off accident - http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/oldstuff/belle/belle....I also saw Sally B and the one destined for the IWM, that came over from the states, doing a fly by at Lakenheath on a clear summers day (can't remember which happened first).
All very evocative.
NM62 said:
FourWheelDrift said:
NM62 said:
I think the they had borrowed 3 from the French who were still using them for aerial mapping. Quite a sight and sound.
One of the French B-17s (F-BEEA) was destroyed in a take off accident - http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/oldstuff/belle/belle....I also saw Sally B and the one destined for the IWM, that came over from the states, doing a fly by at Lakenheath on a clear summers day (can't remember which happened first).
All very evocative.
I can also remember sunbathing out the back of the block one afternoon (whilst on nights) and hearing aircraft and machine gun fire and looking up to see B17's being attacked by the 109's all being filmed the a B25 camera ship (flown by Dizzy Addicot)
eccles said:
NM62 said:
FourWheelDrift said:
NM62 said:
I think the they had borrowed 3 from the French who were still using them for aerial mapping. Quite a sight and sound.
One of the French B-17s (F-BEEA) was destroyed in a take off accident - http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/oldstuff/belle/belle....I also saw Sally B and the one destined for the IWM, that came over from the states, doing a fly by at Lakenheath on a clear summers day (can't remember which happened first).
All very evocative.
I can also remember sunbathing out the back of the block one afternoon (whilst on nights) and hearing aircraft and machine gun fire and looking up to see B17's being attacked by the 109's all being filmed the a B25 camera ship (flown by Dizzy Addicot)
MartG said:
That Vampire is for sale too - https://www.historicandclassicaircraftsales.com/va...Not sure about Halfpenny Green though
k!MartG said:
Hope he had enough runway to land on the same runway! Baron Greenback said:
MartG said:
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