Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[eccles]

Dr Jekyll said:

eccles said:

I was in the RAF at Honington the summer they filmed Memphis Belle, we used to regularly get beat ups down the airfield by various B17's, spits and Me109's.

Spits? Mustangs surely.

Thinking back it was probably Mustangs and 109's.

[MartG]

F-35As spotted through the Mach Loop for the first(?) time

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

[Eric Mc]

eccles said:

Thinking back it was probably Mustangs and 109's.

There were some Hispano HA1112 Buchons involved in the film.

[eccles]

Eric Mc said:

eccles said:

Thinking back it was probably Mustangs and 109's.

There were some Hispano HA1112 Buchons involved in the film.

Well done Eric, I was aware of that. They were pretending to be 109's.

[Eric Mc]

Over the years, Buchons have often stood in for genuine 109s in feature films. There's one flying in the UK at the moment which has been restored in the colours it wore during the making of the film "Battle of Britain".

[Z06George]

MartG said:

F-35As spotted through the Mach Loop for the first(?) time

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

A lot quieter than I thought they'd be!

[Waynester]

F-14 and F4 aircraft stripped and (perhaps?) abandoned..

https://youtu.be/UNLpbrTk2cs

[Baron Greenback]

sorry for daily mail link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4497972/Th...

Helicopter tries to land on £25million superyacht before flipping over and crashing into Norwegian fjord injuring three Britons

[slartibartfast]

Waynester said:

F-14 and F4 aircraft stripped and (perhaps?) abandoned..

https://youtu.be/UNLpbrTk2cs

that was cool to watch, wouldn't have an idea why they are dumped there

[yellowjack]

Not sure if it's featured here before but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zEkjVAMFfE

...old cine film of Lancaster NX611 (Just Jane) . Sadly lacking sound, and not the best quality, but it's described in the Youtube comments as being the aeroplane's penultimate flight in 1970.

[FourWheelDrift]

Abandoned Me 262 jet fighters on the side of the roads they would have used as runways, in May 1945.

In colour too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7OCoxJQ-6Q

[MartG]

Scary takeoff !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbFtWaRGoF8

[Baron Greenback]

MartG said:

Scary takeoff !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbFtWaRGoF8

Takes balls to take off like that!

[vournikas]

Project Tom Tom

I'd not heard of this before; an experimental project where a fighter jet hitches a ride with a B36

[tog]

This Boeing promo is nice, and really shows the difference in size between the 737 and 787.

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

[Bandit110]

Aborted take off, this looks very fast, must have been right at rotation point....(V1)

https://youtu.be/KbAQpvBo1qg

[Bandit110]

Also this is a very fast landing, no flaps....hairy stuff to land at that speed!

https://youtu.be/hAX8WocjFQk

[FourWheelDrift]

Bandit110 said:

Aborted take off, this looks very fast, must have been right at rotation point....(V1)

https://youtu.be/KbAQpvBo1qg

Did the passengers have a recount?

[Dr Jekyll]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7_yzypm5w

24 hours of flights

[FourWheelDrift]

Ditching tests for a B-24 Liberator, using a model and also using a real B-24 aircraft to check similarities and comparisons to help prove that model testing is a reliable and accurate means.

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