Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[slartibartfast]

Dr Jekyll said:

Two Lancasters

https://youtu.be/nY77LDppzlQ

such a shame the shutter speed was too high.
I got to see both and the Vulcan together going over the turf cutting on the International bomber command memorial...a sight I'll never forget

[ninja-lewis]

Highland low level (F-18E Super Hornet)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoNN4wcBAGE

Edited by ninja-lewis on Saturday 9th September 15:23

[Steve_D]

ninja-lewis said:

Highland low level (F-18E Super Hornet)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoNN4wcBAGE

gave up on it half way through could not live with the speeded up sections.

Steve

[FourWheelDrift]

Kermit Weeks checking out his Fantasy of Flight after Irma hit - https://youtu.be/BquXX4WGmTU?t=266 <-- free tour

Considering the damage they got from Andrew on 1992 and they are still restoring aircraft from that one. Irma was bigger so they took a lot of precautions this time.

Hurricane Andrew 1992 damage.

[Dave46]

Elwyn R always has some good mach loop clips

Low-level Flying Mach-Loop with some rare aircraft
https://youtu.be/0Wzh7Hou30s

[Eric Mc]

FourWheelDrift said:

Kermit Weeks checking out his Fantasy of Flight after Irma hit - https://youtu.be/BquXX4WGmTU?t=266 <-- free tour

Considering the damage they got from Andrew on 1992 and they are still restoring aircraft from that one. Irma was bigger so they took a lot of precautions this time.

Hurricane Andrew 1992 damage.

Yes - good to see that the worst damage appears to have been to the carpet.

[jmorgan]

Dave46 said:

Elwyn R always has some good mach loop clips

Low-level Flying Mach-Loop with some rare aircraft
https://youtu.be/0Wzh7Hou30s

In that link, a link to a fella talking about Red Flag. Casually dropping down to 10 or 20 ft.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24CaLD8l0OE

Edited by jmorgan on Thursday 14th September 20:20

[Steve_D]

jmorgan said:

Dave46 said:

Elwyn R always has some good mach loop clips

Low-level Flying Mach-Loop with some rare aircraft
https://youtu.be/0Wzh7Hou30s

In that link, a link to a fella talking about Red Flag. Casually dropping down to 10 or 20 ft.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24CaLD8l0OE

Edited by jmorgan on Thursday 14th September 20:20

I like the 'climbing up from ten feet to twenty' because they were leaving a dust trail.

Steve

[jmorgan]

I did see a film from one of those events when I was in the ATC, the one where some station had to track them and commented along the lines "if you want to see some flying, go outside". It was on a reel obviously. No idea if that ever made it to digital.

[Eric Mc]

I remember seeing black and white USAF range footage from the late 1970s on the news showing Buccaneers flying low and fast over the desert. Dust was being kicked up by the wing tip vortices.

[Bonefish Blues]

Eric Mc said:

I remember seeing black and white USAF range footage from the late 1970s on the news showing Buccaneers flying low and fast over the desert. Dust was being kicked up by the wing tip vortices.

That interview has shed light on my distant but still vivid memory of Buccaneers flying low level exercises (which I now understand must have been Red Flag) and the reaction of the watching/filming Americans. I don't suppose any such footage still exists?

[Eric Mc]

I have searched youtube etc but not found it yet. It might be worth another go.

[FourWheelDrift]

You found this one? https://youtu.be/AuYwOEF5xag

[Bonefish Blues]

Yes, I watched that one after the interview.

[MartG]

HMS Eagle in 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epS1HRZpDyY&fe...

[FourWheelDrift]

A very poignant video, the government decided it was too expensive to convert Eagle to operate Phantoms so they decommissioned Eagle not long after this video. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Eagle_(R05)#Refi...

[NM62]

Bonefish Blues said:

Eric Mc said:

I remember seeing black and white USAF range footage from the late 1970s on the news showing Buccaneers flying low and fast over the desert. Dust was being kicked up by the wing tip vortices.

That interview has shed light on my distant but still vivid memory of Buccaneers flying low level exercises (which I now understand must have been Red Flag) and the reaction of the watching/filming Americans. I don't suppose any such footage still exists?

I remember something on TV ( Yorkshire Region ) with a Buccaneer very low in the desert and the wing tip vortices whipping up the dust with an American sounding very impressed, must have been the same clip.

Could have been Red Flag, I can't remember but my memory of 1 excercise was Giant Voice where I remember the Vulcans doing that in 1974.

[Dr Jekyll]

NM62 said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Eric Mc said:

I remember seeing black and white USAF range footage from the late 1970s on the news showing Buccaneers flying low and fast over the desert. Dust was being kicked up by the wing tip vortices.

That interview has shed light on my distant but still vivid memory of Buccaneers flying low level exercises (which I now understand must have been Red Flag) and the reaction of the watching/filming Americans. I don't suppose any such footage still exists?

I remember something on TV ( Yorkshire Region ) with a Buccaneer very low in the desert and the wing tip vortices whipping up the dust with an American sounding very impressed, must have been the same clip.

Could have been Red Flag, I can't remember but my memory of 1 excercise was Giant Voice where I remember the Vulcans doing that in 1974.

I remember the clip, the American saying things like 'watch this if you want to see something good, just look at that'

[Bonefish Blues]

At least I am reassured it was a thing. Shout if it pops up anywhere!

[FourWheelDrift]

Ex-RAF Buccaneer pilot Ken Norman including Red Flag operations - https://youtu.be/wvFzP6zwp0Y?t=1483

Earlier chats on Canberra and Hunter.