Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[MartG]

\rocket sled at 6599mph on Holloman AFB's test track

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29705/this-v...

[Bonefish Blues]

Doesn't compute in my tiny mind

[Baron Greenback]

If you think 300mph on car is hard work to work out areodynamics ^^^ crazy maths to not fly off the track! ok no engine but wow!

[MartG]

USAF tactical weapons tests from the early 1960s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNqzRk_r1zM&fe...

[slartibartfast]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuYIbYVLF4k
Hypersonic sled travels at 6,599 mph (Mach 8.6) at Holloman Air Force Base


easier to watch than the link above

[FourWheelDrift]

Blue Angels support Hercules Fat Albert, RATO take off, wait for it, wait for it.... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOvoO-6nWQ

[mikal83]

FourWheelDrift said:

Blue Angels support Hercules Fat Albert, RATO take off, wait for it, wait for it.... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOvoO-6nWQ

Scorch marks will just buff out!

[LotusOmega375D]

Amazing kick in the pants. It shot up quicker than the F/A18s!

[Baron Greenback]

Great article on what's it like to fly a X15 with cheesy NASA vid bakc old times!

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/what-it-wa...

[Dr Jekyll]

Not exactly a plane but cool and interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuh3ITAxWQs

[FourWheelDrift]

FW-190 A8 vs Spitfire Mk 18 tailchase - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeglorsv_8

[Eric Mc]

Was the Mk 18 a post war Spitfire?

They sound great together though.

[yellowjack]

Eric Mc said:

Was the Mk 18 a post war Spitfire?

They sound great together though.

Just missed the end of the war, first in service with No 60 Sqn RAF in the far east. In action during the Malayan Emergency.

What's the twin engined white aeroplane seen in the background? Looks like Gypsy Major engines (or similar?). I'm struggling to identify it...

[Eric Mc]

It.s either an Aero 45 or an Aero 145 - a Czech built light twin. I remember seeing a couple of them back in the 1970s. There were a few on the UK register -

[Lost ranger]

Eric Mc said:

It.s either an Aero 45 or an Aero 145 - a Czech built light twin. I remember seeing a couple of them back in the 1970s. There were a few on the UK register -

Do you happen to know where and when that picture was taken?

[FourWheelDrift]

Lost ranger said:

Do you happen to know where and when that picture was taken?

Elstree 1982 - http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Se...

[Eric Mc]

I saw G-ATBH at Dublin in 1974 or 1975.

I also remember seeing this one.

[Lost ranger]

FourWheelDrift said:

Lost ranger said:

Do you happen to know where and when that picture was taken?

Elstree 1982 - http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Se...

Thanks

[yellowjack]

Eric Mc said:

It.s either an Aero 45 or an Aero 145 - a Czech built light twin. I remember seeing a couple of them back in the 1970s. There were a few on the UK register -

Thanks Eric!

[Eric Mc]

They were quirky looking things. I've even seen a picture of one disguised as a Heinkel He111