Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[LotusOmega375D]

Dear oh dear. That was never going to end well.

[JuniorD]

They still managed to taxi off the strip and park up at their stand

[MartG]

FourWheelDrift said:

Still can't get the landings right.

Must have been going at a fair speed to go through that wall

[DeltonaS]

Inside Europe's Busiest Air Traffic Control - Amsterdam

[RDMcG]

Post war aircraft graveyard in Kingman Az in 1946

I have been in the town often but the planes are long gone. The entrpenaur who got the breakage contract made a fortune by draining the fuel alone as they landed. Illustrations on the planes mildly NSFW...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJk1jqzjYU

[Bonefish Blues]

I hope that the nose art has been captured by someone with foresight.

[Eric Mc]

What do you mean by "captured"? If you mean photographed - then you have just seen what has been captured. And there are many other photos around - many of them in full colour. Some original panels were removed from these aircraft and a number are on display at various museums.

[Bonefish Blues]

Eric Mc said:

What do you mean by "captured"? If you mean photographed - then you have just seen what has been captured. And there are many other photos around - many of them in full colour. Some original panels were removed from these aircraft and a number are on display at various museums.

Systematically captured for posterity I suppose would be more precisely what I meant Eric. It occurred to me viewing these what a rich source they were.

[Eric Mc]

Well, the video shows that quite a few were captured - otherwise we wouldn't be talking about then. However, many, many would not have been purely down to the sheer volume of aircraft produced in World War 2. Total production of B-17s was around 12,000 aircraft and B-24s even more so (18,000). And that's excluding other bombers such as B-25s, B-26s, A-20s etc. And then there were all the fighters too - 15,000 P-51s, 14,000 P-40s, 15,500 P-47s etc.

There have been a number of books published a number of years ago which were all about the nose art used on American bombers. A lot of them were "captured" in very good quality colour images - often for mainstream magazines of the day such as Life or Colliers -



The inspiration for a lot of the art work came from an Peru born airbrush artist called Alberto Vargas who produced art work for Esquire and other magazines, which were very popular amongst American servicemen (I wonder why) -

[Skyrocket21]

I was going to post this in a new topic, I guess it's plane footage although it's not flying so await Sir Eric's scorn, interesting concept awarded to Lockheed Martin by Nasa to make an aircraft without a sonic boom,

Called the X-59 QueSST;



Here it is taking shape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcvYjkCBY28&t=...

Article on their page:
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features...

[Eric Mc]

No scorn - although this project has been in the works for quite a while. NASA has been doing sonic boom research for over half a century.

[Baron Greenback]

https://m.facebook.com/combatlearjet/videos/124727...

Amazed how quiet the landing of a b2 stealth bomber

https://m.facebook.com/sukhoi.superflanker/videos/...

Amazing shot of high flying in a SU 35

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

I'd not seen this before... The Bally Bomber.

Single seat 1/3rd scale flyable B-17.

Apologies if its a repost.

https://youtu.be/E-1_JwlHO-8

[Oilchange]

Looked like it struggled to get airborne. Looks quite cool though, hope it doesn't come unstuck!

[FourWheelDrift]

What's this then? - https://twitter.com/TheDEWLine/status/144080685256...

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

Several options...

US has just flown 6th gen fighter prototype - unlikely as no cockpit.

New drone - unlikely given what it's sat on.

Film prop - probably most likely.

[eccles]

FourWheelDrift said:

What's this then? - https://twitter.com/TheDEWLine/status/144080685256...

Speed boat for a bond film?

[FourWheelDrift]

Looking at it, it looks like there is a cutout top middle like you get for the inflight refuelling nozzle on a B-2 Stealth Bomber, have they dismantled the crashed B-2 and this is the centre fuel tank section? Under the main outer skin.

Or are the USAF trolling China again.

[MartG]

"Tough Sledding" spoof USAF film about ejection seat testing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Q6_8EyRYY

[tdm34]

MartG said:

"Tough Sledding" spoof USAF film about ejection seat testing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Q6_8EyRYY

Brilliant!!