'Videos of the Day' an ongoing thread

[R988]

Why is the F-5 video called Turkish stars? That was a Swiss team?

Good footage all the same, nice to see the F-5 in a guise other than as a 'MiG-28' in Top Gun

 

[Royzee617]

Whoops.... dunno what I was thinking of. Maybe putting you lot to the test, so once again Major R988 is the winner!

Old age and over work are taking their toll.

In my defence both the TS and Swiss have used the F5 as a display team machine.... didn't the TBirds and maybe someone else... so it is maybe the most used type so far. Only two have used the Hawk (Reds and Finns so far). No hang on the Tbirds used the Talon which is sort of an F5.

 

[Royzee617]

Doesn't do much here but is a wonderful aircraft.

 

[Gnomey]

Good one Roy.

 

[Royzee617]

Video: UK defence ministry demos Coanda-effect UAV flights
http://www.flightglobal.com/Article...ministry+demos+Coanda-effect+UAV+flights.html

Historic video: V-2 rocket reaches space October 1946
http://www.flightglobal.com/Article...eo+V-2+rocket+reaches+space+October+1946.html

External video: a video of the 12-month manufacturing process of the Airbus A380 compressed into 7mins.
http://www.flightglobal.com/Article...+takes+off+to+mark+1,000h+of+flight+test.html

 

[R988]

Nice to see the Canberra, I think this is the last year we get to see them at UK airshows before they are retired?

V2 was interesting as well.

 

[Royzee617]

For shame - nice plane nice sound. Mind you there is a privately owned one.

Have dug out some older clips of the A4 etc for your enjoyment.

 

[Gnomey]

Shit, that was a big fire, shows what happens when there is that much aviation fuel around though...

 

[Royzee617]

Sorry, I should have warned everybody about the footage....

 

[evangilder]

My cousin was on the Forrestal when that happened. He still to this day won't talk about it other than to acknowledge he was there when it happened.

 

[Royzee617]

OMG

 

[R988]

yikes!

 

[Royzee617]

A less dramatic clip from the sequence this time.

I reckon there is a continuity error in the shorter clip - the scene opens with a plane in sillhouette and I reckon it is a Goshawk and then you see an A4 taking off. Easily done as they look a bit similar.

Finally a treat for guitarists, Rory Gallagher live doing Shinkicker:
http://www.rory-gallagher-tributepage.de/lyrics/shin_kicker.htm

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff Roy, must I didn't notice any difference.

 

[Royzee617]

get some glasses! me or you....

 

[Gnomey]

Maybe but then I don't know much about the planes around this time...

 

[Royzee617]

RIAT98 continues... the 'Coaler' seems surprisingly agile.

http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/an-72_coaler.pl

http://www.combataircraft.com/aircraft/tan72.aspx

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/transport-m/an72/

 

[Gnomey]

Good one Roy, looked pretty aerobatic as you say.

 

[Royzee617]

The Ministry of Defence has awarded a contract to QinetiQ to demonstrate the advanced targeting capability offered by Electronically Scanned (E-Scan) radar technology. QinetiQ has teamed with SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems and BAE Systems Customer Solutions Support to integrate an Active Electronically-Scanned Array (AESA) on a Tornado GR4A for assessment by the RAF in 2007.

With growing interest in extending the in-service life of the GR4, the project will explore the use of Active E-Scan Array (AESA) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in an air-to-surface role, including real-time target imaging, with a view to replacing the installed mechanically-scanned terrain following/ground mapping radar system originally designed in the 1970s.
nice pic of Tornado there too....
http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2006/1st_quarter/arts.html

 

[Royzee617]

RIAT98