'Videos of the Day' an ongoing thread

[Royzee617]

Cheers chaps.... seems we have to settle for under 20 mgs for now. So it is the old trade-off of size vs quality. All I have to do now is find where I put the rest of the Spit doc.

 

[Royzee617]

Next post therefore will be on the Airshow Teams video thread - the wonderful 'Orliks' from Poland.

 

[Royzee617]

Great clip of a famous LW plane you don't see very often - another test with my new gizmo and Windows Movie Maker which seems to have decided to work for the meanwhile... good when it does but it is unreliable, sorry about too many zeros in the title - finger torubled caused by my being so amazed WMM was working... let's you do it all and then crashes when you try to save it!

 

[Gnomey]

Nice clip of the F-4 there Roy!

 

[Royzee617]

Cheers - will redo with sound when I get the time.

 

[R988]

would be sweet with the sound of those J79s screaming

There was a cool F-4 low flying vid on Patrick Aviation Video site the other day as well for those who like that kind of thing.

 

[Royzee617]

Until then here is a link to a nice streaming video on Concorde:
http://www.airfrancelasaga.com/
Air France: La Saga is one of the best airline heritage sites on the net. To view a video of the last Concorde to be exhibited (F-BVFF) being prepared for its retirement at a Paris runway, click on 'actualités', then 'voir la vidéo'.

 

[Royzee617]

Maybe this should be in the Display Teams thread....?

Treid uploading this yesterday but it rejected the 50 meg avi file. Maybe the stated 150 meg limit is in error or something is not working?

 

[Gnomey]

Nice one Roy!

 

[Royzee617]

Cheers mate!

 

[Royzee617]

In a sort of homage to one of the best ever test pilots we lost last week, here's some footage of SR71 and X15 etc. Scott Crossfield was lost while flying solo in his Cessna, see:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/14413139.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Crossfield

this is another test clip hence the lack of sound... hope to fix it soon...

 

[R988]

thanks for that, I never actually realised they landed the X-15 (never really thought how they got it down), especially on those tiny skids, hell of a pilot that was a great landing.

its always fantastic to see the SR71 as well, pity there was no sound.

 

[Royzee617]

Scott was in the X15 when it suffered an engine fire and instead of bailing out he got it down... the famous footage shows it breaking its back on touch down. Amazing.

 

[Royzee617]

While doing some work I found this amazingly long list of video clips of missiles at L-M:
http://www.missilesandfirecontrol.com/our_news/video_library.html

 

[Royzee617]

Great Aviation Myths

Here is a collection of famous myths and falsehoods in aviation history.

http://aeroflt.users.netlink.co.uk/misc/myths1.htm#raftornado

[something else I found while scurfing]

 

[Royzee617]

Stealth - really quiet.... too quiet... that's coz I still have not fixed it. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[R988]

interesting myths, not sure I agree with all of them, though thats really a debate for another thread.

 

[Royzee617]

Me neither....

 

[Royzee617]

Nearly an hour compressed to under 20 megs as a wmv - with sound! Quality suffers but since most of it is in mono who cares.

 

[Royzee617]

only one d/l it yet!? All my hard work - pah!