Thank you for the wording at the bottom of the screen, as it sounded to me like you were saying `Hall` and not `Wall`.

Loved seeing this when we visited from Australia, but I’d actually love to have seen some panels on one side left off, to see under the skin.

Fantastic video, havn't seen this before. Loved the Canberra, worked on the T17s when they were at Wyton in the 70s.Enjoyed detachments to Germany, Norway, Denmark and Gibraltar was well as all over the UK!!!!!

Very good short presentation, thank you. The however robust and safe Caudron G3 and G4 were used as observation planes by French squadrons. What is enormous is that a Caudron G3 first flew across the Andes Cordillera from Argentine to Chile, on April 1st 1920. Even more incredible, it was piloted by Adrienne Bolland, an intrepid young female adventurer, who indeed is the first human being to have flown above these scary unknown moutains at some 4000+ meters ... On a G3! One of them is still flying at La Ferté Alais meeting every year.

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Thank You Sir! Now we need Brit politicians to admit this what was said in this video.

They take a lot of stick, but they are a very professional specialist combat unit, much maligned and underestimated. Bit like the RAF Police.

We would be routinely buzzed by Buccaneers as they passed over the school bus - we'd all been pinned against the windows of the bus you could see all the detail of the underside and I mean all the detail that's how low they'd fly.

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Not sure what to make of this video. Love the Spitfire and all things about it, including the boys who fought and died in it. But why the music?

Nicely done.

Why is a pop group used in this film? Does an awesome plane like the Spitfire need such a second-rate introduction?

is this a documentary or a music video?

Sunday 15th September. Battle of Britain Day. 🇬🇧

OMG thank you lady's and gents! Tell me young lady!

Superb.

Interesting to see inside the cockpit

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My granddaughter 5 years ago this is great to see, and she still likes to go.

This song is very imformative and catchy, To the point it's been stuck in my head for years.

My dad flew these for most of his RAF career. He loved them and I was enthralled by his stories of landing on remote African dirt air strips and dropping SAS and Gurkhas on training missions (obviously he couldn't tell me any more, which made it even more exciting as a young lad). I still have the ceremonial Kukri he was presented with after one such drop. He died quite a few years ago now, but the Herky bird will always fly alongside in my memories of Dad.

Friendly fire isn't.

You are very right.

Watch the video with Mike Brewer, onboard BN in Afghan.. Where on ‘hostile lift from LZ ‘ they take hits… pilot is hit in the face by bullet, but manages to fly the craft to base !! Mayday Tricky 73..

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Excellent video. I have always believed the HP Victor was an underrated aircraft as a nuclear tasked bomber. I even believe there is an inert(we hope) Skybolt missile in the background at the museum. If so that is a rare item. My thanks to Mr. Coleman and the RAF Museum.

Anyone know what the intro music is? Sounds like Jean Michel Jarre? Also in other videos of Op Red Flag….

"Windows was used saving many air crew lives" yes--but also allowed indiscriminate bombing of Europe to continue and kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians--many of whom weren't even German

It looks in very good nick, is it a reproduction? The' hexagonal body was made of magnesium alloy, which mostly hasn't stood the test of time.

Seeing u next week chaps

My suggestion is that the Hawker Hunter deserves a place n the top ten aircraft designs.

We used lots of spit and polish on our shoes and DMS boots!

I was lucky . I luved on raf bases as a kid . Buccs ..lightnings . Vulcans . . Nimrods. . .harriers .tornados .. could tell them all apart from how much my internals jiggled aroumd .when they were taking off .

I miss that sound. A few days ago, 671 flew directly over my house. I recognised the sound straight away and shot out into my garden. It was great to see her again.

Awesome!

All the noise and vibrations from the rotorheads, blades, engines, and transmissions. The groundcrew can still fall asleep in the back during a flight. I did. 😄

Always loved the look of the Chinook. Can see you loved that aircraft.

Once chatted with a Bucc pilot. Said it was hard to ground due to ground effect. The aircraft would fight you when you tried to steer it into terrain.

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I bet she was a character in her day.😅

What a beautiful, interesting lady. I could listen to elderly people tall about their war experiences all day.😊

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An excellent Museum.

In the early 90's a NASA B57 Canberra ( a very long and broad winged type ) landed at DFW airport and was parked in our hangar for a few days because it developed engine trouble. It was guarded while their mechanics were flown in from Houston Texas to fix it. It flew out at nighttime later on.

Fascinating and still too little known history.

I've seen them. Both superb exhibits of historically important aircraft. Well worth the visit but Cosford has so much more as well.

A single jet aircraft had been under discussion by the RLM (German Air Ministry) for years. I believe the Messerschmitt Me-262 - the first jet fighter to enter regular combat service - was seen by them as a kind of stopgap measure while early gas turbines like the Jumo 004B and the BMW 003 were not terribly reliable and did not produce enough thrust to be used in a competitive single jet aircraft. However they were much cheaper to produce than a high performance piston engine like the DB-605 or BMW-801 and they could burn a wide range of fuels other than the standard German B4 or C2 avgas needed for piston engines. A single engine jet fighter was not only desired because of its superior performance but because the unit cost would be lower so more could be built. Something else that is often overlooked was that Germany's wartime engineering and production resources - including engineers and jig makers - were pretty much exhausted. If you were going to put engineers on the He-162 project, they would have to be taken from R+D or production of something else. An example of that was Heinkel's Siegfried Gunther having to request to Generalluftzeugmeister Erhard Milch that Heinkel cancel the He-280 jet fighter (a competitor to the Me-262) because engineers on He-280 development were desperately needed to help salvage the He-177A heavy bomber project which was in serious trouble. General Galland strongly opposed the Volksjager because he was concerned that He-162 production would likewise compromise output of the Me-262, an interceptor he believed could counter Allied bombing raids in spite of their new escort fighters. In the end, lots of Heinkel single jet concepts resulting from years of back and forth between them, Arado, Messerschmitt, Blohm und Voss, Focke-Wulf and the RLM hurriedly congealed into the He-162, which was to skip much of the usual wind tunnel and development flights to get it rapidly into service. It would be cheap, fast and use a minimum of scarce aluminium. The all wooden wings were always an unknown risk as the only German factory able to make a decent glue for laminated wood panels had been bombed and available alternatives were unreliable, sometimes leading to catastrophic failure. As operational problems were found, they were to be dealt using retrofit fixes to aircraft already in service. This got the He-162 to the Jadgdwaffe quickly but combat pilots had good reason to feel less than confident about it - they were also its test pilots! Another consequence of early jet engines was they burned fuel prolifically. In order to meet even short combat range requirements, every effort was made to keep the weight of the He-162 down to allow for more fuel. That included minimizing armour. The He-162 had a short range even for a defending fighter. The notion of rapidly training teenage boys from the Hitler Youth in gliders then expecting them the fly the He-162 in combat was utter madness - worse, it was blatant murder. Poorly trained, scared kids were being rushed into combat in the FW-190D - one of the world's most advanced and capable fighters but their service life against better trained an experienced enemies in overwhelming numbers was being measured in days. Captain Eric Brown praised the performance of the He-162 as a fighter, but he also mentioned it was rather a handful with a tendency to invert. Not something to be flown by trainees, it needed a very experienced pilot, but they were in short supply for the Luftwaffe by 1945. The entire Volksjager concept was bogus. Desperation on wings. Personally I think the He-162 could have developed into quite a formidable short range interceptor given time. It might have been powered by the upcoming Jumo 004C and 2700 lb static thrust HeS-011 engines. However, time was not on its side. Rushed into service, in the end very few of the thousands that were hoped to be built each month were produced and the He-162 had virtually no impact on the war. I've seen the RAF Museum's He-162 and the other one which IWM Duxford is restoring. I've also seen one at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino California, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. A fascinating - even rather attractive - little aircraft, the product more of politics and panic than good aero engineering practice, one that never reached its full potential IMHO. Ejection seat or not, I don't think I'd want to have to bail out of one!

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