20 Rarely Seen Aviation Moments Caught on Camera

Here's a mix of some brilliant, unforgettable aviation and airshow memories and moments I've managed to capture on video over the years. Enjoy!
0:00 - CARGO C-27J SPARTAN DOES AILERON ROLLS
0:42 - BLUE ANGELS NEAR BIRDSTRIKE ON TAKEOFF
1:11 - HARRIER JETS SUNSET TAKEOFF
2:07 - V-22 OSPREY GLOWING ROTOR BLADE TIPS
3:51 - BLUE ANGELS SNEAK PASS
4:22 - BOEING E-4B FLYPAST AND LANDING
6:43 - SAAB DRAKEN JET
8:19 - SAAB VIGGEN JET
9:10 - VULCAN BOMBER AERO BRAKING WHEELIE LANDING
11:04 - B-17 SALLY B SIMULATED ENGINE FIRE FLYPAST
11:20 - C-47 DAKOTA ECLIPSE LANDING
11:48 - AIRBUS A350 TAKES OFF BEFORE A380 LANDS
13:06 - TEAM VIPER HAWKER HUNTERS TAKEOFF
13:35 - TORNADO JET TAKEOFF AND LANDING
14:00 - RASPBERRY RIPPLE HUNTER JET MAKES STRANGE SOUND UPON LANDING
14:35 - FOLLAND GNAT JETS
15:35 - MIGHTY E-3 SENTRY UP CLOSE
16:35 - VULCAN BOMBER TAKEOFF

[@bobsurgranny]

Comment which one you enjoyed the most 👇 0:00 - CARGO C-27J SPARTAN DOES AILERON ROLLS 0:42 - BLUE ANGELS NEAR BIRDSTRIKE ON TAKEOFF 1:11 - HARRIER JETS SUNSET TAKEOFF 2:07 - V-22 OSPREY GLOWING ROTOR BLADE TIPS 3:51 - BLUE ANGELS SNEAK PASS 4:22 - BOEING E-4B FLYPAST AND LANDING 6:43 - SAAB DRAKEN JET 8:19 - SAAB VIGGEN JET 9:10 - VULCAN BOMBER AERO BRAKING WHEELIE LANDING 11:04 - B-17 SALLY B SIMULATED ENGINE FIRE FLYPAST 11:20 - C-47 DAKOTA ECLIPSE LANDING 11:48 - AIRBUS A350 TAKES OFF BEFORE A380 LANDS 13:06 - TEAM VIPER HAWKER HUNTERS TAKEOFF 13:35 - TORNADO JET TAKEOFF AND LANDING 14:00 - RASPBERRY RIPPLE HUNTER JET MAKES STRANGE SOUND UPON LANDING 14:35 - FOLLAND GNAT JETS 15:35 - MIGHTY E-3 SENTRY UP CLOSE 16:35 - VULCAN BOMBER TAKEOFF

[@Kevin-Brent]

Oh, hard call... Saabs, The Vulcan, B-17, Harriers, Hunters.... But, I have to go with The Vulcan.

[@bobsurgranny]

Nice! Those harriers flying off into the purple sunset was a fine moment and great to see them in the wild after so many years

[@davewright8206]

loved the vulcan , iconic impressed by the c27 aeleron role

[@RedFail1-1]

So hard to find the original owners of air show footage. I always end up seeing tons of videos and shorts from people using footage like this. Wish people would stop doing that so you and others could get the recognition they deserve for the work they did.

[@keithallver2450]

The Avro Vulcan is a flying work of art.

[@bobsurgranny]

Certainly is a beautiful beast

[@flymachine]

‘Was’ a flying work of art - sadly

[@Deepthought-42]

A bygone era. All designed on a drawing board using slide rules and log tables without CAD 👍 Seeing Vulcans, Victors, Valiants, Lightnings, Buccaneers and Concorde flying was always a privilege.

[@keithallver2450]

@@flymachine Was? You make it sound like they don't exist anymore. They may not be in service but as long as there are still working versions around at airshows it still IS a flying work of art.

[@Hughenn]

I was at Scampton when they were there. 6 Vulcans scrambling is something I will never forget.

[@timacrow]

Amazing that the Vulcan first flew 72 years ago! It still has a certain futuristic look.

[@ababbington1]

The look and sound of the Vulcan is unsurpassed. Nearly 70 years old and still perfect 🇬🇧

[@Gord1812]

The Vulcan is hands down the most beautiful bird that ever flew. I had the honour of watching one of her last flights in Canada at the CNE airshow in the 90's.Look out Godzilla Mothra has taken to the sky.

[@johnkochen7264]

The SAAB Draken is just a work of art.

[@bertg.6056]

The V-22's have rotor tip lights for landing at night in tight areas.

[@HowManyBeansMake5]

Used to live a few miles from a RAF base where Vulcans were stationed, often saw them overhead. Beautiful, but unbelievably loud!

[@craigs71]

I was a baby when I lived at RAF Finningley (1972ish) when it was a Vulcan base and I remember going to airshows as a young child and being in awe at the majesty of the Vulcan (that amd temperary deafness)

[@ohareairplanespotterben9]

The Sound of the V22 Engines! So Amazing! 😎

[@bobsurgranny]

Great sound that thudding

[@SnorreSelmer]

The V-22 with the "weird" glowing blade-tips, that's actually quite common on rotor-wings... Low-light ground safety-feature, and also for formation-flying in the dark: blade-tip lights.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

A Vulcan take off is the most powerful display I ever experienced. Get many of these pizza deliveries every day though, living near Geilenkirchen where these are stationed.

[@ianwoods8593]

Just have to love a Harrier! Also Vulcan to the Sky!

[@trespire]

Romour has it, that the SAAB Viggen can be refuled and rearmed in 15min by 3 "farm hands" on a remore forrest road.

[@theflyingfool]

Bootiful! Just bootiful! Thanks Bob! I really enjoyed seeing the Gnats. They used to fly over our village all the time as they popped up out of the A5 pass. Those were the days...

[@bobsurgranny]

Welcome. The Gnats 😍 Wish I'd seen Ray Hanna fly in them

[@keighlysoda]

holy moly that blue angels noise is crazy!

[@wesleyhayes6072]

Yes, the Vulcan is! Miss seeing it at Glenview NAS. For the Chicago air/water show. 😢

[@5ebra1]

Privileged to have seen Concordes and Vulcans fly. Nothing today creates as much excitement and awe.

[@soppdrake]

I saw the Vulcan testing a Pegasus Concorde engine and some time later the Concorde prototype flew over our scool sportsfield.

[@Braun30]

Once happened to see a four ship Vulcan scramble. Vividly remember the trembling of my chest. Must have been 12, sometime in the early 60s.

[@arcanondrum6543]

Grow up.

[@Braun30]

@@arcanondrum6543 And this means?

[@5ebra1]

@@arcanondrum6543 ?

[@johnpeschke7723]

the Vulcan -- the scariest looking and sounding bomber ever made.

[@craigpennington1251]

Very cool stuff. Draken,Vulcan, & Tornado. Still capable in their field.

[@billramsey2337]

I heard the crackling! YAAY!

[@DOC19581]

Awesome footage. The Vulcan is a favourite of mine. I lived next to the RAAF base in Laverton Victoria in 1965. A Vulcan (XH480) did a low level flypast, and to a 7yr old boy, it looked like it was about to fly into my front door! Still remember the Vulcan "howl".

[@terrychapman5466]

Saw a Vulcan during an airshow at Amberley Qld Australia. When she lifted off and went close to vertical, the earth shook.

[@VulcanBomber101]

If you look at the underside of the ECM pod at the tail you will notice a slightly fuzzy small lump. An external switch is mounted here, in the cockpit it's indicator light will be green, if it turns amber/yellow the the tail is about to touch the ground, if it turns red, then the operating arm of that switch is likely to be embedded in the fuselage of the aircraft (Naughty Skipper!) - I only ever saw that happen once in our Squadron (101 Squadron RAF Waddington)

[@user-gt2lh2ec9e]

Wow, some VERY GREAT AMERICAN AIRCRAFTS! John P.

[@neilbarnett3046]

That Spartan is the one that delivers all my parcels.

[@TheJimprez]

That little Italian boxcar of a C-27 lost a LOT of altitude doing that roll. Not really a thing to try for fun... That pilot understood that and went UP before trying it, but a newbie might not... Reminds me of the story of a Tutor student-pilot in the RCAF in the 80s (or maybe 70s). He went to his dad's farm, close by Moose Jaw, Sask. and tried flying inverted. He pulled up on the stick to go up, but it meant DOWN in his reverse attitude. plowed straight in, right in front of Daddy... Sad day for that family.

[@williamduncan5679]

I always had a big soft spot for the Victor bomber when it was sitting on the apron at Prestwick Scotland it looked like it was doing mach 1 very beautiful aircraft❤❤

[@TheCanadianBubba]

Quite the crew with the Vulcan. Surprised they were not in a military vehicle

[@hansOrf]

All absolute marvels, 2 Wright.

[@268wrighty]

Great stuff, lovely video. Gotta love the SAAB Draken and the Rotor blades on the Osprey in the dark were well groovy. Here's a fun fact, the pilot of the Vulcan is Tommy 'gingernob' Becklethwaite and apart from being quite drunk he only has 3 working fingers, what a gift to the nation he is.

[@fw1421]

From 1976-80 I was stationed at Barksdale AFB ,La and we hosted the International Bombing Competition. I always loved when the Brits would arrive with the Vulcan and Victors. The Vulcan always put on an impressive performance. That big bird is surprisingly agile for the size it is. It’s one of the planes I loved watching at the annual air show. A shame they are all gone.

[@restojon1]

An old RAF Officer told me a fantastic story from one of those competitions when we sent the Vulcan across the pond. I can't recall if it was him, or he overheard it but apparently two very high up "Top Brass" were monitoring the competition and the American Officer was heard to say "those Brits have got themselves a sports bomber and we're flying a bomb truck" referring to the B-52's. I always found that amusing. Horses for courses I say. If you want a few bombs putting somewhere very accurately and very quickly. Sports Bomber. You want to remove a location from the map. Bomb Truck. 🇬🇧 🤝🇺🇸 Long live the special relationship.

[@TheophilusPWildbeest]

Great selection.

[@bobsurgranny]

👍

[@fernandoortiz1889]

Indeed.The Vulcan is an aircraft out of his league.Extraordinary!!✈️✈️✈️🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@assessor1276]

Q: What is louder than a Harrier hovering? A: Six Harriers hovering. Q: What is louder than six Harriers hovering? A: Nothing is louder than six Harriers hovering.

[@bobsurgranny]

I had a Harrier hover over me once at around 40ft - unbelievable racket!

[@ssnerd583]

a flight of F111's taking off at full power is quite a racket as well.....oi.....shake the paint off the walls and the glass out of the windows

[@AVIDSHOOTER13]

A6 intruders on final approach low slow and loud

[@videointercepter]

Thanks, mate.

[@WilfredOwen-ig2fi]

I worked on vulcans in the RAF, And managed to get a flight in a Vulcan

[@thedyingmeme6]

The V22 may have its troubles but you CANT say that its not AMAZING for a first-gen tiltrotor aircraft. I fucking LOVE the V22

[@user-fz8ep5ey4v]

As a kid I remember going to visit my Gran and on the way past Scampton I saw Severn or Eight Vulcans take off one after the other . It was the end of the fifties or very early sixties.

[@user-wo5el8gy6r]

Hi Bob , excellent video, you really cracked me up with the world’s largest pizza delivery comment lol. Those glowing rotor tips are pretty shyt hot. I’ve never seen that before. Thank you so much Heidi ❤🤗😁👍

[@bobsurgranny]

Thanks yeah those Osprey formation lights are mega to see in the night sky and if you were unaware of the V-22 you'd swear it was aliens 😉

[@golfnovember]

You got some stuff from NAF El Centro!

[@corjp]

Nice ones , thank you for sharing. 🙏🙏

[@bobsurgranny]

Welcome. Thanks for the positive comment 🤗👍 Pleased you enjoyed these aviation memories of mine

[@bobbressi5414]

The Vulcan bomber is one of the loudest planes.I have ever heard fly.

[@edutaimentcartoys]

amazing video

[@bobsurgranny]

ah you're far too kind. Pleased you enjoyed watching these aviation memories of mine 🤗👍

[@UncleManuel]

16:35 "SARDINES" Hey, I saw that! 😂😁🤟

[@bobsurgranny]

🐟😛

[@cheytacpraetoriancomposite3413]

16:12 chap is waiting for the scream, sadly it's SOLEX, the modified RAF's Sentry with new engines...

[@justicekelly5487]

I love 💞 this stuff!

[@bobsurgranny]

Pleased you enjoyed watching along 🤗

[@normannokes9513]

Roly Falk rolled a Vulcan.

[@bobsurgranny]

Absolutely! in his pin striped whistles 😉💪

[@mikelastname]

Not very thrilling, but watching the 747 roll out of a turn onto the centreline and then land with such a beautiful wire-catching flare makes me think the pilot spent too much time landing on carriers before they put him in charge of the C&C bus.

[@bobsurgranny]

Thanks for the feedback

[@jaycfc6955]

I bet a lot of people have reported alien sightings when those V-22 ospreys have flown at night 🛸

[@bobsurgranny]

Definitely haha 👽

[@devlin7575]

That Drakken … like something from Flash Gordon

[@SurnaturalM]

Many flying triangles were reported in Europe in the 80s and 70s.

[@MomolosZtips]

Wasn't Vulcan 558 the last one to be flying? I thought it was 'retired' a year or two ago? Anybody know for sure?

[@aibpresto]

Its been retired since 2015

[@Delatta1961]

The Osprey rotor lights are called Slime lights.

[@bobsurgranny]

Not heard that term so thanks for that. I just call them formation lights

[@flexairz]

What near miss on the Blue Angels? That was a normal formation take off.

[@bobsurgranny]

Check out the birds, they got caught in the wash

[@justicekelly5487]

All.

[@stugill4513]

the vulcan is still the sexyest plane on the planet psw great film thanks

[@roachfield84]

There's a Vulcan on display at Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California and its AWESOME!

[@bobsurgranny]

Looks a fine collection of aircraft they got there, the B-58 will be a nice addition

[@davewright8206]

rasberry ripple squark

[@bobsurgranny]

Rugby bloke flew it too hard haha Wish I caught that pass on camera, he stooped down out of the cloud base gaining momentum at full power before going over head with a massive great growl at 100ft, next thing you know it's clacking on landing

[@1946jcb]

very bad quality video "amateur"

[@Dumbrarere]

bobsurgranny: *labels the E-3 Sentry as the world's largest pizza deliverer.* Basilisk Team: "Are we a joke to you?!"

[@johnpeschke7723]

i would love just once to get a ride in a vulcan

[@richardbriansmith8562]

Awesome Video🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@bobsurgranny]

Glad you were entertained and enjoyed some of my aviation memories 🤗👍

[@johnpeschke7723]

and no bus drivers flying any of these remarkable airplanes

[@bobsurgranny]

Hope not haha