Amazing Landings From Yeovilton's D-Day 50th

Video Includes F-14 Tomcats, Phantoms, F-11, MiG-29s, MiG-23s, F-18s Plus Lots More Amazing Landings
Filmed by James In 1994 Restored And Edited by The Bear

[@andychase16]

That F14 opposition break is a thing of beauty!

[@redvanman10]

you realise how special it was to see all those types of aeroplanes then. i miss those days so much. fantastic video.

[@AirshowWorld]

Keep tuned to AIRSHOW WORLD lots more from That weekend coming plus my live shows, next live show is Friday night live at 7pm with a Low flying Special

[@briand4000]

And the award for the smokiest, greasiest, gnarliest arrival goes to....the F4 Phantom! *applause*

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

Late 80s to mid 90s were the glory years for UK airshows.

[@Bazwelle]

Same thing here in Canada. Miss those airshows!

[@jmace5964]

Cfb comox used to have some great ones

[@caribman10]

Everywhere......

[@paulstroud2647]

Thanks for posting this. I had a Navy pal at Yeovilton who wangled me a seat in the parachute retrieval van, so I got a close view but wasn't allowed a video camera - 27 years later you came up trumps!

[@321fightson]

EPIC video. Man, I would have LOVED to be sitting with the crowd watching them fly in. Ridiculously close to the planes and the runway. Thanks for posting.

[@frankleespeaking9519]

I was stationed RAF Lakenheath on the brand new F15e’s in 1994. I remember launching and recovering for flyovers on both sides of the channel.

[@AirshowWorld]

Wow Frank that's amazing, perhaps you would like to appear on one of my live shows, have a think about it

[@leonmagee3516]

Some beauties there. Loving the F-111, F-4 Phantom and F-14 Tomcats. Great video.

[@marktaylor8659]

Those Navy flyboys in F-18s hit the runway like it's a carrier.

[@EdD-ym6le]

LOL noticed that also . One guy had a wing dip musta got mad then just stuck it to the runway _BAD PLANE ! smack_ hahaha

[@jmace5964]

Wake disturbance too lmao

[@jasoncole767]

Wish I cud go back...miss seeing the old types...my 1st airshow experience when I was 7 was a phantom back in 81.....kool

[@foxtrotalphaaviation]

Absolutely fantastic video, so many special types. The F-4s were awesome, and then the F-14s showed up lol. Thank you

[@danbaxter8589]

AS someone who coordinated air shows for 18 of my 20 years in Naval aviation, this was a great mix of different aircraft from all over the world

[@Techy111]

Damn...who thought heaven would be on an old VHS tape !!!! 😊

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

The F14s did it in style. Lovely.

[@supersabrejet]

What a video!! The best time ever,,The freaking best seat in town.

[@UKAviationMovies]

Awesome. Took me back to being a kid again. Air shows today just don’t have this vibe any more! Too many people, too many police, too few memories!

[@keithdraycott]

The best video I’ve seen this day / month / year. So pleased I’m old enough to remember when we had so many exotic jets, but so sad we’ll never see the like ever again.

[@BlueAngelPhantoms]

Amazing footage! Thank you for sharing.

[@timblackburn6006]

Awesome. How amazing airshows used to be. Thanks for putting this up. 👍

[@UAPJedi]

Amazing to think that's nearly 30 years ago! I doubt we will ever see that volume of aircraft at Yeovilton again.

[@wattster71]

If you hadn't put this up I would have said that this mix of aircraft never graced the same runway at the same time! Truly moving to anyone with even a hint of being an aviation buff.

[@daylyt100]

Excellent vid, very classy F-14 arrival!

[@bobsurgranny]

I can't help watching these over and over. Crazy how low some of those were

[@AirshowWorld]

Hay Many Thanks Bobsurgranny

[@evernhamanderson]

An F-18 with D-Day markings. Cool.

[@bobbeane7294]

That was cool to see an FB-111....Awesome video!

[@paulschab8152]

Don't think that was an FB-111. It was either an E,D,or F model.

[@fredgmadisonsr7287]

Liked the film strip. Brought back memories of the days when I wanted to fly and the US-Navy turned me down.

[@ssgusa]

I was 13 in 1987 at a weekend campout (Boy Scouts) at Wright Patterson AFB. We were probably only 3 football fields away from the runway and would go to the end and stand there watching aircraft for hours. We saw F-4s, f-15s, F-14s, and Harriers all weekend. The F-14s and Harriers were the loudest. You couldn’t hear them when we went to the end of the runway and stood under them, you felt the sound. That’s how loud those two were. And yes I remember the heat from the Harriers well!

[@Dave111Smith]

Thanks so much for posting, it was very special.

[@VMCAviationVideos]

Awesome footage, Thanks for sharing!

[@Bryan-cs9to]

The Airshows in the 1980s and 1990s will never be beat - you could see so many different types all flying

[@peteradshead6566]

It was June 1994 not 1993. My friend and I rode our motorbikes from Yeovil to the TT on the Isle of Man which was a great holiday but we were more than a little disappointed to have missed all that activity at Yeovilton. We had access to the airfield in those days. However much film I'd have bought for my camera I'm sure I would have run out. Thanks for posting the video.

[@peterrolt6403]

That was a great day at a great location, no H&S rubbish needed.

[@wizmerlin8546]

Thank you. Brings back a lot of memories. I was there that day, 846NAS. Busy day martialing aircraft. Shame there wasn’t a junglie in sight

[@bdh_555]

Thanks for sharing! I would have been a mere thought when this occurred 😮

[@kevinsavard5998]

Great to see these older planes too. No KZbin back then! Lol. Thanks to James and Stu for sharing. Phantoms really had a smoking problem. F-14s were a big jet stood next to one at an airshow in southern New Hampshire. Harriers are a cool jet without them there probably wouldn't be an F-35B

[@321fightson]

Yeh those J79's really pumped out the smoke with their coal powered engines! No wonder the Vietnamese could see them coming miles off!

[@garyoliver471]

Truly epic great memories Thanks

[@neilturner6749]

Bugger, where the hell was I that day? Sadly not living just a few miles from Yeovilton as I do now! Great footage...

[@Russellhawker]

I went down for this. At the time I remembering saying I don't want damn jets, I want vintage warbirds. But now would give anything to see half those jets again. The F14, F4 and Harriers..... Wow. But the Firefly at the end beats them all.

[@glennbellamy7004]

Great video , amazing variety of planes. Thank you...

[@chewiepeanut]

no lie, these are amazing landings. Esp the Tomcats. Thank you

[@AirshowWorld]

Thanks Patrick, join us this Friday night for my Live show at 7pm uk time, I will be featuring more of this.

[@knightflightvideo]

Great footage! 👌😊👍

[@Yosemite-George-61]

What a show !!

[@frostyfrost4094]

Just two words THANK YOU

[@bobingram6912]

Wouldn't that be a fantastic Airshow!!

[@neilkirby6342]

Brilliant,thanks for sharing

[@AirshowWorld]

I also have the full version of this show, I will release that soon.

[@danbaxter8589]

Awesome compilation of Warbirds of the 90s

[@fighterpilot5105]

Thank you for this...

[@nouvenmoonsamy9769]

A look at that base with all its guests would be an amazing view.

[@747heavyboeing3]

Nice shot of the F 14, CAG bird #200 at 10:00!

[@dylantrinder1571]

Nice catch.

[@smudger746]

Brilliant video.

[@SuperBaileyA]

Wow. So many in quick succession 😳

[@multisoundmusicnl]

Great video! Thx! 😊

[@AirshowWorld]

a premiere of the next part is going out now

[@MCO2ATL2DTWby777]

Damn that was awesome

[@chrischart]

What a line up

[@richardparker3032]

June 1994. I drove like a nut job after the last aircraft recovered at Yeovilton. To RAF Brize Norton to get a Photo of Air force One leaving that same afternoon. Happy Days...

[@martinvrba8532]

Wonderful video, wonderful meeting of beautiful planes, just a pity that I couldn't be right there either! When we win the war with metalwork, to celebrate the victory, there could be a big air show of the world's aircraft, for example in Prague!

[@owenevans83]

Very nice

[@robertdewar1752]

Those American pilots sure know how to make a good hard landing!

[@chrishall197]

That Vark ❤️

[@747heavyboeing3]

11s and F 4s were awesome!

[@organicpaul]

What a great video!

[@bobsurgranny]

Fantastic! You lucky bugger

[@StudeSteve62]

Wow. Melancholy at the end, with the late lamented Firefly landing...

[@pascalparee8915]

Aviation heaven!! 💥👌🙏

[@shgpvirtualaviation743]

Incredible video Stu. The Tomcat footage is stunning! I didn't see any MiG-23s in there though?

[@janesmiths4478]

There are Czech Airforce's Migs and Suchoys. Great planes.

[@nielsdorhout058]

All the different types, and a minimum of 4 planes per type. Man those were the days. You dont see them like this anymore. Spotting is slowly dying 😢

[@dan4466]

I couldn’t imagine this...I’d pass out.

[@AirshowWorld]

Join us tomorrow night at 7pm uk time for a preview of part 2 of this

[@henkdelange3107]

I wish I had seen a Tomcat fly!

[@matteopesce1627]

Tomcat Supreme!

[@davidmason3680]

How did the Tomcats stack the landings? Did the ones breaking right take a longer downwind or something?

[@speakenglishwithmatt5175]

Any vid of the departures from the morning? As they departed some overflew VL in superb formations.

[@jlb8320]

amazing ! I realize How poor are our airshows and sanitized is our Aviation world. Soon only the Google glasses will generate emotions ! Glad to be bornt in the 20th century !

[@DJBoysToys]

How times change the good old days

[@colcot50]

I remember this, I was on 707 squadron

[@craigpennington1251]

LONG LIVE PHANTOM*****

[@Idontknow46262]

I like fighter jets bc they look really cool

[@baselhammond3317]

I'm sure you could feel the heat of the harrier engines from that height.

[@ssgusa]

I was 13 in 1987 at a weekend campout (Boy Scouts) at Wright Patterson AFB. We were probably only 3 football fields away from the runway and would go to the end and stand there watching aircraft for hours. We saw F-4s, f-15s, F-14s, and Harriers all weekend. The F-14s and Harriers were the loudest. You couldn’t hear them when we went to the end of the runway and stood under them, you felt the sound. That’s how loud those two were. And yes I remember the heat from the Harriers well!

[@baselhammond3317]

@@ssgusa from the days there were so many fascinating types. Amazing experiences you've had there.

[@davidhunt3808]

The F14 Tomcats were amazing aircraft as we're the F1- 11s and Harriers .

[@geoffbreen2386]

The F-111 were a real liability for the Australian Air Force. Incredibly expensive, limited capacity and a troubled history. Apart from use in Vietnam they made their mark as a show plane doing the afterburner routine. They were quickly superseded. Australia just keeps getting caught up in wasting huge amounts of money on out dated technology. The current deal with France on submarines is over the A$80 billion and who knows when they will enter service. Advanced drone technology would be a better investment for Australia than ageing aircraft and submarines. Some of the Soviet fighters in this video are impressive and impressive pilots. The US should never think it is and always will be the best.

[@tonkerdog1]

@@geoffbreen2386 Which is why Britain should have continued the TSR2 project.

[@geoffbreen2386]

@@tonkerdog1 I'll have to research that. I always thought the "HarrierJump Jet" (as I thought it was known), was very under rated and technology worth improving on. Sadly it seems to have been a one hit wonder when those people signing deals only want speed not versatility.

[@tonkerdog1]

@@geoffbreen2386 I’m not military but used to fly with an ex Sea Harrier pilot, Kris Ward. His dad fought in the Falklands war and was also a Sea Harrier pilot. Kris is unfortunately no longer with us.

[@davidhunt3808]

@@geoffbreen2386 I used to live near to RAAF Amberley in Queensland and the F1_11s were often flying by my house . Love seeing them but you are right they were rather long in the tooth . As for comment about our new subs well I could not agree more . Our government really got the subs wrong . They could get the German or Japanese subs a lot sooner and they are probably just as good .

[@kevinwyatt9771]

who else humming the Top Gun music , with those F-14s?

[@HeidiLandRover]

Most of those pilots are thinking: "Why is this runway so long? Why isn't it pitching & rolling?"

[@MetalMachineShop]

Crikey, those Phantoms look like they are running on coal!

[@nigelbevan8449]

This was when air shows WERE air shows.....

[@Dogtown16v]

Remember when it happened,would loved to have gone down.Bit to far for me though. How many aircraft flew in the actual flypast?

[@jameshultstrom949]

How many flew into the shite - - -

[@ZLAKOZILLA]

HOLY SHIT

[@philiproseel3506]

F-14 Tomcats...when fighters screamed and growled, and fighter pilots were men.

[@crash8926]

Amen!

[@pjotrtje0NL]

So you saw the very low Slovak MiG29 and you thought “I need to get my hair shaved off” and then stood directly under the final approach path?

[@avpinstarter]

Them Phantoms need chimneys not exhausts

[@321fightson]

lol yep, the old coal powered J79s! :-)

[@rickwakelin1725]

Do we even have any aircraft today ?

[@flavnet]

W.O.N.D.E.R.F.U.L.

[@geoffbreen2386]

Can someone give us a listing of the planes as they land. I'm not familiar with all these types.

[@321fightson]

Not in order: MiG 29, F-16, F-111, Tornado, Harrier, F-14 Tomcat, Fairey Firefly (prop plane at the end), F/A-18, Mirage 2000, F-4 Phantoms. A few more details here: theaviationist.com/2021/03/18/you-really-have-to-watch-this-incredible-footage-of-the-aircraft-arriving-at-rnas-yeovilton-for-d-day-50th-anniversary/amp/

[@AdrianN.88]

Hows that even possible?

[@pascalbreizh4070]

5.37 et plus le mirage 2000 et le "rafale " y a pas a ' chier' ce sont de bonne aeroplane in '' french''

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

😢😢😢

[@rayjennings3637]

There's three good reasons not to hang out your washing if there are Phantoms in circuit!

[@delten-eleven1910]

Cold war fighter jets from the B.S. era; Before Stealth...no F-15s?

[@paulaspinall9431]

Aaaahhhhh.......sigh! Anybody got a spare time machine?

[@Ben-bg2lp]

Wait! The Russians weren't there on D-Day! Why are there Sukhoi aircraft in the show?!

[@johnpaulin7410]

USA...USA...USA...USA. !!!!