Australian International Airshow 2023 | Airshow Dispatches S06E01

[@garybrindle6715]

Black Eagles proving just how tricky formations are ..striving to be best by doing very hard routines. Great coverage of the show ta.

[@HesTNTonPMS]

beyond impressive!

[@IDontTalkToCops]

My son and I were lucky enough to have a couple of gold class tickets to the Australian International Airshow last weekend. What an amazing day it was. Great to have this footage to look back on

[@LauraLouise5]

Really enjoyed watching this, thank you for sharing! ☺

[@Phobia115]

Love the narration! Great show! Cheers from the U.S.!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Great video! I missed the show this year so I enjoyed watching this!

[@airwolfcentral169]

Well done! This is beautifully narrated!

[@Aviatorspot]

Awesome airshow display.

[@petervare]

Absolutely Awesome 👍😎😎😎

[@connorredshaw7994]

Wish you all the best at these venues throughout this year 👍

[@ThisisFlight]

Thanks Connor, it's going to be a busy year! All the same to you, where ever this year may take you.

[@henriknrland659]

Watching this content from home with a cup off Coffee. It's something with how you make it, the footage is pure and that you add some commentary in between makes it that I feel as i actually was there !

[@ThisisFlight]

That's definitely the aim! A natural tone and pace, but only the very best of the action. Thanks for watching!

[@henriknrland659]

@@ThisisFlight Keep it up ! Something else to mention regarding the commentary i love that you actually have something usefull(great knowledge btw) to say and it is spiced up with some good old fashion humor!

[@kirstyblack3432]

That Korean Team was O-mazing!

[@chrisstopher2277]

Thanks for the info on the f22 during the flight and what the maneuvers are called how they are able to achieve them. Great info on each plane.

[@Davies_Photography]

Absolutely Amazing Footage Adam. Stunning Quality 😁 Seen that Cosford airshow Have Been Using Your Footage On Their Aircraft Confirmation aircraft. Brilliant Mate

[@ThisisFlight]

This time it's Nigel Woolley who takes the credit for the filming, but I'll pass your message on. It's certainly been good fun working with Cosford over the past few months on making their announcement videos, I'm impressed you recognised it as mine. Thanks for watching along!

[@paulkrapp]

Good job guys, great show! Something of interest...I have two RC Hornets, a Legacy F-18D and a Super Hornet. The Super Hornet definitely flies with a higher angle of attack than the old design.

[@ThisisFlight]

Interesting to hear that the aerodynamic theory also holds true for the models. The enlarged strakes must be doing their job!

[@Liferoad371]

What a Great! air show, subscribing 🙂

[@sparkleybitz]

That was awesome

[@skyhorseprice6591]

The technically correct Pugachev's Cobra doesn't gain altitude like the Raptor version. I'd argue that the F-22 does this ^^^version because the gain in altitude translates to quicker regain of energy lost during the maneuver. In a traditional Cobra, the maintaining of altitude results in a very slow aircraft that can only regain energy by dropping the nose and falling below an opponent's altitude. This means it can be picked off easily by a savvy pilot who was not fooled by the Cobra. In the F-22 version, the gain in altitude can immediately be cashed in for airspeed while still maintaining a slight altitude/energy advantage, which is the difference between life or death in close in BFM engagements. There is a reason the USAF does this 'modified Cobra,' and it ain't ignorance lol. Bet🤟😅

[@danrm84]

Outstanding as always! Your videos really are the best. If you want to ever add anything about Portugal to your list let me know. I do the commentary for AviacaoTV 🙂

[@ThisisFlight]

Thank you, that may well come in handy some time! I've done a few editions of the Portugal Air Summit as ground crew for one of the participating teams, so I borrowed the AviacaoTV office as our base for processing and distributing our cockpit footage - we quite possibly bumped into each other then without knowing it. I'll get in touch next time I'm in the country. Nothing this year for sure (I hear Beja is cancelled and there's no air displays at this year's summit?), but perhaps 2024.

[@AussiePillow1]

You didn’t show when the black eagles created the korean Um-Yang using smoke with the sun lined up in the middle of it.

[@ThisisFlight]

I've featured the Black Eagles quite a lot over the past couple of years, and I try to include a slightly different selection of manoeuvres each time. The Taeguek (Korean flag) manoeuvre is featured in some previous episodes, whereas this time around I've shown several moves that didn't get any airtime in the past like the Typhoon, Star Loop and Victory Roll.

[@tanzidane]

So glad you will be in Malaysia !

[@ThisisFlight]

We're looking forward to it!

[@ElNarros]

The F35 with its landing gear out is like a stunning looking girl who smiles and exposes her braces.

[@victormayer9078]

Bravo

[@tonyhowell2442]

very nice

[@PotatoGod6969]

this show was fuck amazing and i can not wait for avalon 2025

[@skyhorseprice6591]

Obtw, I subscribed because of the excellent camera work & general organization. I Really am tired of airshow videos where the best maneuvers and most intense flying is lost in the sun, jerks on & off camera during the most insane maneuvers, thereby missing them, plus the horrid use of telephoto lens in such videos is like watching a hummingbird flying, through a long telescope with maybe a 2:1 magnification factor, bouncing around in a rowboat in 25 foot seas!😹😅 This was most excellently done. ★*★What I'd _really_ love to see: a 'wing walker' setup where the pilot can fly the airplane from a number of stations set up outside the cockpit. Hell, _I'd_ like to try flying like that, though it obviously could not be done on a jet lol😹😱🤓🤟👁️👀👁️ *‡*I was not aware that the Canberra was such a large jet. I always thought of it as around the size of the F-86 Sabre. Apparently, Canberra is a bit larger than that.

[@skyhorseprice6591]

A'ight, one more comment. I saw Maj Kristen 'Beo' Wolfe, the lead pilot for the F-35 demo team in 2021, perform a _17 second_ full 360° minimum radius turn! That whole demo was flown super aggressively, with Wolfe doing the Dojo Drift instantaneous turn reversal in near UFO fashion, but instead of nose drop to regain energy, she kicked in max burner and _accelerated out of the maneuver with about 30° vertical AoA!_ There was probably a debrief to the effect of, "It's cool to show off, but keep the performance within expected ranges! We don't want to give away too much!" Because, I swear by all the gods both sacred and profane, I've never seen the F-35 do that since, but I know it did it then since I rewound that video so many times I lost count of the # of rewinds. That F-35 really pulled a 17 second 360°, and it really pulled that Dojo Drift, then went vertical. I always thought it suspicious that no matter the type of US fighter, that min rad 360° turn always clocks in from 20 to 21 seconds. _Naaaah,_ they're not going to show off what these jets can really do.

[@ThisisFlight]

20-21 seconds has been virtually the case across the board for every aircraft I've filmed, Russian, Chinese, European or American - apart from the Rafale, which turns like nothing else. But, like you, I've seen one anomaly - a Thunderbirds' solo MRT in 2017 that took 17. Impressive stuff. I would speculate that it's more to do with wind drift and regulations (especially the consequences of getting too close during the energy-on-crowd section of the turn) than the need to keep secrets. The US regulations don't like energy-on-crowd stuff. European regs do, but give them their own display line, so an aircraft would be able to start an MRT on the 230m line but must set up to finish it on the 450m line, so it's not a perfect circle and the section flying away from the crowd needs to be extended. With a strong off-crowd wind, a pilot would really be able to let rip without worrying about busting the lines. That's certainly what I recall the wind doing during that anomalous Thunderbirds manoeuvre. Thanks for watching!

[@skyhorseprice6591]

@@ThisisFlight That makes a lot of sense. 🤟

[@ctaviationvideos4926]

The C-2 kinda looks a little bit like the C-17 but not really

[@tojassargaja2085]

Why is that if the f22 has a greater trust to weitght ratio than 1, It always immediatelly start to slow down when its going 90 degree vertical? I would imagine if the thrust to weight ratio is more than 1 it cound go upwards like a rocket not slowing down.

[@ThisisFlight]

Weight is just one of two factors that the engine must overcome, the other being drag. Once you account for drag as well as weight, a 1:1 thrust to weight ratio is nowhere near enough to maintain airspeed in a vertical climb.

[@zacklewis342]

Wrong, it can accelerate vertically. They just don't use full throttle to keep the show visible, duh.

[@ThisisFlight]

Zack, you're incorrect on both points. First, full power is indeed used on vertical climbs on multiple occasions during the F-22's display and the aircraft does decelerate. You can cross-check this against the FAA-approved F-22 manoeuvre list, where speeds and power settings are specified: www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/airshow/media/military/ACC_Heritage_Maneuvers_Package.pdf But, to give an example from the list: the pedal turn starts in level flight at 300ft and 300 knots, and the technical description reads: "select full afterburner, pull to 90 degrees nose high ... climb AND DECELERATE to 4,000ft with no less than 75 knots". An example of rapid deceleration on full power, losing 16 knots per 100ft of climb on average. The theory that an aircraft with a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than 1:1 can accelerate in the vertical is a common but flawed misunderstanding. It assumes that only thrust and weight exist, forgetting the effect of aerodynamic drag, probably the single most important physical force in aerodynamics after lift itself. Crucially, aerodynamic drag increases exponentially as airspeed increases linearly - in other words, if you go a little bit faster, you need a *lot* more power to maintain airspeed. Yes, *in theory* there are circumstances when the F-22 may be able to accelerate upwards. In the real world, however, to be in a vertical climb in the first place, the F-22 must be carrying so much airspeed that it is generating substantial aerodynamic drag, more than enough to prevent continued acceleration once the vertical climb is achieved.

[@iancouzens]

Why are the ticket prices so high for this airshow?,

[@ThisisFlight]

It's roughly comparable to most similarly-sized civilian-run airshows globally. It's getting exponentially more expensive to stage these events, with the cost of event insurance, fuel and booking display aircraft roughly doubling over the last few years. In fact, the ticket price increases we've seen over the last 5 years don't come close to covering the extra costs incurred by most airshow organisers.

[@privatepylesm14]

Any talk about Pacific Airshow Gold Coast Australia?

[@ThisisFlight]

We intend to cover the Pacific Airshow Gold Coast - but we're holding out for some more exciting aircraft announcements before we commit.

[@privatepylesm14]

@@ThisisFlight It will be my first airshow and can't wait. but its hard not to be disappointed compared to AIA because, no F22s or any major display team for that matter KC135 is a glimmer of hope

[@ThisisFlight]

The organisers set themselves a near-impossible task. Staging a world-class airshow is hard, doing it in Australia is even harder, and doing it in August is harder still. Unfortunately I think they massively oversold the event and created a level of hype that they could never actually rise to. They really should have known years ago that a foreign jet team or the F-22 were, if not impossible, then pretty unlikely. Name-checking the likes of the Red Arrows and Frecce Tricolori in press interviews just took the whole thing into the realms of fantasy. I'm sure it'll be a decent airshow. Equally, though, I'm sure it won't be an outstandingly good one either, let alone "one of the world's greatest" as the organisers claim.

[@fadzilbinahmad2329]

With three country ok I toll

[@tomlarnie2581]

You had nothing but negatives to describe the F 22. Who will shoot it down?

[@ThisisFlight]

There aren't any negatives describing the F-22 whatsoever, and quite a few positives (for example, RCS and the rapid launching of internally-stored weapons). I had a few points about the F-22 *display* which could be described as negative, but that is an entirely seperate matter - for example, the faux "cobra" manoeuvre that it performed. That's not a comment on the aircraft's operational capabilities at all - indeed, the F-22's faux cobra is probably more useful in combat than a real cobra. But it's objectively less impressive as an airshow manoeuvre and it's not an example of what it claims to be. That is purely a comment on the display performed in front of us on the day, not on the Raptor as an aircraft. If you think I'm suggesting the F-22 is not combat proficient or is easy to shoot down, then I think you have misunderstood what was said, and indeed, the premise of the entire programme; we make films about airshows, not about aircraft or air warfare.

[@victormayer9078]

Kinch

[@fadzilbinahmad2329]

One more india

[@Kenneth_James]

I don't like they don't say American when aircraft made by us fly regardless who operates them.

[@ThisisFlight]

There are 13 aircraft of American origin in this programme, if I were to explain that for all of them, it would be at the expense of far more interesting information about their history and operation. Not to mention that 99% of people watching this will already know where, say, a P-51 or F-35 comes from and don't need me to patronise them by telling them. I'd understand your complaint if I was only ignoring the USA, but I haven't talked about the PC-21 being Swiss, the KC-30 being from a European consortium, the Extra 300 being German, or the Tiger Moth/Spitfire/Canberra being British either - generally I only mention country of origin if it's unusual, as in the case of the Japanese C-2, or particularly relevent to the story, as in the Salto (which still got an American flag, despite being German-designed! It works both ways). I'm certainly not going to give the USA, or any country, special treatment just for the sake of massaging egos.