Frontiers Of Flight - 06 - Golden Age Frontiers

[@adamchess1]

I wish more people had the capacity to appreciate this outstanding set of documentaries. love the airplanes, love the history, love the old farts, love the sound track, love the narration, love you for posting it. Thank you!

[@Kevin_747]

The golden age of air racing will always have that special mystique. My favorite hands down is Mr Mulligan. I was lucky to be friends with Harold Neumann and share a hangar with him in the late '70s thru the mid '80's and his Monocoupe "Little Mulligan". I will always cherish those stories Harold told me about air racing.

[@southjerseysound7340]

It is truly nice to see Wittman get some well deserved credit.He was the little guy that always kept the big guns on their toes and even though they came and went over the years he was still there plugging away at things.

[@brianbentley13]

Great film and most informative

[@terrycarter4459]

Very enjoyable, great pilots from the past.

[@mikeryan9184]

Terry Carter q

[@KowboyUSA]

Jimmy Doolittle's Gee Bee racing plane may have looked like comical, stereotypical cartoon plane, but in reality it was a very powerful radial engine and huge propeller with stubby little wings and tail attached. You'd have to be full of courage to climb into that cockpit intending to fly!

[@oilsmokejones3452]

+John Ratko It was little more than a huge engine and propeller with a seat attached...

[@KowboyUSA]

Oilsmoke Jones Indeed it was.

[@oilsmokejones3452]

John Ratko Boggling to me is how the tiny wings counter the torque much less fly the engine...lol

[@KowboyUSA]

Oilsmoke Jones It is amazing.

[@Endo-TAC]

+Bunnyshooter 223 the body can be aerodynamic but it wasn't like a wing of any form, the stubby wings were the only things that created lift, so yea, i think you should check more of it before posting a comment like that

[@homebuiltindoorplane]

Arthur Henderson and I were the last two people to shake hands with Steve Whitman in lakeland before he flew his ill fated flight back to Oshkosh. He was a great guy.

[@peglegnoid6139]

Oshkosh B'Gosh

[@bigtarheelfan]

Thanks for sharing this series!

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

Any Cessna pilot can also thank Steve Wittman for their main landing gear. He's the one that pioneered the steel leaf gear leg

[@agentorange153]

The Lockheed Vega, arguably the world's first "modern" aircraft!

[@agentorange153]

+Anthony Smith Would you believe it could fly from New York to Berlin nonstop?

[@MartinPereira-qn2mt]

Had to post it... love this video..... love the GeeBee also the part when they introduce the lockheed vega of amelia earhart at 12:44 is epic

[@buddwizr]

Great history.

[@skip19301]

I's Luv's this film.There is no sound as sweet as a big radial flying bye.

[@AlejandroIrausquin]

Excellent Brian! Now I can share the joy of watching FoF with my friends! Do you plan to upload the rest of the chapters???

[@boggy7665]

2:57 ( 3:14 ) Sound familiar to anybody? Steve Wittman's homebuilt has an Oldsmobile Rocket under the cowl!

[@sheryledolschenko4797]

So, my home built has a Northstar 32v V-8 under the cowl. 325HP and only 300lb is tuff.

[@HYPNOTICVIDEO]

Amelia was ahead of her time.

[@MartinPereira-qn2mt]

thats the intention but i lost em in a HDD screw up recently so as i get them back i will be uploading them :) but its haarrddd to get em so be patient and yeah this is a great tv show... probably the best about flight

[@AlejandroIrausquin]

Do not mention it, my system HDD went capuk on saturday...

[@oldgringo2001]

But where is the Travel Air Mystery Ship?

[@8aleph]

They didn't call the Gee bee the heebie gee bee for nothing

[@Axilur]

Didn't the US Air force fly P-26's in the early second world war? :D

[@oldgringo2001]

+Axilur The Philippine Air Force flew some. They didn't last long against Zeros.

[@carlosyjgiron7936]

Guatemalan marimba music

[@4u2cJoeD]

GBYwhat a racer. challange on aero ek

[@jonnybeck6723]

@ 17:56... what a woman!!!

[@garrington120]

Watched this for 30 seconds , realised it was American ..lol threw up and switched off

[@Mightiflier]

+Gary Tarr Jealousy knows no bounds. Stay green, friend.

[@fourfortyroadrunner]

+Gary Tarr I can only hope you are still throwing up. Enjoy the dry heaves shlzickt schtick

[@guy_incognito7538]

Donald Leavy *where

[@peterforden5917]

Whilst I understand where you are coming from as US documentaries are unashamedly chauvanistic, if you understand that this is about USA aircraft then its quite good, though almost no mention is made of foreign high speed records, which if I am correct the US held only one record (Hughes)from about 1929 to c1947 .otherwise this is a reasonable documentary though it as I said avoids mentioning that the US before ww2 was almost a backwater which it certainly isnt today!