At 18:11 I wrote *C-17 Spartan* - It is of course *C-27 Spartan* unless someone shrunk a Globemaster in the wash. - Apparently the Breitling submarine is a balloon thing of some importance. Mae culpa, I don’t do balloons. Good to know, thanks to the two people who pointed it out!
Blimey…I wish I had met you when I was there Chris. That would have been better than the display better than the C27 air display…which we thought was amazing!
@@RaytheonTechnologies_Official When the Canadians purchase an aircraft from the U.S or any other country they add an extra numeral to differentiate the aircraft in case maintenance is being performed or something where you need to know the special modifications on the aircraft (Canada usually modifies the aircraft for there specific functions ).
@@RaytheonTechnologies_Official And also because if we didn't constantly draw hard lines between us and the Yanks, we'd get socially absorbed very quickly. CF-188 instead of F/A-18, C-7 instead of M-16, Lieutenant instead of Lootenant, zed instead of zee, and of course our violent crime features a lot more knives than down south. Really, though, it's no different than Atlas C.1 versus A-400. Local designation for local use.
@@davydatwood3158 down here (Australia) we just use the American names, it's never caused any issues AFAIK. But then again, nobody's ever going to confuse an Aussie accent for a Seppo, so we're not dealing with that particular issue.
Tomcats AN/AWG9 and Phoenix missiles predate F-15. That system allowed the Tomcat to track 24 airborne targets, display 18 on screen, and engage 6 at once with the AIM-54 Phoenix missiles
Bit of trivia - the Tomcat would never be loaded with six AIM-54s unless they expected to expend several of them, because with six loaded it exceeded its weight limit for landing on the carrier, so they'd have to drop two to get them down to four, which was within the weight limit - and the CO dislikes having to explain why his pilots are dropping Million-dollar missiles in the ocean.
@seanmalloy7249 oh I know. But it was possible, not practiced, but possible. If a shooting war broke out. It's likely the 6 Phoenix load out might have been utilized. But for fleet defense and patrol the super heavy load out was wasteful
I can confirm that Norway use the British convention for our squadrons, aka 3-3-0, 3-3-1 etc (not 33-1 or three hundred and thirty-one). We do have a "historical" wing. The former boss of the 132 Air Wing ("TinTin") is among many things flying the Spitfire. Out of the original "Norwegian" RAF squadrons during WW2, the 330, 331, 332, 333 and 334 still fly in different guises (fighter, SAR, transport ...). If you have not visited, the aerospace museum in Bodø is pretty excellent with the Norwegian-produced "Kaje" (so rare that it makes the U-2 feel like it was mass-produced for Amazon), Gloster Gladiator, Starfighter, Thunderjet, Thunderflash, Mosquito, F-5 and even some Junkers, Messerschmitt and the U-2 on display in addition to much more.
I used to work right next to the runway at Moffett Field when NASA was flying their ER-2 (U2 derivative) out of there. They'd get about halfway down the runway, rotate, and absolutely leap into the air! The sound was intense, and you would continue to hear it even after you couldn't see the orange dot of the tailpipe any more. A co-worker (RIP, Ron!) used to fly them; apparently they spent most of their time right in the "coffin corner" of the envelope. You had to be really on top of your airspeed, because stall and mach buffet were only a few knots apart up at operation altitude. Must have been exhausting to fly!!
In 1976, I was 13 and living in Las Vegas (still am) and my dad worked at a section of Nellis AFB called "Range Group." He got us tickets to an airshow, and since this was right after Vietnam, the whole tarmac was full of F-4s and F-111s. At one point, a new plane took off that I had never seen before. Shortly after getting airborne, it took off at a 90 degree angle, and just kept going. The damn thing was like a rocket. That was my introduction to the F-15 almost 50 years ago. An awesome plane then and still going. Sadly, because of the latest energy crisis, the Thunderbirds were flying T-38s, but a few years later they adopted the F-16. It was a great time to be an air enthusiast. I've seen (and sometimes sat in)nearly everything else since, including F-22s and F-35s, B-1s and B-2s, but nothing will every impress me like that first look at an F-15.
Tornado has a Ferranti terrain seeking radar for low level flying made in Edinburgh Scotland, my dad worked there. A lot of people used to work there they were Scotlands biggest technical employer for many years. I recently met an old guy in a pub that worked on the Tornado inertial guidance and moving map display, analog based on microfilm. My dad managed a bunch of their radar etc factories.
The Ferranti site still exists, but no one knows who owns it anymore... Not because it's a secret, it's just it changes every 6 months and confuses everyone.
Really funny to see random vehicle/watch companies just not getting what air shows and their target audiences are. Also weird to see Drachinifel out of the water. But awesome to see you two having fun together.
Drach when Chris knew nothing about the Simpsons. This is what an English guy looks like when he is utterly astonished. edit: it is at 17:03 and of course it is indexed.
Picking him to do this video is a brilliant move. His channel is incredibly well respected and he seems a proper top fella. Much respect. Didn't know he would be working with/for you.
Looks like you and Drach had a great time. I knew it was him immediately, even from behind, he has no stealth mode. We need a naval aviation and carrier collaboration with you two. Cheers from Texas.
I do love me some airshows. I would love to see a typhoon and spitfire fly in here the US. My favorite is the F-22 Raptor. The performance and Maneuvers are incredible. You can feel the engines in every cell of your body. Must see!
Superb, Chris! Delighted to see the RCAF mentioned and in the background, given my dad's 35 years of service with the RCAF as an Operations Research Scientist subsequent to serving as a teenager in the Fleet Air Arm on Seafires...he corresponded with Adolf Galland as an old man. Thanks for such excellent content.
I was there on Sunday! First time I've been to an airshow at anywhere near this scale, it was like being in nirvana. I've got to give special mention to the Italian air force C27 Spartan flying display, I've never seen a cargo plane that size get flown like a fighter jet until now. Also the Royal Jordanian Falcons, their flight lead flew like he had a death wish, was remarkable skill. Likewise for the Slovenian (IIRC) Pilatus PC-9 display. Both of those were incredible for prop aircraft. The Red Arrows were awesome of course, and I felt privileged to see the Patrouille Suisse fly the F5 with such incredible skill. The Qatari F15 was seriously impressive, seeing that thing not only rocket off the deck in typical F15 fashion but then also pull off some ridiculous, almost Flanker-esque high-alpha stunts was really surprising, incredible marketing for this new generation of F15 models. But seeing so many incredible aircraft close up and on the ground was equally great. Overall it was a great weekend, will definitely attend again next year.
Oh the Tonka, envious that the Luftwaffe still fly them .... would love to still hear them through our glens here. Oh, rivals Seb Vettel for humour.... who'd have thought it... Germans with humour :)
Nice to see you again at the show Chris. Small correction re: the Finnish team, altho the Midnight Hawks do normally fly the Mk51, they were in the 66 (the two-tone jets) for this show.
@@MilitaryAviationHistory It's a capsule that is hung from a Rozière balloon for high altitude trips. It only (unintentionally) becomes a sub when the balloon collapses over water.
Absolutely excellent video! The only thing that grated my nerves was seeing the 74 Tiger Typhoon with the Green eye on the Port Canard and Red eye on the Starboard Canard... I can't get it out of my head!
Norwegian here. I, at least, say tre-tre-to-skvadron. So three-three-two. Cool that you were standing infront of what looked like a Vampire while asking that. I once saw a Vampire flying over Oslo, to my great pleasure.
I have a vague and distant memory of reading that the F-16 could roll so fast that they had to artificially limit it to 720°/second to avoid neck problems. Probably AvLeak way back in the day. Who knows, it might even be a real memory of a real fact.
@harrywright6544 F-104 was the widow maker, F-16 the lawn dart. Being the first mass produced and fielded fighter with a fly-by-wire gave it a developmental and early introduction safety record that's positively abysmal by current standards.
With the 2 canadian AF planes at the show, how are they protecting their country? LOL only kidding Canada. We know you really have 5 planes. Great video MAH
I'd have died if I was working there this year with the Air Cadets to find you and Drachinifel wandering around together 😂 Sorry for last year's weather, I was there for that disaster.
I missed the Portuguese KC-390, it won the Concours d’Elegance of 2024. BTW, it's a good plane you should talk about, since its coming to the Netheralnds and Austria.
I go to a few airshows and have tried to deal with folks walking in front of you while taking photos. Most folks are very gracious and will try to not get in your shot. My work-around has been to use a monopod and raise the camera above people's heads. This might be something to consider for your videos?? I did like the idea of a step-stool, though. Very tempting, but the monopod is easier to carry.
When I was groundcrew on XV squadron we would often go to Goose bay for the low flying. The jets would come back with fir tree branches caught between the wing tanks and pylons.
In all seriousness thou... I miss the times when you could visit 1 airshow and see EVERYTHING that aviation has to offer. Soviet, Russian, American, British... Good times...
Only made the friday show, but was such a quality day for a half day! Will be hard to top in terms of what was packed i to the 4.5hrs (and the F-4 arrivals!)
To be fair, my family vacation house outside Blowing Rock, NC has a driveway about as steep as that range rover is parked at. Though we park where it's flat at the bottom of it. 😅
9:06 no a range rover in it's natural habitat is in the wrong lane with an angry Karen at the wheel or if they've gone "off road "... parked on the pavement! 🤨
To be fair to Bremont, people into aviation usually like all types of cool cutting gear regardless of area. The F15-QA is the most powerful F-15. So, very cool.
Nope, the F-14 Tomcat was the first production aircraft that can track and attack multiple individual targets. The F-15 can do it around 30 years after the Tomcat.
Unpopular opinion: I LOVE that watch companies and car companies are supporting air shows! Love it! I don't care about relevance, I want them to sponsor TH-cam channels. Watches and Range Rovers for everyone!
There's a specific type of watch known as a pilot watch, so companies who sell them will want to be associated with planes and all the imagery around them.
In Denmark there have been problems due to the F35 noice, the Government tried to sell it off as being "as" noisy as the F16 (ha!). Then they made a law which basically said "so what".
As a Norwegian I've always used 3-3-2, not three hundred and thirty two. Cant say Ive ever heard a military officer do the "hundred" version either, always the UK way
Breitling didn't bring a submarine ! It's the nacelle of "Breitling Orbiter", the Balloon (hot air + gaz) in which Bertrand Piccard and Bryan Jones flew around the world !
a quick comment ... thanks for the look at the A-4N! I used to work on A-4M's and TA-4's, so I'm always happy to see an airworthy Skyhawk. I recently saw a photo of these aggressor Skyhawks and noticed that an IRST was added. Does that suggest that the actual adversaries are using IRST routinely? It does seem that stealth rewards not blasting microwaves all over the place, and that passively looking at all parts of the EM spectrum is a better technique.
Mig 29 and SU27 family are fitted with them . Can't recall seeing the A-4 at any airshow in the UK I ever went to when I did do them back in the 1980's and 90's. First one I remember seeing was on the USS Intrepid museum last year. The week after I got back from the USA, I had an A-4 fly over my house in formation with an Alpha Jet!! They were based at RAF Lakenheath for an exercise.
Ireland has recently purchased a couple of those C295s in an attempt to stem the flow of cocaine across our 1000km western coastline. We are currently supplying most of Europe. Sorry about that.
It is quite fashinating to see whilst many of the modern fighter systems look quite similar at first glance when you start talking about how they operate the doctrinal design choices are worlds apart. Watched a video from Swedish People and Defence conference from earlier this summer and its was Lockheed and SAAB talking about how they implement new system designs and how they see the future. Lockheed was quite proud talking on how they had designed a new update in the digital steering system and how they had worked close with the allied nations to get it out. He ended it with the information that it took 13 years from start to finish. Then the conferencier asked SAABs representative how long it would take them beeing a smaller company and all. SAAB's representative said that it was intresting to hear how lockheed had been doing it and that they to had recently finished a similar update for Gripen E. But whilst the F35 had taken 13 years the Gripen E Update had only taken 2 weeks from start to finish. The reason was not whose plane was best but how diffrent they worked to achieve the same result. We see it to currently in Aerospace vehicles with Starship from space X working more like SAAB and Boeing with its starliner Working more like Lockheed. It was also intresting how diffrent they saw the future of fighter jets. Lockheed leaning more towards the traditional western belief of needing to design a whole new system from the wheels up from scratch again whilst SAAB saw a much more digital future with focus on cumputers more than airframe. It will be intresting to see who in the end will be more right. best regards.
At 18:11 I wrote *C-17 Spartan* - It is of course *C-27 Spartan* unless someone shrunk a Globemaster in the wash.
- Apparently the Breitling submarine is a balloon thing of some importance. Mae culpa, I don’t do balloons. Good to know, thanks to the two people who pointed it out!
IS this the one where the pilot went mental, barrel rolls and loop-de-loops in a damn transport XD
The F35b is from 207 Sqn not 201 Sqn - 201 Sqn doesn’t exist - sorry as a member of 207 I had to say @militaryaviationHistory
@@andyjohn2211 hey Andy, what an annoying typo - 207 Sqn at RAF Marham ofc
Blimey…I wish I had met you when I was there Chris. That would have been better than the display better than the C27 air display…which we thought was amazing!
It’s nice that the Spitfire escorted the CF-188 to make sure none of the other planes hurt it.
@@DanielsPolitics1I understand the leading C, but what's with the trailing numeral? Canada, ju got some splainin' to do
@@RaytheonTechnologies_Official When the Canadians purchase an aircraft from the U.S or any other country they add an extra numeral to differentiate the aircraft in case maintenance is being performed or something where you need to know the special modifications on the aircraft (Canada usually modifies the aircraft for there specific functions ).
@@RaytheonTechnologies_Official And also because if we didn't constantly draw hard lines between us and the Yanks, we'd get socially absorbed very quickly. CF-188 instead of F/A-18, C-7 instead of M-16, Lieutenant instead of Lootenant, zed instead of zee, and of course our violent crime features a lot more knives than down south.
Really, though, it's no different than Atlas C.1 versus A-400. Local designation for local use.
@@davydatwood3158 down here (Australia) we just use the American names, it's never caused any issues AFAIK. But then again, nobody's ever going to confuse an Aussie accent for a Seppo, so we're not dealing with that particular issue.
@@davydatwood3158Not just socially. Trump did try to buy Greenland because he wanted access to the arctic. Well, Greenland isn't for sale, so...
Tomcats AN/AWG9 and Phoenix missiles predate F-15. That system allowed the Tomcat to track 24 airborne targets, display 18 on screen, and engage 6 at once with the AIM-54 Phoenix missiles
Bit of trivia - the Tomcat would never be loaded with six AIM-54s unless they expected to expend several of them, because with six loaded it exceeded its weight limit for landing on the carrier, so they'd have to drop two to get them down to four, which was within the weight limit - and the CO dislikes having to explain why his pilots are dropping Million-dollar missiles in the ocean.
@seanmalloy7249 oh I know. But it was possible, not practiced, but possible. If a shooting war broke out. It's likely the 6 Phoenix load out might have been utilized. But for fleet defense and patrol the super heavy load out was wasteful
The Phoenix missile was originally designed to be carried by the A-12. The interceptor version of the SR-71 black bird.
Almost spit my gravy. Drachinifel!!!!
He needs an airplane hat, too.
He'd probably hold out for one of a Supermarine Walrus
I'm disappointed he didn't drag Matt Easton along as we all fence in the same club (and Matt loves planes too)
I too was happy to see him :)
I can confirm that Norway use the British convention for our squadrons, aka 3-3-0, 3-3-1 etc (not 33-1 or three hundred and thirty-one). We do have a "historical" wing. The former boss of the 132 Air Wing ("TinTin") is among many things flying the Spitfire.
Out of the original "Norwegian" RAF squadrons during WW2, the 330, 331, 332, 333 and 334 still fly in different guises (fighter, SAR, transport ...).
If you have not visited, the aerospace museum in Bodø is pretty excellent with the Norwegian-produced "Kaje" (so rare that it makes the U-2 feel like it was mass-produced for Amazon), Gloster Gladiator, Starfighter, Thunderjet, Thunderflash, Mosquito, F-5 and even some Junkers, Messerschmitt and the U-2 on display in addition to much more.
I used to work right next to the runway at Moffett Field when NASA was flying their ER-2 (U2 derivative) out of there. They'd get about halfway down the runway, rotate, and absolutely leap into the air! The sound was intense, and you would continue to hear it even after you couldn't see the orange dot of the tailpipe any more.
A co-worker (RIP, Ron!) used to fly them; apparently they spent most of their time right in the "coffin corner" of the envelope. You had to be really on top of your airspeed, because stall and mach buffet were only a few knots apart up at operation altitude. Must have been exhausting to fly!!
Autopilot was your friend for most of the flight.
In 1976, I was 13 and living in Las Vegas (still am) and my dad worked at a section of Nellis AFB called "Range Group." He got us tickets to an airshow, and since this was right after Vietnam, the whole tarmac was full of F-4s and F-111s. At one point, a new plane took off that I had never seen before. Shortly after getting airborne, it took off at a 90 degree angle, and just kept going. The damn thing was like a rocket. That was my introduction to the F-15 almost 50 years ago. An awesome plane then and still going. Sadly, because of the latest energy crisis, the Thunderbirds were flying T-38s, but a few years later they adopted the F-16. It was a great time to be an air enthusiast. I've seen (and sometimes sat in)nearly everything else since, including F-22s and F-35s, B-1s and B-2s, but nothing will every impress me like that first look at an F-15.
The hat, did you get the hat?
That concarde on the Finish Hornet is actually Finish bling. Most Fins I know would think so much decoration crass and glitzy...
Tornado has a Ferranti terrain seeking radar for low level flying made in Edinburgh Scotland, my dad worked there. A lot of people used to work there they were Scotlands biggest technical employer for many years. I recently met an old guy in a pub that worked on the Tornado inertial guidance and moving map display, analog based on microfilm. My dad managed a bunch of their radar etc factories.
The Ferranti site still exists, but no one knows who owns it anymore...
Not because it's a secret, it's just it changes every 6 months and confuses everyone.
Okay, Chris, you sounded like a landser circa 1944, western front. "The search for the luftwaffe continues."
I have to say that the Ef-2000 noise is like it's ripping the fabric of sky apart when it's doing it's thing. Love it.
Nice to see 3 of our birds there. With love from Turkey
It's the three-three-two squadron 😊 greetings from Norway!
I'm glad the weather cooperated this year. 2023 was a little too damp for my liking.
Great coverage, thanks Chris.
Have to say i adore how drachinifel looks like has ready for a hike whilst chris is wondering around in casual business where with no bag in sight 😂
Really funny to see random vehicle/watch companies just not getting what air shows and their target audiences are.
Also weird to see Drachinifel out of the water. But awesome to see you two having fun together.
It's just their standard hospitality setup. RIAT isn't that significant in their calendar.
Three Three Two Squadron, you got it right the first time, Bis.
Thanks!
I love how excited Chris gets when he sees a Tornado.
Breitling was celebrating the fact that there are more Planes at the bottom of the ocean than there are submarines in the sky
@@WerWeiss I just began uncontrollably cackling in a quiet, yet quite busy coffee shop, thank you.
Drach when Chris knew nothing about the Simpsons. This is what an English guy looks like when he is utterly astonished. edit: it is at 17:03 and of course it is indexed.
I believe Hawk T.2 is supposed to be Hawk Tuah. Sorry, I'll see myself out now.
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Glad you got the better weather this year... far more enjoyable when it's not hammering it down.
Yessss, I remember ‘testing’ the radar altimeter on my T-38s. It didn’t have one, but damn if we didn’t test it often😎
Turkey and Germany have some of the coolest special liveries going. Loved the Canadian 100th Flyby as well.
Picking him to do this video is a brilliant move.
His channel is incredibly well respected and he seems a proper top fella.
Much respect. Didn't know he would be working with/for you.
Looks like you and Drach had a great time. I knew it was him immediately, even from behind, he has no stealth mode. We need a naval aviation and carrier collaboration with you two. Cheers from Texas.
I do love me some airshows. I would love to see a typhoon and spitfire fly in here the US. My favorite is the F-22 Raptor. The performance and Maneuvers are incredible. You can feel the engines in every cell of your body. Must see!
Superb, Chris! Delighted to see the RCAF mentioned and in the background, given my dad's 35 years of service with the RCAF as an Operations Research Scientist subsequent to serving as a teenager in the Fleet Air Arm on Seafires...he corresponded with Adolf Galland as an old man. Thanks for such excellent content.
I was there on Sunday! First time I've been to an airshow at anywhere near this scale, it was like being in nirvana. I've got to give special mention to the Italian air force C27 Spartan flying display, I've never seen a cargo plane that size get flown like a fighter jet until now. Also the Royal Jordanian Falcons, their flight lead flew like he had a death wish, was remarkable skill. Likewise for the Slovenian (IIRC) Pilatus PC-9 display. Both of those were incredible for prop aircraft. The Red Arrows were awesome of course, and I felt privileged to see the Patrouille Suisse fly the F5 with such incredible skill. The Qatari F15 was seriously impressive, seeing that thing not only rocket off the deck in typical F15 fashion but then also pull off some ridiculous, almost Flanker-esque high-alpha stunts was really surprising, incredible marketing for this new generation of F15 models. But seeing so many incredible aircraft close up and on the ground was equally great. Overall it was a great weekend, will definitely attend again next year.
Thanks guys, great video ! Informative & humerous. The Typhoon inflight footage looks amazing.
Oh the Tonka, envious that the Luftwaffe still fly them .... would love to still hear them through our glens here. Oh, rivals Seb Vettel for humour.... who'd have thought it... Germans with humour :)
I believe the F14 had the ability to track and attack multiple targets well before the F15.
Nice to see you again at the show Chris. Small correction re: the Finnish team, altho the Midnight Hawks do normally fly the Mk51, they were in the 66 (the two-tone jets) for this show.
Surprisingly, that Breitling Orbiter 2 'submarine', is in fact an aircraft.
Well…debatable
@@MilitaryAviationHistory It's a capsule that is hung from a Rozière balloon for high altitude trips. It only (unintentionally) becomes a sub when the balloon collapses over water.
@@anotheruser9876made my point for me ;)
Everything is an aircraft with the right amount of propulsion.
@@mikedittsche Cue the F4 Phantom meme.
That Luftwaffe pilot speaks better English than most of the British population.
The weather perfect after last years abomination. Well done Chris, still like a schoolboy in a sweetshop😂
Bismarck and Drachnifel! What a wonderful duo walking around!
Absolutely excellent video! The only thing that grated my nerves was seeing the 74 Tiger Typhoon with the Green eye on the Port Canard and Red eye on the Starboard Canard... I can't get it out of my head!
very funny , love it UK
Norwegian here. I, at least, say tre-tre-to-skvadron. So three-three-two.
Cool that you were standing infront of what looked like a Vampire while asking that. I once saw a Vampire flying over Oslo, to my great pleasure.
I have a vague and distant memory of reading that the F-16 could roll so fast that they had to artificially limit it to 720°/second to avoid neck problems. Probably AvLeak way back in the day. Who knows, it might even be a real memory of a real fact.
why it was known as the Lawn Dart.
@@cladglas wrong aircraft, the F-104 was known as the lawn dart.
@@LEFTY073 tell Maj. Moe, fighter pilot & ALO at Ft. Sill, FA School, during mid-late '80s. i'll accept his expertise & take his word on the subject.
@harrywright6544 F-104 was the widow maker, F-16 the lawn dart. Being the first mass produced and fielded fighter with a fly-by-wire gave it a developmental and early introduction safety record that's positively abysmal by current standards.
Its so nice of the Red Arrows to sport the colours of France!
Super walkabout, I enjoyed it and was pleasantly surprised by the Drach cameo.
This was adorable to watch. Especially when he sees the Tornados. Hehe.
A great tour of a magnificint air show. I'm lone of these lurking fans who doesn't usually have much to say except keep up your great youtbe work!
Good to see Mr D keeping you in line.
Just go to the Typhoon Stand! Excellance personified 😅
2:56 that A 4 flew this morning over Brunsbüttel and Cuxhaven. With this big tanks it looked for a moment like a Me 262😅
With the 2 canadian AF planes at the show, how are they protecting their country? LOL only kidding Canada. We know you really have 5 planes. Great video MAH
at least we'll have F35... in 2032. Those poor hornets have to hang in there a while longer
Very professional, also- didn't know I needed more Drach in mah (see what I did there?) videos, but I'm here for it!
This was a great video! Thanks for sharing!
I'd have died if I was working there this year with the Air Cadets to find you and Drachinifel wandering around together 😂 Sorry for last year's weather, I was there for that disaster.
I missed the Portuguese KC-390, it won the Concours d’Elegance of 2024. BTW, it's a good plane you should talk about, since its coming to the Netheralnds and Austria.
I go to a few airshows and have tried to deal with folks walking in front of you while taking photos. Most folks are very gracious and will try to not get in your shot. My work-around has been to use a monopod and raise the camera above people's heads. This might be something to consider for your videos?? I did like the idea of a step-stool, though. Very tempting, but the monopod is easier to carry.
Try growing taller! :D
When I was groundcrew on XV squadron we would often go to Goose bay for the low flying. The jets would come back with fir tree branches caught between the wing tanks and pylons.
How did you trick Drach into joining you? Did you tell him about the sub?!
Hahaha, thought that was him
Drach seems to hang out with almost everyone who's TH-cam videos I watch.
@@rlosable it's nice to have a hobby as well as a passion 😀
Heh, I was thinking I don't know who this German guy is, but he must be important because Drach is his cameraman and bag carrier!
@@jimb9063 all of us have an English manservant, it is tradition!
The Russians didn't send any of their spiffy, new planes to show off? How odd...
I saw a Hip by the Lithuanians but they are soon changing to Black Hawks iirc
In all seriousness thou... I miss the times when you could visit 1 airshow and see EVERYTHING that aviation has to offer. Soviet, Russian, American, British... Good times...
The Russians sent a tank turret.
@@daDuke42 an Abrams turret.
@@NationZed No, not an Abrams. The turrets he's talking about were sent air mail.
Chris I was just in Eurpoe and I would have gone to this event!
It's great to see the Chippie get a mention.
Only made the friday show, but was such a quality day for a half day! Will be hard to top in terms of what was packed i to the 4.5hrs (and the F-4 arrivals!)
Love seeing the Rino's at the start of the video.
The Hornet's gear doesn't have stories, it has PTSD.
Norway uses "Three Three Two" for the airforce there.
Near my home they have the 330 squadron which does helicopter rescue along the coast.
I was there for the whole 6 days with FRIAT and am lucky enough to live about 20 mins down the road. Best airshow in the world, period.
Nice! What a week
Thank you very much for the show and tell
To be fair, my family vacation house outside Blowing Rock, NC has a driveway about as steep as that range rover is parked at. Though we park where it's flat at the bottom of it. 😅
One of your best ever videos.
Wow it’s not raining, well done!
9:06 no a range rover in it's natural habitat is in the wrong lane with an angry Karen at the wheel or if they've gone "off road "... parked on the pavement! 🤨
Hes unleashing his inner child, so cute
I propose a Patreon for getting drach some new sunglasses, they’ve come iconic but might be time for a refresh. He needs aviators like yours..
We need a picture of you in your Spitfire hat!!! Great show!
So Christoph … did you get yourself a plush Spitfire and pin it to a cap🧐😁?
Great you are doing the static this way.
To be fair to Bremont, people into aviation usually like all types of cool cutting gear regardless of area. The F15-QA is the most powerful F-15. So, very cool.
4:20 lmao that dude in the back doing air quotations when he says "most powerful jet engine put on a fighter ever"
Nope, the F-14 Tomcat was the first production aircraft that can track and attack multiple individual targets. The F-15 can do it around 30 years after the Tomcat.
4:19, props to the photobomber
Fantastic show this year.
You think the Tornado can fly low until a Buccaneer passes below it. They did that together in Iraq to penetrate below radar.
I think the rest of the world is still looking for the luftwaffe as well 😂. Sorry couldn’t resist.
Unpopular opinion: I LOVE that watch companies and car companies are supporting air shows! Love it! I don't care about relevance, I want them to sponsor TH-cam channels. Watches and Range Rovers for everyone!
There's a specific type of watch known as a pilot watch, so companies who sell them will want to be associated with planes and all the imagery around them.
That is indeed a glorious hat.
I enjoy Chris's distain for horizontally challenged aircraft with their blades on top
In Denmark there have been problems due to the F35 noice, the Government tried to sell it off as being "as" noisy as the F16 (ha!). Then they made a law which basically said "so what".
Thanks MAH
Just got back from Oshkosh. Looks like your airshow was cool as well. And Drach as a bonus, did you tell him it was a boat show?
15:50 "they're pretty decent - keep it up." Well, I guess that's...good, right?
Best compliment one could aspire to from a Brit!
a wild Drach appears! haha
As a Norwegian I've always used 3-3-2, not three hundred and thirty two. Cant say Ive ever heard a military officer do the "hundred" version either, always the UK way
I was only there for 5 days this year. I feel I missed out….
Breitling didn't bring a submarine ! It's the nacelle of "Breitling Orbiter", the Balloon (hot air + gaz) in which Bertrand Piccard and Bryan Jones flew around the world !
Honestly looked like a submarine to me and everyone I talked to
@@MilitaryAviationHistory I mean in the end it's a pressurised capsule built to move inside a fluid so it makes sense 😁
a quick comment ... thanks for the look at the A-4N! I used to work on A-4M's and TA-4's, so I'm always happy to see an airworthy Skyhawk. I recently saw a photo of these aggressor Skyhawks and noticed that an IRST was added. Does that suggest that the actual adversaries are using IRST routinely? It does seem that stealth rewards not blasting microwaves all over the place, and that passively looking at all parts of the EM spectrum is a better technique.
Mig 29 and SU27 family are fitted with them . Can't recall seeing the A-4 at any airshow in the UK I ever went to when I did do them back in the 1980's and 90's. First one I remember seeing was on the USS Intrepid museum last year. The week after I got back from the USA, I had an A-4 fly over my house in formation with an Alpha Jet!! They were based at RAF Lakenheath for an exercise.
Ireland has recently purchased a couple of those C295s in an attempt to stem the flow of cocaine across our 1000km western coastline. We are currently supplying most of Europe. Sorry about that.
Red Arrows- 9 aircraft ! who else flies 9 in a formation ?
Brit comment over, your video or RIAT was Awesome !
That was great fun! Now, when do you go to Navy Days with Drachinifel?
The first 27 seconds of the video is enough for a like.
It is quite fashinating to see whilst many of the modern fighter systems look quite similar at first glance when you start talking about how they operate the doctrinal design choices are worlds apart.
Watched a video from Swedish People and Defence conference from earlier this summer and its was Lockheed and SAAB talking about how they implement new system designs and how they see the future.
Lockheed was quite proud talking on how they had designed a new update in the digital steering system and how they had worked close with the allied nations to get it out.
He ended it with the information that it took 13 years from start to finish.
Then the conferencier asked SAABs representative how long it would take them beeing a smaller company and all.
SAAB's representative said that it was intresting to hear how lockheed had been doing it and that they to had recently finished a similar update for Gripen E.
But whilst the F35 had taken 13 years the Gripen E Update had only taken 2 weeks from start to finish.
The reason was not whose plane was best but how diffrent they worked to achieve the same result.
We see it to currently in Aerospace vehicles with Starship from space X working more like SAAB and Boeing with its starliner Working more like Lockheed.
It was also intresting how diffrent they saw the future of fighter jets.
Lockheed leaning more towards the traditional western belief of needing to design a whole new system from the wheels up from scratch again whilst SAAB saw a much more digital future with focus on cumputers more than airframe.
It will be intresting to see who in the end will be more right.
best regards.
great video !