Airplane Videos

MikeK said:

Tupolev TU-4

This is what happens when you land your new, big, cool bomber in the Soviet Union. They make it.

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Haha thats awesome! At first glance I thought it was a rather strange looking B-29.

isshinwhat said:

AC-130U... My favorite modern plane.

And I think fsx is Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

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There is a cool picture like that where it looks like it has demon wings, and yea thats what FSX is.

This is Flight Simulator 9 (AKA FS2004). The video quality does not do it justice but the screen shots certainly do:

YouTube - ‪RAF TORNADOS OVER FALKLANDS‬‏

I used my FS9 instead of FSX because I have more content for the Falklands in the earlier version.

isshinwhat said:

YouTube - ‪SFB 2009‬‏

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That video, for lack of a better term, is SICK! Super awesome video of the Rhino! Love it, thanks for posting!

BTW, I'm in heaven with this thread, I'm a fellow pilot as well. Got my PPL Nov. 2, 2002, and my IR on Aug. 2, 2005.

Alright, now I'm ready to contribute to this thread... first of all your question of the F-15-ish looking plane... I'm almost willing to bet my left kidney that it is NOT the Sukhoi but actually, you guessed it, an F-15. But, a NASA F-15 with canards (wing in front of main wing) (BTW, the canards are elevons from an F/A-18 Hornet)



Great videos here, by the way! It's been SUCH a long time since I have visited CF.

Here is a video I recently put together. It is a simple collection of photographs I have taken at my local airport over the last couple of years. Between two museums located literally, across the runway from each other, there are 17 regularly flying WWII fighters and bombers. Everything from a 1918 Curtiss JN-4D Jenny to a 1946 Grumman Bearcat, and even two B-25 Mitchells. And we have a DC-3 enroute.

Enjoy!

YouTube - ‪Historic Flight Foundation & Flying Heritage Collection Slideshow‬‏

That explains the American markings, thanks!

isshinwhat said:

The Russians went so far as to copy the "Boeing" name on the rudder pedals! "What co-py. Ess original Sove-yet design."

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B-29s weren't the only thing they ever copied from us. Here is the "Fat Man" uranium atomic bomb we dropped on Hiroshima:



And here is their "Joe 1" bomb, a nearly exact carbon copy (it used plutonium instead of uranium):



They did the same with our hydrogen bombs.

Wolseley said:

They did the same with our hydrogen bombs.

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Although they certainly copied plenty of our weapons, 1st generation Soviet thermonukes were independent designs. The Soviet Joe-4 was the first deliverable H-bomb in the world...though one could argue that it wasn't a "true" hydrogen bomb, 400kt isn't exactly a toy either. At any rate it was not a Teller-Ulam design, which is what the US was experimenting with at that time.