MAIW Military Video Collection

[maddog65]

Solo Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fywH5akg5E

[Garysb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S7Mj33jhek


Now this is what you call a fly past!


Gary

[reconmercs]

For the "Soldier On The Ground" mini-documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCtJb39HssA

This part covers the Apaches of the task force, you can see the other parts by following the link, VERY intense part @ 2:33

[djnocturnal]

Top 10 low pass flyovers. Wow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dr2ZB36p9Y

[MIKE JG]

Sweet! #3 had to be the best though, that guy has some BIG balls!

[djnocturnal]

Sweet! #3 had to be the best though, that guy has some BIG balls!

I agree, something about #2 tho...crazy!

[Blank Fang]

Retro but cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOn_UBI ... playnext=2
Still love tose Hunters!
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Willy

[hawk_sh]

T-45 carrier launch and trap filmed with helmet mounted camera

http://vholdr.com/video/lap-around-boat

[maddog65]

Check out this modified C-130
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udbsb3cX ... re=related

Would have been great if they got the bugs worked out.

Operation Credible Sport was a United States military aircraft modification plan in late 1980 to prepare for a second rescue attempt of the hostages held in Iran using C-130 cargo planes modified with rocket engines. Its followup project in 1981-82, Credible Sport II, used one of the original aircraft as the YMC-130 prototype for the MC-130H Combat Talon II.

The Credible Sport program was a developmental project to create capabilites for a "Super STOL" aircraft to use in rescuing the hostages after the dramatic failure of Operation Eagle Claw. Eagle Claw failed when a Sea Stallion helicopter crashed into a parked C-130 Hercules in the Iranian desert, killing 8 servicemen. Credible Sport was abandoned as unnecessary after the election of Ronald Reagan as President in November, 1980. The program was developed to be a quick strike, simplified plan when overall plans and military exercises developed for Project Honey Badger to implement a second rescue attempt grew to involve over a hundred primary aircraft and large numbers of ground troops.

The Credible Sport concept called for modified C-130 Hercules cargo planes to land in the Amjadien (soccer) Stadium across the street from the American Embassy in Tehran and airlift out the rescued hostages. The aircraft would then be flown to and landed on an aircraft carrier for immediate medical treatment of injured hostages. Three MC-130 Combat Talon crews (all Eagle Claw veterans) were assigned to fly the three aircraft drawn from the 463rd Military Airlift Wing, with the concept plan calling for the mission to originate in the United States, reaching Iran by five in flight refuelings.

The test bed aircraft (74-2065) was ready for its first test flight on September 18, 1980, just three weeks after the project was initiated. The first fully modified aircraft, AF Serial No. 74-1683, was delivered on October 17 to TAB 1, a disused auxiliary airfield at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Between October 19 and October 28, numerous flights were made testing various aspects, including the double-slotted flaps system, which enabled the C-130 to fly at 85 knots on final approach at just an eight-degree glide slope. All aspects worked flawlessly, and a full profile test was scheduled for October 29.

During the test, the Lockheed crew determined that the computer used to command the firing of the rockets during the landing sequence needed further calibration to perform the crucial firing sequence during landing, and elected to manually input commands. The reverse-mounted (forward facing) eight ASROC rockets were situated in pairs on the upper curvature of the fuselage behind the cockpit, and at the mid-point of each side of the fuselage beneath the uppers. Testing had determined that the upper pairs, fired sequentially, could be ignited while still airborne (specifically, at 20 feet), the lower pairs could only be fired after the aircraft was on the ground. The flight engineer, blinded by the firing of the upper deceleration rockets, thought the aircraft was on the runway and fired the lower set early, while the descent-braking rockets did not fire at all. Later unofficial disclaimers alleged to have been made by some members of the Lockheed test crew asserted that the lower rockets fired themselves through an undetermined computer or electrical malfunction, which at the same time failed to fire the descent-braking rockets.

As a result, the aircraft's forward flight vector was reduced to zero, dropping it to the runway and tearing off the starboard wing between the third and fourth engines. During rollout the trailing wing ignited a fire, but crash response teams extinguished the fire within eight seconds of the aircraft stopping, enabling the crew to exit the aircraft without injury. 74-1683 was destroyed but most of its unique systems were salvaged.

[delbydoo]

Very interesting, a Her'rier, or is it a Harre'cules? Wouldn't liked to have been the crew, or even less, if it had become operational, the first front-line crew to use the system......jeesh!!

[maddog65]

Fifi flys again!!!

The Commemorative Air Force's Boeing B-29 Superfortress flew Thursday morning at Midland International Airport, taking to the air for the first time since 2004 and reclaiming its title as the only flyable aircraft of its type. "She ran like a top," Paul Stojkov, one of the aircraft's pilots said of the aircraft's 39-minute flight. The hop was made possible by volunteer work, the support of the CAF team and financial contributors like Jim Cavanaugh. That combination saw FIFI fitted with new custom built engines that combine the R-3350-95W and R-3350-26WD engines. FIFI's next flight is expected on Saturday, August 7, and visitors are invited.

Saturday at 7 a.m., the CAF Airpower Museum will open to those interested in watching pre-flight preparations. Tickets for the museum cost $10 and, on the 7th, visitors will be ushered to the museum's main hangar for "an up-close view" prior to the flight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7PpA4Wx ... r_embedded

[maddog65]

How Germans park a Tornado
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIB5kYxP ... re=related

[maddog65]

2007 Blue Angels @ Oceana...the whole show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5A3y71v ... playnext=4

This is what can be expected this weekend.... not this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTv8MlEHutA

[Stewart Pearson]

Several Blue Angels clips have been posted, but we seem to have missed out Albert

Nice clip from inside "Bert" on display take off;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuaptIhsGIE

[Stewart Pearson]

Okay - so this one's about 32 years old, but still worth watching.

12 Squadron Buccaneers, Exercise Open Gate '78. Video has 4 parts;

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BunQvx4 ... re=channel
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztjKeKd ... re=channel
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2RZsnYY ... re=channel
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbCCR3V ... re=channel

[bismarck]

Not real. Thay have just started with this new model of the 339 for IL-2 simulator.
Frecce Tricolore Virtual
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFU4NxXRgQw

Giorgio

[djnocturnal]

thought this was pretty cool, especially since I will be there in August!
B-52 MITO departure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ7niLYSVFo

[Stewart Pearson]

thought this was pretty cool, especially since I will be there in August!
B-52 MITO departure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ7niLYSVFo

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!!!

[reconmercs]

P-51 gun cam footage over Japan during WWII
http://www.wimp.com/guncamera/

[maddog65]

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36549223828
Then click on the video on the page.
Nice video of VRC-40 Det One formation flying.