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This is the complete (and amazing!) 6+ minute original Lockheed video, showing the Hercules landing and taking off from the deck of an aircraft carrier. It also includes some great footage of a North American Fury, and an F-4 Phantom.
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A more elaborate -- and hilarious -- demonstration of the power of 58,000 pounds of thrust. From the BBC TV show, "Top Gear."
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In most parts of the world, this type of stunt would result in enforcement action action against the pilot -- but Russian GA is different. The guy flying this Wilga is a 737 captain and the co-pilot is a Tupolev-154 captain -- with their wives (both flight attendants for the same airline) sitting in the backseat, enjoying the ride!
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Here's a sight no one has seen in over 60 years -- a Messerschmitt ME-262 jet fighter flies in a 2006 airshow in Berlin, Germany!
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A Lockheed video showing the preparation for and execution of several record-setting flights, followed by the flight into the Farnborough air show back in 1974.
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This amazing video (excerpted from CNN) shows an aircraft deploying an all-aircraft parachute made by Ballistic Recovery Systems of St. Paul, MN, after colliding with a glider tow-plane. The video also shows deployments of BRS chutes on Cirrus aircraft, as well as interviews with the pilots.
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Amazing footage of a guy flying his RV-4 down a river at treetop height. The music is awesome, too!
Many have inquired about the music in this fantastic video. It's a song by Stephen Stills called "Treetop Flyer", and is available on the "Stills Alone" CD. (Information kindly provided by Jim Escudier.)
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Amateur video showing the crew shinnying down the escape rope as the plane burns, following the landing accident on December 18, 2003.
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An outstanding video showing excerpts from a recent L-39 jet more...
flight from Olathe, KS. Filmed from two different camera
angles, it shows the outstanding maneuverability of this Czech
fighter/trainer. (This aircraft has since been destroyed in a
tragic accident while filming a movie.
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This Cri-Cri (a French "commercial home-built" aircraft) is TINY, but those two itsy-bitsy engines give it ample power to do some pretty impressive aerobatics. Amazing!
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Watch in wide-eyed wonder as this Beech 1900 (that's a 19-passenger turbo-prop, boys and girls) does an incredible low-altitude flight down a river in Africa -- complete with a barrel roll!
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This remarkable footage shows the Sorensen disaster (above) from several different angles -- including two that were filmed frighteningly close to the impact point.
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Watch as this pilot shows consummate skill planting the big Boeing onto a very narrow, very short runway, for display in an aviation museum.
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