Low Flying in Wales
by Volker Weber
[Thanks, Hajo]
Comments
As cool as it may be to see a fighter plane bank to 60 degrees and cut past the side of a mountain at 450kts, it does not compare to the iron anatomy necessary to take a cargo plane traveling 200kts through that same canyon having to pull that same 60 degree bank. The first has more than enough envelope for the job and the other is at the edge of its abilities with no margin for error.
The most applause I ever heard at an air show from the airshow performers themselves came when a C-47 did it's photo fly-by at 160kts and banked to 70 degrees - they all knew that plane was never meant to do that and it was built in 1943.
Ehm... anyone has any clues on the music, who it is or what album etc? :-)
Thanks for posting this. Hadn't heard of Amy MacDonald before
A quick sampling with Shazam and voila..."On heavy rotation" ;)
The entire album "This Is The Life" is awesome, btw.
My skills at telling planes are really bad, but the Wikipedia has a nice overview of the ones seen in the movie. I'm not sure about the Tornado, though, as the tips of the wings in the movie are far more rounded off than the drawings in the Wikipedia. Do we have a special type of Tornado here?
@Philipp, I think that's just an optical effect from varying degrees of sweep on the wing. When it's fully open the wingtip looks quite pointy, when it's fully swept, it's cut back to the tail. Half way the wing tip is along the line of flight.
Thomas, Fabchannel has a short concert from her.
Volker, you caught me at one of my weakest spots... aircraft...
I just remembered one snail mail from more than 20 years ago from a friend of mine in England: "Have you seen that movie, 'Top Gun'? The storyline is complete crap, but the flying scenes are superb..." I have long forgotten what else he wrote, but these lines still linger.
But... why Scottish music in a Welsh scenario? (Just kidding!)
Low flying bah! Come to Scotland. On many occasions, both in the Southern Uplands and the Highlands, I've looked down (way down) into the cockpits of passing jets. They fly even lower over the Mill, where they use the railway bridge as a bomb aiming point. Volker can confirm.
Looking down on airplanes is nothing compared to the rumble from a close encounter!
And I loved the sound track. Amy was in here Boston recently and I found out too late to see her live.
Post a comment
Recent comments
Nick Shelness
on History of the Internet - a Motiongraphics documentary at 12:19
Nick Shelness
on History of the Internet - a Motiongraphics documentary at 12:03
Sebastian Grötsch
on Web-Centric Platform and New Palm Pre Phone to Debut Exclusively on Sprint at 09:56
Paul Mooney
on Web-Centric Platform and New Palm Pre Phone to Debut Exclusively on Sprint at 01:33
David Richardson
on Web-Centric Platform and New Palm Pre Phone to Debut Exclusively on Sprint at 23:56
Alexander Kluge
on Travelling vowe at 21:36
Sarah Iveys
on Bubble Breaker at 18:48
Stuart McIntyre
on View your Lotusphere Schedule on your Apple iPhone and iPod touch at 18:23
Volker Weber
on View your Lotusphere Schedule on your Apple iPhone and iPod touch at 18:12
Michael Sedlaczek
on View your Lotusphere Schedule on your Apple iPhone and iPod touch at 17:54
Ben Rose
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 17:02
Volker Weber
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 16:35
Kerr Rainey
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 14:40
Ben Rose
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 13:18
Kerr Rainey
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 12:47
Ben Rose
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 11:49
Mathias Ziolo
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 01:04
Alex Wokurka
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 23:14
Ragnar Schierholz
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 23:02
Volker Weber
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 21:53
Ben Poole
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 21:07
Pieterjan Lansbergen
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 21:03
Jan Tietze
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 20:48
Ben Rose
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 15:14
Ben Rose
on No surprises at the PhilNote at 14:46
Click here to subscribe
