Quantum-Systems (Germany) just released a 360-degree flight experience video shot on the Quantum TRON, their award-winning fixed-wing VTOL hybrid UAV. Continue reading
Category Archives: Video
Dream Chaser Tow Tests at NASA Armstrong
In this 2-minute, 41-second video, Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) puts its Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle through a series of ground tests at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, to prepare for upcoming captive-carry and free-flight tests later this year. Continue reading
Messerschmitt Me-163B Komet Testing During WWII
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, designed by Alexander Lippisch, was a German rocket-powered fighter aircraft. It is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever to have been operational and the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1000 km/h (621 mph) in level flight. Continue reading
Grumman F7F Tigercat – Bad Kitty Tribute
The Grumman F7F Tigercat is a heavy fighter aircraft that served with the United States Navy (USN) and United States Marine Corps (USMC) from late in World War II until 1954. It was the first twin-engined fighter to be deployed by the USN. While the Tigercat was delivered too late to see combat in World War II, it saw action as a night fighter and attack aircraft during the Korean War. Continue reading
5 Corsairs at the Planes of Fame Airshow 2017
The Planes of Fame’s own F4U-1 was joined this year by 4 other Corsairs, Chuck Wentworth’s FG-1D, Lewis Air Legends FG-1D, the Freidkin ‘Comanche Fighters’ F4U-4, and an F4U-7 from the Erickson Aircraft Collection. Continue reading
Synchronised RC Plane Aerobatic Display
Super Gigantic RC Piper and Super Decathlon RC Model Airplanes at Hausen Flight day 2016 Continue reading
Royal International Air Tattoo Highlights
Some B-roll from the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) July 14 -15, 2017. The Air Tattoo held at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, is one of the UK’s premier outdoor events, returned this summer with an extravaganza of entertainment for all the family. Continue reading
Twenty P-51 Mustangs Form 51 Formation
On September 28~30, 2007, over eighty P-51 Mustangs and hundreds of WWII aviation Legends including Fighter Aces, Tuskegee Airmen and WASPs and thousands of spectators came together for the “Gathering of Mustangs and Legends” at Rickenbacker Airport in Columbus Ohio. Continue reading