Aircraft documentaries

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Re: Aircraft documentaries

Post by Jammy » Tue Aug 09, 2016 10:28 pm

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Re: Aircraft documentaries

Post by Paddy » Wed Aug 10, 2016 8:51 am

I don't think I have enough hours left in my life to watch all these documentaries but they look sterling.
Shout out also to Atreides post re Spitfire on the Beeb - Spitfires getting near mach 1.0 that's something I have never heard of before! Very interesting account.
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Re: Aircraft documentaries

Post by Geordie » Wed Aug 10, 2016 12:45 pm

Well I know how I'm spending the rest of my week!
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Re: Aircraft documentaries

Post by Paddy » Wed Aug 10, 2016 7:18 pm

Geordie wrote:Well I know how I'm spending the rest of my week!
Up the Big Market chasing the half dressed lasses perhaps.
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Re: Aircraft documentaries

Post by Dickie » Tue Sep 06, 2016 2:47 pm

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Re: Aircraft documentaries

Post by Atreides » Sat Oct 01, 2016 10:17 pm

Future aircraft :)

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Re: Aircraft documentaries

Post by Jammy » Sun Dec 04, 2016 10:58 pm



Not exactly a documentary, but lots of lovely colour footage of Canadian aircraft. Emphasis on their Hurricanes and sea of yellow harvards
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Re: Aircraft documentaries

Post by Jammy » Tue Apr 11, 2017 4:58 pm


Short and sweet documentary on Italian Fighters during the war
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Re: Aircraft documentaries

Post by Biggs » Thu May 25, 2017 3:17 am

not a full doc, but it is AMAZING original color footage of spitfires mustangs and some p47s in the Med (most likely Italy or Sicily)




PR mkXI.... absolutely beautiful footage :shock:

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Re: Aircraft documentaries

Post by Elos » Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:31 pm

As the topic hasn't been explored too far in this part of the forum yet and as I happened to stumble on it last weekend, Wings over Vietnam a 1998 TV documentary mini-series highlights several aircraft types during each episode, revisits well known aspects of the air war over Vietnam from a rather fresh perspective (e.g. constraints and losses during Rolling Thunder) and also sheds light on less well known stories like the "FACs", "Dust Offs" or "Jolly Greens". As an aviation enthusiast you always hope for more technical details of course and wish for a more balanced view with witness accounts from both sides but this series distinguishes itself pretty well from the post 2000 razzle-dazzle "documentaries". I personally was impressed by the Wild Weasel pilots who present themselves really modest during the interviews but in fact bore one of the heaviest burdens during the air attacks on North Vietnam.

Enjoy watching! :salute:















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