Farewell Tornado – Tornado on-camera
For this next part of our ‘Farewell Tornado’ series, we have compiled together some of the best available Tornado footage
Battle of Britain 75 – Pt.7 – The new meets The Few with Spitfire and Typhoon synchro display
This summer the Royal Air Force will once again display a Supermarine Spitfire and a Eurofighter Typhoon together, to commemorate the Battle of Britain. Gareth Stringer travelled to RAF Coningsby to meet the team. Images as credited.
Aviation Video – A-10C Close Air Support
This new A-10 video, courtesy of the 25 Fighter Squadron, flying out of Osan Air Base, South Korea, is one of the best we have seen in some time.
Aviation Feature – Ali Machinchy: World Class RC pilot
Gareth Stringer didn’t realise you could enjoy the thrill of flight quite so much without ever leaving the ground – and then he met Ali Machinchy and saw a true master at work.
Aviation Event – KLM MD-11 Retirement – Enthusiast Flights
Tuesday 11 November 2014 saw KLM, the world's last commercial airline flying passenger-configured McDonnell Douglas MD-11s, bring down the curtain on the type's near 21-year service with the Dutch flag carrier and an association with Douglas aircraft stretching back...
Video – GoPro: Open Air Glider
This short video from Germany really caught our eye – it’s certainly something a little different!
Exercises and Deployments – Hawgsmoke 2014
Every two years the USAF A-10 community gathers to hold a weapons competition. The exercise is called Hawgsmoke and this year it was held at Davis Monthan AFB in Arizona. Rob Edgcumbe was there for GAR to see the A-10 in its natural environment.
Airshow Feature – RAF Typhoon Display 2014, the pilot’s perspective
Displaying a modern day fast jet requires skill, training and planning, as well as physical and mental strength. Flight Lieutenant Noel Rees, the Royal Air Force’s 2014 Typhoon Display Pilot, told Gareth Stringer what life is like in his office.
Video – F-35B Lightning II demo at MCAS Yuma Air Show
Here’s a glimpse of something that will no doubt become a far more familiar sight, a demo by the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Aviation Event Preview – Bruntingthorpe Buccaneer Aviation Group, Saturday 29 March 2014
On Saturday 29 March, at Bruntingthorpe, the Buccaneer Aviation Group will be hosting a special event to mark two decades since the type’s retirement.
Aviation Video – Cameras in the Cockpit
Camera technology these days means that we can put ourselves in almost any cockpit. There are some superb videos out there, and here are a few of our favourites.
Aviation Video – Eurofighter Typhoon – Tranche 3 in-cockpit footage
The first Tranche 3 production example of the Eurofighter Typhoon made its début flight from BAE Systems Warton, last week.
Aviation Video – RAF Sepecat Jaguar: Strike Squadron
Here’s one that we hadn’t seen before, an MoD film from the late 1970s entitled ‘Strike Squadron’.
Aviation Video – Flying a Glider
We had to share this excellent video, courtesy of the Texas Soaring Association – a great advert for gliding!
Exclusive Feature & Video – A Unique Formation: The RV8tors & Vulcan XH558
At RAF Cosford Air Show last month The RV8tors appeared in a unique formation with Avro Vulcan XH558. Gareth Stringer reveals how it all came together – while Karl Drage brings us air-to-air images from the formation itself.
Aviation Video – Phabulous Phantom Phootage!
With tomorrow’s events at Wittmund marking the end of the F-4F Phantom II in Luftwaffe service, here’s some of our favourite footage of the aircraft in action.
Aviation Feature – The Phinal Contacts: F-4F Phantom refuelling – from tanker & receiver
GAR was invited to fly with the 100th ARW out of RAF Mildenhall on what would be the last sortie flown in support of the Luftwaffe’s F-4F Phantom aircraft. Kev Wills reports from ‘Quid 22’ while Captain Sebastian M.M. Fiedler from Fighter Wing 71 “Richthofen“ gives us an exclusive pilot’s perspective. Additional images from Darron Hall.
Aviation Video – Saab Viggen at Volkel by PlanesTV
A newly released video by PlanesTV from Luchtmachtdagen Volkel 2013, featuring the Saab Viggen.
Aviation Video – Typhoon at Throckmorton Air Show
RAF Typhoon display pilot Flt Lt Jamie Norris made his UK airshow début at Throckmorton today – and this video of his performance is well worth watching!
Aviation Video – Lt John S. Blyth and Spitfire PR.XI PA944
This short documentary tells the story of how, in 2005, an 83-year-old veteran of World War 2 came to see the footage of his wheels up landing in Spitfire PR.XI PA944 for the first time some 61 years on. It’s so much more than that, though, and should be considered compulsory viewing for all.
