Why couldn’t F-35, F-22, the eurofighter, etc look nearly as good as de Havilland DH.88 Comet or Supermarine Spitfire or Mustang? I know the reason why but still wish they could. Even the Sea Harrier was a looker. Nothing to do with True Lies, ok?!
As noted above, mounting a camera low down does greatly emphasise the feeling of speed - and also bearing in mind a camera vehicle was doing reverse shots at the beginning.
An interesting point for me is how different Monaco is sans all the barriers and other racing facilities - the cost to install & adapt must be enormous. I’d love to get behind the economics of F1 and how holding a race in a venue like this makes ‘sense’.
Down under in Melbourne. It was a joy flight. A bit of a long story. Did quite a few aerobatics. Very interesting preflight training on how to pull the d ring to open chute and how I will be dropped out or float out of the plane in case or emergency. Practice many time how to remove helmet and take out the sick bad. Really great experience!
It was so quiet (so I thought) in the cockpit during the flight, I thought I would stand right at the edge of the runway and watch the next one take off. It roar so loud I was literally blown away. I captured a shot of the antenna as I was falling backward. Wasn’t what I was intending to capture! God I was so naive and close!
You can see the antenna in your shot in the middle of the plane. Just in case anyone is wondering, my pic isn’t cropped! It was a local airport so there’s nothing and no one stopping me going that close.
That’s a great clip of the Empire Flying boat. My Mother often talks of the fascination she had watching the Empire Flying boats in Poole Harbour when she was a girl. She longed to go in one, and would dream of all the exotic destinations around the world that they would fly to and from.
I never got to see them but my grandfather use to fish not far from where they took off and landed. Would have been a wonderful way to get to England, all be it rather slowly.
Yes, slow for us today, but back then they must have been seen as super-fast compared to a voyage on a ship; 40 days shrank to around 12 days. And think of all the amazing places where you would stop en route.
My Mum, who is still alive, was born in Melbourne in 1917, she returned to Ireland with my Grandparents at the age of 5 via a 6 week boat journey to Southampton.