I've been watching these documentaries lately, basically the entire history of Russian/Soviet aviation, complete with not so great translation and heavily accented Russian narator!

I'm really enjoying them, the footage especially is hugely interesting for me and hearing the story of Russian aviation from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Some of the commentary is shall we say, rather biased towards Russia (I had a sly grin when they talked about how impressed the Western engineers were when they got their hands on Belenko's MiG-25, and it contradicts itself when the narrator concedes that the F-86 was a better combat fighter than the MiG-15 but then goes on to state the MiG-15 was the world's best fighter, surpsisingly they make mention of the Allied Lend-Lease fighters, as well as how the Soviets used British jet engines to get off the starting blocks... I don't think I've ever seen an American documentary that acknowledged the British contribution to American jet engine development), but then again after watching Discovery and History channel documentaries for years I'm used to watching stuff that's heavily biased towards America and the American version of aviation history.

I became interested in Russian/Soviet aviation after getting heavily into Su-27 Flanker (remember that sim?) back in the day. So far this series is filling in lots of gaps in my knowledge.

I just wish somebody would do a similar series telling the story of British aviation.

Right now I've watched the first four episodes on fighters and skipped ahead to the later episode on Cold War bombers. I'll be watching the rest as I get the time...











<- Before anyone says yes I know it's a British soldier and a Rapier missile system!

Wow. Almost makes me hope I catch the flu for a couple of days...

Anyone else thinking of making a sticky thread with all of these cool videos? Maybe even classify them? Or even better, download for "safekeeping" and allowing access?

Very nice!

I found a really good series about Aeroflot on Youtube. I don't want to derail your thread, but if you search for "Airplaneski" it will turn up.

We can do this for you...but the thread title should be renamed for more than just Soviet ac...

Pielstick, are you ok with us modifying your thread here? I'd sticky it, but leave it unlocked so we all can add to the thread.

Maybe call it:

"Aircraft vehicles war documentaries video thread: add to it!"

Or maybe just AVWD?

No probs at all Rick. Please go ahead and change the topic title so anybody can add good youtube documentaries here.

Perhaps you could even merge the thread I started with the BBC documentaries about Cold War jets and submarines?

I'm off work sick at the moment having a recurrent back problem investigated, got all the time in the world to browse Youtube for interesting stuff.


Toonces, please feel free to add the Aeroflot documentary I'd be most interested to see it!

BBC2 ran a Cold War Season last December and the following were IMHO the best programmes they broadcast:

"The Silent War" - about the submarine war.

Episode 1 - Know Your Enemy


Episode 2 - The Russians Are Coming!




"Cold War Hot Jets" - about the war in the air.

Episode 1


Episode 2



This is the BBC at it's very best, sadly something we see very little of nowadays

Very highly recommended guys, I guarantee you will enjoy these.

- From Pielstick

Come on guys, keep this thread going, there's loads of interesting stuff on Youtube!

Keeping the British theme going:


















The Lightning is my all time favourite aircraft... here's an original 1960's RAF recruitment video. Check out the music!




And here's a really cool TV advert that British Airways ran a couple of years ago:




And for our Canuck friends:




Here's a small series made by Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden's lead singer and airline pilot) about ten years ago covering the evolution of the modern airliner:

















<- I lived most of my life pretty close to the airport the trainee 747 pilots are practicing landing at here. I used to see these aircraft tall the time.








Please guys feel free to add whatever you find interesting on Youtube!

Couple more:

Pretty old (1990's by the looks of it) but very interesting:

The 'Whispering Death' one is superb.Watched it twice

Some Tomcat goodness:







And some Eagles:








And finally my favourite USN fighter... the Crusader!




A particularly interesting extract from the above video:



Dassault Mirage


Not a documentary but really stunning footage of the Mirage 2000

Some docus covering the Canadian Army in Afghansitan:








Some Wehrmacht and Panzer stuff:



















Some WW2 submarine docu:



Wings of the Luftwaffe Series:




























Wings of the Red Star series:






















Battleships - over 3 hours long!




Some WW2 Allied fighters:























<- This one looks especially good and covers an often forgotten fighter!


If anyone wants to link some documentaries of Allied bombers or attack aircraft please do so!



Battle of Britain:


Some Falklands Documentaries:









History of the Arab Israeli Wars - looks pretty good:



Soviets in Afghanistan:



Relatively new documentary about the Royal Marines:



















Some Tornado stuff:







And some Eurofighter Typhoon stuff:





<- more of a promo video but good footage

Can't seem to find any more modern documentaries on the Jaguar or RAF Harrier/RN Sea Harrier... if anybody knows of any please post them!

I've got a soft spot for the Su-27:



Russian docu on the Sukhoi T-50:














A selection of pretty interesting period American stuff, great footage:



















Come on guys, it only takes a couple of minutes to hit Youtube and post here some good videos of interesting stuff... We can turn this thread into a one stop shop for something interesting to watch when you're sick of the rubbish that's on modern TV!

A couple of interviews with Captain Eric Brown RN. This guy had a truy remarkable career... he's flown 487 different types (more than any other pilot in history), has 2,407 carrier traps (more than any other pilot), was the first pilot to land a jet on an aircraft carrier, and if it wasn't for the interference of the politicians quite probably would have beaten Chuck Yeager through the sound barrier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brown_(pilot)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_flown_by_Eric_%22Winkle%22_Brown <- This is a list of all the aircraft he has flown. Amazing.





I highly recommend reading his memoirs "Wings On My Sleeve".

My channel.

I posted a new thread but forgot this thread was here...


This is awesome.... will make me feel like I was back in the Air Force....



There's also a guy that did Star Wars stuff... like 12 hours of Millenium Falcon, TIE Fighter, or other ships....

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF6R1ZDskjCeBMomUGCtxXw

The greatest kamikaze mission of WW2.

Guess these might belong here. Guns not plains though. I already posted them before I noticed this .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZX7X3pJgH8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgF0X1zjLNY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PfNZPSvsAU

A fascinating look at the Gurkhas.

What I found really strange is that during training there is no 'encouragement' via bullying,shouting,swearing etc.These guys are already fully motivated and prepared to die in the service of The Queen. Guys who don't make it into basic training would frequently take their own lives rather than return to their villages.

It's just a crying shame that their regiments were disbanded.

The story about the WWII Sen Toku I-400 class Japanese submarine aircraft carriers

These young ladies were crazy.

It is a BBC production about the ATA in WW2 GB.

Couple of older classics.




The Air Mail airboat flight out of Africa.

Hawker Tempest

More of a docu-drama, but it's authentic enough I think to include here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbvZhrt2NBo

All about F-4es and F-5s at Red Flag, and what the pilots lives are like behind the scenes.

I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Swedish aviation

Wow. Many of these are terminated accounts.

Anyway, I suggest you find One six right to watch

Unfortunately you never know when the accounts are going to be terminated. I have seen videos available for years and then "poof" the whole channel is gone. Almost always someone else has uploaded it so there is a constant Whack-A-Mole contest going on at YouTube.


Wheels

Wonder when they will make an updated worlds longest bombing run video with the conflicts in
the Stans. Here is a classic from the Falklands war.

The Martin Mars, largest seaplane water bomber there is. Would love to see one.

Come to Canada Jim, specifically Vancouver Is where the Mars is.

Thats some awesome collection of videos....thanks for sharing

A couple of videos that have to do with the 2nd world war (don't know if they have been mentioned before):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIjmOcp_xhQ
With Major Dick Winters (band of brothers).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfRq-JeUCSM
With 1st Lt.Lynn D. "Buck" Compton and Corporal Earl "One-Lung" McClung (band of brothers).

Both documentaries are worth watching in my opinion.
Enjoy!

Here�s one I�m thoroughly enjoying atm.
APOCALYPSE - The Second World War - Episode 1 - The Aggressionr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RSCrvr6kBY

Tells the story, in 6 parts, from 1933 on. I watch alot of these and I�ve only seen mebbe 5% of the footage before.
I�m halfway through the second episode and I find it fascinating. It tells it like it was. No fancy music or rhetoric.

Warning: Right from the off it�s quite gruesome in places.

Thanks for that link.I must either have missed this series or it is one I have forgotten after watching so many of them.

Here is one about the 101st airborne division in WW II (again somehow Major Dick Winters is in it!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADbycch-cMM

Ta, I�ll check that out

Here is an interesting five-part interview of Major Dick Winters (band of brothers):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D03pUpbIEZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZEaZO44QA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3IzkzG6POI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=669HysWUw4g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSpAldydHuo

Rockwell B-1 Lancer

This educational video depicts the United States Rockwell B-1 Lancer, a four-engine supersonic variable-sweep wing, jet-powered heavy strategic aircraft used by the USAF. It was first envisioned in the 1960s as a supersonic aircraft with Mach 2 speed, and sufficient range and payload to replace the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. It was developed into the B-1B, primarily a low-level penetration aircraft with long range and Mach 1.25 speed capability at high altitude. It is commonly called the "Bone" (originally from "B-One").

The worlds faster aircraft ever made Documentary. The X-15.

Declassified, How they made the SR-71

Wheels

Hey dudes,
Been a while since I last posted anywhere here, but recently I stumbled across a whole series of videos hosted by Peninsula Seniors on youtube.
Before you start thinking what kind of time-shares I'm selling, they have created a series of aviation videos where they invite a speaker (or two) to give a lecture about a specific aspect or area of an aircraft, it's operation or development, at the Western Museum of Flight. The people are involved are usually pilots or occasionally engineers, and from what I've seen usually from Grumman/Northrop Grumman. They are very fascinating, and give a deeper look into the aircraft and their development that you don't get from random internet or wikipedia entries.

Peninsula Seniors Youtube Channel







There are far too many videos to list here without breaking my browser, so definitely check out the channel page.

WW2 torpedoes

Japanese airfield

Flower Class corvettes

Mainly RCN

Great documentari



During the same period


Grab some popcorn


Marc..

I would had like to see the face of the Japanese and German pilots who saw a P-38 for the first time and likely their last time.







I wonder how they came up with that design in 1937-1938 when aircraft design was still coming out of World War 1 biplanes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-38_Lightning#Design_and_development

Kelly Johnson is the answer. He seemed to be well ahead of his time.

Playing the Monte Cassino batlles on Panzer General, I saw a German plane that looked exactly like a Lightning.

The Nazis copied the Lightning?

Focke Wulf 189. Tactical Recon Aircraft. I'mm guessing that this is what you saw.

Thanks.

An American defector gave the Germans a perfectly good P-38 in the MTO.

What is MTO?

Like ETO is for Europe but for the Mediterranean.

As a lot of videos in this thread have disappeared, it seems like a good idea to post some of my 'goto' channels for this sort of stuff.

Starting with aircraft:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Aircrewinterview/videos?pbjreload=10
seriously this is one of the best channels out there for the range of stuff covered. It does exactly what it says on the tin- it interviews aircrew (and the odd groundcrew)
I will have to put a warning or 2 on this:- your marriage may suffer and some of the interviewees use adult language:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Bis18marck70/videos
again lots of stuff, but more concentrating on the planes

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynGrIaI5vsJQgHJAIp9oSg/videos
Greg does some fantastic 'in depth' stuff often with an engineering bent.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnZJt7yQw5IztVwe-Dscd-Q/videos
not as much content but his timelapse vids on specific air battles are great

https://www.youtube.com/user/FlightChops/videos
very much oriented towards those learning/improving their flying but HIGHLY recommended

and on the learning note I'll leave you with one video

it's an in cockpit vid of a P51 engine out with analysis and lessons learned). I cannot recommend this one highly enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBpqvPujZgM

Onto tanks:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTankMuseum/videos
One of the best tank museums in the world, so if you can't get there (and you should), just watch the vids.
If you like Tigers ( they run the only working Tiger I) then https://blog.tiger-tank.com/ is well wort a peruse.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChieftainWoT/videos
well he's not known as 'Tank Jesus' for nothing

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgPKCKrxMvtDLESFy8c2CMg/videos
another WoT'er, but has seriously 'upped her game' and hosts some really good experts

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChV4qbBKiBm1hcaqpjusMog/videos
relatively unknown channel, but the level of research/detail in his battle series is some of the best available. HIGHLY recommended.

And on to some Naval channels:-

Well it would be very rude not to list Drachinifel's channel first, he is simply superlative

https://www.youtube.com/c/Drachinifel/videos

for a little taste I would highly recommend these 2 vids ( if you don't cover your screen with coffee there's something wrong with you





A couple of other channels who sometimes colab with Drach

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx5-bVhJD0qTT0_A-zXKo0A/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2x09tU0GwAGiSbFPEhIwQ/videos

And finally something for the underwater brigade

https://www.youtube.com/c/SubBrief/videos

A rather interesting lecture on WWII engine development with some new information (the stuff on German alloys and it's effects I found very enlightening )

If you like this you may be interested in the lecturer's book on the subject?

https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15057

A couple more 'pearls' amongst the 'swine' of most of youtube :hahaha

First off, a new to youtube- but certainly not new to aviation, Dan Gryder. Tends to concentrate on accident analysis, and he doesn't pull many punches



https://www.youtube.com/user/UGOT2CTHIS/videos

Next up Ed Nash: another low subscriber who deserves more views (imho). Tends to concentrate on 'lesser known' aircraft
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeihWWGinRr5C-TPCsJX67A/videos

And finally Millenium 7* Tends to focus more on technology, his Stealth 101-3 might be a good start?
https://www.youtube.com/c/Millennium7HistoryTech/videos

As has the original thread creator Pielstick.


Thanks for the links.


Wheels

Wow wheels, you are Mr. Necrothread tonight!

Had to do something to get some traffic in CH the last two days. Even though there were almost 200 people browsing the CH forum yesterday and today I was just about the only one posting. You being gone for over 24 hours was the biggest shock of the day. Was worried you got hit by a bus or run over by a plane.


Wheels

LOL! Nah, I was just too busy learning and playing "Steel Division 2". Think of it as "Company of Heroes" but at a graduate school level.

I didn't know some of these planes like the P-40 still fly

https://www.tiktok.com/@warbird

Planes of Fame flies several vintage Warbirds.

PoF YouTube Channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/POFmuseum/videos


Wheels

An interesting channel, a bit like operations room in some respects

Another criminally underviewed channel that has some really good stuff

I know I pointed to this channel before, but this is rather timely- and very informative if you like Harms

Listen to a japanese sub sinking- this guy has been doing some fantastic stuff on anti submarine warfare in WW11 recently, the whole channel is full of great stuff that uses some great sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvMKEko90GU

plase fix the embedding

Saab J35 Draken - what a remarkable and beautiful bird for its time
[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5073Bq6mNZk[/video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5073Bq6mNZk ]

Didn't know it was actually a design of the 50s, and also didn't know that the USA used some as well for training.