High-Speed
Music video using high-speed photography captured using a Vision Research Phantom HD camera. Music: Ian Brown - "Home is where the heart is".
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Music video using high-speed photography captured using a Vision Research Phantom HD camera. Music: Ian Brown - "Home is where the heart is".
Tags: high | speed | photography | phantom |
Today marks the 62nd anniversary of the first atomic weapon used in war, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on this day, 6th of August 1945. It exploded 600m above the city at 08:15 local time with the approximate force of 15,000 tons of TNT, destroying the entire city in an instant.
The Avro Vulcan was an RAF delta wing subsonic bomber which operated from 1953 until 1984. The Vulcan was part of the RAF's V bomber force, which fulfilled the role of nuclear deterrence during the Cold War. It was also capable of a conventional bombing role.
The A-10 was designed for high-survivability with a titanium cover surrounding both the cockpit, ammunition and fuel tank. Placement of the engines decreases the infrared signature lowering it's vulnerablity to heatseeking missiles and ground fire.
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Music video featuring footage of the F-111 Aardvark, a supersonic multipurpose tactical fighter bomber capable of carrying conventional as well as nuclear weapons. The weapon being deployed at 2:28 is a Mk-43 with a variable yield of between 70kt and 1mt.
Developed for the USAF as reconnaissance aircraft more than 40 years ago, SR-71s are still the world's fastest and highest-flying production aircraft. The aircraft can fly more than 2200 mph (Mach 3+ or more than three times the speed of sound) and at altitudes of over 85,000 feet. As research platforms, the aircraft can cruise at Mach 3 for more than one hour.
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is a single-engine supersonic interceptor aircraft that served with the USAF from 1958 until 1967, and was the first aircraft to travel at Mach2. A highly inovative plane designed by Kelly Johnson to meet demands generated by the Korean war, it featured many design firsts.
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Footage of the 6-engined XB-70 Valkyrie, a 1960s coldwar supersonic strategic nuclear bomber. Features footage of it's maiden flight, wheel lockup and flameout, and it's infamous collision with an F-104 in 1966.
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The MiG-29 "Fulcrum" is a Soviet air superiority fighter Developed in the 1980s by the Mikoyan design bureau, with peformance on par with the USAF F-15 or F-16 in most aspects.
The F-111 is a supersonic multipurpose tactical fighter bomber capable of carrying conventional as well as nuclear weapons . The two crew members sit side-by-side in a pressurized cockpit module that serves as an emergency escape vehicle and as a survival shelter on land or water.
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The modern nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine is one of the most complex, and without doubt the single most destructive machine man has ever created. Capable of remaining submersed and invisible for up to six months, then within minutes able to shower any landmass on the planet with multiple independently targetable thermonuclear warheads. Marrying a nearly undetectable launch platform and virtually unstoppable miniaturised warheads reentering the atmosphere at 12,000 mph, each submarine can deliver enough explosive force to destroy an entire continent.
Leading Russian aeronautic display pilot Valery Sobolev peforming an amazing display in a Czech made L-39.
A Super Etendard takes off from a carrier, pulls up too steeply, stalls, flips over and takes a mid-afternoon dip in the ocean.
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Music video featuring original colour footage of the their McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom, and a glimpse of Duke Cunningham and Willie Driscoll, the first Navy aces in Vietnam.
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The Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard is a French carrier-borne strike fighter. A small number were also flown by the Iraqi Air Force during the Iran-Iraq War. The Super Etendard was used against the British in the Falklands carrying the Exocet missile.
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