Wings on the Discovery Channel

[Stephen]

I've long been fascinated by the story of the AVRO CF-105 Arrow. An absolutely revolutionary interceptor built in Canada for the RCAF's mission to intercept Soviet bombers coming in over the north pole. Years ahead of anything else being produced anywhere in the world at the time, it ultimately met the fate so many aviation programs do, budget constraints. Only five were ever built and all were scrapped. The fallout destroyed AVRO and gutted the Canadian aerospace industry when their best and brightest headed to the US. Many former AVRO engineers actually ended up working for NASA on the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, interestingly enough.

This is probably the most complete documentary I've ever seen about the Arrow. Worth a watch if it piques your interest:

 

[Stephen]

The de Havilland Sea Vixen is a beautiful aircraft, in my opinion. This is a short little piece about it is you're interested:

 

[Stephen]

Some guy apparently purchased a trove of DOD Training slides from the 70's and 80's off of eBay last year and is digitizing them. Pretty interesting to look through:

35mm scans — writer/editor/reporter

www.sambiddle.com

 

[crimsonride]

Awesome thread. I think I have about 30 RC model planes now....my never-ending love of things that fly gets me into a lot of trouble sometimes.

 

[Stephen]

I think the B-36 is an amazing aircraft, but this dude is full on nuts:

Its still pretty interesting, though.

 

[Stephen]

When I was little, my Grandpa gave me a VHS tape of the 1987 Miramar Air Show with the Blue Angels, I watched that over, and over, and over again. I still have it in a box somewhere, but it undoubtably was one of the reasons I'm so interested in airplane. So this new Blue Angels documentary is pretty exciting (even though it's a JJ Abrams film 🤮).

 

[Stephen]

This is a great video about the Soviet Buran space plane program. Lots of footage about its early development I've never seen.

 

[Stephen]

Follow up to the last post, this guy is nuts but it would be so cool to go and see these in person: