This couldn’t be more 1970’s if it tried ! Everything from the music to the legendary narrator Patrick Allen is just class. I am intoxicated with the heady aroma of jet fuel and Old Spice 😎

As a teenage ATC air cadet I had the great pleasure to attend a week long camp at RAF Church Fenton during the Easter holiday of 1973. What the film doesn’t show is the long line of Chipmunk trainers sitting on the flight line every morning, with their engines running. Dozens of them. It was sheer heaven for the enthusiastic cadets of our Squadron. Must have been a complete pain in the neck for the ground crew we shadowed. Almost unlimited flying and hours spent on the range plinking with Lee Enfield rifles and SLRs. Under the watchful and unforgiving eyes of very strict RAF regiment NCOs.

@MrKapeji

4 жыл бұрын

If you were a cadet at Church Fenton in 1973, I almost certainly took your group photograph!

Wonderful.. reminds me of the Test Pilot school series I watched as a kid avidly in the mid 80s. I was lucky to have an AEF in the Chipmunk followed later by a later flight of 45 mins aerobatics as a cadet in the ATC This was all back when the ‘Great’ in Great Britain was still something to be proud of..

Holy Crap!!!! I used to fly with Chris in Airtours in the mid nineties - I didn’t realise he’d flown Phantoms, he had been a Herc skipper before coming to the civvie world. Lovely guy, with a lovely family. Amazing to see him as a youngster! Thanks for sharing!

@huwroberts667

4 жыл бұрын

Chris was indeed a very well respected Herc captain in the mid to late 80s; I think he was on STANEVAL for a while.

@ascott6328

Жыл бұрын

the noble and historic RAF to fuckin airtours

@BigDuke6ixx

Жыл бұрын

I seem to remember that Chris was just acting the part here for the training film and didn't actually fly fast jets. I could be wrong, but that's what I remember.

Love this. It's like an Airfix-catalogue come alive

@micheltangy2725

7 жыл бұрын

Understand what you mean, but Airfix is typically associated with RAF, being a British brand

@johnk1639

6 жыл бұрын

Oh that brings back memories! I’d spend many an hour drooling over one.

@clacicle

5 жыл бұрын

GOJI BOI I haven’t heard those names in years!

@johnk1639

5 жыл бұрын

Michel Tangy I remember the air fix catalogue so well. I used to spend many hours thumbing through its pages. Happy days.

@Walterwaltraud

4 жыл бұрын

@@durangarand6373 Btw, Revell is a German company, just for the record ;-).

Films brilliant, the comments and memories are brilliant, Patrick Allen is brilliant. The RAF is brilliant 😁

lived on wildenrath raf base in the early 80's, my dad was the station commanders admin guy, but because we were part of the raf bruggen gliding club i had the chance to sit in a 92 squadron fully armed, in a hardened aircraft hangar, phantom that was ready to scramble at any second!, imagine that nowadays, school boy in armed phantom!

@micheltangy2725

7 жыл бұрын

We regularly drive near W'rat/Brüggen and I always think of RAF Germany planes that were here, favorably the Harrier!

@micheltangy2725

7 жыл бұрын

Great story, would have been my dream! Did you, perhaps, ever hear of a female RAF pilot called Sue Cavener from Phoenix Gliding Club from RAF Brüggen? She was killed at 29 in her glider. Please have a look at sites.google.com/site/raflaarbruch/home/toedliche-abstuerze You have to scroll down to "Absturz Segelflugzeug - Two Rivers Gliding Club Laarbruch - Phenix Gliding Club Brüggen" Thank you for any help!

@henryvagincourt

7 жыл бұрын

+The Mongoose Man Did you enjoy them, your trousers? For things at the time are never what you think they are. Really life, not what your told.

@chrishewitt4220

4 жыл бұрын

That was me, 1971 in a 92 SQN Lightning at Gutersloh!

@pauladams8475

4 жыл бұрын

Father was an F4 pilot stationed at RAF Bruggen, 31 Sqn. I often had the chance to sit in a Phantom and loved it. The crowning glory was a few postings later we were stationed at RAF Leuchars where father was in charge of the Phantom simulator, and yes, I had several chances to ‘fly’ that which at 16 or 17 years old was a dream!

That's my Dad presenting the wings at 11:40! Thanks for this.

@NickyH60

5 жыл бұрын

I knew your brother David...

@garryharriman7349

4 жыл бұрын

How wonderful, Richard. Is your dad still alive?

“A Phantom costs as much as two million pounds.” That’ll just about pay for the seat cushions on an F-35.

@fivenine5905

4 жыл бұрын

well yes, theyll need replacing often due to failure rate & poor build quality.... if the rest of the program is anything to go by.

@ZacYates

3 жыл бұрын

The Bank of England’s inflation calculator has it at more than £24mil in 2019 money.

@ronjon7942

Жыл бұрын

Funny, when I heard the 2million figure, I was, like, for the entire aircraft??

A wonderful piece of nostalgia. Brings back some super memories of flying in 'Chippys' at RAF Church Fenton when I was a Civilian Instructor / Warrant Officer withh 110 (City of York Squadron) ATC. The pictures of the Drax power station flyby were just fantastic. The Volunteer Pilot in the seventies at Church Fenton was a wonderful guy and he loved aerobatics. Fantastic memories also at RAF Leeming when I was part of a ATC 'Principles of Flight' seminar, the highlight of of which was a flight in a Jet Provost. More fantastic nostalgic video to remind me of my youth!

@andytyler1140

4 жыл бұрын

Jim Whitehead I was a member of 110 city of york ATC. I remember we had the front part of a Jet Provest . Brings back so many happy memories.

@freddielaker2

Жыл бұрын

969sqn StHelens and we used to fly from Sealand,

@stevemills9982

Жыл бұрын

495 Sutton Coldfield. We used to fly from Shawbury.

I love these British documentaries. "The pilot often emerges covered in nervous perspiration." In the American version: "The pilot climbs out drenched in sweat."

@augustuscarter7883

2 жыл бұрын

you all prolly dont give a shit but does someone know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb forgot my login password. I love any tricks you can offer me!

@adrieltucker4657

2 жыл бұрын

@Augustus Carter instablaster ;)

The Phantom was a beast. On holiday in Greece a few years ago and saw some fly past. Turned out it was their last flight.

Takes me back to 1970/73 at RAF Bruggen (Germany) I was an L-Fitt A/C Cpl working on the Phantom loved every minute of it.. Mind you the Taceval's could be tedious.

Great days when RAF training videos had funky music!

Great stuff. There is no mistaking Patrick Allen's voice.

Phantom awesome aircraft....real muscle jet....from the days that made you proud of our airforce.....

The good old chipmunk i remember my very first flying experience in one way back in 1975 at RAF Marham and watching those Victor tankers take off was absolutely amazing.

"Confessions of an RAF Phantom pilot".....love the Phantom, love fast jets, love the 70s...heaven !

I read that the Gnat was a difficult aircraft to fly, not the ideal trainer. It's interesting to see how small both the Gnat and Provost were, and how short the undercarriage legs were. This short film makes you aware just how much hard work flying was/is. And it's great to see the RAF when it had aircraft!

@ 2:35 - Even now I recognise the gates and "Reception" at RAF Biggin Hill. I went there a few years after this was released for the same reason the Brylcreemed chap in the film went there. For young chaps like me, brought up not far from RAF St. Mawgan and seeing RAF F4Ms, RN F4Ks, Nimrods, Buccaneers and Vulcans many times a week, becoming an RAF pilot was one of those things I just had to be. Unlike our hero in the film, however, I failed. Oh well, them's the breaks. Thanks for the upload +freddielaker2. [edit] @3:45 - the medical. I remember that too, especially the part where the ME stuck his hands where only me (and my Mum, when I was a toddler) had ever ventured. "Cough" he said. Cough? I nearly f**king choked.

@thetourettesgamer8851

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear you failed to get into the RAF mate....

@williekp1

Жыл бұрын

You are definitely not alone. I got in through the University Air Squadron. So by the time I got to Biggen Hill I had some flying experience and references from within. All sounds great? We did five training courses after officer training. Some people failed officer training. Some people failed Jet Provost training. Some more failed Gnat training or were killed. Some more failed weapons training at Brawdy or were killed. Some people failed the OCU training to learn to fly the Jaguar , or were killed. Some people failed the squadron acceptance training or were killed. I made it and ejected successfully twice saving my own life. Getting through the initial interview is the start of a long and bumpy road. If you succeed it is a tremendous feeling of achievement no one can take away from you. I take my hat off to the test pilots and astronauts. I still think about all the people who didn’t make it.

Absolutely fabulous .. I remember having a sit in a phantom at an American airbase as a young air cadet somewhere king's lyne way back in 1975

@shaunmcclory8117

2 жыл бұрын

Very childish i know but just adding a letter 'h' between the 's' & 'i' in your comment makes it very funny to imagine!🤣💩

There's an old Chipmunk still flying these colours at Felthorpe airfield in Norfolk. I regularly see it in the air around the Taverham/Thorpe Mariott area. No Phantoms though, unfortunately 😂

Used to love watching these in the skies as a kid. Then the Jaguar and Tornado and now Eurofighter.

I’ve lived in Valley (village) since the 1970’s it’s sad too think of the amount of both trainee & experienced Pilots who have given their lives due too training accidents the most recent death was a Red Arrows technician who sadly died on the runway at Valley when the Plane crashed on take off,the pilot ejected safely.

@williekp1

Жыл бұрын

I was there when 4 instructors died in a mid air one Friday afternoon. Shortly afterwards a student and instructor died at Shawbury. Six in a six month period. It didn’t stop there. I stopped counting at 30 plus fatalities of people I knew.

@philprice3870

Жыл бұрын

@@williekp1 was that in the early 70’s When they hit a caravan in Silverbay caravan park in Rhoscolyn ( Just over the Water from RAF Valley

@williekp1

Жыл бұрын

@@philprice3870 not sure. My recollection was that it was more into mid Wales. There were a lot of accidents though. The Gnat was a great little aeroplane but mishandled it would bite you severely.

Ahhh great days when we had an airforce!

@Davman316

7 жыл бұрын

We have a higher gdp than Russia. It makes me wonder where all our cash has gone? The UK politicians must have billions of stolen tax payers money hidden away in their Cayman Island bank accounts.

@ghostman9028

7 жыл бұрын

Dmitri Kozlowsky Cause American humor is dynamic, and English humor and plot is very dry, like Margaret Thatchers Vagina.

@henryvagincourt

7 жыл бұрын

+Ghostman Passed your bedtime, Maggie was OK, she had more balls than the slimy shits we have in Parliament now.

@philipsudron

6 жыл бұрын

...Dimitri all that said, I still admire your sense of irony!

@dougbennett8592

6 жыл бұрын

I have to admit, Ghostman, Margaret Thatcher had balls.

16:05 to 17:36 That debrief was savage.

Wasn't the music just sensational!? I never knew bell bottoms had a sound track until I heard this.

@kewl800i

3 жыл бұрын

You will immediately know the era when this video was made once you hear the music. This was the "cool" sounds of that time!

I was born the wrong year. I missed all of this good stuff 😢

One big plane! I used to do FAC training at Templeton in West Wales. Great fun but an extremely useful skill on ops.

That was really enjoyable, thank you for uploading it.

I was a pilot on 54 Sqn when this was being filmed. Chris Kemp never flew the F4 on 54 Sqn, he got the "chop" on the conversion course. Mike Keane

@wopppzzz

5 жыл бұрын

What was the F4 like? Was it any good?

@phil_nicholls

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Mike, that makes sense sadly. I flew with Chris in Airtours in the nineties. I knew him as having been a skipper on the Herc. A lovely chap who I still refer to today, as he used to ‘bollock’ me for saying ‘Hello’ on the radio. ‘It’s not ‘Hello’, it’s ‘Good morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening’! - all in jest, but something I now pick people up on, and then go on to bore them with stories of Chris and others from my earlier days..... well, you have to pass the time somehow over 11 hours! 🙄😁

@garryharriman7349

4 жыл бұрын

☹️

@veronicabennett4359

4 жыл бұрын

Mike - Chris never made it to 228 OCU, he was "chopped" on advanced flying traing at Chivenor. Great pity, I met him while this film was being made and he was a really nice guy.

This came too my local cinema the A B C Dover as the supporting feature too Mahogany in June 1976

To me the most beautiful jet aeroplane evermade.

When I was a kid I always ran indoors and cried when a phantom from USAF Bentwaters or Woodbridge flew over head....what a ripping noise...what a roar !.......and I'd love to hear that noise now.

@GoteeDevotee

4 жыл бұрын

RAF Bentwaters. RAF Woodbridge.

@iseeolly9959

4 жыл бұрын

@@GoteeDevotee I also miss hearing the drone of a Hercules plane flying overhead in the middle of the night...or the throb of a Jolly Green Giant...or the whine of an A10. The sounds of my youth in rural Suffolk.

@davemellor4697

4 жыл бұрын

I remember them too at those bases,also at wattisham sometimes....

Absolutely fabulous.. it looks as if everyone got their hair done by the same hairdresser in those days.

Those were some good formation skills for his first solo!

Loved the Phantom simulator. Nothing like the Link trainers at RAF Oakington in the mid 50s.

This takes me back to my childhood when I lived at RAF Wattisham where 2 Phantom's squadron's were based 56 & 23.I lived there from the 70's to early 80's as my father was on 56 sqd,happy days.

@Daniel-S1

4 жыл бұрын

56 sqn and 74 sqn

@Controlled_Robots

4 жыл бұрын

@@Daniel-S1 23 sqn were at RAF Wattisham from 75-83,74 sqn arrived in 84.

I remember the Provost T5s at Leeming well. I lived just down the road.

The theme music is as redolent of the 1970s as flared trousers, big tie knots and wide lapels .... almost expected to see Jason King ....

Theme music sounds like it belongs to an American detective series of that era.

@deeremeyer1749

6 жыл бұрын

What "era" is "that era" and how many "American detective series" have you seen?

@otterspocket2826

6 жыл бұрын

"What "era" is "that era"...?" The title of the video is 'RAF Phantom Pilot training - from (c) 1973' - not enough clues for you?

@COIcultist

6 жыл бұрын

The music used at 15.16 onwards was used in "The Sweeney" episode "Jigsaw" also circa 1973. "Bora" by Simon Haseley aka Simon Park www.dewolfemusic.com/trackdetail.php#!/?id=12377901&code=TzQpnl Loads of great incidental music used in The Sweeney that turns up everywhere. This is a link to a lot of the incidental music www.mark-1.co.uk/Sweeney%20tracks.html One of my favourites was Sunny Laze. Bonus points to children of the 60's and 70's if they can tell me where they heard Sunny Laze in the 80's and onwards?

@commandingjudgedredd1841

5 жыл бұрын

@@COIcultist Interesting. Thanks for that bit of information.

@COIcultist

5 жыл бұрын

@FoxIslanderSteve if that answer was about the piece called "Bora" i'm afraid not however if the comment was about "Sunny Laze" then top Of The Class. it was indeed used in Color Climax films as incidental music. missed this comment at the time just seen it now courtesy of Commanding Judge Dredd. I got into a whole world of music library clips from this. My favorite artist is probably Keith Mansfield who must have made a fortune from TV rights. You will still hear him this summer, he did the Wimbledon theme. At one point he had weekly exposure from the themes to Grandstand, International Athletics, (I think this tune was used in the US for another sport) The Big Match and US Open Tennis while still producing a healthy stable full of porn tunes including Pop Package that was Color Climax's intro music. www.apmmusic.com/search/%5B%7B%22field%22%3A%22composer%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22Keith%20Mansfield%22%2C%22operation%22%3A%22must%22%7D%2C%7B%22field%22%3A%5B%22tags%22%2C%22track_title%22%2C%22track_description%22%2C%22album_title%22%2C%22album_description%22%2C%22lyrics%22%2C%22library%22%2C%22composer%22%5D%2C%22type%22%3A%22text%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22sport%20themes%22%2C%22is_regular%22%3Atrue%2C%22is_query%22%3Atrue%2C%22operation%22%3A%22must%22%7D%5D

I liked he drove a Triumph TR6.

My 1st posting early 1977 OCU (not Charlie Goff - the new Charlie !!) Comms - some real characters - worked hard and have many good memories - God Bless em all. We tried to build a 'Sprite' for use by the groundcrew for PPL training by OCU aircrew - but we went on strike due too some shenanigans with the funding/materials and project participants - not sure if it got finished as I was sent back at Cosford in 1978

I worked across the lake from the end of the main runway of Carswell Air Force Base in 1971. Those Phantoms would take off, two at a time, belching great streamers of dark smoke, the noise so loud the city had to build their schools underground, and our phone had to have a blinking light for a ringer else you would never know the phone was ringing. Even inside our shop you could not hold a conversation until they were well up in the sky. Two Phantoms were equal to one B-52 in terms of noise and smoking exhausts. All the military airplanes were magnificent sights, but I could not help but wonder what we were breathing after they flew by. My father in law, a Lt Col. Navigator-Bombadier in a Buff, was on Alert time after time during the late 60s, and later came back from bombing Hanoi with PTSB. - During the Cuban Missile Crises I was only ten, but worried because our home was far enough away from the base that we were sure to die horribly from radiation poisoning if The Bomb was used; later I was glad to be closer, within the 'quick death' ring if "they" nuked our busy SAC base. They were tools of war, flown by warriors.

WOW! VERY NICE CLIP I ALWAYS WANTED 2 BE A FIGHTER PILOT !

Looks like the Mach Loop @16:00. Being RAF Valley it must be. Used to live there in the mid nineties as a kid. Damn that place filled me with dreams.

@martf8014

4 ай бұрын

Its llyn Ogwen, then down the valley above the A5 towards Bethesda. So it isn't part of the loop.

@eyespythesky124

4 ай бұрын

@@martf8014 thank you 👍

@martf8014

4 ай бұрын

@@eyespythesky124 you are most welcome. It was a great spotting place years ago. Not used as much now.

It is tough being a pilot. I flew in a Tornado F3, Hawk T1 and a Typhoon and was pretty buggered for hours after it. After that I’m glad im not a fast jet pilot. I do have a PPL and happy to stick with my put put

Brilliant

@freddielaker2

Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

My fondest memory is a beautiful Jaguar made an emergency landing at our airfield. the poor pilot had to be hosed off . While approaching his ground target, a strong down draft forced an quick upward correction. Causing him to slice a large & long piece of canopy due to stabilizing wise on an RN station antenna. After landing and pinning & choking this jet. I looked , being a courious person, Inside the jets barrel & noticed a “round” in the breaching mech. Responce was immediate. Avery lucky jet jockey. I never found out if this person continued to fly.

The armourer loading the rocket pod at 32 mins looks like Ron Crosby. I could be wrong though as my recollection is from the early 1980s at RAF Wattisham.

All those men are in their 70’s or 80’s now

do you mean, the fighter pilots are very special apart from ordinary pilot? attitude is also one of the important quality of a fighter pilots. I'm so proud to meet one of them

@ammoalamo6485

4 жыл бұрын

I was in a college class with two exchange pilots at Wichita Falls, Texas. One was confident, the other was an arrogant skirt-chaser; both were smart cookies and decent enough I suppose.

I was 1 when all this was going down.

Reckon the arrestor gear was used to give the land-rover rescue vehicles chance to get there before they ran out of fuel. :)

Terrific nostalgic video.....Having read the comments it seems that he never actually made it as a Phantom pilot,having failed the Fast jet course at Chivenor ? Interesting they`d progress the video as if he had passed the course and gone on as a successful phantom pilot ? Anyhow,not to detract from any of the film..it was terrific viewing.

06:41 You never forget your first time.... .... of your first solo for that matter.

This bought a lot memories flooding back as i was an armourer on 54 Sdn in the early 70`s. MJ4 what a machine,fletcher tanks,centre line tank,Su 23a what a gun.sneb 68mm rockets ,1000lb bombs.Then there was the 28lb and the 9lb practice bomb, then the camera pod just loved the OTR`s..Those were the days ..... Great film..

@adrianandkatrinadove203

5 жыл бұрын

Never remember having a hemet issued (As the Guy with the rocket launcher in this film..) to load weapons in the 80`s on 19 Sqn Wildenrath ...Anthony...Memories of cracking your head on Sky Flash fins !!!

If you need to understand, the end of Empire, this film is an absolute classic.

Ahhhh, The Phantom, the 'Mud Pusher' my first flt com, flt left Kevin Toal was an ex nav on Canberras & Phantoms in RAF Germany, he once admitted to me that he was lead nav on a sqn exercise in germany &,on taking off 10mins down route he suddenly realised that he was off by 180deg, i didn't persue the issue as he looked embarrassed enough, we all f##k at times................

sorry the Gnat was a magic aircraft and was off course complex as you would be moving on to another complex aircraft with power controls!! Best advanced trainer ever!!! The single seater with was built and used y the Indians was wonderful it kill rate was very high!!!

I worked on these back in the 90's, I was an air frames technician. I hated every minute, I came out partially deaf because of all the jet noise.

@allansmallman

4 жыл бұрын

Have you heard of ear defenders, rigger?

@marknorville9827

4 жыл бұрын

@@allansmallman We used to wear double ear protection both yellow plugs and then ear defenders it still never worked. I was a painter and doper so we would have oxygen hoods which again did not help with hearing. You would not wear ear protection all the time not around base during t-breaks or if you was walking from a to b then you would not wear them.

@ammoalamo6485

4 жыл бұрын

We lived in Lake Worth, just across a small lake from the main runway at Carswell. The city built the schools underground to abate the noise; we had a light to let us know if the phone was ringing - the jets shook our whole little frame building and rattled the windows. You could not hold a conversation til the planes got altitude, or landed. I think even double ear muffs were not enough protection to prevent at least some hearing loss.

Wonderful.

Most enjoyable 👍

Chris failed advanced training at Chivenor and was chopped. He went on to Hercs.

What this doc doesn't tell (because it hadn't happened yet) is that the Phantom FG-1 (F-4K) and the Phantom FGR-2 (F-4M) were to be joined by a third variant. See in the eighties when the Phantoms and lightnings were to be replaced by the Tornado F3, the RAF was so gung-ho about replacing them that they started phasing the two types out before Tornado F3 went into production. So as a result they had squadrons without planes. So as a stop gap the RAF bought more Phantoms but different from the ones they already had, these were former US Navy F-4J's most of them being Vietnam veterans, which were taken from the boneyards, fixed up, modernized with new radar and presto. c1.staticflickr.com/4/3299/3606721710_a58a8fa723_b.jpg The F-4J UK was unique in the fact that it was the only Phantom variant that the RAF flew which was powered by the General Electric J79 engine and not the Rolls Royce Spey which powered the F-4K and the F-4M.

@stevej48

7 жыл бұрын

The reason that the UK purchased F4Js, 29 sqn FGR2 phantoms from Conningsby were sent south for the Falklands conflict, leaving a gap in the UK air defence. The UK purchased a sqn of F4Js, which were stationed at Wattisham, the tornado was phased in to service as and when they became available. The RAF never had squadrons without planes, I was on 92 sqn Phantoms when this all took place.

@RastaSaiyaman

7 жыл бұрын

I was quoting what I read in an issue of Fly Past. Thanks for the corrections.

@stevej48

7 жыл бұрын

No problems, the F4 was a very capable aircraft, plenty of power with a big gun and 8 missiles, a formidable fighter in its day.

@RastaSaiyaman

7 жыл бұрын

stevej48 Although, I should point out that all three variants of the RAF (The F-4K, the F-4M and the F-4JUk) were based on the F-4B which didn't come with Gun armament as a stock, they could be fitted with central Gun Pods but not like later F-4 types like the F-4E and the F-4G with guns in the nose. Those gun pods were fitted when during Vietnam the pilots flying the Phantom were complaining that they couldn't do a proper dogfight since both the Sidewinder and the Sparrow missiles weren't designed to be fired at close range. Because the Phantom being designed to be an interceptor to catch high flying Russian bombers, the gun armament was omitted from the design completely, the Sidewinder and Sparrow were enough to deal with what the plane was designed for. Imagine: you're on a MiG-19's twelve O clock, you have the guy in your HUD, the moment is right to blow him out of the sky but then your board computer tells you that you can't fire your sidewinder because the MiG is too close in proximity to get a target lock. I'm pretty sure your reaction would be "Why doesn't this @#$%#ing plane have a $%$#@ing GUN?" One thing the high command had to accept was that the pilots had to be properly trained to be what they were supposed to be FIGHTER Pilots. And thus "Aggressor" and Top Gun training schools were set up to teach fighter pilots how to dogfight.

@RobRidleyLive

5 жыл бұрын

Mistaken again I'm afraid. The J variant was effectively it's own variant, later updated to the S variant, the final type used in US Naval service. The F-4G modified from the the F-4E specifically had there gun removed, to make space for the additional electronics required for the anti-radiation role

Lots and lots of those and lightnings flew over great yarmouth when i was young in the 70s. Not sure if the phantoms were american because of the black engine smoke.

12:17 looks like their might have been a Swedish exchange going on at the time.

Good video, catastrophic music.

Phlown one, phired one & Photographed one all in phlight.🐅

The gnat.. It's like the spitfire was originally called the shrew for fks.sake.!!!!

I shook hands with Alec Bedser !!!!! How about that?

The Mach @1'45

Few in the chipmunk with the air cadets back in the early 70's ...alas didnt joing the RAF..followed my father into Rolls Royce [path of least resistance :) ]

Classy little operation.

my father is phantom pilots.❤👌

@pauldg837

4 жыл бұрын

Considering that the Phantom was taken out of service more than 20 years ago, I doubt that your father is as you claim to be a Phantom pilot.

@Keyswiz71

4 жыл бұрын

@@pauldg837 Still in use with the Greek, Turkish, Iranian and Japanese Air Forces. ;-)

Is there any information about whether or not the phantom is a progression from the F-101Voodoo and why they changed the wing dihydral and tail plane configurations and who in the hell thought this heavy rockdt with fins would make good carrier plane?

The Gnats were really great air combat planes. May be the best.

At the 38:46 mark, USMC Exchange Officer. Interesting.

"This maneuver is a test of the pilots competence and confidence" Yeah and his continence 😅

How many airbases then? and how few now! Tragic. The main military recruitment drives today are looking for part timers, painful to witness. British forces being reduced to figures so low we might struggle to deal with a civil war let alone a foreign one.

At 38:45 it looks like the Phantom crew are wearing low quarter shoes or wearing something white over their flying boots. If they are shoes they can easily get blown off during an ejection and you end up on the ground with no footwear.

@obfuscated3090

5 жыл бұрын

Good eyes! They don't look quite like the issue (well, USAF issue) rubber protective booties maintainers used and there's no reason pilot or WSO should wear those. They are to protect the aircraft. Earlier "RAF pattern" flying boots had beige uppers and black lowers which look like low quarters from a distance, but I'm not familiar with Cold War era patterns.

Note the USMC aviator, Captain's rank at 27:28 One wonders if he's on exchange?

@russkydeutsch

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too! Very cool.

the belly of those F-4's are disgracefully dirty! I worked on A4, F4 and F18 while in the marines

@timhancock6626

5 жыл бұрын

I often noticed at UK Airshows that US aircraft were always squeaky clean and that UK ones always had exhaust marks all over them. I don't think we have the cleaning and polishing staff the US have

And all the women are hanging around the U.S.M.C. Phantom pilot 27:25.

@loosecannon8340

4 жыл бұрын

It's the uniform. Let it never be said, that they don't have the best looking uniform on the planet. (I am not American, but even I know the U.S.M.C. has the greatest looking uniform on earth!)

@dulls8475

4 жыл бұрын

@@loosecannon8340 Nah like most US uniforms they have an edge of disney about them....

Sadly all gone now.

Don't the Navigators get any mention ?

@melissajennings8938

5 жыл бұрын

A Navigator is a very useful thing, when you crash in the desert you can eat him!

Awesome... Read F4 Phantom A Pilots Story by Robert Prest 👍🇳🇿

Student looks like Chris Kemp - later a Hercules captain

@lenkapenka6976

7 жыл бұрын

mentions his name as Chris Kemp at end of video!

@motorcop505

6 жыл бұрын

Brian May Another polio from 54 Sqd. said he never flew with them. He failed the conversion course.

@paulmurphy42

6 жыл бұрын

Can anyone tell us what happened to Chris Kemp after this film? So he became a Hercules captain..? Then..? Is he still alive?

@kevinnorthfield3052

6 жыл бұрын

Knew Chris Kemp at Lyneham early 90s

@martf8014

4 жыл бұрын

That because it is.

Was this intended only for the RAF or for general cinema release?

@timhancock6626

5 жыл бұрын

I'd been out of the Air Cadets a couple of years when this came out, but it was standard "Wet friday afternoon in november parade" stuff to get a film like this. It worked too as one of our merry band went on to fly Harriers and command No 1 Squadron. The rest of us ran away.

The Chipmunk WZ858 was destroyed in a hanger fire in 2003

@thetourettesgamer8851

5 жыл бұрын

That’s a shame love the de Havilland chipmunk fascinating though that you could find the fate of that particular aircraft and indeed the fate of basically any other aircraft in raf service due the fantastic records that exist.

@grahamjpjones

5 жыл бұрын

@@thetourettesgamer8851 I flew in Chipminks when I was a cadet in the ATC, I went on to become a Warrant Officer in later life and flew in the Grob Tutor many times but I will always remember the Chippy

Can anyone tell us what happened to Chris Kemp after this film? Is he still alive?

@velvetdip

5 жыл бұрын

I met Chris Kemp a few days ago and here's an update. He is well and has since retired after 7 wars, being hijacked twice, and having had his plane blown up. He recently donated a kidney to his son and said that that was one of the best things he has ever done. He presented this information along with this video at a recent public gathering. It was a pleasure to meet such an inspiring person. - Daughter of Nara74.

@phil_nicholls

4 жыл бұрын

Nara 74 - nice to know Chris is still going. I used to fly with him in the civvie world. Lovely bloke and lovely family - it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that he donated a kidney - he’s simply that sort of chap.

Funny how I wanted to be a fighter pilot as a kid. I never attempted it as I got Crohn's disease when I was 15. . When I fly Emirates I don't even like decending to land. Unless being in the pilots seat is like driving a car versis getting sick in the back? Now that I'm older it doesnt bother me though I would have loved to fly the English Electric Lightning.

@dphotos007

5 жыл бұрын

Davman I have had Crohns Disease when I was 15 too. I wanted to be a fighter pilot too. Once you have Crohns it’s an automatic rejection. I am 61 now with many resection operations under my belt. I can officially say Crohns sucks big time. It’s one of the most painful disease out there. You can still live a full life but imagine having a stomach ache or something like food poisoning every day of the week. It is not fun.

I found this on the pilot Chris Kemp. www.pprune.org/where-they-now/501848-looking-ex-air-2000-raf-chris-kemp.html

I all ways wonted to be a pilot, I have Autism AD HD OCD so had no chance.

@ammoalamo6485

4 жыл бұрын

That didn't stop Walter Mitty, my friend.

i was not even born at the time. 👌✊✌👆☝👍👈👊

RAF Phantom. Staring: Stephen Fry's haircut.

Are there any pilots on here willing to talk about their experiences

@sishorrock

5 жыл бұрын

My Dad is the pilot instructor at RAF Chivenor at 19.25s. Super proud of the old man and has many wonderful tales to tell...

@1903chrisholden

5 жыл бұрын

@@sishorrock Is he willing to talk about his time over email?

@sishorrock

5 жыл бұрын

I’m sure he’d love to. I’ll let him know of your interest.

@1903chrisholden

5 жыл бұрын

@@sishorrock thankyou good sir

@1903chrisholden

5 жыл бұрын

@@sishorrock any news good sir?

To any fighter pilots out there, how much does maths incide on a pilot's capabilities and training?

@RobertBardos

7 жыл бұрын

Granny Killer the maths of your bank to pay the instructor is the most important maths. Lol.

@dhauruanza9732

4 жыл бұрын

Well chap, 25 years back everything was analog. We have to continuosly monitor our cockpit instruments . In short 60 calculations simultaneously . However once you get hold of it , it was subtle and smooth. I was always very cautious during low level bombing runs. It required immense concentration. No room for error. Just a little push to the stick and you are done.

@devilliers123

4 жыл бұрын

Its just a simple numbers game......

Look at in 12:17 , A Volvo 142 and Swedish flag on it Now am i Curious as to why this is so

@fredjones100

4 жыл бұрын

Because it's a Swedish car? "He" was driving a Saab to his previous posting if I recall correctly, then upgraded to something more sporty later on (Triumph?)

Either those Phantoms taking off at the beginning have radial "flotation" landing gear tires on them or somebody forgot to "kick the tires" before they "lit the fires" because those tires look FLAT.

@obfuscated3090

5 жыл бұрын

Tire pressure checks are part of daily inspections. Those tires aren't flat. (Former Phantom Phixer here, Yankee variety.)

@riggers6214

5 жыл бұрын

Aahh - A real Phantom Phixer. Got my badge when I visited Keflavik 1987 - did an exchange with one of the USAF guys there. Was with a detachment of Tornado F3's at the time. But it brought back memories of my time on Tooms in the early 80's at Coningsby

@martf8014

4 жыл бұрын

get them eyes checked sunshine