Anyone seen this? I see so many videos on here...I thought this one was interesting when my pops forwarded it on to me....It gets good around 5 minutes or so into it. Kind funny when he starts up...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6PnKUEFX8g

I never get tired of watching beautiful airplanes flying.

KB

Beautiful and gracful Spitfire and I really got a kick out of the Gnome powered Camel, a real ripsnorting hellraiser of a biplane!

Correct me if i'm wrong, but I read somewhere that the "surging" of the Camel engine is caused but the pilot monentarily grounding the ignition to slow down because they have no throttle. Firewalled or F@&k-all!

That's a great video. What a great many things we take for granted even in our 50 year old taildraggers.

It looked like it was an excerpt from a longer show. Any idea what that show is?

1SeventyZ wrote:That's a great video. What a great many things we take for granted even in our 50 year old taildraggers.

It looked like it was an excerpt from a longer show. Any idea what that show is?

Z, I believe it's from the official Warbirds over Wanaka DVD.

Warbirds over Wanaka is the largest vintage aircraft/warbird show in the southern hemisphere. I really want to make it down there sometime.

Here's a link to the DVD store. You may be able to find it somewhere here in the states too:

http://www.wowdvd.co.nz/category.pasp?categoryid=1

Here's some more WWI goodness from Wanaka: