This was going to be Monday's video, but it's going up early because... well, I wasn't waiting any longer to show this off to the world! Do have a look at the links in the description, too: Starrship's a big STEM outreach project that the RAF and Rolls-Royce are working on, and there may well be more collaborations in future. As a heads up, this isn't a sponsored video (no money changed hands, the RAF don't have editorial control), but, well, given I got to fly with the Red Arrows, there's a reason I left the Rolls-Royce engine mention in there!
It is surprising how transparent a cloud can be when you're up close to another aircraft inside it. During my initial formation training I was flying along concentrating on the other aircraft when I became aware out of my peripheral vision I couldn't see the ground or sky any more. I quickly diverted my gaze and found we were inside a cloud! They used to shepherd aircraft through clouds by flying them in formation as well.
@@theodoremaximillios1797 Other than a reference its also a really good practice. If they did the wrong thing after you told them to go right then telling them to go right again isn't going to solve that however saying your other right immediately tells the person that something is wrong with what they just did.
It would be interesting, rendezvous and docking are surprising complex and nonintuitive (The best way to catch up with something is to slower down, which puts you in a lower orbit so you're moving faster then what your trying to catch up with). The fact that USSR/Russia has been doing it as an automated system since the 60s is really impressive.
Thanks to nasa and the Russo space agency for the use of this personal rocket pack and the flight up here, now let's watch the shuttle dock to ISS in HD from about a mile away
You know what's great about your videos? It's that while most of RUclipsrs would have used such an opportunity - flying with the Red Arrows - to show off and come up with awesome images but no content, you actually find a way to teach us something in less than 4 minutes while remaining humble as usual and delivering genuine excitement on top of that. Your channel is a gem in the darkness of the world wide web. Thank you very much for your work.
Nuppusaurus in the UK we use metres for most distance measures but miles per hour are used for speed. It is a by product of the partial conversion to the metric system we have.
Hobgoblin UK it's like when people use feet for height and stone for weight, instead of metres of KG and acres instead of hectares for area. Even in an industrial environment you'll still find inch pattern pipes as opposed to mm, except where it's super techy
fdsdh1 yeah. It's actually really messed up. I was born in 72. Just after we supposedly went metric. I was tought metric at school all the influential adults in my life used imperial. I use feet and inches to quantify my height or the hight of a bridge. I will tell that shop you want is 100 yards away. But I measure smaller things in mm or a room in metres. I buy fuel in litres but calculate my cars economy in miles per gallon. This is all normal to me but it's messed up when I think about it.
He's British - a lot of British people can, and do, use both systems. If I'm measuring timber etc, I use millimetres, but if asked my height, I say 6'. Buy milk in litres, and buy beer in pints.
I can’t believe this is the video that 4 years ago made me discover Tom Scott. I don’t watch him a lot but a lot of people say he made good videos and this is no exception. Keep enjoying your retirement man, I wish you all the best from the US.
One video he's telling us how a small difference in electrical frequency is affecting a tea-clock hybrid, another video he's flying way up in the sky doing tricks with one of the best pilots there is
I had the pleasure of seeing them at the last Luchtmachtdagen in the Netherlands in 2016. Seeing it live is truly amazing. While I really enjoyed the other displays such as the Italian Frecce Tricolori, the Red Arrows were definitely the best I saw that day.
That pilot's voice or whatever would be really cool for a voice actor gimmick in a game with a pilot unit or character. Imagine the Wraith from Starcraft saying "coming right... now" or "Hold-ing the bank... now" in his smooth voice whenever you clicked on him.
Hey I saw this display over Lincoln, it was only last week I'm sure, sure is great to live next to so many RAF bases, the rumble of the hawks is always a welcome sound!
Pika2 the roar of typhoons is my personal favourite, I love it when they come up to where I live for training. It's like having your own personal airshow haha
Flying close aerobatic formation is HARD and HAZARDOUS. I was a USAF pilot and flying fingertip formation through 90 degrees of bank while a few feet away from your equally incompetent classmate was pure terror. Glad I survived. Formation flying's difficulty has an inverse square function with distance. 20' is immensely easier than 3'.
Dude your videos are so awesome. It's not 20min of explaining something slowly. You just get to the point and i'm able to learn something interesting within minutes. Thanks bro!
I experienced the Red Arrows at the Galway Air Show over Galway Bay. The sound and speed were just insane! I am blind, and my friend "drew" their manoeuvres with his fingers on my back - or tried to, respectively, until he gave up with the words: "How these guys prove everything wrong that our physics teachers tried to teach us for years is just bonkers! Just wrong!" ;)
If you want to talk about visual lineage, then the Hawker-Siddeley Hawk T1 is the spiritual descendant of the Hawker Hunter, though they have no parts in common. The Hunter display team was The Black Arrows, and the Red Pelicans flew Jet Provosts. When RAF display flying was rationalised into a single team the name they chose was The Red Arrows, flying the Folland Gnat until about 1980. The Gnat was a tiny but very capable jet aircraft and I saw the Red Arrows fly them a number of times in my youth. The Red Arrows (or indeed any good display team) are an example to us all that practice makes perfect. We can all learn from that at times I'm sure.
I love the 7 months of training before they fly anywhere near the public part because I live in Lincoln and you see them over the city centre every day
The strange sing-song cadence their leader users to pass instructions for staying in formation sound weirdly like the original voices for the Cybermen in The Tenth Planet.
I'm thinking of old fashioned railroad conductor cadence. I think noisy environments encourage the development of interesting tone and rhythm overlays on English because the fine sound details all get drowned out. You have to replace/augment in order to get meaning across. The thing I noticed that was really interesting to me was that his voice got notably higher for flight communication. I guess to be in a different frequency range from background noise?
Part 2 in Tom's series, "Things that are patriotically British." Next week join Tom as he eats cod, chips and mushy peas with a warm pint, in a red phone box, on a Routemaster.
I've been incredibly lucky, as a kid I used to be able to watch the Red Arrows every year when they came to Bournemouth beach. I'll never get bored of watching them fly.
He showed people interesting things. Lots of people watched. He now has this massive audience wanting more interesting things. Other people have interesting things to show off but might not have such a large audience. Those people go to Tom. The interesting thing gets exposure, the internet learns a thing and Tom gets to do cool stuff for a living. The lucky sod!
This could have been an hour long video and it would still be interesting. An in depth explanation of the formations, the training process, lingo and technical aspects of the execution itself.
Living in Cumbria the RAF routinely irritate me with their sonic booms. However I have to admit this is really goddamn cool and I am just a bit jealous
The only time fighter jets will go supersonic over mainland is when they are reacting to a threat. Most of those will be from lossimouth Scotland, reacting to Russian planes. So I don't think you are being bothered from too many sonic booms like you suggest. Maybe once in a blue moon they may be scrambled to an unresponsive aircraft, but that's rare.
Nillie Well then. I struggle to believe it was a sonic boom. If a sonic boom happens from a fighter craft near to buildings, windows will know about it and so would you.
Watching this video now, in November 2021. This video was released on 14th of March, 2018. I checked about deadly accidents within the Red Arrows. Wikipedia says 20th of March, 2018. Not a whole week after this video was released. Condolences to the family of the engineer who died in that accident.
I'm 🇨🇦 and even ex military but the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds win me over with their speed and sound even though the Arrows and Snowbirds fly more planes
“Maybe this is patriotism talking but they are the best aerobatic team anywhere in the world” “They fly just meters apart” Meanwhile the US aerobatic team only flying 18 inches apart 😂😂
Broadly speaking the amount of fuel used is the same by all the aircraft in the display. Reds 6,7,8&9 May use more due to their more dynamic second half of the full display.
This was a cool look into formation flying. I wish I were able to fly in one. I did recently see the Blue Angels, and they said that they have a cubit between canopy and wing.
I love seeing the same people spouting the same points to each other in different comment threads trying to prove that their countries Aerobatic Team is better. Obviously, YOUR countries team is better because they are from YOUR country, JUST LIKE TOM SAID IN THE VIDEO!
Does Tom ever comment or reply to comments or is it usually a "set it and forget it" kind of thing? Just curious. I know time is hard to come by when you're busy, but even a little fan interaction is nice and I've yet to see anything :c
i've seen him comment mostly if it's a question about the topic or someone has extra information or if someone knows something is wrong in the video and can give a proper source/info to fix the error.
Nova Fawks when Matt and Tom do their next park bench Q&A definitely drop them this question, it'll probably be the best way to get a definitive answer
There are several aerobatic teams that fly tighter or riskier formations - but they also usually have a lot more technical support like the boardcomputer keeping the right position in formation, also the planes are often heavily customised for that job with barely any of their original functionality (aside form flight) being left. But i kinda like the russia and italian airshows more. Specially russian fighterjets: just take of the weapons, give them some vodka and let hell break loose - Sukhois look awesome and seem to also fly awesome.
I wouldn't have thought any formation display team would have any sort of automatic computer controlled autopilot keeping formation. It'll all be manually flown, all down to the pilot.
Tom knows how to put the cat amongst the pigeons....all the blue angel and thunderbird comments are hilarious....obviously our form of sarcasm is lost on our daughter colonies!
Haven't seen them in years, was suppose to see them at RIAT this year but was postponed due to Covid and will (hopefully) be next year now. Last time I saw them, they flew with the Vulcan on her last flight. Definetly agree, best air display team in the world.
amazing. i used to live on akortiri raf brace because dads on the raf and in April they do training there and as i look back i see how much i just took it for granted and that some peopel cant even see them at all. wish id apritated it a bit more
My one wish is to see the red arrows in reality. They are for me amazing. Their skills in flying so close to one another......brilliant team work. 👍👍👍👍👍💟👍👍👍👍 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞
36hunters I’m used to hearing the crisp “reh-dee hit it” style the blue angels use. The British team sounds like it should- “okay mates let’s make an easy turn there it is after this let’s have a pint at the pub chip chip god save the Queen cherio”
You're a cool dude, Tom Scott.
Rare Earth love your videos, the production quality is amazing.
This was going to be Monday's video, but it's going up early because... well, I wasn't waiting any longer to show this off to the world! Do have a look at the links in the description, too: Starrship's a big STEM outreach project that the RAF and Rolls-Royce are working on, and there may well be more collaborations in future. As a heads up, this isn't a sponsored video (no money changed hands, the RAF don't have editorial control), but, well, given I got to fly with the Red Arrows, there's a reason I left the Rolls-Royce engine mention in there!
This is soooo god damn cool
I din't know you could pilot, that's really cool!
I can't believe they let you fly with them! When did you learn to fly a plane??
I am so utterly jelly right now ...
I'd say that it was probably a 2-seater training aircraft, and that Tom was a passenger.
Formation in the clouds? HECK YES.
In the UK you just got to deal with it because it never changes😂
It is surprising how transparent a cloud can be when you're up close to another aircraft inside it. During my initial formation training I was flying along concentrating on the other aircraft when I became aware out of my peripheral vision I couldn't see the ground or sky any more. I quickly diverted my gaze and found we were inside a cloud!
They used to shepherd aircraft through clouds by flying them in formation as well.
Gotta love seeing youtubers active on each other's videos!
it might be patriotism, but I think the Blue Angles are a tad bit better
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Finally the planes now match the shirts you wear :)
He has prepared for that moment his wholel life^^
As long as he didn't have to wear the brown pants today!
The Red Arrows have always been red...
It was all meant to be
Now it's time to board the capsule if you dare...
UNREAL! What an incredible opportunity to experience this! Fantastic video!!
You guys should collaborate!
Alec Steele alec! I love your videos!
Collab?
@@hairyneilthey did!
I wonder what's it like being Tom Scott.
LforLight british
Interested people become interesting people.
Amazing
after this video I would guess sick to his stomach.
LforLight Tea 🍵☕️
"Turn .. Right .. Now."
"Your .. Other .. Right."
I was chuckling so much I struggled to hit the like button!
Is that a reference to something??
@@theodoremaximillios1797 I think it's supposed to reference the Red Sparrows which are a gta 5 plane group
@@theodoremaximillios1797 Other than a reference its also a really good practice. If they did the wrong thing after you told them to go right then telling them to go right again isn't going to solve that however saying your other right immediately tells the person that something is wrong with what they just did.
coming right now
holding the bank now*
Next episode: How Spacecraft Docking Works (feat. the NASA!)
* Tom casually explains clamping mechanism while approaching ISS, seen from illuminator *
Temp Name .... & space-x (Elon musk]
More like "feat. РКА" :) Since at the moment, the only way you can get to ISS is in Soyuz capsule.
It would be interesting, rendezvous and docking are surprising complex and nonintuitive (The best way to catch up with something is to slower down, which puts you in a lower orbit so you're moving faster then what your trying to catch up with). The fact that USSR/Russia has been doing it as an automated system since the 60s is really impressive.
Thanks to nasa and the Russo space agency for the use of this personal rocket pack and the flight up here, now let's watch the shuttle dock to ISS in HD from about a mile away
Next episode: How do a delorean's doors work? * Tom explains while time traveling to the future *
The pilots seem to be really humble and open about what they do, eager to explain. Good guys.
Spirit ready to bomb third world countries
Master Chef they are an acrobatic division
Spirit there's no place for ego when you're doing maneuvers like these.
Master Chef lmfao...
+Seba Zabala They are formed of actual combat pilots, Master Chef is talking out of his arse though
It's only a question of time until Tom speaks to us from space.
In Bezos rockets soon enough
Teasmade, and now the RAF. What a true Brit you are
Whilst petting a bulldog and explaining how between is better then Europe/ America in something that doesn't really matter.
ThomasstevenSlater Yeah like, say, plug sockets. Oh never mind...
Now I dare you to drink coffee
You know what's great about your videos? It's that while most of RUclipsrs would have used such an opportunity - flying with the Red Arrows - to show off and come up with awesome images but no content, you actually find a way to teach us something in less than 4 minutes while remaining humble as usual and delivering genuine excitement on top of that. Your channel is a gem in the darkness of the world wide web. Thank you very much for your work.
Now I'm waiting for the park bench where Matt swears at Tom because he is a lucky Git for getting to do this.
The Killer Spud ding
Mystery Biscuits!
Matt is a proxy for all of us. His role is very important. :)
Matt might realize he won't really fit in the aircraft comfortably ;)
Cool, didn't know git was also a word (in addition to being a very useful piece of software). Thanks for teaching me new swearwords!
"flying at hundreds miles per hour, just meters apart from each other"
When you just can't decide which system to use
Nuppusaurus in the UK we use metres for most distance measures but miles per hour are used for speed. It is a by product of the partial conversion to the metric system we have.
Nuppusaurus No, we’ve made our decision. We like both :)
Hobgoblin UK it's like when people use feet for height and stone for weight, instead of metres of KG and acres instead of hectares for area. Even in an industrial environment you'll still find inch pattern pipes as opposed to mm, except where it's super techy
fdsdh1 yeah. It's actually really messed up. I was born in 72. Just after we supposedly went metric. I was tought metric at school all the influential adults in my life used imperial. I use feet and inches to quantify my height or the hight of a bridge. I will tell that shop you want is 100 yards away. But I measure smaller things in mm or a room in metres.
I buy fuel in litres but calculate my cars economy in miles per gallon.
This is all normal to me but it's messed up when I think about it.
He's British - a lot of British people can, and do, use both systems.
If I'm measuring timber etc, I use millimetres, but if asked my height, I say 6'.
Buy milk in litres, and buy beer in pints.
I can't wait for the park bench episode with a very jealous Matt.^^
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT
ops caps was on
whatever
The
MH-17
Yeah, X beats Y. No doubt about it.
Patrouille Suisse, because F-5 > poxy little Hawk.
Blue Angels would like a word with him.
Tbh tho, those airframes are ancient compared to the blue angels and thunderbirds sets
My condolences to Matt... At least I know *I'd* be jealous if it was my friend doing this! ;-)
Wordsnwood (Art Mulder) I was just thinking the same thing, he's going to be so jealous.
Poor Matt...
What if Matt is the pilot?
Though given his feelings about roller coasters he might actually be relieved.
Well done Tom, you've basically become Blue Peter for adults, I love that.
Oh look, it's finally sunny in Britain (above the clouds) :-)
Good thing he had the shades :D
It was sunny today in Britain actually. At ground level I mean ;-)
I can’t believe this is the video that 4 years ago made me discover Tom Scott. I don’t watch him a lot but a lot of people say he made good videos and this is no exception. Keep enjoying your retirement man, I wish you all the best from the US.
One video he's telling us how a small difference in electrical frequency is affecting a tea-clock hybrid, another video he's flying way up in the sky doing tricks with one of the best pilots there is
Red Arrows: "Holding the Bank...Now"
Blue Angels: "RRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEADYYYYYYYYYYYY, HIT IT"
Have you heard how the red arrows talk? It's like this: gurr aNd uP, tUrn. The voice of the guy is really funny
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I grew up in Lincolnshire not far from RAF Scampton and was lucky enough to see them practising on a regular basis. Incredible to watch.
I'm lucky enough to see these guys ALL the time above Lincolnshire. I get many free shows through the year. Fantastic stuff.
I had the pleasure of seeing them at the last Luchtmachtdagen in the Netherlands in 2016. Seeing it live is truly amazing. While I really enjoyed the other displays such as the Italian Frecce Tricolori, the Red Arrows were definitely the best I saw that day.
That pilot's voice or whatever would be really cool for a voice actor gimmick in a game with a pilot unit or character. Imagine the Wraith from Starcraft saying "coming right... now" or "Hold-ing the bank... now" in his smooth voice whenever you clicked on him.
Hey I saw this display over Lincoln, it was only last week I'm sure, sure is great to live next to so many RAF bases, the rumble of the hawks is always a welcome sound!
Pika2 the roar of typhoons is my personal favourite, I love it when they come up to where I live for training. It's like having your own personal airshow haha
Flying close aerobatic formation is HARD and HAZARDOUS. I was a USAF pilot and flying fingertip formation through 90 degrees of bank while a few feet away from your equally incompetent classmate was pure terror. Glad I survived. Formation flying's difficulty has an inverse square function with distance. 20' is immensely easier than 3'.
I saw them do an airshow here in Ireland and they are good as you say
Comrade Bepsi Marx bray 16?
andyman4433 In Galway, think in 2010?
Superb video Tom. Actually living the dream. 🙌🏻
Do one on the international space station next
Dude your videos are so awesome. It's not 20min of explaining something slowly. You just get to the point and i'm able to learn something interesting within minutes. Thanks bro!
Gotta agree, Red Arrows are hands down the best display team. Even the US display teams said that themselves.
I experienced the Red Arrows at the Galway Air Show over Galway Bay.
The sound and speed were just insane!
I am blind, and my friend "drew" their manoeuvres with his fingers on my back - or tried to, respectively,
until he gave up with the words:
"How these guys prove everything wrong that our physics teachers tried to teach us for years is just bonkers! Just wrong!" ;)
The aircraft they fly is very astheticly pleasing. Elegant lines and it is easy to see its influence on the Harrier.
The Harrier came before the Hawk.
Paul Sengupta My mistake, thanks for the information.
If you want to talk about visual lineage, then the Hawker-Siddeley Hawk T1 is the spiritual descendant of the Hawker Hunter, though they have no parts in common. The Hunter display team was The Black Arrows, and the Red Pelicans flew Jet Provosts. When RAF display flying was rationalised into a single team the name they chose was The Red Arrows, flying the Folland Gnat until about 1980. The Gnat was a tiny but very capable jet aircraft and I saw the Red Arrows fly them a number of times in my youth. The Red Arrows (or indeed any good display team) are an example to us all that practice makes perfect. We can all learn from that at times I'm sure.
I live in Lincoln and it’s always exciting to hear the roar of the Red Arrows. Fantastic video once again, Tom.
I do believe your life is just way too awesome - I mean....come on....
Don't be silly. Tom Scott is more like.... an idea.
tom scott is a universal constant
I love the 7 months of training before they fly anywhere near the public part because I live in Lincoln and you see them over the city centre every day
The strange sing-song cadence their leader users to pass instructions for staying in formation sound weirdly like the original voices for the Cybermen in The Tenth Planet.
I'm thinking of old fashioned railroad conductor cadence. I think noisy environments encourage the development of interesting tone and rhythm overlays on English because the fine sound details all get drowned out. You have to replace/augment in order to get meaning across. The thing I noticed that was really interesting to me was that his voice got notably higher for flight communication. I guess to be in a different frequency range from background noise?
Interference22 Ah, I was wondering how this could be even more British, but you’ve gone and done it.
It also sounds a bit like Japanese bus drivers.
I'd have said Satnav.
"At the next cloud, Turn... Right"
"You have reached your destination"
Park bench, all censored due to Matt's inordinate jealousy.
"You absolute beeping beeping beep beep."
Omg Tom! I saw your Instagram of you in the suit, and I've been so looking forward to this video. Massive fan, keep up the amazing work.
Unintended cool effect: The way your holding the camera makes it look like your hand is on the stick, and you're flying the jet!
This is way too cool, it's killing me.
Are you still alive or should we send help?
me too
This was really interesting! I really love the quality of these videos!
You know you've made it in life when you get invited to fly with the Red Arrows. That's every boy's (and man's) childhood dream!
Absolutely!
And woman’s! :)
So I just watched all 178 videos on the Things You Might Not Know playlist,
My brain feels like its about to implode.
Part 2 in Tom's series, "Things that are patriotically British." Next week join Tom as he eats cod, chips and mushy peas with a warm pint, in a red phone box, on a Routemaster.
I've been incredibly lucky, as a kid I used to be able to watch the Red Arrows every year when they came to Bournemouth beach.
I'll never get bored of watching them fly.
How is your life so cool?
because of us watching
Money
Kees Reuzelaar And being a skilled communicator.
He showed people interesting things. Lots of people watched. He now has this massive audience wanting more interesting things. Other people have interesting things to show off but might not have such a large audience. Those people go to Tom.
The interesting thing gets exposure, the internet learns a thing and Tom gets to do cool stuff for a living. The lucky sod!
It's so odd to think that these fly over me every other day and once, Tom Scott, wasn't really that far away..
You have such an amazing job.
Again, Scott?
I thought we went over this!
What
Thanks! This is very helpful for us trying to fly formation in RC planes using head-tracking FPV from the cockpit!
This could have been an hour long video and it would still be interesting. An in depth explanation of the formations, the training process, lingo and technical aspects of the execution itself.
Amazing. They fly over our house every year and we all pile out to watch them. Keep it up guys!
I would love to see the behind the scenes footage on this one!
Thanks Tom. We had wondered why they were flying with seven in formation over Lincoln so much last week!
Living in Cumbria the RAF routinely irritate me with their sonic booms.
However I have to admit this is really goddamn cool and I am just a bit jealous
Olan Kenny then maybe you shouldn’t have chose to live near an airfield
Thought RAF couldn't fly supersonic over mainland?
They’re almost certainly not going supersonic. If they were, windows would be shattering.
The only time fighter jets will go supersonic over mainland is when they are reacting to a threat. Most of those will be from lossimouth Scotland, reacting to Russian planes. So I don't think you are being bothered from too many sonic booms like you suggest. Maybe once in a blue moon they may be scrambled to an unresponsive aircraft, but that's rare.
Nillie
Well then. I struggle to believe it was a sonic boom. If a sonic boom happens from a fighter craft near to buildings, windows will know about it and so would you.
Saw the Red Arrows at the F1 British Grand Prix last year. Really is a joy to behold!
Watching this video now, in November 2021.
This video was released on 14th of March, 2018. I checked about deadly accidents within the Red Arrows. Wikipedia says 20th of March, 2018. Not a whole week after this video was released. Condolences to the family of the engineer who died in that accident.
THIS RULES SO HARD I'M SO HYPED FOR YOU TOM
Canadian SnowBirds are my favorite. :)
I'm 🇨🇦 and even ex military but the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds win me over with their speed and sound even though the Arrows and Snowbirds fly more planes
I love the blue angels
YES!!! They are the VERY BEST airobatic flying team in the world.They are second to NONE!!! I ABSOLUTELY ❤️♥️. watching the AWESOME RED ARROWS.
You lucky, lucky bastard. Closest I ever got was mopping up their spilled fuel.
This was extremely cool!
“Maybe this is patriotism talking but they are the best aerobatic team anywhere in the world”
“They fly just meters apart”
Meanwhile the US aerobatic team only flying 18 inches apart 😂😂
well then you haven't understood what it is the red arrows do...
What a relief, to hear 03:12, just the wording, so much different and measured compared to how "muricans" would put it.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Tom, I was wondering if the following pilots use less fuel then the leader. Same reason birds fly in similar formations to conserve energy.
They tend to use more since they have to play with the throttle a lot to maintain position
Typically slightly more.
Broadly speaking the amount of fuel used is the same by all the aircraft in the display. Reds 6,7,8&9 May use more due to their more dynamic second half of the full display.
Once in a lifetime for one in a million opportunity for Tom!
This was a cool look into formation flying. I wish I were able to fly in one.
I did recently see the Blue Angels, and they said that they have a cubit between canopy and wing.
Watched this whole thing with a massive grin on my face. This is so freaking cool
What are the "lines" on the cockpit glass for?
They're explosive charges, designed to go off in the event of an ejection so it gets the canopy out of the way.
They help crack the glass when ejection seat punches through. Evidently it is quicker to eject this way.
It’s the MDC: miniature detonating cord. Destroys the canopy glass to allow the seat to pass through it on initiation of the ejection sequence.
Thanks people! :)
Hey i'm at uni in Lincoln and I see them over my head all the time! They are fantastic
Happy pi day!
Happy pi day!
Micah Gilbert thanks! happy pi day to you too.
14.3?
LforLight America, am I right
14.03?
I was at East Fortune Museum of Flight today, they were playing this video beside their Hawk and Concorde. Brilliant!
I love seeing the same people spouting the same points to each other in different comment threads trying to prove that their countries Aerobatic Team is better. Obviously, YOUR countries team is better because they are from YOUR country, JUST LIKE TOM SAID IN THE VIDEO!
I have the pleasure of watching these guys on their practice runs from my back garden, ah Lincolnshire 🤙
Does Tom ever comment or reply to comments or is it usually a "set it and forget it" kind of thing?
Just curious. I know time is hard to come by when you're busy, but even a little fan interaction is nice and I've yet to see anything :c
i've seen him comment mostly if it's a question about the topic or someone has extra information or if someone knows something is wrong in the video and can give a proper source/info to fix the error.
He replied to a comment I made once.
Nova Fawks when Matt and Tom do their next park bench Q&A definitely drop them this question, it'll probably be the best way to get a definitive answer
Look at the top of the comments section now.
i live in lincoln so i see the red arrows a couple of times a week. Its nice to know more about whats actually going on with them
There are several aerobatic teams that fly tighter or riskier formations - but they also usually have a lot more technical support like the boardcomputer keeping the right position in formation, also the planes are often heavily customised for that job with barely any of their original functionality (aside form flight) being left.
But i kinda like the russia and italian airshows more.
Specially russian fighterjets: just take of the weapons, give them some vodka and let hell break loose - Sukhois look awesome and seem to also fly awesome.
I wouldn't have thought any formation display team would have any sort of automatic computer controlled autopilot keeping formation. It'll all be manually flown, all down to the pilot.
Great video tom, a very informative video about the best display team in the world.
Tom knows how to put the cat amongst the pigeons....all the blue angel and thunderbird comments are hilarious....obviously our form of sarcasm is lost on our daughter colonies!
Sany0 It's okay you could country. Go ahead and sit back down in the wheel chair :)
err...what ?
It's better to be remembered as awesome for a few centurys than to suck forever.
expand on that...whos awesome and whos sucking forever?
As Americans, we apologize on behalf of our less enlightened countrymen
Haven't seen them in years, was suppose to see them at RIAT this year but was postponed due to Covid and will (hopefully) be next year now. Last time I saw them, they flew with the Vulcan on her last flight. Definetly agree, best air display team in the world.
Could you make the following video please: "Things you might not know: How I (You) arrange such videos"
Must be the coolest thing youve done with this channel, you deserve to success
blue angels on top
This channel is gold
You lucky bnstard
Tom, you have the best job in the world!
Blue angles are my favorite but this could also be patriotism
Are they right angles or obtuse angles?
amazing.
i used to live on akortiri raf brace because dads on the raf and in April they do training there and as i look back i see how much i just took it for granted and that some peopel cant even see them at all.
wish id apritated it a bit more
Bet that was scary!
Grew up seeing the Italian "frecce tricolore" perform and this has to be one of the coolest experiences one can have.
I'm jealous.
blue angles are the best sir
just no.
The world needs a dance-off between the Red Arrows and the Blue Angels.
They have, red arrows won
The red arrows just had an accident...
Nothing is better then watching them come over the tyne bridge while the great north run is on!
6 days later, one crashes
My one wish is to see the red arrows in reality.
They are for me amazing.
Their skills in flying so close to one another......brilliant team work.
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Of course the cadence for the flight leader is going to be painfully British...
What did you expect? To suddenly switch to a southern American accent?
36hunters I’m used to hearing the crisp “reh-dee hit it” style the blue angels use. The British team sounds like it should- “okay mates let’s make an easy turn there it is after this let’s have a pint at the pub chip chip god save the Queen cherio”