They did. I had a series link set on my Virgin Tevo box but they only showed 2 episodes. I don't remember Guy actually taking to the skys in a Hawker Hurricane! That was the whole idea of the show.
The U.K. has a national treasure in this guy, im convinced he can do anything. No big deal, he just hopped in the Sim and flew a airplane on nothing but instruments lol. God bless ya Guy🇺🇲
Convinced he can do anything? All he had to do was keep an eye on the altimeter and heading indicator. Anyone who's ever played a flight sim on a computer could do it. Besides, all he had to do was hold a straight line at one point and ended up nearly doing a figure of eight! If anything it showed just how incompetent he was.
In the 1960's we had a flight simulator at the Civil Air Patrol in Palo Alto California, at the small air field next to SF South Bay. A lot of us got our Billy Mitchell Award flying in the flight simulator. I still have some WW 2 camouflage bandages that we cleaned out of a supply room in 1966. It was all mechanical like the one Guy is using but we could bank and fly inverted in extreme circumstances. What wonderful old machines, the USA Civil Air Patrol was invaluable training for many, many pilots and navigators in the US Air Force. Guy Martin is willing to go through any ordeals or training, these types of men are what saved all of us from speaking German or Japanese as national Languages.
That's two of us! The first couple of years as an Airline Pilot from 1965 I did my Instrument ratings in one. If the Instructor wasn't watching you could "Fly of the edge of the world" when the gadget plotting reached the edge of the table.
I learned on what I believe is the only other working example of these.. it actually lives in a weatherboard WW2 era airforce hut at the back of our local airport in rural Australia.. at our air training corps flight.. I honestly never thought I'd see this one, and Guy piloting it.. absolute gem.. edit: ok apparently these things are everywhere lol
@@acid3129 :o) Found all the air filter bits for a 1949 landrover in my shed yesterday and sold them last night for £200. So I maybe you have ;p) *to be honest in my imagination your loft is that scene from Madagasca with king Julian.
@@teamidris ye it's really just bags of kids clothes and old empty toy boxes from Christmas. But my nans house is old it was built in 1873 and was used as a bakery my grandad was in the RAF in ww2 and a few years ago we found his old Webley service revolver in a box under a joist it had the hammer and cylinder hold catch removed so it was useless but maybe one day I will find them hidden up there to and have a working webley
I learned to use link trainer in the Air Cadets in the 70s in Gippsland Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 and it was serviced by RAAF in the late 90s and l was told it was still working for the Air Cadets
I had to settle for the Army Cadets for five years, there were no Air Cadets near me, which was a childhood dream of mine. Don't get me wrong, it was fantastic, built me up and taught me a lot, but I really wanted to fly. Still, range time and running about in the woods with firearms and small explosions and smoke grenades going off all around was an absolute hoot, lol 🍻
When I was an apprentice pipe organ builder the chap I was apprentice to would tell me about his time servicing link trainers. He worked, at that time, for a company called Compton.
That flight simulator was made by an American. His father didn't care for his passion of aviation but gave him the basement of the piano factory in spite of that fact. He got help in off ours by the best piano builders.
Holy hell that’s amazing for 100 year old! Great job too, Guy, the concentration and steely look is bang on. You’re in your own little world there, like inside of a helmet, sealed away from everyone, it’d be right peaceful.
So kool. My grandfather had one and was an instructor. I worked on his and borrowed some parts to make the one run where I was in Civil Air Patrol. Fun stuff.
They had one of these in a flight school I attended in the 1980's, and I was privileged enough to have had a couple of chances to use it as part of my studies. Pretty cool device all things considered.
Guy, you're a world class motorcycle champion. Helluva Lorry engineer. Great ambassador to your country and family. I see you're a decent pilot. I'm a flight instructor; I'd fly with you anytime. Well done. That's not an easy trainer to operate. It really isn't.
WOW, the sim built in the 20's, that is amazing. I watched both episodes and it was really great - but then all your stuff is. Great to see you learning new skills. Did you get any licence by the end? Please can we have more stuff from Guy - so great to watch him, no pretentious stuff just true and honest, great to see these days.
Watched Part One but couldn't understand why Guy wasn't shown going solo in the Tiger Moth. Surely that was and is, a pivotal moment in any pilot's career.
One of these rotting away at the back of a garage at Quebec Barracks Dyke Road Brighton. Used to use it as an air cadet early 80's. By the time I was in the TA it had broken and had been dumped in the garage.
I'd love to have a go in one of them, there's one at Caernarfon Airworld Aviation Museum but I don't think it's in a working order sadly I really enjoyed this series, especially the flights in the Tiger Moth. Keep up the good work Guy
We had one of these years ago at our flight school. It was a lot of fun to use as a kid. My grandmother (she ran the flight school) sold it to someone.
Evidently completely staged - the instruments are all over the place on the few occasions it actually shows them. One moment he's at 3,700ft and descending at over 1,500fpm in a mushing semi-stall, then next he's up at 8,000ft turning this way and that.
@@gfewster1 to be honest I watched it on a phone and didn’t actually look to closely at what he was doing . Having looked now I can see he was in a mess
I used to be in the air cadets and they had 2 of those link trainers, they didn't used often because they were quite but I have been in them a few times.
I can remember flying in the linc at the Grimsby Air Training Corps in the early 70s and I went to Chelmsford Secondary Modern School before it was turned into the Acadamy. I now lived down in Essex, but went to Nunsthorpe Junior School with a Graham Martin of Milton Road, any relations ?
I've flown on several of these, there still are a couple around maintained by enthousiasts. It's odd ussing this verry old fashioned flight instruments, but if you're a pilot its surely do able.
I had a play in one when I was in the RAAF Air Training Corps, good fun until I nearly knocked the trainer off the stand alongside, I didn’t realise I was yawing 🤦♂️
Could someone slip voice-over chap some Strepsils or something? It was so distracting trying to watch this programme (which was excellent) and every time he spoke it suddenly turned into a trailer for The Shining or something 😉
You could try a VPN. These clips are often bits which didn’t make the full programme. They can be seen on All4 as a whole. Guy Martin’s website may have the programmes on dvd later.
To make it even more realistic back in the day, they would shoot live rounds at you and smack you in the head with broomsticks etc. The huns are attacking SMACK. HAHAHAH
To watch both episodes of Guy's Battle of Britain documentary, click here 👉 www.channel4.com/programmes/guy-martin-battle-of-britain
Such a working class hero. Good man this Guy
The calm and collected Guy.
Multiple speed record holder, now an Aviator.
"Bloody ell".
Dude got to take Vulcan for a high-speed taxi-run, man he's lived a full life, absolute legend of a geezer 👌 🍻
Why would they not show this in the doc? I've never seen this before, it's bloody amazing!
Why did I read that in his voice 🤣🤣🤣
They did. I had a series link set on my Virgin Tevo box but they only showed 2 episodes. I don't remember Guy actually taking to the skys in a Hawker Hurricane! That was the whole idea of the show.
The U.K. has a national treasure in this guy, im convinced he can do anything. No big deal, he just hopped in the Sim and flew a airplane on nothing but instruments lol. God bless ya Guy🇺🇲
every human can do the same if they apply the same as guy does
It's scripted mate, there's a bloody big film crew with him... 😂😂😂Did you think it was just him and matey...
@@johnmac.6760 whats that got to do with what GUY does , they just film it but what he applies to everything he does is all him
@@johnmac.6760 You do not know Guy Martin, i can assure you he does not read Scripts.
Convinced he can do anything? All he had to do was keep an eye on the altimeter and heading indicator. Anyone who's ever played a flight sim on a computer could do it. Besides, all he had to do was hold a straight line at one point and ended up nearly doing a figure of eight! If anything it showed just how incompetent he was.
If you feel down, just look at a Guy Martin video and you’ll feel better again. He’s just such a nice and humble guy!
We had one of these at my old flying school in the 70's. It needed to be on a hour before use to let valves warm up.
In the 1960's we had a flight simulator at the Civil Air Patrol in Palo Alto California, at the small air field next to SF South Bay. A lot of us got our Billy Mitchell Award flying in the flight simulator. I still have some WW 2 camouflage bandages that we cleaned out of a supply room in 1966. It was all mechanical like the one Guy is using but we could bank and fly inverted in extreme circumstances. What wonderful old machines, the USA Civil Air Patrol was invaluable training for many, many pilots and navigators in the US Air Force. Guy Martin is willing to go through any ordeals or training, these types of men are what saved all of us from speaking German or Japanese as national Languages.
Oh my .. I’ve ’flown’ one of these.
I was in the ATC in NZ, circa 1975, with crab and all.
There may well be a few of these still in New Zealand.
That's two of us!
The first couple of years as an Airline Pilot from 1965 I did my Instrument ratings in one.
If the Instructor wasn't watching you could "Fly of the edge of the world" when the gadget plotting reached the edge of the table.
I learned on what I believe is the only other working example of these.. it actually lives in a weatherboard WW2 era airforce hut at the back of our local airport in rural Australia.. at our air training corps flight.. I honestly never thought I'd see this one, and Guy piloting it.. absolute gem.. edit: ok apparently these things are everywhere lol
i have 2 in my loft
@@acid3129 the thing is, if you have two in your loft, what else have you got up there that is cool 😎
@@teamidris bf109 and the remains of a German pilot
@@acid3129 :o) Found all the air filter bits for a 1949 landrover in my shed yesterday and sold them last night for £200. So I maybe you have ;p) *to be honest in my imagination your loft is that scene from Madagasca with king Julian.
@@teamidris ye it's really just bags of kids clothes and old empty toy boxes from Christmas. But my nans house is old it was built in 1873 and was used as a bakery my grandad was in the RAF in ww2 and a few years ago we found his old Webley service revolver in a box under a joist it had the hammer and cylinder hold catch removed so it was useless but maybe one day I will find them hidden up there to and have a working webley
I learned to use link trainer in the Air Cadets in the 70s in Gippsland Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 and it was serviced by RAAF in the late 90s and l was told it was still working for the Air Cadets
The one at LV still works.
Same with me in my southern England ATC squadron.
@@Robinator202 and at mount Gambier.. ok maybe they're everywhere...lol
I had to settle for the Army Cadets for five years, there were no Air Cadets near me, which was a childhood dream of mine.
Don't get me wrong, it was fantastic, built me up and taught me a lot, but I really wanted to fly.
Still, range time and running about in the woods with firearms and small explosions and smoke grenades going off all around was an absolute hoot, lol
🍻
@@raypurchase801 I was in sussex wing atc.
Guy is one of these very talented people who can do anything he's asked brilliantly. Love his programmes.
Hello flyboy2880!
When I was an apprentice pipe organ builder the chap I was apprentice to would tell me about his time servicing link trainers. He worked, at that time, for a company called Compton.
That flight simulator was made by an American. His father didn't care for his passion of aviation but gave him the basement of the piano factory in spite of that fact. He got help in off ours by the best piano builders.
Fantastic clip, thanks for sharing
Regards
Dave
From Scotland
That was brilliant. Thank you.
Holy hell that’s amazing for 100 year old! Great job too, Guy, the concentration and steely look is bang on. You’re in your own little world there, like inside of a helmet, sealed away from everyone, it’d be right peaceful.
So kool. My grandfather had one and was an instructor. I worked on his and borrowed some parts to make the one run where I was in Civil Air Patrol. Fun stuff.
We have also got a working model at Lelystad Aviodrome museum in Holland
What an amazing bit of kit
They had one of these in a flight school I attended in the 1980's, and I was privileged enough to have had a couple of chances to use it as part of my studies. Pretty cool device all things considered.
Edwin Link is from my hometown of Binghamton, NY. A replica is at our regional airport
Guy, you're a world class motorcycle champion. Helluva Lorry engineer. Great ambassador to your country and family. I see you're a decent pilot. I'm a flight instructor; I'd fly with you anytime. Well done. That's not an easy trainer to operate. It really isn't.
WOW, the sim built in the 20's, that is amazing. I watched both episodes and it was really great - but then all your stuff is. Great to see you learning new skills. Did you get any licence by the end? Please can we have more stuff from Guy - so great to watch him, no pretentious stuff just true and honest, great to see these days.
What an awesome piece of kit.
I have seen one of these in a museum once, newer thought a simulator this old could be this useful
Had some time in one of these in the Air Cadets in the 70s.
12 flight here
Legend 🇬🇧👏🏻
Watched Part One but couldn't understand why Guy wasn't shown going solo in the Tiger Moth. Surely that was and is, a pivotal moment in any pilot's career.
That's the first flight simulator ? That system looks pretty state of the art right now..
Macrosolid flight simulator v1.0
Even when the instructor opened the door and said "you've arrived" he kept flying like he didn't want to crash lool 😭😭😂😂😂 Now that's a good simulator!
our guy in the sky.
One of these rotting away at the back of a garage at Quebec Barracks Dyke Road Brighton. Used to use it as an air cadet early 80's. By the time I was in the TA it had broken and had been dumped in the garage.
I'd love to have a go in one of them, there's one at Caernarfon Airworld Aviation Museum but I don't think it's in a working order sadly
I really enjoyed this series, especially the flights in the Tiger Moth. Keep up the good work Guy
We had one of these years ago at our flight school. It was a lot of fun to use as a kid. My grandmother (she ran the flight school) sold it to someone.
Brilliant. Just loved it!
To fly imc for more than a minute or two and not plummet into the ground with so little experience is nothing short of amazing
Evidently completely staged - the instruments are all over the place on the few occasions it actually shows them. One moment he's at 3,700ft and descending at over 1,500fpm in a mushing semi-stall, then next he's up at 8,000ft turning this way and that.
@@gfewster1 to be honest I watched it on a phone and didn’t actually look to closely at what he was doing . Having looked now I can see he was in a mess
i would love to have a go at this
I was the next person in the seat after Guy, what an incredible machine!
I used to be in the air cadets and they had 2 of those link trainers, they didn't used often because they were quite but I have been in them a few times.
I can remember flying in the linc at the Grimsby Air Training Corps in the early 70s and I went to Chelmsford Secondary Modern School before it was turned into the Acadamy. I now lived down in Essex, but went to Nunsthorpe Junior School with a Graham Martin of Milton Road, any relations ?
Brilliant......
there is one in the aviation museum in Östersund sweden. I don't know if its working.
I've got to have a go at that.
We had a link trainer at my ATC squadron (101) in the late 70's.
Amazing. I love a go of that.
Very fun and cool.
I've flown on several of these, there still are a couple around maintained by enthousiasts.
It's odd ussing this verry old fashioned flight instruments, but if you're a pilot its surely do able.
Link training simulator was made in Binghamton, New York. i drive buy the old factory every day on my way to work
Love this
I've always wondered how this works
I had a play in one when I was in the RAAF Air Training Corps, good fun until I nearly knocked the trainer off the stand alongside, I didn’t realise I was yawing 🤦♂️
12 flight here.. so many cadets in the comments lol
@@JayJay-_ Another one here I was in sussex wing. and we had 2 links at our sqdn.
"The other left"!!? Blimey!
If Guy had actually flown that route I could have seen his plane from my house
OMG, ME TOO!! 😊
(well, I could, if I was at your place, lmao)
top brew boss job.
Trying to get my mind around how it calculates and displays ALT/Vertical Air Speed mechanically. Is Guy also working on his Private Pilot certificate?
They use mechanical integration to convert acceleration into velocity and velocity into distance.
Well, he owns a Merlin engine and seems very itchy to get near aircraft, so I would hope so.
Would love to sit and have a beer with him and just talk crap
I wanna a turn!
Can it run MSFS 2020?
What an interesting vid. :-)
Could someone slip voice-over chap some Strepsils or something? It was so distracting trying to watch this programme (which was excellent) and every time he spoke it suddenly turned into a trailer for The Shining or something 😉
...out there somewhere is the only antique riding blind isle of man tt simulator.
I’d assume u can’t train to take off and land in this thing then? Only in the air manoeuvres
Fantastic! Should make a clone and teach the "new generation" how it's done :-)
When’s this on ?
Sundays 9pm ch4, or on catch up 😉
I live in the NY town where these were invented and built.
Edwin Link ,the inventor, was later very strong in underwater research with civilian submersibles. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Albert_Link
The world’s first flight trainer was the « tonneau Antoinette »; the Antoinette barrel
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_simulator
The videos are too short 😭. We don’t get to see the shows here in France.
Don’t worry , it will be on YT very soon .
You could try a VPN. These clips are often bits which didn’t make the full programme. They can be seen on All4 as a whole. Guy Martin’s website may have the programmes on dvd later.
@@pat4brown thank you. I will get my teenage daughter to set up a vpn for me 😊
Turn left.., no, the other left.., so you mean right?
Not even a 1 pixel display, the Timex Sinclair sim was way better than this....
🇺🇲 Guy Martin is such a bad ass the he flushed a condom down the toilet and 9 months later the Ninja Turtles were born.🇺🇲
Welldone . Thanks for virtual flight over are house in Hayward’s Heath .
Wonder if they will trust him with a an single seat Hurricane or will they put him in the new 2 seater with the backup pilot ?
In the 2 seater
To make it even more realistic back in the day, they would shoot live rounds at you and smack you in the head with broomsticks etc. The huns are attacking SMACK. HAHAHAH
Guy could fly a skip if it had wings.