These two blokes still with us...??

MOST BEAUTIFUL FIGHTER PLANE F 4

UK armed forces have always have had excellent taste in War Colors.

16:43 - "Is this 499?" - "That's the one, I suppose you want a pen again do you?" Signing the 700 has not changed.

Abs fantastic vid

amazed to read the comments and hear from multiple parties first hand accounts of the incident depicted. living history! fascinating!

Jazz style music sounds like Steady Eddie the Eddie Stobart lorry cartoon - jaunty baritone sax. Maybe incongruous with the subject matter.

The smoke and thunder was one of best multirole aircarft ever made. THE PHANTOM❤😊😊

🔥🔥👍👍🙌🙌🦅🏴‍☠️✨✨ thank you

when i was in lossiemouth flying the sebcat jaguar, we used to see phantoms from time to time.

I was at Fenton years later when it was a JP station 83 to 87.

I used to fly with Chris Kemp on Hercules.

Amazing how they managed to fly! after all they looked like "useless, white, male pilots" that the RAF say they don't want today???

Are some of these actors Only the pilot at 2:08 looks like Trevor Eve who played Eddie Shoestring in the 80's

Phantastic video of a phabulous aircraft. And a great look back at the RAF we had in the 70’s and 80’s - a far cry from the much reduced RAF we have today. I will always remember seeing my first Phantoms whilst on holiday in North Wales near Ruthin in the mid-70’s. We were walking along a ridge line near a golf course, when there was this tremendous sound and the earth shook as a flight of four overflew us, climbing out of the valley below. I distinctly recall the lightning flash on the noses, so I learned in later life that these were from 111 Squadron. Superb machines.

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Really quite interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I am sure Flt Lt Fletcher was on 230 puma squadron around 1986.

Thanks for uploading this video. As a civilian I found it very interesting. Its a very tight and well made film and I appreciate the procedural, behavioural and technical elements that it covered. It has also generated some fine comments. Much respect.

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At 08:09 appears a German Luftwaffe NCO with badges from Aufklärungsgeschwader 51 'Immelmann' and can later be seen working alongside his R.A.F. comrade on the wing bolt. The Bremgarten-based Geschwader was introducing the RF4-E early inthe 1970ies. So maybe he had been on a familiarization exchange while this was filmed.

The lack of diversity is shocking, all those useless white male pilots.

That was a young Trevor Eve as the disappointed pilot sent to the SIM!!

Had the Ark been kept on, there would have been no Falklands War, the costs of which would have paid for 10 modern replacements, plus one extra carrier every 8 years since 1982.

no rainbow flags brilliant

Trevor eve at 1:42.

Cracking film of the golden days of yesteryear, Trevor Eve was a young good looking chap but needed a bloody good haircut.....😀

6 Squadron, night attack specialised unit.

I was a docs controller on a busy Jaguar line. When I started, I was asked to conform to the Unit's traditional practice of clearing Fs700, to release aircraft as fit to fly, based purely on "We've sorted it" phone calls from Rects teams in the 2nd Line hangar, some distance away. I told them 'no way,' putting me at odds with the Line Flight Sergeant and J Eng O, who both tried to browbeat me. I wouldn't budge. Eventually, I had a 1:1 with the S Eng O, who tried more subtle but inneffective persuasion, including a 3-week move to the hangar to work with the Rects team. Following that, he was NOT amused when I told him, "STILL no way, SIR." Mercifully, I was posted soon afterwards, when my random Gen App request, (one submitted each Monday fortnight, to ensure the previous one was being processed), bore fruit, and I got away. I learned life ain't always easy for a pedantic tw@t, but sometimes it's necessary.... 🤔

no black people

Not surprising things went tits--up: you've got a load of actors trying to run things. Trevor Eve with a suspiciously non-regulation haircut & Michael Sheard pre-Grange Hill (plus, other familiar faces).

It's Bronson from Grange Hill.

In my own view......THE most beautiful aircraft of it's era (and type). When I was a kid I spent a week with the Air Cadets at RAF Wattisham (74 Squadron), and RAF Wildenrath (can't remember what Sqn, but it was another Air Defence Phantom Squadron. Absolutely amazing to get up close to these beautiful beasts of the Cold War! Great shame when they were retired!

Just happened to come across this video. Spotted Pete Dunlop (RIP). My ex boss on 31 Tonka's Bruggen mid 80s. Gentlemen first Officer second.

I was 4 and had nothing to do with it.

What roll did the navigator take when technology reached the point that computers took over that part ?

Anyone know any information on five eight squadron RAF and what their roll is please……many thanks

FLY NAVY!

Ahhh... Mr Bronson.... or 07:31 "We have thousands of probe droids searching the galaxy. I want proof, not leads." Admiral Ozzel

6:32 Flamborough Head

26:25 the iron bridge over the Torridge just south of Bideford

Im most surprised at this, using paper maps, Harriers had INAS at this time.. Guess thaf what comes of using grotty American aircraft 😅😊

Bottom line is its the Jockey's responsibility, a bloody great Red tell tale sticking out of a low wing, and nobody noticed ! and no cockpit indication !! 😂

10 years in RAF SNCO Every sengo I ever met would arrive on a Sqn with a proven , tried and tested Eng control system, but they all wanted to change it to their way,, all theory & little practical,, like the prat who reorganised the Hangar ~ and blocked off the Fire Lane,, 🔥 ,, or the clown who demanded that a 4 man hour job would obviously be faster if 4 men were on it, instead of just one , never mind there was only space for one hand in the access panel,,, or the one who had a speach impediment & was incoherent when pressure was on 😂😂 I could go on 😂😊

10:25, surely Jennings did the right thing. He found a leak and wasn't sure so asked the desk. To make him feel and look like an idiot will only make him more reluctant to report a suspicion next time.

the rationale behind Royal Navy's shift from CATOBAR aircraft carrier to STOVL aircraft carrier . . . why???

Military jets of the 1960s, 70s and 80s was the McDonald Douglas F4 Phantom.

Those were they days and given/lent me United States of America of the Royal Navy the legend war plane Phantom to land and take off Ark Royal carrier. Military jets of the 1960s, 70s and80s was the McDonald Douglas F4 Phantom.

Blowing both tires on the first delivery flight - well done chap.

Awesome