Incredible Air-to-Air footage (Edited UPDATED! WITH NEW VIDS!)

[A HERETIC I AM]

Last edited Sat Apr 26, 2014, 11:35 AM - Edit history (1)

Ever wonder who does the filming of those airline commercials?
Check out this story and video of "Wolfe Air"


http://www.boldmethod.com/blog/2014/04/wolfe-air-reel/
Wolfe Air website;
http://wolfeair.com/

Here's another vid from their YouTube channel;

Found the following in my inbox - What happens when you give a bunch of Navy fighter pilots GoPro cameras?
They make a really cool video with a kickass soundtrack!

[Agschmid]

1. This was cool, thanks!

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Glad you liked it!

[onehandle]

3. Lying in bed watching this in HD on my iPad with my best headphones.

Super cool way to end the night.

Thanks.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. Sleep well!! n/t

[Major Nikon]

5. It's a shame they didn't show them actually filming the footage

In order to get shots like those you have to get really close.

[adirondacker]

6. Some of those angles looked pretty hairy, especially crossing the nose.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. I've seen it being done years ago....

over Miami Beach - a small Lear flying right with a larger Boeing.

The Lear couldn't have been more than 100' or so off the nose of the airliner.

[StarryNite]

7. That was fun!

[ManiacJoe]

9. I have a camera. Sign me up!

[2naSalit]

10. That was cool!

Here's another cool one, my smokejumper buddy sent me this one...

http://player.vimeo.com/video/48642618

[ManiacJoe]

11. Cool to see the pilots working the controls during the water drops!

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. Neat!!

Thanks for that.

[adirondacker]

14. Very Awesome vids!

Thanks for posting. Ahh Spain, I shall return!

[2naSalit]

15. I know!

Never been there... someday.

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. Kicked for the update! n/t

[2naSalit]

16. That was interesting too! nt

[RebelOne]

17. I would love to be up there in one of those planes.

I have flown small single-engine planes and even did some skydiving. But when I saw the Blue Angels perform, I just wished I could be a passenger in one of those planes even though I could not pilot one.

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. One last gratuitous self kick. n/t

[11 Bravo]

19. As one who grew up on Naval Air Stations all over the country, I eat this shit up!

Before I was born Dad flew F-4F Hellcats in WWII (and was awarded a DFC for "conspicuous gallantry in aerial combat&quot . During the Korean War he flew the F-9F Panther. In peacetime he served a pre-Korea stint at Pax River as a test pilot (at the same time Al Shepard was there), and post-Korea he commanded a fighter squadron of F-J3 Furies. In the early '70s , he skippered an attack carrier on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf. (Interestingly enough, I was passing time in the A Shau Valley at the same time he had his carrier. My Mom swears that she never slept more than 15 minutes at a stretch for that entire time.)
More than once Dad told me that carrier aviation was the most fun a man could have with his clothes on, and that a night trap was where they separated the pilots from the pud-knockers.

Thanks for sharing this!

[A HERETIC I AM]

20. I've always been fascinated by airplanes....

and flying a fighter must be, as you said, the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

There is a great documentary (several over the years, actually) on Aircraft Carriers called appropriately enough, "Carrier" that follows a deployment of the Nimitz from San Diego to the Gulf and back. They cross the Indian ocean on the way back and head toward Perth for a Port Call. Along the way the ship encounters heavy seas so the captain decides it's time for Pitching Deck quals!

Here's the video;

Definitely no pud-knockers!

You can watch the entire ten episode documentary here;
http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/full_episodes.htm