Tim Farmer

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USAF Veteran hanging out on a remote Texas rooftop photographing F-35's. Aviation coder, frequent visitor to Lockheed, and pusher of aviation and WW2 videos. 🫡

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Oct 1,1956 at Heathrow Airport an Avro Vulcan B.1 XA897 crashed while attempting to land in poor weather. The captain and co-pilot ejected safely-the crew went down with the plane and all 4 died. They were too low to egress. This footage shows testing of the crew escape hatch. 🫡

During the Korean War in 1950 on the USS Valley Forge a missile slides off of an F4U and crew get rid of the evidence. I will say that I have seen way more missiles slide down carrier decks than I expected in the National Archives. 👀

Interesting closeup footage from April 1, 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa of an LSM(R)'s rocket barrage. This looks like one of the four ships configured to use 85 Mk51 launchers with the capability to fire over 1,000 per minute. I believe the NARA mis-labeled this as LCI-535.🫡

What's a little creepy and cool at the same time? The tail gun on a B-58 Hustler which is a 6-barrel 20-mm rotary cannon with a max rate of 4k rounds/min mounted on an articulating cone consisting of spring loaded tapered aluminum rings...all of that to say, weird looking. 👀😎

Footage of the Germans testing out their version of the British bouncing bomb - yes, they added rockets. The "Kurt" SB 800 RS, seen here, was a spherical, rocket-propelled bomb designed to bounce over the surface of the water. Despite building 560 it never saw combat.👀

The FICON (Fighter Conveyor) was a USAF program conducted in the 1950s to test the feasibility of a B-36 bomber carrying an F-84 parasite jet in its bomb bay. The plan was for the fighter to be released near target to deliver a tactical nuclear bomb and return to mothership.👀

An interesting look at U.S. soldiers setting up smoke screens with oil fog generators to allow them to push troops and supplies across the Rhine river on a makeshift pontoon bridge during Operation Plunder in March of 1945 - smoke covered 66 miles of the river front.🫡

Horrific footage of an Avro Vulcan Prototype crashing as it's wing disintegrates during air show at RAF Syerston on Sept. 20, '58. Primary cause was structural failure but it was determined the pilots maneuvers exceeded prototype limits. 4 crew and 3 on the ground were killed.👀

A demo of a Waco Glider landing and after unloading being pulled back into the air by a C-47 still in flight using a Glider Snatch pick-up (GSPU) in March 1945. Came in handy for evac of wounded during Normandy. The logistical tech that WWII helped discover is really amazing.🫡

Man, so many cool WW II vehicles that I really need. This is a German Sd.Kfz. 2 half-track motorcycle that was quickly looted by these smart soldiers in France. Sonderkraftfahrzeug's were initially designed to be used by German airborne troops and carried by Ju 52's.🫡

So many interesting designs out there. Born from a 1928 fatal airliner crash, the Blériot 125 (1931 prototype) aimed for safety with twin passenger fuselages and push-pull engines. Radical design drew buzz but poor stability led to scrapping in 1934; just one built.👀

I'm so obsessed with planes launching from and recovering to airships I had to re-edit some of this footage and convert to HD. The folks we inherited this great nation from were flat out nuts. Thank God. 🤘😎

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Footage from June 26th, 1951 during Korean war aboard the USS Boxer of a Corsair leaving a napalm bomb behind as it's catapulted off the ship. And by now you should know how the Navy gets rid of evidence.👀

Holy cow, contrails are real! A beautiful shot of a 747 over east Russian plowing through the atmosphere with a 1,000 feet of separation between the aircraft filming.😎 credit:yt@loub747

In 1964, a B-52H hit an 81mph gust of turbulence ripping off most of its vertical tail while over NM's Sangre de Cristo Mtns during a test flight - testing effects of turbulence. Crew used diff thrust, airbrakes &amp; fuel shifts to fly 6hrs &amp; land safely at Blytheville AFB, AR.🫡

In 1929 Detroit Aircraft built the first and only metal-skinned airship with the help of the Hill automatic riveting machine - "sewing" 3.5mil rivets into the hull. Made of thin sheets of Alclad, it completed 752 flights before being scrapped in 1941 due to cost concerns.👀

Hidden deep in the bowels of the National Archives, crash footage of the 2nd F-14A prototype flight that occurred during approach into Calverton due to hydraulic failure (hydraulic tube rupture). Oh, with inflight audio. The pilot almost said "Hold my beer".👀

Inviting friends over to look at your fancy new car but all they are interested in is your neighbors old hot rod.😎

Concorde 002 icing trials. In the 1970s, engineers used a modified Canberra bomber from Boscombe Down as an airborne "icing tanker" to test Concorde prototype 002's deicing systems-spraying water ahead to artificially create ice clouds. One trial also hit a lightning strike.👀

Had no idea that a Bone bath was a real thing. Probably washing the filth of the unworthy non-bone aircraft flying around him. 😎

Footage from a German propaganda film showing off their "robot tanks" followed by two more clips, one from Army and another from the Navy, of their first reactions after discovering them. These were mainly used for remote explosions and demolition. I want one.👀

From the Jetsons period: The Horton V-16 Wingless Aircraft from the early 50's was actually a lifting-body design that achieved flight to 1,000 feet- thanks to ground effect. Despite early flight success, the program halted due to legal disputes with partner Howard Hughes.👀

The Germans attached rockets to everything but this one makes sense. Footage shows a German DFS 230 assault glider rigged with rockets under wings assisting with taking off after landing- so not a glider.🤔 They also tested reverse rockets in the nose to decelerate rapidly. 👀

In 1950, the USAF tested a wingtip coupling system allowing a B-29 bomber to tow two F-84 fighters with minimal range loss, enabling long-range escort over targets. Over 15 flights and 90 couplings proved feasibility, however the program ended after a fatal crash in 1953.🫡

For those curious like me, this footage from 1943 demonstrates how naval ships used to generate smoke screens using Smoke Pots with what I'm sure contains a mixture of everything that can and will kill you. I did not know this. I promise this isn't chemtrail bait.🤔

In 1946 the British loaned the French Navy an aircraft carrier, Arromanches, and a key aspect of its operations was the use of surplus U.S. Hellcats and Helldivers. This is HD colored footage of the ship in 1949, during the Indochina war (a precursor to the Vietnam War).🫡

Some interesting footage of a Chrysler made Screw Amphibian that was tested in 1964 by the army. Looking for something to navigate the Vietnam swamps they thought maybe screws were the answer - it wasn't. Not to worry, screw vehicles still live on, primarily in Russian.👀

In 1964, a B-52H hit an 81mph gust of turbulence ripping off most of its vertical tail while over NM's Sangre de Cristo Mtns during a test flight - testing effects of turbulence. Crew used diff thrust, airbrakes & fuel shifts to fly 6hrs & land safely at Blytheville AFB, AR.🫡