Aircraft action from RAF Cosford Airshow 2024.

Aircraft action from RAF Cosford Airshow 2024, including the Red Arrows.

Transcript

00:00So as they come into land then please give a huge round of applause for

00:19Leading the team, Flight Sergeant Liam Lyons, Sergeant Hughes

00:49And bringing up the rear is an ex-795 Naval Air Squadron Gazelle of the 1990s

01:17He left the services and continued to fly the Gazelle as a military reservist

01:22Revealed by the Airbus A350 for Virgin Atlantic

01:34The Gazelle is generally regarded to be the fastest single engine helicopter

01:38We will talk about helicopter speed records a little later on with another aircraft

01:43Certainly capable of nearly 200 miles an hour, which in helicopter terms is very fast

01:50There is a very strong...

01:53Very seriously, a massive capability plus

02:2385 Naval Air Squadron, part of the wider Wildcat Maritime Force, all of which is based in RMAF Yellowstone

02:43So here we see the first part of a flat 270 degree maneuver

02:49Back onto the B axis

02:52And the same mirror image

02:55Aircraft, there's a small door just underneath the aircraft

03:07That is the air break

03:14Flying with the air break out has two significant effects

03:19Once again you can see our world famous red, white and blue

03:22And that is capable due to the smoke pod underneath the belly of the airplane

03:28That smoke pod is capable of producing approximately 5 minutes of white smoke