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2015-04-17
Vintage Wings of Canada : 633 Squadron
1944 — Thursday, April 13 Menphis Nelle
Forwarded message -From: Louis Nève
1944 — Thursday, April 13 - On this day 71 years ago, Paramount Pictures, in conjunction with the First Motion Picture Unit, released 'The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress'.
Directed by legendary Hollywood perfectionist William Wyler while the director was serving in the United States Army Air Forces and shot in striking 16mm technicolor, The Memphis Belle for the first time brought actual combat-shot aerial battle footage to audiences at home in the United States. The 'William Wyler' film Memphis Belle premieres in Hollywood, documenting and immortalizing 'Morgan's Crew' and the B-17 Flying Fortress of the same name, the first crew of the 8th Air Force to complete 25 missions.
The in-flight audio in "The Memphis Belle" was created and implemented in the film afterwards. You can see this at the monotonous sound of the engines which always sounds the same regardless of the perspectives the camera shows. The intercom conversation of the crew was also recreated and included afterwards, because the engines of the B-17 would have been far too loud to use original conversation.
1943 - The Memphis Belle flies its 25th bombing mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm1_D5crgPk
This is really a good "documentary" even though it hast some aspects of propaganda included. But that was the normal way to handle that topic during the war time. The Office of War Information was responsible to let the film makers include aspects and topics in their movies which "help to win the war" during 2nd world war.
Despite the great risks associated with bomber missions, for the entire duration of the filming, Wyler and his crew personally oversaw the project aboard and alongside the B-17 crews; Wyler himself would lose much of his hearing due to the concussive explosions of anti-aircraft flak. Both critically and popularly acclaimed at the time, The Memphis Belle proved a huge hit and today is preserved for its cultural significance within the 'National Film Registry'.
From October 1943 to March 1944, Wyler edited in the U.S. the 20,000 feet of film he shot in Europe, producing a 42-minute color film that was considered beautiful and dramatic.
This is history ! The video is excellent .
From: Jean schoefs
Subject: 1944 — Thursday, April 13
Subject: 1944 — Thursday, April 13
Directed by legendary Hollywood perfectionist William Wyler while the director was serving in the United States Army Air Forces and shot in striking 16mm technicolor, The Memphis Belle for the first time brought actual combat-shot aerial battle footage to audiences at home in the United States. The 'William Wyler' film Memphis Belle premieres in Hollywood, documenting and immortalizing 'Morgan's Crew' and the B-17 Flying Fortress of the same name, the first crew of the 8th Air Force to complete 25 missions.
The in-flight audio in "The Memphis Belle" was created and implemented in the film afterwards. You can see this at the monotonous sound of the engines which always sounds the same regardless of the perspectives the camera shows. The intercom conversation of the crew was also recreated and included afterwards, because the engines of the B-17 would have been far too loud to use original conversation.
1943 - The Memphis Belle flies its 25th bombing mission
May 17, 1943, the crew of the Memphis Belle, one of a group of American bombers based in Britain, becomes the first B-17 crew to complete 25 missions over Europe.
'The Memphis Belle' performed its 25th and last mission, in a bombing raid against Lorient, a German submarine base. But before returning back home to the United States, film footage was shot of Belle's crew receiving combat medals. This was but one part of a longer documentary on a day in the life of an American bomber, which included dramatic footage of a bomber being shot out of the sky, with most of its crew parachuting out, one by one. Another film sequence showed a bomber returning to base with its tail fin missing. What looked like damage inflicted by the enemy was, in fact, the result of a collision with another American bomber.
The Memphis Belle documentary would not be released for another 11 months,
Click below to watch The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress in its entirety.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm1_D5crgPk
This is really a good "documentary" even though it hast some aspects of propaganda included. But that was the normal way to handle that topic during the war time. The Office of War Information was responsible to let the film makers include aspects and topics in their movies which "help to win the war" during 2nd world war.
1944 — Thursday, April 13
MEMPHIS BELLE - B-17 Flying Fortress and her crew - World War Two Documentary
Though the film alleged to document the 25th and final mission of the crew of the B-17 in its title, filming between January and May of 1943 was actually conducted aboard a number of different Flying Fortresses of the 8th Air Force. Employing revolutionary filming techniques which included cameras mounted in the plane's nose, tail, right waist and radio hatch positions, the results of Wyler's work clearly showed both the dangers and heroism of America's daylight bombers.Despite the great risks associated with bomber missions, for the entire duration of the filming, Wyler and his crew personally oversaw the project aboard and alongside the B-17 crews; Wyler himself would lose much of his hearing due to the concussive explosions of anti-aircraft flak. Both critically and popularly acclaimed at the time, The Memphis Belle proved a huge hit and today is preserved for its cultural significance within the 'National Film Registry'.
This film is a war documentary produced by one of the "Hollywood Colonels," William Wyler, who joined the Air Force Film unit and recorded the sights and sounds of the last mission of a B-17 bomber known as the 'Memphis Belle', named after the girlfriend of the pilot. A narrator told the story of the 10 crewmen as examples of simple average American boys doing a tough job.
The men and plane were filmed during the bombing raid on the submarine plens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany, "just one mission of just one plane and one crew in one squadron in one group of one wing of one Air Force out of fifteen United States Army Air Forces."
It used handheld 16mm and 35mm cameras inside the plane to give the perspective of the crew. Wyler in fact combined footage from several missions to represent this last 25th mission of the plane, a mission that was actually a milk run with no casualties and no difficult landing.
He also used film shot by the 8th AAF Combat Camera Unit. Wyler wanted to film a flak burst but never was able to get one:
"I could never get one explosion because how the hell do you know where one's going to explode? Once the cloud is there it's too late. All that flak so close to us, and I could never get the explosion."
"I could never get one explosion because how the hell do you know where one's going to explode? Once the cloud is there it's too late. All that flak so close to us, and I could never get the explosion."
From October 1943 to March 1944, Wyler edited in the U.S. the 20,000 feet of film he shot in Europe, producing a 42-minute color film that was considered beautiful and dramatic.
The crew of the B-17 "Memphis Belle" back from its 25th operational mission. All of the crew hold the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. It all started with this Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. In all of its missions, there was only one casualty, a leg wound to the tail gunner, June 1943. (U.S. Air Force photo)
At that time, flying one of these had an 82 percent attrition rate, which meant 18 guys came back for every 100 that went over."
Col. Robert Morgan, who piloted a B-17 bomber that soared into history and Hollywood movies as an icon of World War II, died May 2004 in Asheville, N.C., after breaking his neck in a fall, said his wife, Linda. He was 85 and lived in Asheville.
William Wyler filmed on the B-17 bomber Memphis Belle, pictured here at Bassingbourn
William Wyler - Memphis Belle William Wyler (fourth from right) with much of the crew of the Memphis Belle.
Boeing B-17F-10-BO Flying Fortress Serial 41-24485, Memphis Belle, 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, 9 June 1943
Stunning HD video: flying the Russian Su-34 Fullback bomber
Forwarded message - From: Louis Nève
Stunning HD video: flying the Russian Su-34 Fullback bomber
The following series of videos is pretty impressive: with English subtitles, the footage brings you inside the cockpit of a Russian Su-34 Fullback bomber during a training sortie. Filmed with cameras installed inside the cockpit and attached to the fuselage, the 4-part documentary includes a sort of dogfight with a Su-27: to be honest, the lighter and more maneuverable 'Flanker' does not seem to react too much to the attacking Su-34; it's a sacrificial victim rather than a real opponent.
Nevertheless, the clips are interesting and provide some interesting details about the Russian attack aircraft that is becoming a frequent visitor of the Baltic region.
Here below is the first clip. Followed by the links to the remaining ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btxsJlm8cFg SU34 bomber vs SU27 fighter DOGFIGHT (part 2 of 4) ENGLISH SUBTITLES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZWLef0hbZgSU34 bomber vs SU27 fighter DOGFIGHT (part 3 of 4) ENGLISH SUBTITLES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAfwKBee2EUSU34 bomber vs SU27 fighter DOGFIGHT (part 4 of 4) ENGLISH SUBTITLES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCVXMVrVxxo
The SU-32MF/-34 "Fullback" fighter-bomber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbtmdeWqWTQ#t=18
The SU-34 is also referred to as the "SU-32″ by Sukhoi, and Sukhoi's web site has long used the 2 designations interchangeably. Other sources use SU-32 to refer to a dedicated naval strike variant, but recent company references seem to be distinguishing SU-32s by reserving that designation for exports. DID will be using "SU-34″ throughout, until and unless clear differences emerge. The SU-34's key characteristics reportedly include:
- Side-by-side cockpit configuration of 2 K-36DM ejector seats, with a small aisle in between, and even a toilet of sorts for long missions. The ejector seats can be activated at any speed and altitude, even when the plane is on the ground.
- A 17mm armored cockpit, like the SU-25 Frogfoot ground-attack jet.
- 45.1 tonne maximum takeoff weight.
- 8 tonne ordnance load. - Air Force Technology adds that this is distributed on 10 hardpoints, which can accommodate precision-guided weapons, as well as R-73/AA-11 Archer and R-77/AA-12 'AMRAAMSKI' missiles. An internal 30mm GSh-301 gun with 180 rounds out its weapon array.
- AL-31FM1 turbofan engines built by the Moscow-based Salyut Company generate a thrust of up to 13.5 metric tons (over 29,000 pounds) and have a 1,000-hour service life in between repairs. Subsequent reports indicate that more powerful AL-41 engines may be fitted in future.
- Maximum speed stated as Mach 1.8 at altitude. Believed to be supersonic capable at sea level, but that's often an academic statistic – most planes can't sustain it without emptying their fuel tanks.
- 3,000 km range with standard drop tanks, extensible to "over 4,000 km" with the help of additional drop tanks. This makes deployment to locations like Tajikistan much easier, because intermediate airfields in Russia can easily be closed by bad weather. The SU-34 can also refuel in mid-air. Note, however, that typical "ground hugging" attack flight profiles will shorten their range considerably – Air Force Technology lists it as just 600 km on internal fuel, or 1,150 km with external fuel tanks.
- Can fly in TERCOM (Terrain Contour Matching) mode for low-level flight, and relies on software to execute a number of other difficult maneuvers. The front horizontal empennage behind the cockpit is designed to help it handle the air pockets found in high speed flight at low altitudes.
- Leninets B004 phased array multimode X-band radar, which interleaves terrain-following radar and other modes. The US B-1B's stealth bomber's AN/APQ-164 phased array radar uses a similar approach, and the Leninets radar's performance is claimed to be of 200-250 km against large surface targets, with ground mapping capability to 75-150 km, and GMTI(Ground Moving Target Indicator) moving target tracking to 30 km. Detection performance against fighter sized aerial targets is claimed to be 90 km. Those are reasonable figures, but the AESA radars on modern American fighters will outclass it.
[Brussels LVG CVI restoration] L'anneau de la mitrailleuse
Forwarded message - From: Ferhat Benkhedda
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Lu sur 7s7: L'aéroport de Charleroi attire toujours plus de voyageurs
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2015-04-16
Aviation Society of Antwerp] Coming soon....
Forwarded message - From: Jan Olieslagers
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Hangar Flying : Nieuwsbrief 91 - “De vluchtroutes van Echternach”
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Lu sur 7s7: Les scanners de passeports à l'aéroport sont défectueux
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From: <yduwelz@gmail.com>
Date: 2015-04-14 13:25 GMT+02:00
Subject: Lu sur 7s7: "Les scanners de passeports à l'aéroport sont défectueux"
To: yduwelz@gmail.com
From: <yduwelz@gmail.com>
Date: 2015-04-14 13:25 GMT+02:00
Subject: Lu sur 7s7: "Les scanners de passeports à l'aéroport sont défectueux"
To: yduwelz@gmail.com
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Lu sur 7s7: Brussels Airlines va proposer des vols vers Tenerife et Gran Canaria
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