The reason behind it is that the BBC did some amazing series in the eighties. I’ve only seen snipets of Fighter Pilot (i’ve got the book though) and Test Pilot on Youtube, my grandad has three episodes of Reaching for the skies on video. I think BBC 4 would be a better channel to show stuff like this.
And another series that i’d like to see again (this time on Channel 4) would be Classic Aircraft. I’ve got five episodes (i don’t know how many were made).:D

Quote: ‘There was a show repeated recently on History channel called Jetstream following a group of RCAF pilots learning to fly the CF/A18 Hornets at Cold Lake’

No it was definately about F-14s and carriers. I may have been young but my memory doesn’t fail me.

I remember Air Show with all those paper aeroplanes at the beginning. Fantastic show until they axed it! Just like ITV’s Coverage of RIAT that stopped! Same with Farnbourough (i can’t spell it). My dream would be that the BBC releases ALL of its old archive aviation (and military) film onto DVD.

Just tryin’ to keep this thread alive!

Erm i think this thread has (apparently) ground to a halt (because there isn’t much to talk about). Anyway just watched a documentary (circa 1984) about Avro Shackletons, amazing photography and footage of 56 squadron Phantoms scrambling to intercept a Badger.

Anyone ever see the BBC docu RAF at 90 (or something like that) it was an hour and a half (or two) and it seemed to have the ‘random stock footage bug’ commonly found in aviation documentaries (the bug has been around forever). It showed Spits and Fw-190s getting shot down by there ‘own’ side. An example is that a shot of a Spit (or Hurri) is shown firing guns, it then cuts to a shot of an Fw-190 or Spit (or Bf-109G, even A6M2 Zero’s) blowing up.

Going slighty off tac

What about Warship? I know its about a fictious RN Leander class frigate (HMS Hero, but we all know that!). I’ve read the first book, but i’d like to know what happens after that!

I’ve written an e-mail to the BBC about the possibility of getting shows like Fighter pilot, Test pilot and Reaching for the skies onto DVD. So far Nothing!

Whatever happened to the ITV coverage of airshows like RIAT and Waddington? Topgun on tonight 9pm Film 4.

I’ve just got TSR-2: The Untold Story on DVD, it’s not as good as the video (which i gave to a friend for him to keep ARGGGHHH!), it has less footage of
TSR-2 and whats used is sped up shots that seem to repeat themselves.

Does anyone have an RAF documentary (eighties) that has footage of VC-10’s, Tristars and Tornados (there’s a shot of two pointing towards the camera with there wings moving to full spread. If anyone has a DD video about the Gulf War, they’ll know what i mean.

DD video make some very good videos and DVD’s (except TSR-2: the untold story).