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Excerpt from an episode of Topgear revealing the Brits as the true origininators of supersonic flight technology. The Miles M52 research was tactically aquired by the U.S. governmment in 1944, the project was subsequently dumped by the UK leaving the way clear for the Bell X-1 to break the sound barrier in 1947.
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Added on: 18-Jan-2009 Downloads: 3082 Rating: 9.0 (2 Votes)
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Pettit Timelapse
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While astronaut Don Pettit was living aboard the International Space Station (ISS), he used some of his off-duty time to make time lapse videos of what he was seeing outside of the ISS window. Footage courtesy of Don Pettit. Music courtesy of SYNTHAR.
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Added on: 08-May-2009 Downloads: 3052 Rating: 9.0 (2 Votes)
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Manned Space Flight
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Manned space flight stands as one mankind's greatest and most inspirational achievments. The various programs spurred advances in many peripheral areas of technology. These include major contributions to avionics, telecommunications, and computers. This video features footage from the United States Gemini and Apollo space missions. Music by Brian Eno.
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Added on: 19-Jul-2009 Downloads: 2414 Rating: 9.0 (9 Votes)
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Ultralow Beatup Popular

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What appears to be a Mirage F1 making an extremely low level beatup over his buddy on the runway.

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Added on: 04-Sep-2009 Downloads: 8617 Rating: 9.0 (5 Votes)
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Cessna Gearup Landing
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Video showing a perfect approach and landing from inside the plane. One problem -- the pilot of this Cessna 182RG has forgotten to put the landing gear down. It's hard to listen to that sickening sound of metal on concrete..
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Added on: 19-Sep-2009 Downloads: 4376 Rating: 9.0 (2 Votes)
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Skyhawk F-18 Incident Popular

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Infamous clip of an F-18 dropping a a dummy bomb, which flies up and hits a Skyhawk chase plane knocking it out of the sky.

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Added on: 19-Sep-2009 Downloads: 6831 Rating: 9.0 (2 Votes)
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China Air Okinawa Popular

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An Air China Boing 737-800 catches ire on the runway, the fuel tanks eventually BLEVE nearly taking out the pilot escaping through the cockpit window. ~Detailed info

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Added on: 19-Sep-2009 Downloads: 6036 Rating: 9.0 (3 Votes)
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Lviv HD

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28/8/02, Lviv, Ukraine: A SU-27 clipped the ground and crashed into spectators, killing at 81 people and injuring 115 in one of the world's deadliest air show accidents.

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Added on: 19-Sep-2009 Downloads: 9577 Rating: 9.0 (3 Votes)
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Soviet Space Program
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During it's 60 year history, the Soviet space program was responsible for a great number of accomplishments in space flight. Mankind's first ICBM, first satellite, first animal and human in space, first Earth orbit, first Moon impact and unmanned landing, first space station and first interplanetary probe. For propaganda value, failures and casualties were usually kept secret. Unlike the American Space program, the USSR's program was split between several competing design groups. The Soviet Space Program was dissolved in 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union, with Russia and Ukraine becoming its immediate heirs. Music: Leftfield - 'Fanfare Of Life'.
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Added on: 12-Dec-2009 Downloads: 3824 Rating: 9.0 (17 Votes)
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French Aerobatic Gliding
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Footage of a number people flying gliders in France.

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Added on: 11-Mar-2010 Downloads: 2641 Rating: 9.0 (1 Vote)
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