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Postby ozzy72 » Fri Jan 01, 2016 3:55 pm

I can't believe it, I remembered this old series many years ago that helped encourage my flying urge, and someone has popped it up on YouTube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=999Q_eY ... NARAlu1BNw
This is a classic series and well worth watching ;)
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Re: BBC Test Pilot

Postby expat » Fri Jan 01, 2016 7:15 pm

Excellent find Mark. :dance:
And a bit sad too..........Back on the days when we had real diversity of aircraft.

Another series that kept me glued to the TV.......Fighter Pilot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCrY4Frdgn8

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Re: BBC Test Pilot

Postby Jetranger » Fri Jan 01, 2016 8:40 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhZsaIyWc9o[/youtube]
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Re: BBC Test Pilot

Postby wifesaysno » Fri Jan 01, 2016 10:00 pm

One of my FAVORITE series! Such a gem, never new of it until I found it on youtube several years ago...after every viewing I cannot help myself but do some simulated "flight tests". :D

That show made me start collecting EPTS aircraft pictures and sim models...then it got me obsessed with the National Test Pilot School, a civie test pilot school in Mojave....

That show had a direct influence on my career path.

To bad shows like that are not on cable any more. What a shame.
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Re: BBC Test Pilot

Postby Shadowcaster » Sat Jan 02, 2016 4:38 am

Great find sir. :clap: :clap: :clap:

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Re: BBC Test Pilot

Postby expat » Sat Jan 02, 2016 4:01 pm

Another good one about prospective crews going for Tornado conversion....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX-_1EZzl3M

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Re: BBC Test Pilot

Postby logjam » Sat Jan 02, 2016 10:33 pm

Never had the pleasure of cable in my youth. The earliest influence besides the Biggles books was a US series about the Black Ace way back in 1951 or2. I've never found it since then, but what an excitement that series was. I wonder if anyone can remember that one? Fozz?
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Postby Shadowcaster » Sat Jan 02, 2016 11:45 pm

logjam wrote:Never had the pleasure of cable in my youth. The earliest influence besides the Biggles books was a US series about the Black Ace way back in 1951 or2. I've never found it since then, but what an excitement that series was. I wonder if anyone can remember that one? Fozz?



Don't know if this is the one https://archive.org/details/mystery_squadron_ep1

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Re: BBC Test Pilot

Postby logjam » Sun Jan 03, 2016 9:42 am

Many thanks Shadow. Brought me right back to my childhood. I guess the series was a 1933 epic. Us kids got to watch it on infant TV in Britain in the early '50's. I'm not sure what the Bi-planes were, they look a bit like Stearman Cadet. Great stunt flying back then in the Barn-storming era.
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Postby Shadowcaster » Sun Jan 03, 2016 1:52 pm

Glad to be of help, any mention of Biggles always take me back.

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