Fleet Air Arm Museum with The Mighty Jingles - Part 3 

The Harrier Lift off was so moving I shed manly tears of joy.

Jingles, you've done it again. People are willing to crack each others skull open over which country has bigger... Well, you know the drill :) I suppose, you could upload half an hour of black screen with no sound whatsoever and people would still find a topic to argue and insult each other over. P.S. Technically, "Fairey Delta" in FAA Museum is BAC.221. FD.2 is in Cosford.

Jingles, thank you so, so, so ,so much for uploading this. I was lucky enough to go on Concorde, G-BOAF ,which was the last British built Concorde and is now housed in the original Concorde hanger, at Filton Bristol. Due to one of my 6th form teachers having his wife work for BA, I was able to get my ticket at 10% of the face price, which worked out at £890 in 1998. This was my 18th birthday present from my parents and to celebrate getting very high exam results from the course I was studying at the time. With my 6.4 (196cm) frame, I found things a little snug in Concorde, but nothing in this world could beat the thrill of take off in Concorde. Due to the air temp at high altitude in the summer, I was in a flight that managed 59,000ft and Mach 2.2. I will never forget the experience of going on Concorde and I feel so privileged that my very first flight in a fixed wing aircraft, was on board what I see as the greatest ever non military aircraft. I would strongly recommend anyone going to see the flagship Concorde, G-BOAC at Manchester airport if you ever get the chance, or going to see the two French Concordes in Toulouse, where they actually use ground power to power the Air France Concorde up and they demonstrate the lowering and raising of the nose and visor, as well as moving the control surfaces of the aircraft. This is the only place in the world you can see a Concorde powered up in this manner. There is hope one day they will be able/allowed to do high speed taxi runs on special events at the airport. The Concorde in your video Jingles, was fondly called "Old Smokey" as the development engines used in this research aircraft were very smokey and even the preproduction Concorde based at Duxford, was smokey compared to the final production engines found in the aircraft that entered service. One question for you Jingles, which you don't have to answer, but what did you do job wise in the Royal Navy? Again thank you for the time and effort you spend in making such enjoyable and informative videos like this. Kindest regards, Dan (aka FelixIsMyName in War Thunder is No.1 Squadron)

Jingles, If you are ever in Florida you may want to visit the US naval aviation museum in Pensacola, I think you would enjoy it.

Really enjoying these Jingles, I hope we get to see a Buccaneer at some point!

Good stuff. I know we are a bit out of the way down here in the Southwest but we are well worth a visit! If you like this and you like Tanks its worth remembering that the Tank Museum Bovington is only a 45 min drive at most from the Fleet Air Arm Museum, now imagine that for a weekend break............

The droop-snoop... the forerunner of Concorde! Magic, and "just routine!"

With an addon to the Hawker Hunter story, we used them in Rhodesia (now Zimbabawe). The pilots were legendary in their ability to hit any target. A South African Newspaper stated that the pilots could hit a metal dustbin in a jungle clearing. In answer to that No.4 squadron presented a metal dustbin to No.1 squadron that then promptly stuck it out on the practice field and did just that with only a single burst form a hunter flown by Richard Bland OC at a speed of approximately 720Kmh

Thanks very much for the mention guys! Mike, The Barracuda Project

I love how the presenter quickly adds "they're both British" when talking about the pilots of the swordfish delta.

VIF-ing Vectoring In Flight... a unique way of not only escaping an attack, but turning a defensive position into an attacking position. Under attack - VIF - Fire! Enemy downed! Magic, and all British.

hi jingles, i just wanted to say your visits to all these amazing places are some of favorite videos you put up, even though i watch all of them, i just love the amount of research/knowledge you put into each video, and its a very nice change from world of tanks/ War thunder, thank you. -Theragingnoob

Absolutely love the added history bits in this vid!

Great Episode, Mighty One! Love the museum visits!

@TheMightyJingles haven't been a big fan of yours does a while. However, I do appreciate very much your series of videos of the fleet air arm museum. So thanks for doing this series.

Just realised that when I hear planes doing the attack drills every once in a while down here in Plymouth, they're Hawker Hunters. That's a cool thing to know

Thanks jingles for the very informative entertaining museum walk......reminds me of when i went here:) (good times)

GJ Mr.BoJingles. Hey you dont have to say sorry to anyone,they have a choice. I enjoy your videos and watch every dam one of them. Some people just dont take the time to understand costs of equipment and the efforts you put into these reviews etc. Its not like your in hollywood and directing the museum. Your doing us a favor and its appreciated by many.

Great video Jingles. Thank you for making this great informative videos on places some of us just can't visit.

Love the videos jingles always looking forward to your next upload

Nicely edited video, jingles. Awesome.

The comment about the procurement of the Lightning II had me chuckling for about thirty seconds. However, I'm not sure if I was really laughing or trying not to sob!

Awesome video! Thanks mighty Jingles!

That was amazing can't wait to see more

Love this series. Thanks Jingles.

Hi jingles, I have loves planes and tanks since I was about 2. I love ur vids and think they are the best. U learn loads and have a laugh at the same time. Please keep making vids from museums. I love them. Thanks for making my 2013 :)

this makes we want to go to the National Naval Aviation Museum, here in pensacola. also i was near EGLIN AFB and got too see some of the F35s doing training flights they are a bit louder than the f-18s from around the navy base

That loudness of jets the raw power plus the smell is awesome idmyou have never been to ain airshow its a must

Great video jingles!

Fun fact: When in the hover, the Harrier is 'steam powered'. No, really. Water is injected into the engines to give it better cooling, and allow the engine to operate at the higher thrust levels needed. The pilot only has 90 seconds of water on board, and hence can only ever hover for 90 seconds without the risk of overheating the engine!

Nice video Jingles... Keep up the good work

Love the Hunter. Flown by the Royal Navy and Swiss Air Force until the early 1990s (first flew 40 years earlier), still in service in the Lebanese Air Force. US Navy hires contractors to fly Hunters for anti-cruise missile drills for its warships.

I do love these videos jingles, keep them up ! :)

JANGELS YOU'RE A LEGEND AND I HOPE I MEET YOU ONE DAY!

I've been there before such a great experience

vertical take-off, just WOW!

Awesome! Thanks Jingles...

nice videos of the fleet air arm museam. also the westland wyvern in the museam is not a turboprop it is powred by the Rolls-Royce Eagle 22 24-cylinder H-block piston engine

GOD DAMN you Jingles you tease, i want MOARR!

I have a friend who was one of the first for USAF pilots assigned to the F35. He did fly F16s, but loves the F35.

that was great, thanks Jingles.

Great video

Good stuff! Thanks Again!

ive been here its fantastic

Joking they're very interesting!

Brilliant!

Thank you

Morning Jingles, did you sleep in this morning....this was uploaded after sunrise ;-)

The wyvern at the FAAM is a pre production prototype, powered by a RR eagle H24 engine, not the latter double mamba 🤘🏻

I like it how the Fairey Delta's nose section actually looks like the nose of a real swordfish :O

Fantastic video jingles really enjoyed it. The format is spot on even if you done regular videos about different aircraft/tanks that would be fine by me !!! Now for a slight rant at who ever was responsible for mothballing/selling the Harrier. They really do need a kick in the knackers. To have it replaced by the lightning 2 / JSF is just two fingers up at brilliant design and common sense. That aircraft defies logic. I agree that Harrier airframes were getting tired and they needed updating but the design was more than sound and the money spent on procuring the JSF should have been spent making a Harrier 2. Rant over.

Great video,and sound is good :-)

I love these videos! Please go to the Imperial War museum or other ones.

The Comcorde was actually louder than the Harrier at takeoff. The TBF Avenger is not exactly quiet either among it's peers.

Right on!!!

The Wyvern you were looking at was the piston engine version, as the turbine engine was'nt ready in time for flight ops

Nice Vids Jingles! You should become a Professional Documentary Guy/Dude/bloke. I currently serve with the Swiss Air Force( As a Militia-Member,like 4 Weeks a Year), so it's nice to see your mentioning of the Hunter, which is a Legend in the SAF. They flew them up until 1994! (Armed with AIM-9 and AGM-65 Maverik Missiles as Ground Attackers). Also, the Swiss BF 109's fought briefly against ze Nazis during 1940. Apparently, they claimed around 5 to 7 Greman Planes for the loss of one 109 of their own. So far the only Time the SAF got into Combat.

About the harrier. I had heard they are loud as fuck. And the vents are to help keep the planes balance as it takes off vertically.

Jingles; I worked on two Harrier prototypes P1127 & P1154 have they got an 1154 at Yeovil the P1154 I believe was the supersonic version but the engine development was cancelled due to budget cuts I am not sure it was a long time ago and it may have been a third prototype which was the proposed supersonic version. Regards JohnH

The Swedish airforce pilots are also learned to land on motorways to refuel and rearm in case of war

Ha heard chobham mentioned there would that be the very same chobham that makes tank radios for the us, worked on the air refueling system for the uk (not sure about anyone else) etc. Used to work for them :D

Look out Jingles, the BBC is going to get you!

Lets get this right, VR 137 is a pre production model (never flown) fitted with a Rolls Royce Eagle 22 piston engine. All production Wyverns, had Armstrong Siddeley Python turboprop engines, double mambas powered fairy gannets.

thank you jingles for those museum videos, they are always very interesting but one thing i'd like to know, are you planning on visiting museums where Planes of other nations than england are displayed? :P

Decent tour, mate. Not sure what your day job is, but tour guide is a possibility. :)

Jingles I dont know if know but due to those Harrier vector throst - nozzles this aircraft can fly backwards as well, ofcource its absolutely impractical in real combat

About 10 years ago I visited the museum with an ex WW2 FAA commander, Ken Firth, then aged about 85. He had proof with him to show he was the genuine article and by that I do not mean just the tie. To my utter disgust he had to pay the full OAP entrance fee. He should have been welcomed as an honoured guest. He didn't seem to care but I was so upset I wrote to the Museum. I never received a reply. Ken has since gone on to fly his Swordfish permanently.

Very interesting.

20:41 we appear to have the same ministry of defense in france. See ? we are not that different after all :D

My Dad went to school with the chap who invented the engine for the Harrier.

The Handley Page 115 looks like one of those 'luftwaffe 46' designs. Then you mention it's the result of a German designer 👍

Wow the info about the Hawker Hunter has raised one very important question, when are we going to get it in War Thunder :D

Hunter wasnt INTRODUCED into service in 1951. It happened in 1956. In 1951 the first flight took place.

I'm 99% sure I saw a harrier hovering above an airfield in France a couple of years back, I can't see what else it could have been

I have seen a harrier do a vertical takeoff and landing in person and its REALLY LOUD HOLY CRAP

Really enjoy these museum visits. They are great! Would love to donate to the restoration project, but sadly I can't buy/transfer money on the internet yet. :/

Great!

Cool thumbs up

The story of the F-35's development has got me worried :(. It's such a fantastic looking aircraft. Not quite the Raptor but lovely none the less.

the Saab 35 draken was e really good aircraft.

Finally!

this is such a cool museum one of the ones i still want to see is the russian tank museam that has one of the only maus in the world

At 10:50, they basically took a paper airplane and made it a real thing. Thats cool.

Fun Fact: the SR-71 blackbird actually had to move out of it's way to allow Concorde to carry on with it's flight path.

Dear Jingles the German Luftwaffe never had Harriers

They were also flown by the Jordinian airforce.

At the uss intrepid in ny they let sit in the cockpit and passenger department in the concord

Nice

An American A-7 pilot also ejected from his aircraft from underwater also.

The hunter is very vulcanesque looking.

At 1:30 one of the crew members states that a Wyvern pilot was the only man in history to eject from underwater and survive. This isn't true -- an F-8 pilot went over the end once and ejected from underwater. His ejection didn't take him out of the water, but it did get him out of the cockpit and he made it to the surface under his own power. I believe I got this story from Crusader!.

Jingles, why is there a Dalek in the Fleet Air Museum? It's in the background in the room where the Barracuda is being restored.

Love these museum visits! Jingles, got a question, if you have time/money and interest in visiting the Dutch National Military Museum opening in Oktober 2014 let us know in one of your videos because these museum trips of yours are incredible and I learn a lot from them. Information here: www.nmm.nl/ It contains Dutch and International aircraft, tanks, equipment, gear, etc. I think everyone could learn from it, maybe even you! If you DO plan on coming to the Netherlands to see the opening of the museum I can be your transport ofcourse, because I also tend to be there when the museum opens.

The way i see it, the longer it takes for the f35 to reach service, the better. It is an incredibly expensive, overweight, slow, unnecessary aircraft. If it's gonna replace all the ground attackers it will need a big wingspan and low stall speed, but it needs the opposite to be able to perform V.T.O.L and the small wingspan coupled with the heavily underpowered airframe makes it a fighter that's too slow to be good at that and an attacker that can't go slow enough to be good at that.

Jingles the Concorde isn't a Delta it's a Double Delta :) Something pioneered by the Swedish Draken :)

Jingles how excited are you for this plane in war thunder? I personally have been on the hype train for a loooong time

Very nice! Great cideo like always. And in livestream yesterday, what do you think about s QB Maus?

Just a suggestion. The next time you do one of these videos please include text descriptions such as the name and designation of an aircraft. Sometimes it's difficult to make out when spoken.

Awsome

we have the same problem in canada with the f 25. The cost as more than double.