SHADO Skydiver: Century 21 Tech Talk [2.7] | Hosted by General Ed Straker [UFO]

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Welcome to Series 2 of Century 21 Tech Talk, hosted by the former commanding officer of SHADO and head of the World Security Service - General Ed Straker!
In this briefing we’ll be learning about Skydiver, the combined aircraft/submarine used by SHADO to repel the mysterious Alien aggressors of the 1980s!
Starring Jon Culshaw as General Ed Straker
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@werdna1969 3 года назад

It is amazing how much thought went into these classic science fiction shows.

@garyreid6165 3 года назад

The SkyDiver is the coolest craft in SHADO’s fleet. God, I miss U.F.O..

@stephenpochly7003 2 года назад

Agreed a Dinky model of Skydiver would have been a great addition for collectors

@An.Individual Год назад

I have still got mine.

@corujariousa 3 года назад

I grew up watching that series. Great fun. Kids nowadays laugh about the visual effects but I still find it interesting. The use of models and puppets when CGI was not available were great accomplishments and required lots of ingenuity.

@ryanstephenkristoferkearns1319 3 года назад

The memorable moment of Skydiver where Sky 1 launches and great to hear about Skydiver 5 to be the new Skydiver 3 after the original one was sadly destroyed.

@Riccardo_Silva 3 года назад

I was eight when i first watched the episodes on italian tv. These, and airfix models, prompted me to learn english!

@Cliff132NJ 3 года назад

One of the greatest sci-fi vehicles of all-time, definitely the greatest sci-fi sub ever! Loved the re-docking animation, something I always wanted to see in the show. Thanks for this exceptional Tech Talk!!

@pcarrierorange 3 года назад

Such a cool animation!

@sydsnott5042 2 года назад

Just what Cliff said 👏

@cjlist9731 3 года назад

Nice bit of animation explaining how Sky 1 redocks with Skydiver. Would love to see TB2 given this kind of animation to showcase how Pod 4 is reclaimed.

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

Basically the same as the blueprint in episode 1.3 :)

@darrensmith6999 3 года назад

Brilliant!!! The visual effects are = if not superior to the CGI of today in my opinion. Hats off to Legend Derek Meddings.

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

The man was a legend, he left us far too soon!

@seriousmaran9414 3 года назад

Technology now is higher, you are going up against the likes of the expanse. But they were well ahead of the time and the most important part of any entertainment series is the scripts. These were second to none.

@mustang6599 3 года назад

yeah as you can just barley see the post it's sitting on. No way the special effects are even close to what we have today.

@paulgwilliam6323 3 года назад

@@mustang6599 yeah some of those sci-fi channel cgi effects today are so good... that's If you have bad eye sight lol because the cgi effects on some tv movies today are beyond friggi*g awful.

@mustang6599 3 года назад

@@paulgwilliam6323 Well, sure, buts that's called "no budget". Even the original Battlestar Galactical had decent effects with models, and the CGI today for ships is great with the nuances in lighting and such. Early CGI missed that kind of stuff, to be sure.

@keithmartland6463 2 года назад

After fifty years i got to see Sky 1 redocking

@TheKalle45 2 года назад

Yeah, I can´t remember to have seen it on tv 🤔

@MarkSW 3 года назад

Of all the underwater vehicles in the Anderson world, Skydiver is my favourite.

@Deevo037 3 года назад

One of my favourite fictional submarines.

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 2 года назад

Agreed.

@HansZarkovPhD Год назад

Seaview and the flying sub was always my favorite

@madjock2878 2 года назад

Ed Straker was a Col in USAF and Commander Straker when he was in charge of SHADO

@ACtheLegend 2 года назад

And a General in the WSS after SHADO disbanded :)

@chrisjohnston4445 3 года назад

Biggest disappointment of my childhood was that Dinky Toys never put out a SkyDiver. It would've looked fine in that Emerald Green they insisted on painting everything else!

@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle 2 года назад

I could never understand why the Dinky Eagle was emerald green. Perhaps they had a surplus of that colour?

@augustinboyd9626 Год назад

Need to bring back these shows today.

@12mrmajestic 3 года назад

I liked the scene when SKY 1 over flew Shadow head quarters to intercept incoming UFO!

@frankortolano5886 3 года назад

I always wondered how the sky reconnected to diver,excellent

@OdeeOz 3 года назад

Over a decade ago, some Yank made a R/C flying model version of the Sky Divers _Fighter._ Was awesome to see how he overcame obstacles, and got her flying. To say the least of the memories of the UFO series it brought back.

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

If you search Google, you should see a studio-scale RC Skydiver operating on water :)

@OdeeOz 3 года назад

@@ACtheLegend yes, I have been an ardent fan of the Anderson productions, and fan based modeling for decades now. Nearly all are 100% a joy to behold.

@2wheelsmidnight549 3 года назад

Fantastic work this... every second of it! I saw "UFO" for the first time when it was released here in the States back in 1972 or 3 and I was just a kid. All these years later I still look up at the stars and wonder if 3 of those bright little dots aren't Interceptors chasing a U-fo !

@simongvs 3 года назад

My theory about Sky 1 re-docking with Diver was that the fighter has a flotation ring on the bottom of the jet and inflates it just before landing on the water. It then waits for Diver to surface behind it and re-docks with the fighter. This way the jet doesn't have to sink under the surface to re-dock.

@fluffybond912 3 года назад

I really liked the way it shows you Sky 1 redocking because in the show yo ever saw that.

@dogwalker666 3 года назад

Always wanted to see re docking too.

@fluffybond912 3 года назад

@@dogwalker666 Here!! Here!!!

@dogwalker666 3 года назад

@@fluffybond912 👍

@gerardoramoncesarreynaldo9469 Год назад

How the Skydiver aircraft is re-united with the sub---this answers my question.

@Setebos 3 года назад

Would've liked some information on crew accommodations since all we've seen have been the private room aft of the bridge. I also feel that, given the need demonstrated by the UFOs for water in which to hide throughout extended stays, the importance of SHADO submersibles couldn't be downplayed.

@Chilly_Billy 3 года назад

I'm really enjoying these new videos.

@DANTHETUBEMAN Год назад

UFO and Speed racer are the first two TV shows I can remember.

@billy.g3597 3 года назад

Longing for the day when strings vests come back into fashion !!!.

@davidhull1610 3 года назад

Always looked good on Anoushka Hempel!

@fluffybond912 3 года назад

They certainly were in fashionable in 1970 ,all you had to do was go to M AND S

@fluffybond912 3 года назад

@@davidhull1610 see was good and sexy

@hlcepeda 3 года назад

That would lead to "interesting" tan lines.

@mmabri 3 года назад

@@fluffybond912 Georgina Moon was good too

@ricardoterreroslazo8017 Год назад

They are really amazing. Using full modeling is a great achievement. I admire the efforts of creators of all of them. Making such display without today's usage of computers. Really admirable! More over, the plots of the series, makes me and most of my generation ones stick to the TV series like UFO, SPACE 1999, and all the series using marionettes, They were a real and cool entertaining.

@maureencora1 3 года назад

I Really Liked the Skydiver Episodes.

@eagleal 2 года назад

Love these videos, the additional info and animations are a nice touch

@donaldclay9535 2 года назад

Someday I'm Gonna Get a Model of the SHADO Skydiver.

@riccardogemme 3 года назад

Would really love an episode on the human vessel from Space 1999 Dragon's Domain

@captainiant 3 года назад

brilliant video i have watched ufo over the years but i a pretty sure some of this is new footage if so well done to everyone involved with the best tech talk video of both series so far..

@jackmessent3490 3 года назад

These videos are FAB!

@dogwalker666 3 года назад

S.I.G.👍

@bettyleeist 2 года назад

There were a lot of great craft on the;Ufo show!Derek Medding’s was a great special effect’s director on the show,too!

@nordicson2835 Год назад

My favorite Corgi toy.

@DocMicrowave Год назад

This was very cool! Loved this show as a kid.

@francishodge5189 Год назад

I grew up in the 70s UFO this brilliant legandary Sci fi Uk made series produced by the legendary Gerry Anderson Iike Space 1999 Apart from the US Sc fi series Star trek etc UFO set the benchmark A head of its Time .

@steve0592 3 года назад

I always thought it fortuitous that the pilot went down the chute before the sub went nose up.

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

I'm chuckling at the idea of them attempting at afterward "Oh yeah, that's not how gravity works..."

@iandeeley9033 3 года назад

Great Briefing, Also Loved The CGI Sequence Near The End!

@charlesdetheridge8448 3 года назад

Wish that the die-cast UFO Models made as collectors models were affordable these days.....the Mobiles were good, but Skydiver........oh boy.!! (Would have had Fireball XL-5 as well!). On eBay there’s a Terrahawks Battlehawk for sale, mint in box, just £18,999 , 😮😫

@DANTHETUBEMAN Год назад

good bringing, I'm ready to report for duty 😁

@theashpilez 2 года назад

Can we ask Revell , AMT and the like to get on it? The Nostromo would be cool also....

@jimfarrell5004 3 года назад

The only "downside" of this report's "in-universe" would be that the "start recording" command would not be a part of the recording itself because the recording hadn't started yet. In the same vein, IMHO, the "database - end recording" command would be "auto-deleted" at the end of the report to keep the report "clear".

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

Ah, but you see the audio is actually being recorded by the security microphones in Straker's briefing room, rather than his auto-computer's data-bank, so they pick up everything before and after the presentation. A subtle reminder to everyone watching that the WSS sees and hears all :)

@hlcepeda 3 года назад

The Skydiver a/c looks suspiciously like the spacecraft lander seen in Anderson's _Journey to the Far Side of the Sun_ (aka _Doppelgänger_ ).

@STho205 2 года назад

As did the SHADO sports cars and several models and stage set items. UFO was reuse of Doppelganger properties, just like MGM reused Forbidden Planet and 2001 props for years.

@maureencora1 3 года назад

I Want the Model.

@greggharris3284 3 года назад

So do I!

@feenster1 Год назад

Music is amazing that bass takes me back too many years...lol

@KeithTKO 3 года назад

Them were good old days.

@FandersonUfo 3 года назад

pre-liked and waiting patiently - 🛸👽💚👍🏻

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

That's dedication, SHADO salutes you!

@FandersonUfo 3 года назад

@@ACtheLegend - 🛸👽💚

@nonolevieuxcrabe2437 3 года назад

Pre-liked too! Patiently? No! I need the blueprints immediately to destroy these filthy aliens!

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

@@nonolevieuxcrabe2437 hang in there, less than 24 hours to go!

@nonolevieuxcrabe2437 3 года назад

@@ACtheLegend okay sir!

@gregoryp2859 3 года назад

They absolutely need to do a modern remake of this series. And bring back the moon base girls!!!

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

Wouldn't work, UFO is unique. Updating the format would strip away anything that makes it different to other Sci-Fi shows.

@colinp2238 3 года назад

The amusing thing is that when he says that this or that could happen, like the replacement Sky unit, you know that it happened once in one episode, but not at any other time. Also if the UFO avoided the Moonbase defenses average about 85% of the time, certainly more often than not.

@andrewholdaway813 3 года назад

An astounding 65knots underwater speed, but a bare 20knots surface speed - THAT'S amusing.

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

@@andrewholdaway813 It's built specifically for Underwater speed, the fact it can hover-cruise is a bonus. The way a car is fast on four wheels than side-wheeling on two :)

@andrewholdaway813 3 года назад

@@ACtheLegend 🤣 20knots is still abysmal surface performance since 65knots underwater with such an un-hydrodynamic shape indicates that it's engines must be enormously powerful.

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

@@andrewholdaway813 they are...

@andrewholdaway813 3 года назад

@@ACtheLegend And yet 20knots.

@stephenfarthing1522 2 года назад

Skydiver class was the same size of the old U Boats of the last ones of the second world war.

@stephencampbell9384 3 года назад

Love SkyDivers The non series stuff, was that written for this video or culled from other media (eg the the advanced models)?

@michaelalexander43 2 года назад

As it was understood a Sky fighter were more maneuverable in the air than UFOs, (budget and time restraints aside) it would have been screamingly exciting for the UFOs to get into a dog fight of at least firing back. Seeing a Sky fighter duck and weave evading UFO energy ray fire as well on occasion taking a partial hit (maybe off a wing) while returning fire with its machine cannons...would have been NIIIIICE!

@grumpyoldman3458 3 года назад

I'm slightly disappointed it doesn't say "DIVERSKY" on the starboard side.

@edwardmcirvin8342 3 года назад

One of my Top 5 pieces of SciFi Hardware! Far Cooler than the Seaview, SeaQuest or Nautilus! I would have LOVED to see a Crossover where Skydiver sinks the Love Boat!

@Arbarano 3 года назад

I'd like to see, once, the starboard side of a Sykdiver. On the port side, the name painted of the hull divides into Sky, for the Skyfighter, and Diver, for the remaining part. How is it on the other side?

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

No text on the other side, as shown in the video :)

@scotpens 3 года назад

On the other side it's written in Hebrew.

@jetfire1153red Год назад

1:58 which means they actually utilise a similar idea as the enclosed submarine pen used for stingray.

@twohandsandaradio 3 года назад

Yep... fire and smoke underwater... Outside of that we need more fishnet vests...

@peterboczan2116 Год назад

Those Sky fighters were certainly aerodynamically unstable!

@MrHws5mp Год назад

What I've always wanted is an explanation of how air gets from the intake in the nose to the engines in the back of the pods...😉

@HansZarkovPhD Год назад

Please make a ufo mainstream movie

@An.Individual Год назад

Sky One on patrol in Earths Atmosphere

@andrewjurkiewicz4393 3 года назад

Neat.

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

Your comment is also neat, so it's getting a like :)

@stephenpochly7003 3 года назад

Hi everyone hope all are safe. Does anyone else think anyone looks about like Thunderbird 4

@fluffybond912 3 года назад

Yes!!!!!

@stephenfarthing485 3 года назад

Skydiver is 6 or 7 times bigger than Thunderbird 4 but not as well built for deep sea submergence. It could certainly dive deep but 30,000 feet was it's limit. Thunderbird 4 could get down to 36,000 feet. There's two others that could reach that depth. Seaview and Seaquest. Skydiver is able to get down to 30,000 feet. Any deeper is pushing the design of that vessel to it's structural limit.

@user-do5zk6jh1k 3 года назад

The fighter looks like TB4 with wings strapped on

@12mrmajestic 3 года назад

Yes, it's the two jet tubes in the rear that gives it away.

@pcarrierorange 3 года назад

@@stephenfarthing485 How deep could Stingray reach again? I recall it being a plot point in at least a few episodes.

@dogwalker666 3 года назад

I can imagine sky1 would be a pig to fly but always looks amazing.

@maundamartin59 Год назад

What's up with them see through uniforms?@

@ACtheLegend Год назад

Skydiver's interior is incredibly hot.

@kimjongoof5000 3 года назад

👌

@MyKharli 2 года назад

None of course would be possible without string vests

@tarqhlal7063 Год назад

ممكن مقدمة المسلسل اذا امكن اي شخص ينشرة

@jefftappan3091 2 года назад

Who provided the voice over for GEN Straker? As opposed to Ed Bishop.

@ACtheLegend 2 года назад

Jon Culshaw, as noted in the credits :)

@pierandreafrancini48 3 года назад

QUANTI RICORDI 🤩😍👌👍✌🇸🇲

@maundamartin59 Год назад

The distant future of 1980.

@kommandantgalileo 2 года назад

This submarine is quite semi-realistic.

@user-nx3wg9fg1e 11 месяцев назад

Where is the galley?

@ianmorton5539 3 года назад

...Skydivertastic...!!!

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

My new favourite word!

@fatarsemonkey 3 года назад

You could have used a better picture of Ed Bishop

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

It's not Ed Bishop, it's General Straker, and it was the only non-classified photo we were cleared to use.

@jeffskillman9275 3 года назад

Agree. This is a much later photo of him at a similar age to his role in Diamonds are Forever. Sure,y a still from a UFO episode would have been possible and appropriate.

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

@@jeffskillman9275 this video is set 40 years after the series.

@lonegroover 3 года назад

Just a little more languid in the voice would be good.

@paintnamer6403 3 года назад

He could sound like Troy McClure.

@Trek001 3 года назад

Skydiver makes 65 knots...? Thats slower then torpedoes of today which can get in excess of 75 knots

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

Larger objects tend to travel more slowly (think supertanker vs speedboat) and this is technology from 40 years ago, not today.

@MediaWatchDawg 2 года назад

Wow, and you thought it was just a hunk of plastic.

@1g-mail445 3 года назад

日本では、「マイティージャック」みたいなもんか❔

@user-fw1si8uw4w 3 года назад

もうちょいスマートにしてもいいような……。

@stephenwilliams926 3 года назад

Milk tray man @ 4:59.

@ACtheLegend 3 года назад

All because the Lady Loves...Skydiver Coffee.

@ADAPTATION7 Год назад

Wow! The 80s certainly had a lot to offer in terms of technological breakthroughs. Something must've happened at the beginning of the 21st century because none of these currently exist.

@ACtheLegend Год назад

They're top secret, so how would you know if they existed or not?