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"If you see your pilot leave the plane, you should follow." That is such a quaintly British way of putting it. Brings to mind Protect and Survive films.
Not all that quaint. If you see something like that happen, it might already be too late for you to get out. When it's time to punch out, there's no such thing as being too hasty!
You get told if you do an air experience flight with the air training corps if your pilot goes unconscious you have to physically open the canopy open seat belt and jump off the edge of the wing so...
Aparantly there was a civilian who was given a flight for some reason , not straped in tight enough and during a manouver got lifted in his seat , he reached down and grabbed something to pull himself beck down . Yes , the ejector seat handle , wooooosh
Adam Savage had the opportunity to be a passenger with the Blue Angels (the US Navy's flight demonstration team who use F/A-18 Hornets) while filming Mythbusters. He did not wear pressure pants so he had to learn clenching, vomited multiple times due to his motion sickness, passed out briefly on camera during a high-G maneuver, and still maintains it was one of the greatest experiences of his life and he'd do it again in a heart beat. So jealous of both of you for this... you lucky bastard. :)
@@BlackSlimShady Yes, because they inflate, pushing your legs a bit. Maybe it's just enough to move the controls a millimeter or so, which could be enough to cause problems if you're extremely close to other planes.
@@em__1 Okay so- I'm guessing this isn't serious, but I'm autistic so I really can't tell, so Pressure pants apply pressure to your legs to help nullify the effect of g-force when you fly so you don't have to stress as much
Here in america we have the Blue Angels, famous for flying so low that once, they chopped the top of a tree off. In my yard... Bloody bastards. Glad you got to do this Tom.
And here in canada, we have the snowbirds They use trainer planes, so they're not as fast as the blue angels (not sure about the arrows) and I honestly prefer them, because you can actually see what they're doing for longer
Whenever Tom gets to do something special, I keep thinking that that's it, that's the limit of how cool stuff he gets to do. And every single time, just a few weeks or months later, he gets to do something WAY more special! ...and does an absolutely brilliant, informative and fun video about it.
I was thinking the other day that if rides to orbit (or even higher) get down to the $20K range while Tom is still a popular RU-vidr, he's going to get invited on one.
I'd imagine the sentiment about the Red Arrows in the UK is very similar to that of around the Blue Angels in the US. You're right when you say that an average person going for a "ride along" is not a dream, it is an outright impossibility. I'm jealous beyond words that you got to do this.
Water "soaking" into a waterproof jacket either means it needs to be washed, or it's lost the exterior hydrophobic coating (like DWR). Either way, water still won't soak all the way through it.
STARRSHIP Nice. I'm glad that there are STEM project galore nowadays. I just wish it was like that about 10 years ago when I was in year 3/4 because it could have had a lot more impact on not just me, but the entire generation.
Absolutely agree. I actually kinda feel like even the actual flight video he did would've actually be even more enjoyable if he just paused the script for a bit and just enjoyed the flight. I'd have loved to see him do that. Him being in this amazing plane and just basically having to ignore the amazing experience in order to get the script out was a bit annoying.
Philip Whitehouse Red 5 is Flight Lieutenant Dan Lowes, according to their website. “Red 11 [the lowest number not currently assigned to anybody] standing by”?
Tom can I just say I am astounded by your professional ability - casually delivering a script to the camera during a once-in-a-lifetime experience where most people would simply be quietly squealing!
Good old Martin Baker, the one product that you really really do not ever want to use, absolutely never ever want to use, and definitely it will do it's darndest to kill you if used. However, if you do use it, you do get a tie pin from Martin Baker absolutely free. Friend of mine, now in the UK, used to work on them, and he was very proud when one was actually used, and did work perfectly. Yes the pilot was 10cm shorter from compressed vertebrae, and in pain, but he did survive. Note that once you have ejected, you are going to be only able to do it one more time, and then will be medically boarded, or transferred to a non fighter wing. Remember air show pilots are typically the coolest people you will ever meet, no show off’s there, all have to work together as a perfect team. Solo air show pilots can be show boaters, but typically only mess up once.
The point of an ejection seat isn't so much that it's _safe_ (as Tom says in the video, it's not even necessarily _survivable_ ), but that it's _safer_ than going down with the crashing plane.
SeanBZA Did Martin Baker go on the cheap? I'd always heard if you had occasion to fly one of their seats, you got the whole silk tie, not just the pin.
Don't know, but there were one or two pilots with the pin next to the medals on their dress jackets. As they were wearing the standard issue military tie I guess they might have had the MB tie as well, but it was not part of formal dress.
Was hoping you'd mention Douglas Bader the WWII pilot with no legs and how since blood couldn't go to this legs he was able to fly harder than most people
“No-one knows the identity of the red arrows” Jersey Air Display Brochure holds those secrets, sadly they haven’t come to Jersey for the past 2-3 years though :(
The Red Arrows are a flight display team for the RAF. Some other flight display teams include the Frecce Tricolori (Italy), Blue Angels (Navy), Thunderbirds (USAF), Black Eagles (South Korea), ect. The UK actually had a very weird way of getting to having a display team compared to the US. Until 1965 there were display teams in quite a few squadrons and some would become the official display team. Some examples of these teams were the 111 Squadron (Black Arrows, flying Hawker Hunters), 92 Squadron (Blue Diamonds, Hunters and later English Electric Lightnings), 74 Squadron (Tigers, Lightnings) and 56 Squadron (Firebirds, Lightnings). Later display dutes were handed over to the training squadrons/school and this resulted in the Jet Provest equipped Red Pelicans and Folland Gnat equipped Yellowjacks. It was only after this mess of display teams that one was created, which inherited the Folland Gnats from the Yellowjacks, called the Red Arrows though some teams such as the Red Pelicans would continue until 1973 (Oil Crisis). This also explains why the Red Arrows use the advanced trainer of the RAF instead of the major fighter aircraft. Side note, one of these earlier teams has the record for most aircraft in formation loop with 22.
And don't forget the FAA's "Fred's Five" and "Simon's Sircus" (can't remember what squadrons they were - please tell me) that flew - Sea Vixens! (cue Ride of the Valkyries music)
Blame the RU-vid app for not having the built-in spell check enabled in the comment box. We don't all have geography degrees, you know. Some of us are software developers.
Ejector seat training discussion was fun. When I was doing my training before my T-37 orientation, I was told that I should pull the levers before the third "Bailout", because after that I'd be logging solo time. 8-)
SO JEALOUS! *Slams head in table*... Ehh, I know this will never happen but now I want to see a Citation needed while you guys are getting thrown about in the backseats :)
If you are 13-17 and live in the UK, go to the Air Cadets/Air Training Corps - you get to fly, not hawks but you do get hands on experience flying and you do get to see the air in a completely different way (flying around a cloud was incredible) - I have also done a loop and a barrel roll over my house which is some serious cred. Also if you do want to go into the military (or commercial) it does help and you can get to meet people through the ATC which can further your career.
Tom, It never ceases to amaze me how you end up getting the opportunities you do. Continue to make the most of them and thank you for sharing them with us!
As long as his mission follows the Chris Hadfield version and not the original David Bowie version, because I don't want him to end up on an EVA gone wrong.
I'm a couple years late, I realize, but if Tom has the opportunity I would love to see a comparison between the RAF and other prominent air forces around the world, particularly around the WWII era. I'm from the US and I do think the RAF is superior, or at the very least was superior during wartime, but I would like to see a more detailed comparison and explanation!
In Sale, Victoria, Australia the Australian Roulettes (Red Arrows equivalent in Aus) fly around the area practising their manouvers. They are based at the RAAF East Sale site, which they also use to do alot of training for pilots etc.
They _had to_ go easy on him, because he hadn’t gone through the training needed to safely withstand the most strenuous manoeuvres. Everything was still standard Red Arrows manoeuvres, but it was a subset, limited to only the ones they could do with untrained passengers.
In Canada our version of The Red Arrows are called "The Snowbirds". I'm 5'1 is there a minimum height limit? ooh, I do have ear problems so I might not be aloud due to health reasons.
Tom got to live my literal dream! What an amazing experience, even just watching the retelling of events filled me with an excitement I haven't considered since I was a child.
coming back to this after 2 years of this video, I grew up going to every air show I could and loved the red arrows. And after living in Cyprus (the base for the red arrows for some of the year) and being able to get next to the jets and talk to some of the crews ihave loved them even more.. I am, like many other, very jealous of you Tom.
Awww I love videos like this so much where Tom is just super excited and happy but I feel slightly bad for Matt who's almost always just hearing about it... I mean, of course Tom is the face and his channel is the popular one but still..
The reason they "went easy on you" is that you're not trained to handle high _g_ force loads (like the proper breathing and how to tense the right muscles and things like that), and they wouldn't want to pull that on anyone who hasn't got the proper training. The "ear clearing thing" is called the _Valsalva manoeuvre,_ and in a spacesuit where one can't reach one's nose with one's hands, there is a little piece of foam called a "valsalva device". I would hardly call the ejection seat _safe,_ but it is _safer_ than going down with the plane.
> I would hardly call the ejection seat safe, but it is safer than going down with the plane. They're certainly a hell of a lot safer than the older (bang-only) ones. In case you don't know about this, modern seats use a small explosive charge to fire the seat clear of the tail - this is where the very high G load comes from, and use a small solid rocket motor to give the seat some more speed to allow ejections at low speeds/altitudes. The old seats only had the explosive and it was significantly larger, causing many more serious injuries.
Well said, Mr Brown. "Safe" is definitely relative in this context. In a similar vein, this is how Tim Peake described the launch escape system on the Soyuz rocket: "I say 'survivable' and not 'safe because the crew could be exposed to acceleration forces in excess of 20 g during some phases of an aborted launch - and there's nothing safe about 20 g."
Thanks, though there's one important thing to note about SAS (Soyuz LES, Russian abbreviation): you're lying on your back, rather than sitting straight up. Cosmonauts have (as far as I've heard) no issues at all with the 4-5G experienced in a normal maintained for several minutes, without a G-suit. So 20G towards your back maintained for many seconds is still obviously dangerous, but not nearly as much as if you were sitting up.
I served in the RAF and couldn’t get a flight in a fast jet so you are a very lucky man. Plenty flights in different military helicopters. Wish it was me ☹️👍🏻
I used to go to the Joint Forces Open House at Andrews Air Force Base. The thing you walk away from that event is.......we have the BEST hardware in the world. The people that fly in that event are amazing. It sounds like you now have a similar view of the Red Arrows!! It makes your chest swell with pride....and I wasn't even in the aircraft! So jealous! Congrats!!!
The comment about cutting legs off if one needs to eject reminds me of David Gunson's What Goes Up. It's an after dinner speech by an ex-pilot and air traffic controller. It's also from the 1980s so some of the humour is a tad dated (especially if you're particularly easily insulted - if you grew up in the 70s that wasn't good for keeping one's sanity!), but generally speaking it's fecking hilarious! So glad you enjoyed yourself, Tom. I can't even begin to imagine how wonderful it was for you. You'll have to try the Lightning jet in S Africa (you must have seen Profs Brian Cox and/or Iain Stewart in it! If not, find their videos.) Though I'm sad to say I'm watching this the day after the fatal accident in Valley. My heart goes out to all of the families and friends to the lost engineer and injured pilot. It's such an unusual event especially under 'normal' flight circumstances. Yet the Red Arrows should continue, if only out of respect.
It's heartwarming to watch Tom live this "not a dream." This definitely goes in the highlight reel of his life! As far as your snide comment about the USAF Thunderbirds, everyone knows the US Navy Blue Angels are the premiere flight demonstration team in the world. Their F/A 18 Hornets would fly donuts around the Reds!
