Contrail_25's Videos

Video from Raytheon's Weapon Qualification Testing on the T-6A from 2002. The T-6A is the primary trainer for USAF pilot training. The T-6B is the current version, equipped with a HUD and several hardpoints for carrying various weapons. The B model is currently the primary trainer for the NATO Flyin ...

3 Weeks Ago

Looks like the AF has finally figured out the manning issue with UAVs....

Taken from the graduation video of class 08-14...good job guys...good luck!

2 Months Ago

This video was taken a few years back. It shows just how quick things can go wrong on takeoff. Watch carefully and you can see the bird enter the screen from the left side. Also note how long it takes (thus how far they travel) from bird ingestion to actually starting the abort.

4 Months Ago

After I got my PPL, my family said I should make a video of me flying...as if I didn't have enough from my old aerial surveying job! The beginning is kinda sappy, but hey it's my video. There's some stuff I took on my solo flights. The rest is mainly stuff taken by my first 'passengers.' Taking some ...

4 Months Ago

This is back in 2006, right before I headed off to the military. Runway 17R at KCOS. One of the last landings I had as a civilian, one of my better landings for sure...now if I can only figure out how to land something weighing 16,000 lbs and going twice as fast! ;)

4 Months Ago

This is the infamous crash video shown at Red Flag, well at least it used to be, maybe it still is. Not all the crashes are from Red Flag. Still a good video...many consider classic.

6 Months Ago

A different video, longer, unedited, uncut. Enjoy. Got this from a buddy (I don't think this is him though) at another base. Find out in a few weeks if I'll be tracking in this direction...so I'm just going to keep flying my ass off, and keeping fingers crossed!
Unlike the other video, this ha ...

6 Months Ago

Patty Wagstaff has some fun in the T-6A demonstrator a few years back. I'm sure she had some light tanks when she did this. This plane is a blast to fly. And I will admit that I am rather jealous that I'm not allowed to do the same!!! I'm sure I could, but my current "employer" wouldn't be very thri ...

6 Months Ago

Back in Jan 2007, I flew down to KPUB from KCOS to have dinner. We landed on 17. It was a gorgeous winter night, smooth as a baby's behind! I actually made my girlfriend fly part of the way, she's the one who took the video. It was one hell of a dark night as well...no moon. Landing wasn't so bad.

10 Months Ago

It said it was a "BAF" F-16 doing a low pass. I can't really tell who owns it....it's too fast!
Anyways...someone wanted to see it aside from the "lowpass" video...so here it is. Sorry for the music in the background...it's part of the original video.

11 Months Ago

Just a bunch of good 'ol low flybys. Some classics...some new ones. This was a fun video to make...enjoy it!

11 Months Ago

A recent promo video about the F-22 from Lockheed Martin. Recently the USAF has begun allowing pilots right out of pilot training to enter the F-22 pipeline. After students earn their wings, they are sent through Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals (IFF). If students selected for Raptors meet the r ...

11 Months Ago

They showed us this in one of our safety classes recently. I wish I could share some the military ones we saw, but they are still "classified"...or so they say...afterall the C-5 one is out on the net as is the KC-135 ground collision. Oh well, maybe sometime soon.
In any case, this video is s ...

12 Months Ago

Some Air Tractor flying over in Australia. The night stuff is insane!!! Overall this is a great video..couldn't wait to put it up on here. Enjoy!

12 Months Ago

So what did we do on our time off? Drink mostly. I had the gut to prove it! Usually we used weather days to rest or go check out the survey sites. On the ONLY rainy day in Phoenix, we drove down to Tucson to check out the Pima Air Museum. Totally worth the drive....some real aviation history down th ...

12 Months Ago

The trip home. Columbus - Houston - Colorado Springs. I saw an amazing sunrise, and the remainder of the flight provided some great cloud shots. Flying into/through Houston is always fun due to the parallel approaches they use. Personally I enjoy this video much more than the actual job video...and ...

12 Months Ago

This was one of those jobs where not much really happened to make it that remarkable. The plane broke again, it was hazy most of the time, when it wasn't hazy the camera didn't want to work, I saw a good thunderstorm...that's about it. A highlight was being in a hotel right next to the Wendy's HQ... ...

12 Months Ago

Early 2006, I was sent down to Texas for another job. It was a small job, but rather fun with a mix of high and low flying (for various photo resolution). While doing our ground survey, we met this old timer named Tom Danaher. He had his own private strip, and after seeing him every day, we decided ...

12 Months Ago

Same accident as the other video, this is a simulation of the flight path with various flight parameters displayed along with the HUD and radio transmissions.
On 2 Nov 2007, a MOANG F-15C s/n 80-0034, broke up during a basic fighter maneuver training sortie. The upper right longeron failed sub ...

12 Months Ago

On 2 Nov 2007, a MOANG F-15C s/n 80-0034, broke up during a basic fighter maneuver training sortie. The upper right longeron failed subsequently placing a higher load on the remaining cockpit structure causing a catastrophic failure of these supports. The cockpit separated from the aircraft just aft ...

12 Months Ago