I know it may not have been allowed due to night time restrictions not to mention the noise levels but.......................Just imagine in the days of Concorde, a possible money spinning flight to see in the New Year twice.
The first at an airport (not a very exciting prospect though) then after the celebrations a three hour flight to New York followed by a quick bus ride into New York and see in the New Year all over again!!
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Oh well, suppose some one might be fool enough or sober enough to try it on FS9!!
I used to be an optimist but with age I am now a grumpy old pessimist.
A special Concorde air to air filming sortie did happen around this time in 1985 or possibly 86 I think :think: . It was daytime/sunset footage though obviously . Some of the clips fell off the back of a truck outside my house about a year ago and I edited them into a short film (with appropriate music) that has been shown to some on here. Might discretely upload it at some point.
It's a great video. Would have thought they'd end it with Concorde lighting her reheats and zooming off into the distance instead of the common peel-off that they did. I wonder what they were using as the camera ship though.
I put that together from clips, so its my fault it ends like that Flight is subsonic and the camera ship was a Gulfstream I think, chosen because it had larger windows than other jets apparently.
Whatever camera ship they used, it wasn't being shot out a window. It was being shot from a "steadicam" installation underneath the aircraft. Several of the shots could not have been achieved any other way.
Incidentally, Clay Lacy was the one to pioneer this in jets with his Lear 24 installation for movie shoots. Prior to that, they used a standard camera rig that was on an extendable platform that was attached to the bomb bay of a B-25 and extended out into the slipstream beneath the aircraft with the bomb bays open (or the bomb bay doors removed). Obviously this large (4 foot wide by 8 foot long) installation wouldn't fit on jets so he worked with several camera companies to design an installation that would work in a jet. What resulted was the camera mounted inside the plane with a periscope protruding through the bottom of the aircraft inside a visually transparent but aerodynamic dome.
