Documentaries about non-US aircraft

[artik]

There are several great series.

US Planes are very well covered by the "Discovery Wings - Great planes": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_(Discovery_Channel_TV_series)
For Luftwaffe there is Discovery Wings of the Luftwaffe
The Soviet planes covered very well by "The Wings of Russia": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69B0CB4788F64720

Are there similar series on?

British Aircraft: WW2 and Cold War like Hawker Templest, Hunter, Seahawk Harrier, De Havilland Mosquito, Vampire, Sea Venom, English Electric Canberra and Lighting, Panavia Tornado and so on.

French Aircraft: Dassult Ouragan, Mystere, Mystere B2, Mirage III, V, F1, 2000, Rafael, Sud Aviation Vautour.

[Karnak]

British yes.  Russian I think as well, Wings of the Red Star.  Not seen anything for the French, Italians or Japanese.

[morfiend]

 There used to be a great BBC show called "strange planes" it wasnt country specific but each episode covered several unique and iteresting A/C.




   

[artik]

British yes...

And the tv-series name is ?

[GScholz]

I'm curious about that too.

[bozon]

About British planes you can find individual documentaries, but I dont remember any series. The Brits are pretty obsessive about their Spits and Lancasters and tend to neglect everything else from WWII, post war and their early jets.

French planes... I haven't seen any documentaries, which is a shame. The early French Jets were awesome. Perhaps there are some in French which is why they are hard to find and even if I do, I will not understand much of what is spoken.

[artik]

Yeah... there are lots of UK videos on BoB... Spitfires and Hurricanes. Some videos about Falklands (like this one http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,363121.0.html) but had seen almost nothing about British early and late jets.

For example Hawker Seahawk had very long and remarkable service. The vampires, Venoms and Meteors were quite an interesting planes with very interesting service .

English Electric Canberra served for a long time. There is a US Great Planes documentary about US version B-57 but as usual US video talks about "their great plane".

And I don't understand how nobody yet created a documentary about Mirages that were Huge success.

[GScholz]

I did find one doc on the Mirage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QAWIK_RgV0

[Karnak]

I've seen Spitfire, Hurricane, Mosquito, Lancaster, Typhoon and Beaufighter documentaries at the least.  And yes, they are individual.  Never seen a "Wings of the Royal Air Force" or such series.

[artik]

I did find one doc on the Mirage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QAWIK_RgV0

They run from Ouragan, Mystere IV, Mirage III, Mirage IV, Mirage F1, Mirage 2000, to Rafale in 20 minutes... 

They should called it "Firepower: Very Short History of Dassault Combat Aviation"

But there are some nice pictures

[GScholz]

I'm sure there are more in-depth documentaries made, but they're probably in that silly French language!

[danny76]

Yeah... there are lots of UK videos on BoB... Spitfires and Hurricanes. Some videos about Falklands (like this one http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,363121.0.html) but had seen almost nothing about British early and late jets.

For example Hawker Seahawk had very long and remarkable service. The vampires, Venoms and Meteors were quite an interesting planes with very interesting service .

English Electric Canberra served for a long time. There is a US Great Planes documentary about US version B-57 but as usual US video talks about "their great plane".

And I don't understand how nobody yet created a documentary about Mirages that were Huge success.

There is a Great British Planes series, on History Channel IIRC, that covered early RAF jets, Meteor, Vampire, Sea Vixen, Venom, Canberra, Lightning etc.

Canberra stayed in service into the 90's with the finest PRU in the world!

Also was used to great effect in the Green Leader raid on terrorist training camps in Westlands Farm in the late 70's which has one of the coolest, calmest radio transmissions in history.