It’s rare to see a formation flying video of commercial planes. While it’s common for military planes, personally my love of aviation is centered heavily around commercial planes.Over the past few years we’ve seen some pretty incredibleformation flying videos with commercial aircraft.
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Let me start with something nice 🙂 The Etihad A380 is absolutely stunning!.. actually the livery is gorgeous on any aircraft type.
This formation flight is hardly groundbreaking or even close to anything worth watching. Its just very very boring and tired. Why did they even bother?...or is there actually a longer clip where something "interesting" happens?
These were common place in the UK and Europe back in the 80s and 90s...especially with the Concorde
Hmm... Looks nice but would be cool to have a behind the scenes video about the logistics & challenges of this fly-by. Obviously, formation flying isn't as easy as it looks but are there any special difficulties due to A380 being present?
So, is this why they downgauged one of the normal LHR-AUH A380 frequencies to a 777 for a few weeks?
I'd be pretty upset if I had booked the First Apartment and lost it because they wanted the plane for this stunt.
A380s create a ton of wake turbulence - especially where they are flying low, slow and clean (flaps up etc.) Hard to judge speed in this video, but this A380 would at least have been going low over the F1 track. The wake turbulence spreads out from the wingtips down and outwards, so the fighter jets only had a small envelope to work within.
Impressive video.
Aegean did the same thing this year with one of their A320s and the Saudi Hawks for an airshow in Athens.
They have also flown with a Dash 8 and the HAF Demo Team F-16. Truly impressive footage!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerEH4pp9jU
https://www.facebook.com/aegeanairlines/videos/10154403986478782/
On the subject of aviation videos, there is a new four part series from Nine Network in Australia about QF, titled Ready for Takeoff. (It's available on YouTube.) Part 2 is my favorite. It has a nice feature about the 80 year old gentleman who recently completed his 1,000th flight on QF. I hope I still have his passion for commercial flight when I'm in my 80s!