Virgin Atlantic: Up In The Air
 

Virgin Atlantic: Up In The Air

Documentary series going behind the scenes of the colourful airline founded by Richard Branson as it approaches its thirtieth birthday and rolls out a new plane.

EP1 on ITV - https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/virgin...es-1/episode-1

Season 01, Episode 01
The team at Virgin Atlantic’s Crawley base get ready for the company’s landmark 30th birthday event. 58-year-old grandma Katrine hopes that she has what it takes to become a new member of the cabin crew.

Friday Night TEN The Living Room 19:30

Emirates Flight School (Dubai)

Chris Brown has always dreamt of being a pilot and jumped at the opportunity to get behind the controls of an A380 when he was in Dubai. Unfortunately, things quickly descend into chaos when Miguel joins him as co-pilot. The pair head to the Emirates Training School to see if they have what it takes to become cabin crew. With a high standard to achieve, will they make the grade or have to take the nearest emergency exit?

The Astronaut Wives Club
 

The Astronaut Wives Club

Based on Lily Koppel's best-selling titular novel, which tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race.

ABC US production, view via the ABC website with VPN.

I'm 3 EP's in, great acting and storyline.

Will have to catch that, had the pleasure of having dinner with Dr Chris at the Emirates desert resort in Dubai a few years back, a very nice person with no ego.

4 min story at the best, waste of time.

For those who can't access ITVplayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDPtfRYeXLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuFjAMfYHug

Thanks for the tipoff, Tom

And all illegal, when will you learn.

I would suggest you stop posting links until an answer is supplied to this thread Link

Edit...

Do we need a VPN for Dummies thread in The Lounge? Happy to help out, it's not that hard.

Tom,

A large number of videos posted on youtube, dailymotion etc., come under the "Fair use and "educational" guidelines.

Watching the videos for education purposes does not breach copyright.

Unless you are not making revenue from the video then the copyright is not breached. If you download and then sell the video, copyright is breached and the copyright owner will see you in court.

The copyright owner (program producer and/or broadcaster) has the right to request youtube to remove the video.

Also posting information on any site without citing source may also infringe copyright.

ITV is not fair use.

You are promoting illegal content which is against the terms & conditions of this forum.

2nd Ep of the Virgin doco has been aired.

Behind the scenes look at Virgin Atlantic acquiring its first B787-9.

Interesting, the latest Skyliners showing that Virgin Atlantic has withdrawn:

Airbus A340 -313 114 G-VSUN Virgin Atlantic ferried 16jul15 LDE-SFB for part-out & scrap ex F-WWJI

which has been replaced by a B787.

Also today is the first anniversary of the MH17 downing. Expect news coverage on all networks.

Series 3 of Airplane Repo has just started.

If you have seen Operation Repo with cars, this is with Aircraft. Most if not all are reproduced.

3rd & Last Ep of Virgin Doco has aired.

Also heads-up on the latest series of Mythbusters.

Jamie & Adam test the myth that the U-2 is the hardest a/c to fly.
Yes, one of them gets to fly to 70,000 ft. No spoilers.

GEM Sat 01 Aug.
6:00am - 8:00am

The Night my Number Came Up

The night before a flight, a British Air Officer dreams of a plane crash. At first dismissing it as just that, it soon takes a turn into reality.

Mythbusters current EP

Takes a U2 up, very good!

Tonight on ONE

World's Busiest 20:30 to 21:30

Welcome to Hong Kong's International Airport, located on a man-made island in the middle of a typhoon zone, handling a fifth of the world's air freight, as well as 53 million passengers every year.

If you miss it, check out Sunday for a repeat.

New Series for Ch4 UK
Flying to the Ends of the Earth

Some of the planet’s most extraordinary and spectacular experiences are only accessible by air. In Flying to the Ends of the Earth, a new 3-part series from Blast! Films for Channel 4, Arthur Williams (C4 Paralympics, D-Day: As it Happens, The Plane that Saved Britain) flies to some of the world’s smallest and most dangerous landing strips to find out why people want to live at the ends of the earth, and discover how tiny planes are opening up the planet’s most remote and most beautiful wildernesses. The series will encounter everything from grizzly bears and gold prospectors in Northern Canada, to the deadly race to harvest Himalayan Viagra in the remotest reaches of Nepal, to flying missionaries spreading the Word deep in the Papuan jungle.
Seven years ago, Royal Marine commando Arthur was paralysed in a car crash. An inveterate adrenaline junkie, he needed another outlet for his spirit of adventure and so taught himself to fly. Over the course of the last year, he’s experienced some of the most challenging flying in the world: navigating perilous mountain air currents in Nepal, boat planes in Canada, helicopter cattle herding in the Australian outback, and runways clinging to the side of sheer cliffs in Papua.
The result is a series full of jaw-dropping aerial footage of some of the Earth’s least-explored and most stunning landscapes. The series will also feature the people whose lives have been changed irreversibly by the coming of the plane, or who rely on aeroplanes for their entire existence. Arthur meets the family living on a Pacific island paradise 600km from the nearest city, the residents of the utopian experiment set up in the 1960s by First Nation Tlichco people who wanted to withdraw from integration with Canadian society, and sees how ‘Everest’s airport’ has brought Starbucks and ‘Yakdonalds’ to a once-remote Nepalese village.

60mins on Aug9 will include an MH370 updated based on debris found on Reunion Island.

A couple from 7Mate this week:

Sun 9 (Today)

03:30 PM Engineering Connections: HMS Illustrious (R)Richard Hammond unpicks the engineering DNA of the mighty aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious - a floating airport that can deliver a strike force anywhere on the globe at any time.

Wed 12/08

07:30 PM Air Crash Investigations: Heading to Disaster (R)’CC’On 25 January 2010, an international passenger plane plunged into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut during a thunderstorm, killing all 90 people on board. Was terrorism to blame?

Sat 15/08

11:30 AM Ice Pilots: A Tale Of Two Pilots DC3 co-pilot Tyler gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to stunt fly in his Cessna 180 for a visiting film crew. Meanwhile Buffalo co-pilot, Andrew, is up for a job with Cathay Pacific Airlines. PG+ICEP4-003+

12:30 PM Ice Pilots: Ice Jam After taking command of an intense airlift, and dealing with the ugliest Electra load he's ever seen, Scott takes a scary fall on the icy tarmac. PG+ICEP4-004+

01:30 PM Plane Xtreme: Double Delivery (R)’CC’Steve is contracted to deliver a pair of Cessna Caravans to Kenya but the lucrative mission is fraught with dangerous weather, where a minor pilot error could lead to tragedy. PG+PLAX-003+

02:00 PM Plane Xtreme: Emergency Landing (R)’CC’Pilot Dave Doble is called to deliver a Cessna Caravan to a customer in Nairobi, Kenya; he must do an emergency landing and have a local mechanic identify the problems. PG+PLAX-004+

2nd ep of Flying to the Ends of the Earth has aired that includes Oz Heli-mustering and MAF in Papua.

On 7Two now (Syd) and repeated tonight 23:00 - 00:00

Super Factories.

UPS Worldport

UPS delivers four billion packages each year. Step inside the largest, most efficient and high-tech automated delivery system on the planet.

Tonight on Ch7
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow (PG)
Time 9:30pm - 10:30pm
Dur 60 minutes

This series takes an un-precedented look at life inside Heathrow Airport, Europe's most important transport hub.

Matt Dearden from "The Worst Place To Be A Pilot" has just qualified as a Catalina pilot - he has purchased a share in a Cat.

ACI Season 13 DVD is due for release on Nov. 3

Next Monday SBS premieres a new 5 part series, Rise of the Machines.
It takes us inside machines in close up detail, to explore what helps these elite ships, trucks, trains and aircraft rise above all other machines.
From the world’s biggest mega truck to one of the world’s fastest trains…from the world’s most advanced aircraft carrier to a revolutionary airship….from a super smart heavy lift ship to an ingenious heavy lift helicopter…. ground breaking CGI animation explodes the machines apart to uncover the extraordinary inventions hidden under their skin that enables the teams who drive, fly and sail them to be at the top of their game.
This series transforms our understanding of the machines around us.
Episode One: Super Train
This premiere episode looks at one of the world’s fastest trains – the Italo AGV – to reveal the extraordinary technology that it depends on to race 500 kilometres in less than four hours.
Monday, 12 October at 9.30pm on SBS

Next Sunday 18/10/13 5:30pm - 6:30pm
7TWO Sydney

Mighty Planes
Omega Air Tankers

We go behind the scenes as one of Omega's 707 Tankers takes part in FIREX - a three-day live fire operation over the deserts of Southern California. Its job is to refuel thirsty F/A-18 Hornets and Harrier jets participating in the manoeuvres. Nerves of steel, sharp eyes and a steady hand are essential for pilots aboard both the 707 Tanker and the receiver jets. Turbulence, wing-tip vortices, and human error - all could spell disaster in a heartbeat.

Note: 707's are the ex-RAAF tanker fleet purchased some years back

New Series on BBC2

Britain's Ultimate Pilots - Inside the RAF

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06jh5hz

Beware of spammers on youtube (ie: Redirecting and/or charging to view)

Behind the scenes at Qantas
 

Coming soon to Channel 9, a new look at behind the scenes at Qantas, QF ready for takeoff.

QF Ready for Takeoff screens tonight at 7:30 pm on Channel Nine.

This weeks Landline (today at 12:00) was based in Toowoomba Qld.

It included the development of Wellcamp Airport.

Check your local guides for repeats as well as Iview

Tonight on 7Two
The Passenger Who Landed a Plane

7:30pm - 8:30pm

The remarkable story that follows 77-year-old John Wildey who was being flown home after a day out in north Lincolnshire. After 10 minutes, the pilot collapsed at the controls, 1500 feet in the air. Against all odds, with no flying experience, John had to do the unthinkable and land the plane in pitch darkness.

New Series of ACI has commenced with the first episode.

Fatal Focus has aired.

On 7 March 2007, after a routine flight from Jakarta, Garuda Flight 200 hits the ground so hard it bounces violently before careering off the end of the runway killing 21 people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayday_episodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ErAHcRgZZ0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda...sia_Flight_200

This crash included the loss of Australian AFP, Embassy and Press reps and the heroism of a RAAF member who returned to the burning plane to help survivors.

The latest ep of ACI has aired

S15e02- Fatal Delivery

Shortly after taking off, a fire breaks out on UPS Flight 6. As smoke fills the cockpit, getting the plane safely back is a race against time.

Two more ACI eps have aired:

s15e01 - Fatal Transmission

On 19 November 1996, United Express Flight 5925 operating for Great Lakes Airlines lands at Quincy Regional Airport and collides with a private King Air on a runway intersection killing a total of 14 people from both planes.

s15e02 - Terror in San Francisco

On 6 July 2013, on landing at San Francisco International Airport, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 strikes a seawall and crashes short of the runway. Of the 307 people on board, two passengers die at the crash scene and another one dies shortly after in hospital.

Next ACI Ep has aired

s15e05 - Steep Impact

On 5 April 1991, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 from Atlanta suddenly nose-dives into the ground while on landing approach to Glynco Jetport killing all 23 people on board including US Senator John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.

Nine 19:30 - 20:40 Friday Night

ULTIMATE AIRPORT DUBAI

In Ultimate Airport Dubai, step behind-the-scenes of Dubai Internationals three massive terminals, with unprecedented access to all facets of this mega facility, the series follows some of the 60,000 staff working hard to keep it safe, secure, and on schedule.

The latest ACI has aired:

High Rise Catastrophe

On 4 October 1992, after taking off from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, El Al Flight 1862 declares an emergency. The crew do their best to make an emergency landing, but the 747 cargo jet rolls violently to the right and crashes into an apartment complex killing 43 people.

This air crash was also shown on Seconds from Disaster as:

Amsterdam Air Crash (Schiphol Plane Crash) (Plane Crash in the Suburbs)

Gone to the Dogs

Dogs Might Fly

t’s a show about training dogs to be pilots. Three canine behaviour experts spend episode one visiting rescue centres, in search of 12 finalists who progress to an intensive, nine-week residential skills academy. Can the dogs walk up a slope, follow a pointed finger and find a sausage in a kennel? If they can, it’s likely they’ll be able to fly a light aircraft. Hosting this jolly excuse for a lot of pooch cuteness – and, oddly, some clanging product placement for cars – is a faintly ashamed Jamie Theakston.

The latest ACI S15 have aired:

Deadly Mission

On 18 September 1961, a Douglas DC-6 operated by Transair Sweden, carrying Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, crashes en route to cease-fire negotiations in Zambia during the Congo Crisis. All of the 16 passengers and crew members die in the incident.

Edge of Disaster

On 10 October 2006, Atlantic Airways Flight 670 lands at Stord Airport, but the aircraft overruns the runway and crashes after careering off a steep embankment. 4 of the 16 people on board were killed in the incident. The causes of the crash were a malfunction of the aircraft's spoilers and hydroplaning.

Deadly Delay

On 20 August 2008, Spanair Flight 5022 attempts to takeoff from Barajas Airport, but stalls immediately, banks to the right, and crashes, killing 154 people out of the 172 on board. The pilots aborted the first takeoff attempt, and the second one resulted in the crash.

Carnage in Sao Paulo

On 31 October 1996, TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes seconds after takeoff from São Paulo–Congonhas Airport into a heavily populated residential area, killing all 96 people on board and three on the ground. The crash was attributed to the uncommanded deployment of a faulty thrust reverser on the right engine.

All available at the regular places.
Note: Search for title names

Season 16 is planned for next year with another 10 eps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayday_episodes

The Age of Aerospace has just completed airing in the US.

It is a 5 part history of Boeing. Made by Boeing.

Should be available at the usual sources.