Red Arrows over Dartmouth - makes you proud

[dylanwinter]

My inlaws live in Dartmouth and I have often seen the Red arrows display in over the town. My father in law was a navy flyer just at the end of WW2 - he was also a keen photographer. He told me where to stand with my camera to get some good shots of the display

I have to say it is an amazing thing to see.

I have posted some shots of the display on the front page of my website.

- humans can do some amazing things when they put their minds to it.



Dylan

PS - the film is being streamed from a new server. For those of you with a big bandwidth and a good monitor I would love to know how it looks full screen when you have pushed your chair back , propped your feet on the desk and sipping from a cup of healthy camomile tea or beverage of your choice.

 

[DJE]

Great film and streams beuatifully here in HK at 1366x768.

There must be some dark mutteirngs in Dartmouth about scrapping the Sea Harriers and keeping the Red Arrows.

 

[Plevier]

Just tried to watch the Dartmouth film and after a minute computer crashed. Solo Hawk frozen in mid air, constant machine gun noise from audio. Nothing responding at all, had to do a hard reset.

Dylan is there a way to download this one please? Here just outside Brighton, a hotbed of digital creative industry, my best broadband speed is 1.4 so it's always stop go stop go....

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Spot on Dylan and nicely observed points about Dartmouth, the college and the RAF, which of course still has aeroplanes.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Nice fillum - you should consider giving up the sailing and taking up camerawork professionally!

Ran fine in the small window, but some streaming pauses full screen - enough to make me switch back to the window.

Fibre optic b/band, theoretically 20 hp or whatever it's measured in.

 

[dylanwinter]

Blimey Sorry

Just tried to watch the Dartmouth film and after a minute computer crashed. Solo Hawk frozen in mid air, constant machine gun noise from audio. Nothing responding at all, had to do a hard reset.

Dylan is there a way to download this one please? Here just outside Brighton, a hotbed of digital creative industry, my best broadband speed is 1.4 so it's always stop go stop go....

Blimey, sorry about that, it is supposed to be better

but all the files will now have a choice of downloads


right click and save as will have them heading for your desktop

MediaSource

http://blip.tv/file/get/Dylanwinter-redArrowsInDartmouth493.mpg

blip sd http://blip.tv/file/get/Dylanwinter-redArrowsInDartmouth480.m4v

Blip HD 720 http://blip.tv/file/get/Dylanwinter-redArrowsInDartmouth493.m4v

Thumbnail http://a.images.blip.tv/Dylanwinter-redArrowsInDartmouth374.jpg

 

[Plevier]

Thanks will try tomorrow.

 

[Marmalade]

Dylan - looks good full screen HD here

 

[dylanwinter]

was that expanded HD

Dylan - looks good full screen HD here

and how fast is your connection - did it hang at all even in HD

If it works it will save me £50 a month in bandwidth

D

 

[longjohnsilver]

Red Arrows

The film looked great on a 21'' screen. The RAs are just fabulous in Dartmouth, it's a natural amphitheatre for them. Have only missed one regatta in about the last 20 years, even better now we have a mooring there.

 

[Bajansailor]

Just watched that truly amazing film about the Red Arrows here in Barbados on a 17" flat screen monitor, with the most basic rate of ADSL broadband that we can get here (dont know off hand what the speed is), with a Banks beer in hand, and it was simply brilliant - apart from one minor hiccup early on where it stopped for a second or 2, it played steadily.

 

[Vara]

Splendid stuff Dylan, displays well full screen.

Nice to see the Google earth intro doesn't rotate in, no nausea

 

[davidwf]

Dylan thanks for the MP4 I can now copy to a USB stick and play it back through my DVD player. Even at low res Dratmouth looks good.

 

[dylanwinter]

frightening technology

thats good then - it seems that the technology has passed the scuttlebutt test

although I have to say......

it is quite frighteneing the speed that technology has changed as I have been making this journey

I started in 2008 using a standard definition camera 576 x 720 and putting it on youtube who squished it even smaller to 360 lines

then year two it went HD - 1080 x 1440 and youtube and the www.keepturningleft.co.uk website allowed people to watch in standard definition and partial high definition 720 x 1220

now this year its being filmed in full HD - 1080 x 1920

the costs of line time and bandwidth have fallen - sadly the costs of the cameras have gone the opposite way - I started on a £120 Canon tape camera and now have a big panasonic 152 costing £2,500, a smaller Panasonic 900 costing £800 and of course the waterproof high definition Xacti - £200. I have gone from recording on tape to recording on memory cards the size of postage stamps.

The value of the slug started at £2,000 and is worth about the same today as it was when I started.

The Polo is looking a bit exhausted.....as for petrol...... well lets not go there

Dylan

 

[Twister_Ken]

as for petrol...... well lets not go there

Dylan

Can't afford to go there. Not with the price of petrol.

 

[Seajet]

What Dartmouth doesn't see

I was a few miles off Dartmouth one year ( 1980's ) during the regatta; after the 'burst' with Hawks going off in all directions of the compass, they re-grouped over the sea for a low level 'surprise' on the town.

2 Hawks quite close to us went past, obviously vieing with each other as to who would go lower over the flat calm sea; I would say they were about 50' up, and I'm used to them as I worked at the place which built the Red Arrows and until 2000 all Hawks ( & Harriers ), Dunsfold - where 'Top Gear' is filmed now.

Not long ago some chinless wonders in Dartmouth tried to have the Reds banned from the regatta as they thought the passing aeroplanes might shake the timbers of their old buildings !

Happy to say that bit of ultra-Nimbyism got kicked into touch, it would have knobbled a major source of revenue for the whole area...

 

[Cookee]

Worked great in Salcombe on a 21" screen - great video!

 

[TSB240]

Trainee Nutters

I was parked very high up in the Berwyn mountains near Bala after an hours serious off roading. We had just broken out the tea and sarnies when I became aware of a single bright white light in my rear view mirror.

Within seconds our 4*4 rocked from side to side as the jet wash hit us. The vortexs off the hawkes wings flattened what gorse and bracken there was around us.

******* made me spill my drink and change my pants.

Funny now but wasnt then.

 

[Seajet]

TSB240,

just for you...this is one from Valley, so a likely culprit for your spilled tea...

 

[Twister_Ken]

I was parked very high up in the Berwyn mountains near Bala after an hours serious off roading. We had just broken out the tea and sarnies when I became aware of a single bright white light in my rear view mirror.

Within seconds our 4*4 rocked from side to side as the jet wash hit us. The vortexs off the hawkes wings flattened what gorse and bracken there was around us.

******* made me spill my drink and change my pants.

Funny now but wasnt then.

Used to go climbing in the Ogwen valley, and it was quite usual to be able to look down onto the cockpit of RAF trainers as they low-leveled up the valley. Gnats in those days. I recall.