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Tv call for Thunderbird series |
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Opening of the classic Gerry Anderson program. |
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The Thunderbirds are the Air Demonstration Squadron of the United States Air Force.
The squadron performs no more than 88 air demonstrations each year and has never canceled a demonstration due to maintenance difficulty. In addition to their air demonstration responsibilities, the Thunderbirds are part of the USAF combat force and a component of the 57th Wing. If required, the team's personnel and aircraft can be rapidly integrated into a fighter unit at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.The first team leader was Major General Dick Catledge, and the first plane flown by the squadron was the F-84 Thunderjet. As the F-84G Thunderjet was a single seat fighter, a 2 seat T-33 Shooting Star served as the narrator's aircraft and was used as the VIP/Press ride aircraft. The T-33 served with the Thunderbirds in this capacity in the 1950s & 1960s.
A year later, 1955, they moved to the F-84F Thunderstreak aircraft, in which they performed 91 air shows. The aircraft of the squadron was again changed in June 1956, this time to the F-100 Super Sabre, which gave the pilots supersonic capability. This switch was accompanied by a move of headquarters to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada It also signaled a shift in their performance routine?for example, the Cuban 8 opening routine was dropped, and emphasis was placed on low, screaming flyovers and demonstrations of takeoff performance. For a time, if the show's sponsor permitted it, the pilots would create a "sonic boom" (this ended when the FAA banned supersonic flight over the continental U.S.)In 1960 a decision was made to allow the tail of the #4 slot plane, blackened by the exhaust of the other planes, to remain black. This practice remained in force through the 1973 season. In 1961, the team was compelled to discontinue the vertical bank maneuver due to an FAA regulation prohibiting aerobatics that pointed the nose of the aircraft toward the crowd. . The team switched to the F-105 Thunderchief for a brief period, but returned to the F-100 in 1964 after only six airshows, following Capt. Gene Devlin's death resulting from structural failure of the aircraft in a high-G climbing maneuver. In 1969, the squadron adopted the noisy and huge F-4E Phantom, which it flew until 1973, the only time they would fly jets similar to those of the Blue Angels, as it was the standard fighter for both services. A special white paint had to be developed to cover high-temperature metals, replacing the bare metal paint scheme of past planes. The white paint scheme has been continued to the present. In 1974 they switched to the more economical T-38 Talon, a supersonic trainer based on the F-5 fighter.
In 1982, there was another disaster for the Thunderbirds, occurring during pre-season training on January 18. While practicing the 4 plane diamond loop, the formation impacted the ground at high speed, instantly killing all four pilots: Major Norm Lowry, leader, Captain Willie Mays, Captain Pete Peterson and Captain Mark Melancon. The cause of the crash was officially listed by the USAF as the result of a mechanical problem with the #1 aircraft's control stick actuator. In 1983, the team returned to front-line fighters with the General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon. They would change to the updated F-16C in 1992, an aircraft which has proven its outstanding effectiveness in both air-to-ground and air superiority competitions.
Their 3,000th air show was performed in 1990. The squadron celebrated its 50th anniversary on June 1, 2003. |
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Virgil is under attack by the US Navy.
From the episode Terror In New York City |
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Step into the twisted mind of Gerry Anderson, and see how he makes Thunderbirds, as well as Stingray and his other little puppet shows. F.A.B.!!!
Ugh...that box of hands is gonna give me nightmares... |
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This is a trailer for a proposed CGI Thunderbirds series that was meant to have aired in 2005 but never saw the light of day. |
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The Thunderbirds fly their high show at the 2006 Dover AFB Open House & Airshow on Sunday October 8, 2006. For more videos and information on DVDs, visit http://www.stevesairshow.com . |
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If you like Reservoir Dogs and Thunderbirds then this is for you. |
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| Time: 02:33 | More in Comedy |
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"tunnels no minasan no okagedesu PART4" (08.March. 1988)
Performed by Takaaki Ishibashi / Noritake Kinashi / Akira Shimizu and more... |
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This is an Exmouth original homemade version of the Thunderbirds opening sequence |
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| Time: 01:30 | More in Film & Animation |
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Thunderbirds from the original serie of Gerry Anderson VS Thunberbirds from the movie "Thunberdirds" made in 2004.
Just take a look on what happened with those Thunderbirds ...
Ok ok I know that I forgot T5 and The Mole, sorry about that ....
I just picked up some images from the originals ones and some images from the "new" ones with the same camera angle(for Thunderbird 1 and 2). |
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In September 2005, a QuickTime video file titled Thunderbirds IR was released on several P2P networks. It opens with music by Barry Gray and a few clips of the classic Thunderbirds 1 through 4 launching, then shows several scenes from an intended new Thunderbirds series from Carlton Television. The trailer made with a combination of computer-generated imagery and puppetry depicts scenes including internal sets, external settings, and a sleekly-redesigned Thunderbird 1, Scott Tracy, The Hood, and the rescue of a falling lighthousekeeper. Scott Tracy is seen to walk, and perform a backflip.
The trailer stated that a new Thunderbirds series would be coming in 2005 from Carlton Television and displays a phone number. The series was developed by Carlton with David Freedman as executive producer and David Mercer who was heading the Children's Department at Carlton at the time. Greg Johnson and Bob Forward were lead writers and Asylum did all the set builds and puppet work. Tim Field was line producer. Dave Throssel and a small team from The Mill TV Dept did the CG work. Steve Clarke directed the short. Gerry Anderson met the Carlton team in the early days of development and gave his full blessing. However, when Granada and Carlton merged, the series was shelved until further notice. |
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Kim Wilson(vocal), Jimmy Vaughan(guitar), Preston Hubbard(bass), Fran Christina(drums). This clip might be from a Rock The Vote special, 1988. Or not. |
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Stevie Ray Vaughan and the FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS
Live on the River Boat Queen
Tuff Enuff |
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Thunderbirds at their best. Kim Wilson playing 1`st position like no one else. This is the best harmonica playing in the entire world.
Why Charlie Musselwhite gets all the Handy awards for best harmonica playing, is a mystery to me |
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Thunderbirds pre-credits teasers from every TV episode |
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I did this video for my dad, who loved the Thunderbirds TV show when he was a boy and introduced me to it. I wanted to tie the old with the new and think I did a pretty good job. |
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As well as an Lu fan i'm also a Thunderbirds fan. This is some footage from the episode Vault of Death, Virgil and Alan use the now abandoned London Underground to get into the Bank of England vault. |
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