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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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The Flying Bulls are a bunch of aviation enthusiasts with a great passion for rare historical aircraft. But that's not all, not only do they watch over the most beautiful and exceptional fleet of planes in the world, they have played a significant role in the creation of Hangar‑7.
Their knowledge of plane maintenance and restoration is second to none. Take a look behind the scenes of the Flying Bulls at Hangar‑8. Climb with us into the plane and helicopter cockpits and join our mechanics and technicians who make sure the aircraft are in great shape every day.
The history of the Flying Bulls began in the 1980s. During this time, Sigi Angerer, a Tyrolean Airways pilot, flew modern jets, but his true loves were historic planes. On his search for an affordable war bird, he found a North American T-28B and took it back to Innsbruck, Austria, for restoration. He soon added a Grumman G44 Widgeon and the legendary Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair to his collection, when he met Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz.
The Corsair brought Angerer and Dietrich Mateschitz together, and the latter saw an ideal corporate symbol for the “Red Bull gives you wings” advertising slogan in the extraordinary aircraft. And so the idea of the Flying Bulls was born. As the energy drink began to conquer the world, so did the fleet. With space running out at Innsbruck airport, a plan was hatched in the late 1990s to build a new hangar next to Salzburg airport.
It was also time to give the loose network of pilots and technicians a more permanent residence, and so “The Flying Bulls” company was created in 1999. Since then, the combination of technical excellence and stunning looks has made stars out of the Flying Bulls.
HANGAR-7
It all began with an entirely pragmatic problem: the Flying Bulls were looking for a suitable hangar that could be put to various additional uses. The core of the airplane collection and by far the largest object is a DC-6B with a rudder nine meters high. The basic idea was to construct a self-supporting shell around this airplane - as a symbol of the heavens.
The enclosure of altogether 64,300 cubic meters of space-with materials including 380 tons of special glass-was concluded on 22 August 2003 with the grand opening of Hangar‑7. Afterwards, the airplanes of the Flying Bulls moved into what is certainly the most spectacular place that airplanes have ever called home.
Even just the architecture rises quite literally above all other such structures: viewing it from the outside, one immediately thinks of a wing. The structure seems dynamic, practically weightless-despite weighing far over 1,500 tons. From the inside, the airplanes appear to be sheltered by their own heavenly canopy. The imposing form was achieved via the use of exactly 1,754 pieces of variously sized glass plates, some of them curved, which were joined to form a steel-and-glass construction.
HANGAR-8
As a functional compliment to Hangar‑7, a further highly unusual hangar for restoration and maintenance of the airplanes belonging to the Flying Bulls was constructed and it fulfils the function of a maintenance facility. Ground was broken for Hangar‑8 in early May 2002. The building was officially inspected by December 2003. In early 2004, all maintenance activities of the Flying Bulls were moved to Hangar‑8 from Hangar 9, which stands on a property adjoining Salzburg Airport and had served as a temporary facility.
In terms of working conditions and technical installations, Hangar‑8 exceeds all the usual international standards, and that’s no surprise: airplanes such as those flown by the Flying Bulls demand extensive, highly professional attention.
Despite the more humdrum requirements of a maintenance hangar, Hangar‑8 is architecturally sophisticated in its own right: after all, it has to fit into the overall ensemble, and the determining stylistic factor here is Hangar‑7: the steel construction of Hangar‑8 consists in a triangular, netted supporting structure including around 1,650 glass plates. Here as well, we see a striking interplay of steel and glass, and the resulting impression of lightness.
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This is so awesome. more vids from the flying bulls would be awesome!
Thanks Rick! Keep an eye out, more Flying Bull clips coming soon!
@@RedBullMotorsports thank you so much. I'm already looking forward to it
RIP Dietrich Mateschitz thanks for preserving this history
Thank you RED BULL for keeping these war birds and historic aircraft airworthy! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Far too many of the WWII birds are going to museums as they are considered no longer air worthy, usually due to the deteriorating aircraft and aircraft parts......or lack thereof. Obviously many of these planes were built 75 to 80+ years ago. There are no longer spare parts for these planes as the spare parts dried up MANY years ago! A few companies make some replacement aftermarket parts, but for the most part, almost every replacement part needs to be remanufactured which can be very cost prohibitive. The more recent invention of 3D printing, now even able to create METAL objects through specialized machines that can duplicate almost anything in existence to exacting specifications, probably much more exact than the parts were made back in the 1930's and 40's. In fact, most people who own warbirds can't repair them anymore due to the extreme costs, so many are either sold as parts or "fixer uppers" but no one has the vast amount of money needed to correctly fix these planes, or they are sold off to be converted into "static" museum displays which is a shame. These birds are best viewed in air demonstration shows where you can see, hear, and smell them in flight, just as the young children in Europe saw these birds flying overhead during WWII, all across Europe and in the Pacific Theater where they were a common site in the sky's all over the indo-pacific theater of war where the P-38 finally gained the respect it deserved. The B-25 was a "sleeper" of sorts. The B-25 Mitchell (named after the famous General Billy Mitchell, who fought the bureaucracy and in his mind "incompetent leadership" who didn't understand the true importance of aircraft as it related to using the new technology during war). The B-25 in the latter part of WWII had been modified in many different configurations and uses, but one model was fitted 18 separate machine guns positioned strategically all over the fuselage of the aircraft (both internal mounted, and externally mounted in pods or additional rotating nacelles. The Pilot could flip a switch and take control of all 18 guns at one time. The guns hydraulically turned in unison to the forward firing position to allow the pilot to unleash a literally HELL STORM of automatic machine gun and cannon fire unlike any other war bird in the entire war on both sides. While not docile by any means, the B-25 was no slouch either. It was an excellent dive bomber, especially using the 18-gun ship, which was one of the most devastating strafing aircraft of all time. Red Bull's flying demonstration team "The Flying Bulls" have some of the best preserved, rebuilt, and restored aircraft of any team in the world today. I'm glad to see that the CEO or owner of Red Bull, allows so much of the company profits to be diverted and dedicated to the preservation of these incredible machines. And the fact that they keep them all in pristine flying condition is incredible. Also the fact they are one of the only teams in the world allow to fly acrobatics in Helicopters tells you the level of competency and professionalism this team truly has. They employ some of the best pilots and maintainers (mechanics/cleaners/technicians/engineers/etc.) in the entire world. These are some very lucky pilots and maintainers to be able to both fly and work on these incredible planes every single day. I would do it for free! Especially for a chance, just one chance, to fly that P-38, my favorite airplane of all time. I am lucky to live in Colorado Springs, CO where they have another airworthy example and they fly it from time to time at air shows or maintenance flights during the year. I live right by the airport so I see war birds around Colorado Springs quite often. In fact, this weekend is a show here in The Springs that is featuring the P-38 in flight in addition to several other warbirds including the B-25 Mitchell Bomber. We are lucky to have the National Museum of WWII Aviation here and they are similar to the Red Bull's Team. They have some really experienced pilots (many ex-military test pilots) who fly their planes. I hope and pray that Red Bull will continue to preserve these historic aircraft far into the future and allow the next generations to see these beautiful birds in flight as they were originally designed. Thank you again RED BULL and thank you also to the Red Bull flying demonstration team and maintainers! Your work is very much appreciated by many aviation enthusiats out here in the world.
It’s great you guys keep these old warbirds in the sky.
I remember when I was in the 11th grade, I sent an email to the Flying Bulls on the "requirements" to join the team... a very sweet lady answered me with some tips! Still working on it! 😅
I am 14 years old I asked red bull how I can join the team too 😂 but nobody write me back 😔
Boeing 737 pilot umut ulusoy Haha!! That was 7 years ago! Maybe now they aren't as responsive.. 😅 anyway at the time if I remember well, it was something like 10000 flight hours + special qualification on an "interesting" aircraft!
My advice - don't start with something like flying bulls. I'm only a teenager and I've been working on a fully functional airfield as a volunteer. You should get in contact with a nearby airfield, try work cleaning aeroplanes etc. Keep doing that and you'll meet people, make contacts, maybe even go flying. It is definitely the way to go forward.
I’m gladdened to see these old birds still flying, all thanks to those cans on the shelves around the world.
Now you can't tell me "you can't fall in love with a machine"
I really love RedBull, in the way they work and do things, I really like their product and their ideology
I helped build that P-38, turned out beautiful and glad to see it being maintained so nicely. Great video!
Good Job Phillip and crew!!! I will see you Guys next year in September Hopefully when i come up to austria!!!
I LOVE Mateschitz!!!! HE must be IN the AIRCRAFT!!!!!!!!!!!
I worked on interior design for the DC6 it was an amazing experience
LOL every time this guy says luftwaffe I think of WWII
Marvelous ❤
I remember this in granturismo 5
Awesome! 👍😍😊
Lovely gorgeous aircrafts 😋
man at its best performance
WE ARE LOVE MOTOCROSS ❤❤❤👍👍👍
Some great flying videos here. But on your James Bond post you said no BD-5J was flown. You might want to tell that to Corky Fornoff who feel one.
Hello Red Bull Motorsports.
What happend to the p-38 at the Duxford Airshow ?
It would´ve been awesome to see it there this year in July , how come it wasnt there ? Any maintance Problems or something ?
Thanks to red bull for reinvesting there money into entertaining us.
Do you use synthetic lubricants ?
How i can be a alpha jet pilot by the flying bulls ?
First.. You need a locence for Alpha jet... Then... You have to be 100% Crazy to get near Red Bull team... :) ;)
Ok thanks:)
his english is better than mine...
In der 2. Variante, wenn’s Sie denn gibt ? Bitte alles auf deutsch. !!!!!!!!
They need the f-4 that is for sale.
I want dc-6B
Then check back next week.... 😁