A pleasant reminder to just how much 'Airfix' was an integral part of my childhood... 60 yrs ago now... Thank You.

@tomhannah3825

4 жыл бұрын

My favorite hobby as a boy - building plastic model airplanes! :)

In 1958 ,I went to Farnborough when I was 11 with my twin brother . We taken there by older brother Ron who served an apprenticeship at Hawker Aircraft based in Kingston and Ham. Ron left Hawkers when he had to do his National Service, but during that time was selected to play cricket and football for the RAF. He also played cricket for Surrey Colts and once top scored with 46 not out at the Oval against a full Surrey side. In his second innings he was bowled out by Eric Bedser for 20. Ron died last Friday aged 88. Thanks for the reminder of happy days with Ron.

@jpridie

2 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear about your brother, let him RIP. What a wonderful memory. I was there too.

I remember the Fairy Rotodyn as a kid I was there at Farnborough watching it and the noise brought back memories. Thanks for posting this video.

The heyday of British aviation was absolutely fantastic! A tip of the hat to the UK from across the pond.

@bazzhm1447

Жыл бұрын

Invented by merican , how the heck a govt invented those machinery and amazing old glory engineering invention ?? They must be do their job (p 0 L i t i × & beraucrazy) Now c0mmies trying the same with usa and american civilians (wethepeople).

@Lbm414.Oleg.Kuznetsov.

7 ай бұрын

Gone now forever 😢 Britain is in a death spiral. Never to return.

Air shows were more spectacular in 1958 than today.

@bazzhm1447

Жыл бұрын

Yeah... they farming merican like how to gain a lot of cow milk by spreaded faLsenews (a n t h r a x). Now c😧mmies do the same things. May God protect merican civilians and entire multination ppl there.

Back in the mid 60s as a kid, one day I was looking up at the clear blue sky looking for aircraft, and spotted a very high flying delta wing aircraft. I lived at the time in Harefield West London, so normally it was usually only civil and light aircraft I would see. But this plane didn't look like an airliner to me. So I rushed indoors to get the binoculars, and looking straight up, I identified it to be a white Vulcan bomber. It must have been flying at around 25- 30,000ft at a guess, on a flight path NE to SE. That was quite a catch for me, as a plane spotter. I'm sure there's not many aviation enthusiasts, that can say they've seen a white vulcan bomber. Happy days!

Lots of amazing things here for us aviation fans, loved the loop from the victor and the hunter low level fast pass. Thanks for sharing it.

I still have the snaps I took at that show with my first camera when I was 11. Southdown buses ran excursions from Portsmouth.In those days parents were happy for us children to go to places unaccompanied by adults so long as there were a couple of friends together.

Makes today's airshows look quite tame and boring.

@VCYT

3 жыл бұрын

...But not to the many that go to them.

@josephlambe2796

2 жыл бұрын

Agree I always loved far borough..but prefer riat

Victor & Vulcan unbelievable loop with half turn.....formation landings by the sea hawks ....those days have gone....

Incredible Victor performance!! Fantastic sound!! Britain had such a promising, innovative and world-beating aerospace industry, criminally thrown away to America by successive English governments.

thanks Mr Bonkers, imagine, just sitting in the grass beside the runway and the Vulcan thunders by. WOW

@sahhull

4 жыл бұрын

Been there done that.... Awesome.

@fredtedstedman

2 жыл бұрын

@@sahhull yes ,as a kid wondering where to run to.........and then realising you cant escape that sound !!!!

Some of the best of aviation. What we had and gave to the rest of the world! For me vulcan & e/l lightning way ahead of their time &if we're still flying would pull more crowds than most modern machines do today. What a thrill to watch 9 lightnings take off in formation and climb to the heavens in no time! 1500mph fighter from 1950s, not bad for an old gal, and a damn shame the younger generation not to be able to witness it today. Old pecker, now living in france and regularly being buzzed by mirage's and rafael's. Thanks for the memories guys.

That Victor footage was amazing.

The most amazing thing about this footage is, that everything has gone and nothing became of any of this. And now we fly Boeings and Airbuses.

So many great designs from great aviation companies !!

I got to see a Vulcan at USMCAS El Toro California annual airshow in 1980. It was so cool my brother and I went back the second day and watched it again. A really massive airplane that was surprisingly agile.

@trespire

4 жыл бұрын

@angry ranger Please consider this strategic nuclear bomber could out maneuver Soviet MIG interceptors at high altitude. The Vulcan is an engineering masterpiece.watch?v=YYOgsgnZ8dwThe Soviet high comment were in a bit of a panic.

😲 Up close and personal! I am so envious. Just amazing.... Well done Sir!

What a great film thanks for sharing. I was a child growing up during those glory days of 'Great' Britain, my planned carreer into our fab RAF straight from school. Is it any wonder kids from that time were so interested in the world around us, 60 odd years later I still have a passion for aircraft and flying, my interests pre teen were flying, sailing, shooting, camping, Adventure, all outdoors, God we were lucky, sad for kids today.

Incredible, delightful, a window on the past when Britain stuck two fingers up at the world.

@hughcdavies

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, as we have just done again.

@seansands424

2 жыл бұрын

Wish we was that great again

It's such a shame, Britain had such a wonderful Aerospace industry. I know economics and politics destroyed it. But man, the Brits had awesome aircraft like nothing else in the world!

@gilzor9376

3 жыл бұрын

lol . . . nothing else in the world . . . ok . . lol

@dartmaster501

2 жыл бұрын

@@gilzor9376 Yeah, the USA has entered the chat.

@gilzor9376

2 жыл бұрын

@@dartmaster501 lol . . . . and Britain was a whisper in the corner of the room somewhere. . . . lol Brits do so many 'best in the world' accomplishments . . . . . . in their own minds. Seems they have monopolized KZread to struggle at re-writing history. It is truly laughable to see these 'new documentaries' produced by British Salvors, trying to save face, trying to turn fiction into fact.. Not everybody is a mindless lemming, believing whatever they are told.

@dartmaster501

2 жыл бұрын

@@gilzor9376 My favorite is the conspiracy that US political pressure shutdown their supersonic research so we would break the sound barrier first.

Thank you for uploading this , I had it on tape years ago , loaned it to someone and never saw it again......

Britain had a magnificent aviation industry. Unfortunately we've al;ways had since the mid 60's utter wankers as politicians.

@FlyingWildAZ

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for not blaming the Americans for the demise of your aviation industry!

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

4 жыл бұрын

john smith the idiot politicians in the 1950s destroyed the economy in the mid 1960s.

@Watkinsstudio

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lbm414.Oleg.Kuznetsov. Bullshit.

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lbm414.Oleg.Kuznetsov. >>>Why?

@craigwall9536

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps having the bad taste to shitcan Winnie bit you in the arse.

Superb piece of nostalgia.

From the days when we had more than 40 RAF pilots to spare for display flying.

Goosebumps! Awesome video.

Formation takeoffs and landings? Safety? Everything will be fine. Go stand at the edge of the runway for a better view.

What an amazing airshow, would have loved to have sat on the lawn like all those in the video to see those classic aircraft of all kinds flying directly overhead. It would have been exciting and scary at the same time. No way would you see spectators that close at a military airshow today and for good reason.

Personally, the Fairey Rotodyne was the most impressive sight for me, not least because it's an aircraft I'd never heard of before this video! Alas, a quick peruse of the intermittently reliable Wikipedia reveals why it's so obscure: politics (as always) and excessive rotor noise meant it never got beyond prototype stage. Ah, what might've been...

Those were the days of British avaition. To see all the black Hunters in the air at one time was phenomenal. Great displays here and at Biggins Hill for B of B display. Oh what memories.

Those V Bombers were magnificent.

Thanks for sharing! Really good. Willow Run used to be like this here in Michigan (USA). Pretty tame now but air shows are always great fun! Thanks again!

Thanks for share!

Thank so much....From Kentucky USA

Those were the days of marvelous achievements of the British aircraft industry

Pure nostalgia and, as one comment below says, a reminder of all those Airfix kits we all built!! And doesn't the old BEA colour scheme look good? We all miss the Vulcan - best display aircraft ever: big, loud and manoeuvrable, with that great howl!

Sad what England's become.

@TheIamIrving

4 жыл бұрын

lols

Gotta love that Vulcan HOWL! Heard it one time, while at Lakenheath...

@foreverpinkf.7603

4 жыл бұрын

One of the best looking bombers ever.

A hovercraft with an Alvis Leonides radial engine...how wonderful is that...I didn't even know a radial banger had enough power-to-weight-ratio for that

Sadly Avro Vulcan B.2 XH536 flew into Fan Bwlch Chwyth in the Brecon Beacons on the 11th February 1966 where it struck near the top of the hill and broke apart over a large area killing all 5 occupants on board.

beautiful film!

I was there for most of these.

Stand on the runway, lets go kids !😄👍🏻✨Its a beautiful day! TRULY THE BEST I HAVE SEEN!🇬🇧

Look at all the spectators right up to the runway .OMG health and safety would have a field day

@williammitchell1864

4 жыл бұрын

Now and days they would have a field day. But what you see back then is a part of the REAL America. The REAL United States!

@sahhull

4 жыл бұрын

now an air show isnt a field day its a field away and you cant see a fking thing without binoculars

@sahhull

4 жыл бұрын

@@williammitchell1864 Real America??? this is Farnborough UK

@WeWereYoungandCrazy

4 жыл бұрын

@@sahhull just go with it

Oh the childhood memories! Now have a huge lump in the throat.

Hey youngsters, look what a real Airshow was like!!!!! Health & Safety? Who???!!! Nothing like the Hunter, 20 foot of the ground, 500 mph and then the jet noise 10 seconds after, magic stuff!!!

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Ingram Shoreham, anyone?

@Hattonbank

3 жыл бұрын

Crashed way off the airfield

@bobingram6912

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hattonbank If you're talking about Shoreham it wasn't that far from the end of the runway

So much history is forgotten, while at the Cosford Airshow, a few years back, I was talking to an serving officer, and we where discussing the Red Arrows flying display. I mentioned seeing Triple One Squadron, AKA THe Black Arrows. He said he did not know that fact, and he had served in the Triple One Squadron. I felt so old old at that moment.

Magnifique,merci :-)

We always see the Red Arrows but those en masse Hunters knock the socks off their modern equivalents. Genius

@hughcdavies

4 жыл бұрын

111 Squadron flew Hunters as the Black 'Arrows', No. 4 Flying Training School flew Gnats as the Yellowjacks. Gnats were cheaper than Hunters so they merged, painted them red and became the 'Red Arrows' flying Gnats. Jacks kept their planes, Blacks kept their name. I did see the Arrows flying both Gnats then Hawks in the 70's, and the Gnats were just so much better.

Good show mate !! 🍺

When Britain built its own fantastic aircraft! Tne V Bombers showing the lob, and the Hunters 'Blue note!' Bloody marvelous!

Unbelievable displaying. Makes today's ultra health and safety air displays look positively staid!

@LEJapproach

4 жыл бұрын

On the other hand, I'd rather see the planes from a distance than not seeing them at all because I got killed in a crash.

I saw the Vulcan in August 1952 at Farnborough and later at RAF Coningsby In 1961 what a sight !

I went '59, '60 and '61, my father built guidance units for the Blue Steel. Great days.

Once upon a time, the UK had quite an active aircraft industry.

@AMStationEngineer

4 жыл бұрын

I retired quite a while back, as a BAC Industrial Engineer; my primary task was supporting three Smiths Industries Aerospace and Defence Systems Avionics packages. Great company, great people, swallowed up by GE Aviation...

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

4 жыл бұрын

@StereoSpace >>> As I understand it, the UK government put an end to that....

@AMStationEngineer

4 жыл бұрын

It's all been "homogenized", well, almost....

@omepeet2006

4 жыл бұрын

@@AMStationEngineer "Homogenized" is an euphemism for "reduced to memories"?

@AMStationEngineer

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, it refers to"sameness", "void of individual design". Kinda like automobiles today, brand-driven conglomeration - purposeful megacorp monopolization, where quality+integrity+everything else became a thing of the past - and the individual was forced to "take it, or leave it", on all sides of business/industry.

Those were the days.

7:16 University students were so committed to their academics back in those days. Bringing their study materials and books with them onto the air field, and choosing to finish their readings before admiring the deafening roar of a /very/ low altitude, overhead Vulcan flyover.

Bring it back. This is the perfect island hopper aircraft. We have technology to make quiet jets for the helicopter blades. Nothing else needs changed.

From this day forth I will measure volume in the form of '1950's British nurses'. 21:10

@okantichrist

4 жыл бұрын

zekezero12345 Was expecting a Benny Hill scene there 🤣

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

4 жыл бұрын

@@okantichrist >>> Maybe that's where Benny got the idea...😝

@martinda7446

4 жыл бұрын

@@okantichrist Just play the music in your head while watching..Da da dee dee diddle diddle...

@direktorpresident

3 жыл бұрын

The Westland could carry 32 Nurses or four Ward Sisters and a Consultant

Fantastic times and solutions.

From this in the 50's and 60's to food banks today, we should all bow are heads in shame.

@James-oo1yq

4 жыл бұрын

Ray Firth Politicians from the 60s onwards...not the public

Have a close look at the Royal Navy seahawk formation. Seven a/c took off and are shown doing aerobatics however only six land. At the time I was an engineering apprentice with BEA. I was watching the formation and they were a few miles fairly close to Blackbush airport when I saw one a/c left the formation and as I watched the pilot ejected and as I found out later landed safely.

No software to worry about in those day’s

@okantichrist

4 жыл бұрын

156dave Just inappropriate apostrophes 😂

The victor bomber doing a roll!

@trespire

4 жыл бұрын

@6stringer The RAF strategic bombers, Victors, Vulcans & Valiants ( albeit short operational service life ) were the ONLY nuclear QRA deterrent of the Western powers against the Soviet threat for a critical period. These were planes of fame. The US Thor ballistic missiles were underdeveloped and strategically ineffective at the time.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

4 жыл бұрын

trespire those Thor missiles used up almost all of the UK's liquid oxygen during the Cuban missile crisis.

@trespire

4 жыл бұрын

@Neil Dahlgaard-Sigsworth Never knew that. I always wondered how the first generation of ICBM's were maintained operational for immediate launch. For strategic reasons, I would have expected the USAF to have setup their own LOX generating & distribution infrastructure, independent of indigenous / civilian capacity. Similar to the massive liquid hydrogen farm Lockheed built for the CL-400 SUNTAN spy plane.

@hughcdavies

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I was going to say the same, I knew a Vulcan did a barrel roll, but not a Victor a half out of a loop. very impressive.

@Letshaveafewbeers

3 жыл бұрын

@@hughcdavies Incredible I found out it had the same engines as the Hunter but 4 of them hence the power! - Shame they will never fly it again.

'jaunty and gay' and the 'twinkle roll' ! Phrases never to be heard again in air show commentary

@deeremeyer1749

6 жыл бұрын

Especially since this "documentary" doesn't have "air show commentary". Its called narration.

@HJBounell

6 жыл бұрын

poppy cock. His commentary is part of a narration, that is in turn part of a documentary. there.

@GaryNumeroUno

6 жыл бұрын

What a jaunty and gay thread!

@Commentator541

5 жыл бұрын

A jolly gay time it is indeed. :D

Love the Seahawk formation

16 plane formation barrell rol.....INSANE!

Love the Bristols in shots between the planes!

@robinwells8879

4 жыл бұрын

Can't beat a nice pair of bristols flying in tight formation! Oh er matron!😂

@robinwells8879

4 жыл бұрын

Britain, leading the way in both aeronautical engineering and double entendres since the 1940s!!

FWIW: I did NOT know that the de Havilland Comet had thrust reversers.

Cracking stuff.

Saw a Hunter at an airshow in NZ not that many years back. The best jet on display. It was stunning.

@UKsnapper-106

4 жыл бұрын

Dont they sound so smooth too

I'd love to have been there..!

Пересмотрю!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍отличные ролики

A wunnerful, wunnerful, display of some of Britain's best and lesser known aviation duds.

Bloody hell, didn't know the Victor could do that.

Vulcan flying with #3 engine INOP @18:18, no smoke trail! Compare to @7:24. Cheers!

Notice, people on both sides of the pond dressed in suits for public gatherings. Another thing of the past, probably gone forever.

Does anyone remember the Lightening Aerobatics TEAM (FIREBIRDS ??) wonderful to see the Rotodyne flying .Thanks Jonny .

@rogerwhittle2078

4 жыл бұрын

Fred Ted. I do. As an Air Scout in the mid/late 1950's-early 60's, we had a summer camp visit to RAF Coltishall and were treated to a full team take off. From startup to three abreast lift off and 60 degree climb out, they were a fabulous display of precision thunder. If memory serves, they were 64 Squadron Flying Tigers. The Black Arrows were 'Treble One Squadron'. Imagine having the RN Sea Hawk display team, Treble One and the Flying Tigers, when they grumble about keeping the 'Reds' flying? I must have been there that year or one either side of it. I remember the Rotodyne - noisy bugger - and the Vulcan Olympus testbed. Whatever happened to the Westland Westminster? Anyone notice how similar it was to a UH-60 Blackhawk? Where did the aircraft industry go wrong? Why did British Industry give up and just want to buy and sell money?

@fredtedstedman

2 жыл бұрын

@@rogerwhittle2078 thanks Roger - not getting my notifications through properly ! Dad was doing powered flying controls and worked on Buccaneer , Tsr2 , VC10, BAC111, Trident , Argosy , Meteor so I got taken to Farnborough at an early age , yes those were the days , if you had to stage a show with British aircraft today , it wouldn't last very long ............

Imagine a Rotodyne with modern technology.....could be a world beater.

@MegaBoilermaker

5 жыл бұрын

There are a few modern design takes on the Rotodyne James.

22 Hunters at 9:15... holy crap!

@andrewockenden

6 жыл бұрын

myplane150, What people do not realise is that there were also 2 'spares' airborne to take care of any unserviceabilities in the formation, making a total number of 24 aircraft. I was there as a member of the Treble One Squadron Black Arrows team for 1957, '58 and '59. Several of us from those days including the Boss (Roger Topp) have tried to get the 22 ship formation loop recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as a world record, and they have refused this on 3 occasions, perhaps due to pacifist influences! They were great days for us and I am grateful to Johnny Bonkers for sharing his granddad's home made video of the event. Happily I am still in touch with a good number of the pilots from that formation as well as my ground crew friends. Sadly I have also attended the funerals of some of us who have departed this life, including our second boss who succeeded RogerrTopp as Squadron Commander. Happily too Boss Roger is still 'current'. I am now 80!

@myplane150

6 жыл бұрын

What a life! Currently, As a Cargo pilot myself I can only imagine the thrill of that type of flying 'back in the day'. Kudos to you, sir.

@jamesanderton344

5 жыл бұрын

Highly professional flying

Has anybody else noticed that there is no doppler shift in the sound as several aircraft approach and then pass the camera?

To watch a Victor flown like a fighter... incredible 21:10 I almost expected to see Benny Hill leading those nurses lol

Compared to the Phantom, the DH Vixen was a late 1940s aircraft and not an aircraft for the 1960s.

Low level high speed heavy flybys are awsome

Just like to be a bit of a spoilsport and correct the "health & safety" theme in the previous comments. The only people allowed forward of the crowd line and up to the edge of the runway were 'professional' photographers with prior written approval. Having said that, it seems that anyone with a claim to be an aviation publisher and a 'letter head' could easily get such approval. The only justification for such a dangerous practice seems to be that most 'professional' cameras in those days only had a short standard lens. The final year of the film, 1959, seems to have had some sanity restored.

First time I have ever heard a helicopter referred to as _"jaunty and gay"._ 😊

@omepeet2006

4 жыл бұрын

Back then "gay" was synonymous with Merry and bright.

@martinda7446

4 жыл бұрын

That's how I'm feeling this morning..

@nickcastings1568

3 жыл бұрын

You wouldn’t be allowed to say that about anything these days

From the days when you could go to an air show and see the aircraft without binoculars. Too many lawyers in the way now.

@ghostwave5252

3 жыл бұрын

damn having a ton of lawyers in the way would make it hard to see.

So many different types of flying machines. And today the industry is moving towards unforming styles and concepts. Except for personal helicopter drones an area that sounds attractive for inner city commute

Thanks for that footage, great! The formation flying makes TopGun a yawn. Can someone tell me what year hats were made available in the UK? Clearly not in the late 50's. lol

Where have we gone wrong: being the world leaders in aviation to not even owning our own aviation manufacturing apart from subsidiary systems like in-flight refuelling, et al!!!!!!

@KillieGuy1

4 жыл бұрын

Blame our American 'friends'.

@omepeet2006

4 жыл бұрын

@@KillieGuy1 Not only them; Duncan Sandys can have his share as well...

Those nurses got the ride of a lifetime, although they didn't know it at the time. They were probably the only non-Fairy or government passengers ever carried in the the Rotodyne. The plane itself was technically sound. The only problem was the tip jet engines were so loud they could reportedly be heard a mile away during takeoff and landing. Although there were noise reduction programs in the works. BEA representatives were shocked at the noise when they viewed the first flight of the prototype. They immediately let the government (which had paid for the development of the Rotodyne) that they wouldn't be placing any orders, The RAF followed up by also refusing to order any. That was the end of the project since the government couldn't afford to dump more money into the project, The project was cancelled in 1962 and the government ordered the Rotodyne chopped up in little bits and buried, much as it tried to bury the Bristol Brabazon. Thankfully, some Fairy employees saved a few small bits of the fuselage and rotors.

12:45 - Ahh, the 'Black Knight' - 430 miles straight up on one of its first flight tests in Australia - if the British government had had the foresight to make this the second stage on top of a Blue Streak booster, the UK would have been launching large payloads into orbit throughout the 1960s and would probably have become a major commercial force in space. Instead we let Tony Benn eviscerate the whole space effort.

Never seen a formation landing before. Do not think it would be performed nowadays.

@williammitchell1864

4 жыл бұрын

Think Blue Angels. They do formation takeoffs and in air formations.

The commentator on 1958 clip surely has to be the same guy who did the narration on The Clangers? Anyone know for sure?

der gute alte Hunter. Schööööön!

What was the helicopter doing stuff on the lorry.?

Great video but i'd prefer to have the natural sounds of the aircreft rather than the cartoonish sounds that they added.

Gee the viscount was the last British airliner bought by our now extinct Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) we then went to lockheed, Boeing & Douglas, l reckon there would have been a chance with the Trident if it had more powerful jet engines but it was not to be!

21:51 looks like a Blackhawk´s predecesor

@burningb2439

4 жыл бұрын

Said that myself..makes you think.

@ABrit-bt6ce

3 жыл бұрын

Westminster. Significantly larger iirc.

Nice to see, but already a dying industry, with fighters development stopped in 57, the only new things shown here that were to meet their expectations was the Buccaneer and Lightning, but even then neither rec'd the development and support they deserved from both RAF and Government and so had limited potential for export. Over the next 5 years the industry was to be all but killed, as project after project was cancelled.