Oh…….Fiat G 91s…….Lufwaffe…… our Jags…… what a brilliant video. I loved our trips down to Decci with 20 and II(AC)…….the year(s) of the cat! Thank you for posting this……..brilliant stuff
I was 6 years old, and can still remember the shows,went to everyone right up to them closing,even went to the charity ball the year there was no airshow and Lorraine Kelly was there and nick nairn was the chef. So many different types off aircraft that sadly all gone now Those were the days
Fantastic film!! Back in 1958 3 teenagers from Aberdeen entered the Lossiemouth by sneaking under a fence at the north end,near the golf course. The main attraction was a "graveyard" of old RNAS aircraft.We recognised about 10 different types..Sea Vampires,Seafires,Sturgeons,Fireflies...can't remember them all.Then 2 Blue Land Rovers came from nowhere and with the help of dogs,they rounded us up.Their main concern was how we'd entered,so we showed them,then we were given a stern warning and were driven to the Main Gates.Glorious memories.
Appreciate the comment about the music. I try to use music from the year the film was taken. Biggest moan I get from people is they want to hear the engine noise but if it wasn't recorded at the time then adding random jet noise is much worse.
fanatsic vid, used to love watching F-111F's flying out of Lakenheath & F-111E's out of Upper Heyford,luckily the 20 TFW commanders F-111 is beautifully preserved on display at the IWM Duxford
I was there as an ATC cadet on an Annual Camp, I was lucky enough to be sat in the control tower watching all the aircraft coming in for the display. I particularly remember the Constellation as it was ancient even back then. In the preceeding days a Starfighter had folded an undercarriage leg on landing and slid to an undignified stop. A mate of mine ( a Cadet) was sat in the runway control caravan at the time, ran with a fire extinguisher and beat the crash crew to the scene. He caught an almighty bollocking from the Sergeant in charge of the fire team but eventually went home clutching a "Well Done" certificate.
After completing my 3 years of training, I became an Aircraft Engineering Technician & was posted onto 23 (Red Eagle) Squadron ( You don't see many of them until near the end of the film - They are the ones with the vertical Blue & Red bars, either side of the nose roundel ) @ Leuchars in mid September 1967.Just as they were converting from Mk.3s ( small ventral tank) to interim 6s (large ventral tank), then eventually on to full mk.6s with an arrestor hook. Like all "newbies" I started off doing 1st line sevicing ( daily inspection @ beginning & end of day & turn rounds between flights.) After I got up to speed there, I was "promoted" to 2nd line/hangar servicing. That's when life got all rather serious as the "superuior idiot" who designed them, knowingly didn't give a damn about lack of accessibility - & while he got chewed out @ the time, refused to solve the problem. Whereas, our view was whoever designed it should have had to work on them '@ hangar level, for ' least a year, just to see how bad it REALLY was (At my time 60 man hours servicing for every ONE flying hours - Eventually it got so bad that became a ratio of 90:1 ! ). - There's no denying it was all VERY character building ! But even with playing locally arranged "war games" every Friday, "Tacevals" - 3 day long TACTICAL EVALUATION exercise, about 3 times a year & more than my fair share of real Q.R.A. (Quick Reaction Alert ) see offs, armed with live missiles, to intercept Russian reconnaisance bombers "somewhere over the Faroes gap" Certainly the intensity of it all is still something I'll always remember with fond memories. Certainly # 23 was the best ever posting I got ! :) After that I was posted to #56 Sqdn @ Akrotiri in Cyprus. The sunshine & sea, along with a slight boost in pay for "Local Overseas Allowance was good, but the squadron suffered from a serious morale problem as the C.O. was after "glory & promotion", @ everybody else's expense. Though towards the end they started to recognise that & I got a "jolly" up in the " T bird" (Mk5 trainer) & a chance to earn my certificate for going "10 ton" - 1,000 mph ! :) - helped a bit to make up for the rest of it !
The Swiss Airforce used Vampires. Flying from Gatwick to Basel got speaking to an Ex Swiss 🇨🇭Airforce Pilot. Amazing video those were the days when the Airwing was huge and varied
I was stationed at Leeming 1956-59 with Javelin 228 OCU. Hairy scary aircraft were the Javs . ‘Night flying Blues’ on a dark dreary cold airfield with RAF Fire Service. Great memories.
That brings back Memories. I was on 763Sqn (Hunters). I must have been there at the Time the Films were made. I later changed to the RAF and was there for 8 Years on 8Sqn Shackletons.
Nothing can beat the low pass just below the speed of sound and then the pull up to infinity (well almost!). You heard nothing then the roar of two RR Avons in full reheat. Tremendous ... !!!
Terrific video of a legendary aircraft. The Tri-Colour or French flag on the vertical stabiliser always surprises me. The RAAF here in Australia continued the tradition with the Dassault Mirage III but seemed to drop it from the F/A-18 Hornet, Super Hornet and F-35 Lightning. Our Defence Ministry has had very poor relations with the French Government over the last couple of decades with a reneging on a new Dassault jet fighter deal and contract termination with a submarine supply.
They didn’t have a French Flag. The Drapeau Francais is blue, white and red from the hoist, while the RAF tail flash is red, white and blue (or sometimes red and blue) reading from the front of the aircraft, the opposite. The Union Flag is, of course, red, white and blue and so the RAF tail flash and roundel take the colours of our national flag. The French tail flash (seldom used) is blue, white and red. In a similar vein the RAF roundel is red, white and blue from the centre (often with a thinner yellow outer ring to add contrast) and the French roundel has the same colours reversed.
I would have been 5, in fact just weeks away from my 6th birthday when that was filmed and 11 years later would attend my first airshow at RAF Leuchars. Great video👍🏻
Great collection of images. Spent some time at Lossie, and I think I flew in at least one of the aircraft shown. Even got an F4 from Woodbridge that got me started down this road :-)
I went to that air display in the back of a Harrier Tbird! The aircrew wanted somebody to do the flight servicing and see off the GR3 for the display and I got the job. I remember thinking it was the only time I'd seen an aircraft out and observed its entire sortie! Sadly I don't seem to feature in the film, but thanks for the memories
Joined HMS Fulmar from training at Condor(Armourer) in '63, Ordnance workshops, 738 Sqn, 736 Sqn and station flight.Got my QM and QS there prior to joining the old Ark in '64.Happy days.Monday night-Buckie night, Tuesday night -Craigellachie night, the Two Red Shoes(In Elgin) and The Coulard, Lossie>
