Back in the 70s RAF Transport command had Bristol Britannia's with rear facing seats - oh also VC10's - I flew to Cyprus in a Britannia and back 3 years later in a VC10..it was said this was also for Safety.
I used to love the SPV when I was a child all those years ago and I had the toy car back in the 1970s which I still have and bought a few others over the years but I still love the Captain Scarlet SPV even now for it was such a great design as was a lot of the vehicles and space ships from Gerry Andersons TV shows but who designed the SPV for they was great at designing as was a lot of the other talented team designing these vehicles and space ships.
Nit Quite what you meant but, a looong time ago, I'm 69 now I had a water pistol conventional pistol grip and trigger however the entire upper part was Stingray
I bought the 2 versions available over 10 ten years ago - one by Corgi. Fantastic looking vehicles. I've haven't seen vehicles for air, sea, land and space bettered than those created by Gerry Anderson. He and his team were uniquely talented.
Derek Meddings: "Once it looks good, it doesn't matter if it wouldn't actually work - once it looks good". I'd STILL love a fully functional SVP plus a (completely bonkers) fully functional ED-209 for Christmas....
I love the SPV so much. My Top-5 favourite episodes are "Winged Assassin", "Avalanche", "Special Assignment", "Point 783" and "Fire At Rig 15", because of it. I both love and prefer the SPV far more than the Rhino, due to the different design looks of them and the different names of them. Plus, since Captain Blue's my favourite character, I love seeing him driving the SPV, while Captain Scarlet drives the SSC (since both the SSC and Scarlet's uniform are red). For "Point 783", it would've been epic if we had a tank battle between the SPV and the Unitron. But I think it'll be more epic if gamers who play "World Of Tanks" on their PCs and "Seek And Destroy" on their PS2s, with an SPV DLC/mod.
I watched this video in the same room as both an old Dinky SPV and a LaCie drive, both of which are in fully working condition, despite some child and adult mishandling.
I had the very first release of the Dinky SPV, which I bought with my own savings. I loved it, and had it for years, but I had to give it away with a whole load of other stuff when I came to New Zealand in 1974. I wish I still had it.
I do have a toastie maker that's similar to the Lacie Rugged drives. In a similar vein to the Tom Scott stuff, I got that toastie maker after watching a RU-vid video by people Tom Scott has worked with previously, being Barry Lewis and Stuart Ashen. It's a microwave toastie maker by Morphy Richards.
Just realised now that Scarlet doesn't drive the SPV (or at least rarely?) nor Blue drive the Saloon. It must be disorientating having to switch between left/right and right/left motor skills!
Looking at one of those stills, it's amazing that the Angel fighters had canards (or foreplanes) years before any real plane had them. The Tupolev TU144, the modern-day Eurofighter Typhoon. Derek Meddings was a true visionary. The SPV (I have 2) is a genius design. My favourite land vehicle though is the SHADO Mobile. Looks just fantastic.
The Spv is definitely one of my favourite vehicles as a kid couldn't accept the rear facing driving as it just seamed wrong so I modified my corgi spv to forward facing.
One is seated facing backwards, for "safety" reasons, on RAF air trooping command flights. Which means the pilots are the first persons at the scene of the accident! RAF gotta luv em.
Not always. I used to do regular detachments, four or five times a year, It was only on a VC10 fom Brize Norton where you were seated backwards. I did Air Troopers regularly to Germany and Cyprus etc.... Herc's from Lynham or my home station was sideways seating and Tristars were forwards as per normal passenger aircraft. Also Luton to Wildenrath or Dusseldorf was a standard chartered airliner. Normaly something like a 727 or a 737. Boring I know?
During world war 2, the crash position for bomber command crews was rear facing, leaning against the aircrafts main spar, and this saved many lives. I believe RAF transport aircraft still use this idea.
Passenger seats in the C-5 Galaxy transport face backwards to increase their survivability should the plane have a mishap. Civilian airliner seat still face forward.
A few Hawker Siddeley Trident airliners were fitted with rear facing seats during the mid 1960s. They would have been coming into service about the time of CS - so I wonder if they were the inspiration?
Aha, the LaCie hard drives - check them out. They contain Seagate manufactured hard drives and I’ve had too many of them go bad… Nice small form factor drives and they did have a FireWire 800 connection as well as USB 2.0…
There's a whole article covering this in the 1967 Captain Scarlet annual. Briefly: Spectrum was originally formed as a World Security organisation to keep the peace on Earth, under the World Government. However, it had only been in action for a short length of time before The Mysterons appeared, hence its change of focus.
True. When we flew to Akrotiri etc.... on a VC10's in the 70's and early 80's, we sat facing backwards. However, on a Hercules it was always sideways and later on a Tristar to Akrotiri, forwards as per most passenger aircraft.
Not that nice things about Scarlet? iirc he just said there were plotholes. And there were XD Why didn't Scarlet kill the World President when Brown did it instantly :b it IS filled with plotholes like that XD
@@pcarrierorange XD yeah but no :b if Captain Brown can instantly blow up and try to kill the president, then why can't Scarlet just kill him? Also why aren't the other Mysteron agents indestructible until they apparantly are and can only be killed by high voltage? Plotholes a plenty. Of course I can accept it's flaws and still love it tho :b
In listing other backwards driving vehicles you forgot to mention the Fennek armored scout car operated and built by Germany and the Netherlands. There is a camera in the back and there is a TV screen among the driving instruments. This feature is meant for emergency evasive manoeuvres. In other words they use it to back off at top speed in places like a narrow forest road, without having to turn the vehicle around. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennek and also do a search for Fennek here on RU-vid to see it in action
@@LandersWorkshop Yes, I remember it well! It was another scout vehicle called the E.B.R. for "Engin Blindé de Reconnaissance" . And I also remember well the German "Spahpanzer Luchs", yet another scout vehicle with a driver in the front and another one in the back, to drive in reverse for a quick escape.
