Part 1 - The Flight. The Vimy leaves Top Gear hangar and flies to Brooklands 

It is a very surreal aircraft at www.andysvideo.com/#vimy you can see more of it including some with me sitting in the front seat filming, where it is even more surreal 🙂

Yes Glyn that is the one and if you go to my Vimy playlist at www.andysvideo.com you can see it at Goodwood, We tried to get a shot of the Vimy above the Napier Railton, unsuccessfully as it turned out but I published the footage from the attempt anyway.

@@AndysVideo Oh magic, magic. Two favourite machines. The Napier Railton had its front axle forged by Robin Hood Engineering Works, a K. Lee Guinness company. The. Billet it was formed from weighed 5 cwt. The final act of finishing was to hand file and Polish this item. My uncle Harry was involved in this operation which was done by apprentices and recently joined engineers. The Vimy, well what more could be said about that very special evening.

Привет, они были храбры, чтобы лететь из Англии в Австралию на этом самолете.

parafan Bloody British Regulations !!!, British Government are Kill Joys, they will Destroy Britain !!! In fact They All ready Have, we can do Jack Shit over here in Britain !, its No longer GREAT Britain- Its CANT DO Britain !!!, Very DYSFUNCTIONAL Government here in Britain- NO Wonder Country is in Permanent Recession.

@@todlindley8101 Including spell or punctuate.

Thanks Nigel, do you know which branch of Vickers he was at?

@@AndysVideo Hello Andy great to read you. No I don't know which Branch yet. I have a surviving Uncle who actually remembers Arthur (his Grandfather) I have recently bombarded him with many questions, but I didn't think to ask him that. The crazy thing is, last year I found myself making two full-size Vickers machine-guns and a generic cockpit for a WW1-Themed music video. Then six months later I find that my great-grandfather was probably doing exactly the same thing... for REAL? Crazy coincidence. I have been totally immersed in WW1 of late as I discovered that my other Great Grandfather was Corporal William Barrows 13126. 6th Bn. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, who along with two chums 9Second Lieutenant Coke and Corporal Wilson) and the 11 Canadians he was trying to save, were killed on the morning of the 2nd of June 1916, on this the first day of the Battle of Mont Sorrel. All 14 brave lions of men are laid to rest in one special corner of the Bedford House Cemetery in Belgium. I will keep you posted thank you, and any help you can offer I would most grateful accept. Thank you and best wishes and my thoughts are with the brave.

It had to retire because it was on an American Experimental License. It would be possible to to fly it again and re- registered in the UK, but it would cost an awful lot of money and take a lot of work. Any Aviation Millionaires reading this please email me.

DARIVS ARCHITECTVS You will find plenty more footage of it on the my channel and a complete playlist of Vickers Vimy items at ru-vid.com/group/PLQrMOH5G0hbLV6wV6PHFUtB0e4ssuyGfx

andysvideo Thanks Andy!

Yes you did, it is the Museum Delta Golf and you will find several videos of us moving it on my channel (in the Brooklands Modern play list)

They went on a slightly curved route for Photographs and things, but it could not have been more that 40 minutes.

In fairness that rather depends on what you mean by the 'real' Vimy? The one that did Brooklands to Australia the first time is of course there, as is the atlantic first one in London. However this video is about the Vimy replica that re created both of those record breaking first flights as well as re creating the first Brooklands to South Africa first flight, all of which were done in different Vimys.

And men brave enough to use them...

SuperSeriousSam: what a SuperStupidStatement !

There may well be aerial footage from the skyvan, but this is my amateur videographer footage done from the ground plus the camera the lads let me strap onto the aircraft. If you are not a museum volunteer then you would not get the 'in joke' about the Brooklands' Fire Brigade and its occupants (all volunteers) to whom the music is dedicated.

Это правда, но он полетел из Великобритании в Австралию. Также из Великобритании в Южную Африку и, наконец, из Америки в Ирландию. Это не могло бы сделать это без современных двигателей.

+Horst Oertel Danke für die netten Worte. Ich bin nur ein Amateur-Filmemacher und verwendet, was sehr kurzfristig zur Verfügung stand. Meine Aufgabe war es, das Flugzeug in das Museum zu erholen, sobald er gelandet ist. Grüße Andy