A promotional film reviewing the 1953 Farnborough Air Show This film is featured in the Brtish Jet Age - The Early Years a DVD from Beulah. Visit www.eavb.co.uk/store/index.html
I used to go to the Farnborough Air Display nearly every year in the 1960s. The one aircraft that made the most impression on me was the Avro Vulcan V-bomber. When it took off the noise was deafening and the ground shook -- you could feel the vibration through your whole body. Then the pilot lit the afterburners and this massive piece of machinery shot vertically upwards at incredible speed. What an aircraft!
@@gliderboy438 I had to look it up and you're quite right, the Olympus engines fitted to production Vulcans didn't have afterburners -- my recollection must have been coloured by the tremendous noise they made (after all, it was about 60 years ago!). Interestingly, the Olympus engine was later developed with reheat (afterburners) for the ill-fated TSR-2 Tactical Strike/Reconnaissance fighter, and also Concorde.
