Farnborough 1964 - when airshows were proper!!

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Farnborough 1964 - when airshows were proper!!

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This has probably been posted here before, and watched to death, but this is what we could only dream of an airshow being like today...

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7DxHEqe5bg[/youtube]

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Yes, fantastic footage, but in the intervening years where did it all go so wrong? :sad:

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Timc wrote:Yes, fantastic footage, but in the intervening years where did it all go so wrong? :sad:


In two words ' successive governments' !! Killing off the British aircraft industry, defence cuts and bringing in Health & Safety, with the final knife in the back by the CAA :down:

BTW, I was at that 1964 Farnborough show and remember it as probably the best ever.
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Truly spectacular footage, a pleasure to watch!

Did I hear right, the narrator says 3 million orders for the HS125 though? Wishful thinking? :grin:
''Time to dive into the fireworks!''

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