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]
Farnborough 1964 - when airshows were proper!!
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Re: Farnborough 1964 - when airshows were proper!!
Yes, fantastic footage, but in the intervening years where did it all go so wrong?
Re: Farnborough 1964 - when airshows were proper!!
Timc wrote:Yes, fantastic footage, but in the intervening years where did it all go so wrong?
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
BTW, I was at that 1964 Farnborough show and remember it as probably the best ever.
Adrian
Re: Farnborough 1964 - when airshows were proper!!
Truly spectacular footage, a pleasure to watch!
Did I hear right, the narrator says 3 million orders for the HS125 though? Wishful thinking?
Did I hear right, the narrator says 3 million orders for the HS125 though? Wishful thinking?
''Time to dive into the fireworks!''