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These look superb, does anyone have them? Looks like 5 sets (50, 60, early 70s, late 70s, 80s and 90s) totalling over 40 hours viewing!!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Air-Force ... sim_d_h__3

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Presumably these are the old RAF recruiting films compiled into collections? If you were an air cadet of a certain generation these will be very familiar, the RAF recruitment officer would rock up looking very official in a military registered green Cavalier or Cortina, armed with a case full of super 8 film reels and a trusty Bell and Howell projector. Superb productions if sometimes a little handlebar moustache, strafe the enemy and home in time for tea style.
The 12sqn deployment to Gib to take part in a maritime exercise where they encounter Tomcats and with a Vangelis soundtrack is just brilliant and one of the best in a cracking, nostalgic set of films when the RAF was just awesome. :rock: I've got most of the aircraft related ones copied from VHS tapes...
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Just started watching these which can only be described as aviation porn. First disc had a training film about emergency and engineering on the Valiant. Who knew the dingy was located on the top of the fuselage, or how the 26 explosive bolts detonated the canopy?! Also coverage of the Queens bash in 53 at Odiham.

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These are absolutely stunning and I cant recommend them enough. Halton training vids, Shackleton ECM stuff, Javelins in colour and here is just one part of when Vulcans went via Kano Nigeria to Cape Town. Just finished the 50s and 60s and about to start on the 70s...................

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Traveller wrote:These look superb, does anyone have them? Looks like 5 sets (50, 60, early 70s, late 70s, 80s and 90s) totalling over 40 hours viewing!!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Air-Force ... sim_d_h__3


Just ordered it, thanks for the info.

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Traveller wrote:These look superb, does anyone have them? Looks like 5 sets (50, 60, early 70s, late 70s, 80s and 90s) totalling over 40 hours viewing!!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Air-Force ... sim_d_h__3


The above one was interesting.....Make sure you order this one then

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Force-Command-Activities-Early/dp/B004LV32EA

The above one I have posted is especially about Fighter/ Bomber/ Coastal/ Signals/ Maintenance Commands Along with features about RAFG and RAF Middle East. This one was marvellous!!!!!

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Just received the 1950's version and loved the Farnborough bit about the reconstruction of Operation Jericho with Mosquitoes

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In the 1950 section with the film called "Future in Flight" can anyone name the soundtrack which is at the beginning and at the end?

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No cos Ive just posted 50s and 60s to my Dad to watch. Early 70s now and it was so distinctive (at least to me) that there was a big change from post war to 'modern'. Cant put my finger on it but the arrival of Phantoms and Hercules and the back of Sycamores and Argosies and Britannias really defined a change in time. Just watched an exercise to deal with a crashed plane returning with a nuclear weapon. The fitted a Vulcan's systems into an old shackleton and then destroyed it and scattered it as though it had come off the runway. One nuclear weapon was simulated trapped under the body still. Although classified Restricted at the time they put covers around the actual weapon so nobody could see how they did that bit. Lasted for days the exercise and concludes with the station commander viewing the re-laid and de-contaminated grass!!!!

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Red Dragon wrote:
Traveller wrote:These look superb, does anyone have them? Looks like 5 sets (50, 60, early 70s, late 70s, 80s and 90s) totalling over 40 hours viewing!!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Air-Force ... sim_d_h__3


The above one was interesting.....Make sure you order this one then

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Force-Command-Activities-Early/dp/B004LV32EA

The above one I have posted is especially about Fighter/ Bomber/ Coastal/ Signals/ Maintenance Commands Along with features about RAFG and RAF Middle East. This one was marvellous!!!!!


Ordered!! Which means there is only 1 left on Amazon for now. Hope it doesn't duplicate what I have seen already but its only £11.53 down the drain if it is!

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Traveller wrote:
Red Dragon wrote:
Traveller wrote:These look superb, does anyone have them? Looks like 5 sets (50, 60, early 70s, late 70s, 80s and 90s) totalling over 40 hours viewing!!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Air-Force ... sim_d_h__3


The above one was interesting.....Make sure you order this one then

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Force-Command-Activities-Early/dp/B004LV32EA

The above one I have posted is especially about Fighter/ Bomber/ Coastal/ Signals/ Maintenance Commands Along with features about RAFG and RAF Middle East. This one was marvellous!!!!!


Ordered!! Which means there is only 1 left on Amazon for now. Hope it doesn't duplicate what I have seen already but its only £11.53 down the drain if it is!


You won't waste the money, I found the Command Activities DVD a lot more informative (for myself at least) as it shows what happened in the day to day running of the commands, the most interesting ones I thought were the Maintenance & Signals commands as it showed what a repair & salvage party does and how a signals inspection visit goes in Aden etc. I think you'll find it informative :smile:

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Two more screen shots from this great set. And today all we have to debate is the absence of anything interesting and the distance away from the crowd!!!

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Traveller wrote:Two more screen shots from this great set. And today all we have to debate is the absence of anything interesting and the distance away from the crowd!!!

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Ooh, which one are they from as that's footage of the Finningley Silver jubillee review and I've been looking for coverage of that everywhere...
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I'd need to check but Im away at present on holiday. I'd guess it must be the one when the show took place, 1970s?

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Just found this and am now in tears!

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