BLACK ARROWS

[PhilArb]

what 's the song ??

[Maisam89]

Thank you for uploading this.

[ilovemywife34]

My Dads cousin, Flt Lt Stanley Wood was one of the Black Arrow pilots. He was sadly killed in 1960 in a mid-air collision during practice over RAF Watisham. He'd been married 6 months. RIP Stanley.

[deliow]

Wonderful video great quality. Where was it filmed ?? Its a WW2 airbase with all the dispersal areas, and GLOSTER JAVELINS in the taxing sequence. Im a 1954 model and saw them in the early '60s, what a lasting impression.Im reading an old Meccano Mag Oct 1960 & has an article on the Black Arrows and there were16 'planes in the flight. The in cockpit footage is fantastic and makes you realise how blooming clever these pilots are.

Cheers Del, Isle of Wight, ex- Bromley Kent.

[ValiantXD818]

love this vid the great thing is when i was at bournemouth i sat in and took picks of XG160 who was appart of these displays with the black arrows she in really good condition its £2 to get in if your under 16 i think add me on facebook if u wanna see my pic's im ryan stretch lumb and its in my mob uploads folder send me a message first so i know who u are if u wanna have a look

[upforlastnameleft]

Wow great tribute to the proud traditions of the RAF!!!

[coldozzee]

WOW AWESOME !

[franklinrwful]

I can remember them as a kid. They were an excellent team after which the Red Arrows carried on the tradition. I would have liked to have seen the Firebirds which were a formation team of (would you believe it ) Lightnings.

[robbybobby01]

i once watched the black arrows in 1958 i think ,,doing a display over skegness,,they used the hawker hunter jets ,,a fully operational fighter jet.not like the red arrows that use the hawk trainer jet .my dad was stationed at raf wattisham at the start of ww11 so he had great pride for black arrows,the red arrows took over their roll with a different squadron and are stationed at raf scampton and have continued to carry on making the british raf display teams the best in the world.

[edj66]

P.S. That wasn't a criticism as such, I'd just love to hear all the hunters howling!

[edj66]

Oh to have the original sound. Do you have a copy of this video without the music?

[LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH]

Thanks for posting this footage of the beautiful Hawker Hunter. What a machine!

[popmerde]

thats quite old man, awesome team!

[kenflojo]

I saw then at RAF Jever how one of them missed a hanger pulling out of a dive I dont know? Eyes clossed waiting for the bang

[spitfireJEJ]

This team established standards which have been well maintained by their successors. They will never be forgotten.

[internationalblue]

Thank you so much for putting that up...I was researching the lead plane also, and then wanted to see the 22 aircraft loop from the 59' show...but this video was unexpected. Thanks again, the Hunter is stunning.

[leyburnhealeyman]

@internationalblue good to see someone remembers the 22 aircraft formation, have you seen the roll, a bit untidy at the edges, but quite a feat.

[MikhailSharpowicz]

The lead aircraft is now being restored at Wattisham for the museum. It's in a bit of a sorry state - poor thing. Sat up at Old Buckenham i think for a few years. Beautiful video.

[vitmedia]

@MikhailSharpowicz

Hi, it was at North Luffenham. check the Operation Blackjack pages at wattishamairfieldmuseum. org

[thebigblip]

My uncle, Ross Colwill, was a Black Arrows pilot around this time. I am just doing some restoration work on an old documentary called 'Look at Life' about the Black Arrows. This footage is MUCH cleaner! Nice one.

[mrtrintob]

Brilliant, I remember seeing them at a Farnborough airshow when I was at school in England.

Their almost imperceptible changes of formation pattern is magic!!!!!!

Thanks for the video, made me feel young again :0]

[johncare]

these wwere the tops wen i was a teen.... dad was raf pilot with sqn 254

[glenw89]

wot song is this?

[Cardinal02166]

Little River by Sash

[abwo47]

Brings back old memories, what a perfect display and what a beautiful piece of machinery was (is) the Hawker Hunter

[wanaplayrough]

awesome

[choperdogness]

thats fuckin awesome

[TheophilusPWildbeest]

Great. Thanks for posting this. Do you know when this was filmed?

[andrewockenden]

@TheophilusPWildbeest

This was around 1959/1960 when the squadron was commanded by Sqn Ldr Peter Latham at RAF Wattisham in Suffolk, when I was an erk with the squadron.

Andrew M. Ockenden

[QIQrrr]

Very nice!