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Nice model. Looks very heavy, judging by its flying speed. Looks like it tip stalled while turning onto finals.

Well I suppose hellbringer88 has his own idea of what 'crazy' means.. bless him!

If only we still had one each of those to fly at airshows.

The Javelin and the Lightning looked good! Sadly now gone forever.

Great piece of footage! The terrible tragidy with the Mk1 was the destructive corrosion caused by 'dissimilar metal syndrome' and the fatigue cracking in the wings which led to a Valiant crash, and subsequent premature scrapping of all Valiants. A terrible shame, but Vickers learned a lot from it.

Lovely piece of footage! Shame its no longer airworthy.

I remember seeing this Comet very briefly from my car as it made an approach and go around into Southampton Eastleigh airport in the early 1990s.. I never thought I would see a Comet in the air - let alone on approach to Southampton!! Very ...

The Electra / Orion was a Lockheed aircraft and had Alison engines.

The Vanguard has Rolls Royce Tyne engines which were rated at 5550 hp each. I think the only American aircraft to have Tynes was the Transall. The props made them very noisey.

Absolutely greta video! I remember these Vanguards, three different ones - G-APEP, G-APES and G-APET I think from memory..(Superb, Ajax and Agamemnon) used to spend their days at Dublin, and depart at about 9pm on post / freight service when it was Air Bridge Carriers, and return back to Dublin...

There is nothing quite like youtube for showing the whole world how sad u really are. Posting interesting video is not really your thing eh?

hmmm.. Probably doesn't get out much.. but brilliant with an Xbox. if you know what I mean!!

Unfortunately, aircraft are not immune to bad weather conditions. They are however built to withstand MUCH heavier landings than that one!!

I think Vanguards, VC 10s, 3 One Elevens and a few Viscounts were built at Weybridge. Because of the very short runway, the aircraft departed on the maiden flight with minimal fuel, and positioned into Wisley, Vickers test airfield which had a very long runway (closed, but still in existance toda...

The real world obviously doesn't hold much for this guy! Stick to your X box...

Oh dear.... the day that ''attention-seeking wierdos'' discovered Youtube!!!! and bored us all to death with crap videos and silly titles...

Find another way to contribute to society....

knightofeurasia,How do we come to the conclusion that 30 year old aircraft are unsafe??

Aircraft are not like cars - they are subject to strict maintenance programmes - so the hydraulic system would not have been made up of the same components that it had when it was new. Aircraft life spans are...

Dont the Americans do like the British Navy did with Sea Vixens etc.. where they touch down (and pick up the arrester hook) on full power?? To prevent this sort of thing from happening. The British idea was that if the aircraft was already on full power - and it missed the hook - the aircraft was...

To answer PanAm Patrick's question - why didn't promising British aircraft achieve more success in the long run - The British aircraft industry had no way of competing with Boeing in terms of manufacturing volume / price per a/c etc, also the Pound / Dollar exchange rate was not in Britains favou...

Nice! The only trouble is, in reality, London City would need a 100% runway extention!

Didn't see that as a particularly hard landing. I've flown on many 727s in the last 25 years in an engineering role. This landing is average considering the conditions, and probably wouldn't even warrant comment at the time between the crew. Nice bit of footage though!

You can see where it got its nickname - that is one very shallow and drawn out rotation - they must have been even worse in hot countries

Do they tarmac drives too?

Terrible tragidy. There are striking similarities between what happened to Trident G-ARPI and the prototype BAC One-Eleven, G-ASHG, After entering a deep stall (caused on G-ARPI by slat retraction at too slower speed), The One Eleven decended flat at 10,000 feet per minute with full power selecte...

It was Vickers test airfield, (later BAC). The Vanguard, VC10 and BAC 1-11 all had there test flight programmes based here. It was to be the test centre for TSR 2 but that never happened. After the test programme for the 1-11 finished, the site was closed and all the hangars were demolished (197...

Love to see these vids of Tridents - got to be the most unusual looking design of any commercial airliner!! Classic british engineering - but who decided it needed an 8 wheel main gear??

Wonderful to see this! Back to the good old days of British airliners! I worked as an engineer on One Elevens with BA, The Trident was a grossly underpowered and over complex aircraft for the job it was designed to do. Boeing tend to get 'blamed' for stealing the ideas that went into the Trident,...