Farnborough Airshow - 1959 (in colour)

Farnborough Airshow - 1959 (in colour)

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[eezy1972]

Is that a Sea Vixen @ 1:32

[spottydog4477]

@eezy1972 yes - i believe it is a sea vixen indeed!

[Cape19621]

thanks for posting this video

[spottydog4477]

@Cape19621 cheers cape..and merry xmas

[PhantomUAV]

cool - the pinnacle of the British aircraft industry....and a cabin full of nurses

[spottydog4477]

@PhantomUAV thanx mate..it is arather splendid era.......cheers

[xxxchrist1]

And we gave it all away in the name of some globalist utopian ideal that will ultimately see us all back in the stone ages again.

[zhotdune]

@tomburley you're right, as i can remembered there is numerous aerobatic teams

appeared in the U.K. be it pre-war or post war using various name. I'll think most of them

not a dedicated team/squadron. But it nice to see them though.

[kolbpilot]

@tomburley In spirit it was.

[tomburley]

@edj66 Strange really since the US Marines now use the Boeing V22 Osprey which can only carry half the payload - sure it is about 80 knots faster but it took many years to develop and the Rotodyne was 50 years earlier!

[tomburley]

@kolbpilot Not really - since this aircraft had dedicated uplift engines. The Kestrel was the precursor to the Harrier making use of a single engine and using vectored thrust.

[tomburley]

@zhotdune The Gnat first flew at Farnborough in 1959 and became the RAFs Advanced trainer. The Red Arrows were established in 1964 as a dedicated display team to promote the RAF taking pilots from numerous squadrons - usually on a 3 year tour - they switched the the Hawk in 1979. The previous "Black Arrows" were a front line squadron who also practised aerobatics in a squadron formation - they were not a dedicated aerobatics team/squadron

[tomburley]

@xcaibur 1960's Labour Government - massive defence cuts including cancelling of the TSR2 which would still have been a world leader well into the 1980's

[zhotdune]

@torquesport maybe you're right. That era, RAF got a lot of fast jet type to choose from for the Red Arrows team. Gnat was the chosen one. But they're no harm if they used Hawker

Hunter like USAF choose F-16 for their Thunderbirds team.

[xcaibur]

How the DEVIL did we lose such a WORLD lead ??? HOW??

[torquesport]

@zhotdune The Gnat was the RAF's principle fast training jet, The Red Arrows are still used to promote RAF recruitment. Makes perfect sense to me to use the Gnat.

[shinyday]

Excellent ! Thanks for posting this !