Vickers Vanguard lands at Brooklands -- The incredible story
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Uploaded by andysvideo on Mar 14, 2011
On the 17th of October 1996 the worlds only surviving Vanguard (Merchantman) G-APEP made its last ever flight into Brooklands. This may not seem very surprising as Vanguards flew in and out of Brooklands all the time, back in the days when they were building them there. However, now the Runway had been cut in half by the new road - Wellington Way. Also, the airfield had not been an operational field for many years and offered many challenges to the brave crew!
At the time I was Managing director of National Rescue and had been planning to movie the aircraft by road. I was very pleased when Peter and Gary said the could fly it in. So they went off and practised short landings at the Aircrafts base at East Midlands Airport, while we put a plan together to close a busy industrial estate down, while they landed.
This video shows you what happened on the day, from my vantage point up in the Control Tower.
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lol blood, ell lol
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absolutely brilliant ,my first flight experince was vanguard operated by BEA glasgow to heathrow 1967 as a young boy brings back the thrill and wonderment,
superb!
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Skill would have been a touch down on the actual runway. They screwed up.
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It looks like they touched down on the other side of the street from the runway, then bounced over the street. Even if the tree holes weren't there, had they touched down in the street, running over the curb would probably have ruined their whole day!
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Bloody brilliant.
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That was absolutely breath taking.. And wow.. I love how the crew just laugh at the touchdown area.. that made me chuckle haha, but that was incredible ..Thanks for the upload!.
tom211t 4 months ago
They did smile Tom, but they both were also very pale when they first saw it. Just another day at Brooklands :-)
andysvideo 4 months ago 3
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Why didn't they just cover the holes over with some wooden planks or something?
I85PIES 5 days ago
@I85PIES With hindsight yes that's true. I guess it was just not considered necessary, simply because he was not suppose to touchdown for at least another 200 ft.
I think also that unsupported wood or even steel plates would have collapsed, or slid on the grass anyway.
andysvideo 5 days ago
Absolutely Fabulous!! Thanks so much Andy for finally releasing this video. I so much wanted to be there that day but was abroad. Now I see why you and a few others probably didn't want this out on the day. I had the priviledge and honour to fly this a/c back from Vienna one night when it was with BA. And I was on its delivery flight to Castle Donnington to ABC. I absolutely love the Vanguard and if I ever win the lottery would happily pay to get this one back in the air whatever cost !. Thanks
jez952 9 months ago
Thanks for your support and kind words. I love the idea of using Lottery funds to get it flying again, but we would have to clear the Mercedes Benz World building out the way first :-)
andysvideo 9 months ago