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Post by keefyboy on Feb 4, 2018 16:20:59 GMT
Hi folks
As it's another Farnborough year, I thought some of you might enjoy this clip I found on Youtube showing how good the show was 50 years ago.
Simons Sircus, the Phoenix 5 and Phantoms to boot. Those were the days. Unfortunately I missed this show as my first Farnborough was 1970 - in the mud IIRC.
Cheers
Keith
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Post by christoff on Feb 4, 2018 18:12:53 GMT
The late and great Raymond Baxter sums it up perfectly " What a splendid display "
Thanks for posting it Keith.
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Post by dave on Feb 4, 2018 19:08:34 GMT
hi,
always enjoyed Raymond Baxter's commentaries of Farnborough, I think it was his enthusiastic, knowledgeable deliverance that made it so good...
thanks for the post, regards,
dave...
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Post by graham on Feb 7, 2018 8:01:27 GMT
Great video Keith. My Dad took me to the 68 show, we lived in Basingstoke at the time so it wasn't that far to go. I recall I had just started spotting then, maybe for a few months or so. I have no notes from that show, or any old logs which is a shame
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Post by Jeff on Feb 7, 2018 8:37:11 GMT
I seem to remember displays were shown on prime time TV back then, Im guessing BBC, I remember Biggin Hill and of course Farnborough
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Post by graham on Feb 7, 2018 10:19:05 GMT
Totally correct Jeff, I certainly recall seeing the likes of BH and FAB on the TV, and almost always with Raymond Baxter as commentator
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Post by lordevanelpuss on Feb 7, 2018 20:51:11 GMT
My first Farnborough was the 1970 show. The first one to feature Concorde, which only did a series of fly-bys. I still remember great excitement in the school playground in Farnham when she flew over during the week.
I wasn't at the 1968 show. I don't have much in the way of personal memories, but in later years I have read about the September 1968 weather and how it totally wrecked the end of that year's show. Virtually a whole weekend of heavy rain & thunderstorms.
That is a great video of the Sea Vixens etc. I wonder what day it was taken on.
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Post by graham on Feb 8, 2018 14:33:04 GMT
My Dad ( who took me to the 68 show) wasn't as such an enthusiast but back in those days, he worked at what was then "Kelvins" in Basingstoke where he was an instrument calibrator for aircraft dials and gauges which Kelvins made. Sea Vixens were amongst the aircraft that Kelvins manufactured dials for. They were later taken over and became "Smiths Industries" but I believe we had moved away from Basingstoke by then.
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