Farnborough Show 1960 in colour

[graham]

A superb video, starts off with four Valiants and just gets better. And to think all of this jet age technology on display was just 15 years after the end of WWII.

[davebasing]

Thanks for posting Graham. Great memories as that, I'm embarrassed to say, was my first Farnborough show. Would give today's show directors nightmares but what a spectacle it used to be. Later there were the Lightning teams that always approached unannounced directly over the crowd from behind on full throttle. Proved that levitation was actually possible among the unsuspecting and that spare trouser sellers were never more popular! Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

[graham]

Thanks Dave, my dad was employed indirectly in the aerospace industry and he took me to my first FAB show in 1962, aged just six. We lived in Basingstoke back then so it was a quick hop along the A30.