Dose anyone know what aircraft were included in the following 1970’s teams,
They all took part in the Southend Airshow that year
The Tiger Club
Neville Browning’s Flying Circus
The Vintage Aircraft Flying Club
John Fairey’s aerobatc Spitfire G-AIDN (what happed to it)
also what aircraft were in
RAF Support Command
Nick
By: Turbi - 16th March 2006 at 16:28
At the time the Tiger Club operated
Tiger Moths
Stampe
Condor
Jodel D140/150/1050
Turbulents
Beta
SuperCub
Husky
Sea Turbulent
Sea Tiger
Arrow Active
Fox Moth
I think there was a biplane trio (2 Stampes and a Tiger) at least in 1970, going by Benjy’s book. Though I know in later years the Turbs were thought by the organisers as too slow for the long crowd line at a seafront show.
By: Old Fart - 15th March 2006 at 12:56
Cheers
all the programme has listed is “Aircraft of RAF Support Command”
By: kodak - 15th March 2006 at 09:37
Air Support Command formd in 1967 as the renamed Transport Command, absorbed into Strike Command in 1972. I presume you’re after the transport types that the RAF flew in the 70s?
Hercules, Belfast, Comet, Brittania, Argosy, Andover, VC10 were the main types. Though only the Herc and VC10 remained after 1976, along with a very few Andovers. The RAF displayed all the types at airshows !
By: Auster Fan - 14th March 2006 at 19:53
What types where support command flying in 1970.
Support Command didn’t actually become a single command until 1977 or thereabouts. Prior to that there was Air Support Command (the renamed Maintenance Command in 1973) and Training Command, the amalgamtion of both forming RAF Support Command in 1977. Which command in particular were you reefrring to in this instance?
By: Old Fart - 14th March 2006 at 19:44
What types where support command flying in 1970.
By: Auster Fan - 14th March 2006 at 16:48
ChecK the thread HERE for info about G-AIDN.
What do you mean “What aircraft were in Support Command”? All types?
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March 14, 2006 at 2:37 pm