…a sort of documentary showing the first Flying Legends 1993, including Stephen Grey…

We did take it for granted: never imagined that there might be a time when there wasn’t at least one decent airshow every weekend.

Very interesting to see how it was 31 years ago. The aeroplanes ( the ones still with us ) are timeless, they look exactly the same but of course it takes its toll on us !

This footage was no doubt released as a video, and at the time would have felt a rare and specialist product, as the only other material you generally saw on a screen was a TV production. Yet now, its production values look rather clunky and DIY, such is the march of technology, that your ordinary mobile phone will now give you footage of a sharpness and clarity that blows this footage into the weeds, and tiny cameras which can be mounted anywhere now give us unimagined views.  

I see the same with books, the photography of the time often looks soft and grainy, and most would be deemed un-useable when placed alongside contemporary  hi-res digital imagery. I suppose most of us still have a stash of once-precious VHS tapes  (aviation !) in deep storage which we will probably never get round to looking at again, even if we still had a VHS player. I fear the re-cycling centre beckons ! 

Some happy and sad memories there , what we used to have in the way of air displays , aircraft ,locations , sometimes taken for granted.