Just looking through some tapes from the first camcorder I bought in 1989. Some years before I started making airshow programmes or I even had a serious interest in aircraft.
I obviously decided to go to an airshow, so I went to Biggin Hill. Turns out I have actually seen the Vulcan and an F-111 fly, as some (very wobbly) shots proved!
Memory goes with age you know!
By: laviticus - 30th April 2006 at 16:59
God reading this makes me feel realy old,i remember seeing a fiberglass mock up of the new EUROFIGHTER years ago at a show any one else remember.Also the meteorT7 and vampireT11 vintage pair flying and the arrows in Gnats….
By: sea vixen - 30th April 2006 at 16:18
i can remember when i was young..seeing [and hearing] RAF phantoms quite alot..they where fantastic..i can always remember how smokey the engines where..also when the A-10s where based over hear..they used to spend hours playing around here, usually in groups of fours…i never ever seen a lightning though, they just seemed never to come to this part of the country…..i can remember seeing buccaneers from time to time…the best was when one came right over our house..it seemed to be about 20 feet above the roof….memorys memorys…….
By: ZRX61 - 30th April 2006 at 15:58
Of course, you don’t even get to hear the Boom anymore… 🙁
Some days I get to hear 3 or 4 🙂 The ones that REALLY get my attention are when the Shuttle lands at Edwards. Those ones rattle all the plates in the kitchen cupboards & make stuff in the house move. I’ve even had sash windows slam shut a couple of times 😀
By: oz rb fan - 30th April 2006 at 15:06
a vulcan would be not to see (my parents tell me that i saw one fly over melbourne) but the other one i would want to see is an avon sabre wich should be back in the air soon.
paul
By: Rob68 - 30th April 2006 at 14:21
Never new Marham had airshows, would be nice to see Victors again
By: Arabella-Cox - 29th April 2006 at 22:46
No i am in my 30’s but have loved aviation since i was about 4, so anything with wings gets the blood going.
I also remember going to the 1983 RAF marham air show with a victor refuelling two of the ‘brand new’ tornado strike fighters, i still have the program somewhere.
curlyboy
By: Rob68 - 29th April 2006 at 17:36
Curly boy you sound really young
By: Arabella-Cox - 29th April 2006 at 17:29
One of my fondest memories from when i was young is of the old cranfield air shows in the mid to late 80s (before they became ALL cessna), i remember standing in front of an idling lightning and of a vulcan flying over my house at about 500ft on its way to the display.
And of a jet car and the first (of many) time i sat in a hercules.
These are good memories of aircraft that are now mostly museum piece’s (unforunately) or soon to be.
curlyboy
By: Pte1643 - 29th April 2006 at 17:11
Vulcans, Bucs, Lightnings, Shackletons, Phantoms
Nostalgia at it’s best.
I’m in Norfolk, and can remember seeing (or rather hearing first) the Lightnings from Coltishall “Playing” overhead.
You’d hear a sonic boom and rush out, you could just about see a Lightning rolling at some ridiculous height, as the glint of the sun catches the bare fuselage. 🙂
Of course, you don’t even get to hear the Boom anymore… 🙁
By: Rob68 - 29th April 2006 at 16:52
Same here, remember (i think) going to shows in the 80s and 90s and seeing Vulcans, Bucs, Lightnings, Shackletons, Phantoms, Blackbirds, Mirage 3s, Ginas ………..the list goes on doesn’t it.
As they say you dont realise until its gone……….. Now if only some one had the determination (whoops i mean bottomless pit of money) to get a Vulcan flying again.
By: dhfan - 24th April 2006 at 17:44
I know exactly what you mean!
I was beginning to doubt my fading memory in my belief that I’d seen a Blackbird fly until I found a couple of pics I took at Mildenhall in 1986-ish.
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