Aircraft Identities in 1963 Airshow

The PA system looks like portable kit to me, probably rented from a company in Leicester.

Location is definately HUCKNALL and the date was 3rd June 1963. I have the “Red Pelicans” brochure from that year, which gives their display dates.

When I lived in the UK (Kimberly) my neighbour worked for a Hucknall (I think for RR)

I’m at Hucknall fairly regularly, on the airfield, as a member of the RR Model Flying club and the hills in the background aren’t visible now.

The Vulcan with the Concorde Olympus underneath it was actually based at Filton.

Yes I think I remember reading about the “Concorde engine slung underneath also based at Hucknall”

Wasn’t the Vulcan with the Concorde engine slung underneath also based at Hucknall?

The first Vulcan prototype VX770 was on loan to Rolls-Royce and based at Hucknall until its fatal crash at Syerston on September 20, 1958.
Also XA896 was converted at Hucknall to act as the test bed for the Bristol Siddeley BS100 vectored thrust engine which was to have powered the Hawker Siddeley P1154 V/STOL Mach 2 strike fighter, before that project, like many others, was cancelled.

I just noticed the writing on the PA system…it reads “…icester” does that mean anything to anyone?

I reckon it’s Leicester

I just noticed the writing on the PA system…it reads “…icester” does that mean anything to anyone?

Thanks for all sharing bits of info..

My father was quite into airshows…and I can remember being tramatised by the EE Lightings doing their displays over the crowds at Hucknall..

I think he used to tell me that the Vulcan were used at Huckall for testing..anyone heard that one?

When did the last in service with the RAF Spits/Seafires retire? And was there a time where only one or two were left flying in the world?

Not at all, Melvyn, but we have a certain standard to maintain . . . apropos recent remarks about younger members of this community!
Sorry to wander so far off thread, I am terribly disappointed to miss what would have been my first ever Leg Ends, therefore grumpy!

MH, you have slipped back into your old Conningsby spelling – tut, tut!

I admit it, I did it on purpose,

Does this mean I now have to be punished?

MH

MH, you have slipped back into your old Conningsby spelling – tut, tut!

Fifty-five years ago.

… and at the Royal Aeronautical Society garden party at White Waltham – 8th May 1949.

Mark

Cough… Splutter!!

A continuous UK display history for fifty-five years. First in private hands, then company hands – Vickers and finally BBMF.

Who said MH434…….

Mark

Earlier this year at Conningsby . . .

Derby Airways certainly morphed into British Midland but they didn’t arrive at Castle Donington (East Midlands) until late 64/early 65. I was working on the M1 at the time and a BM pilot I met occasionally in the pub at Kegworth reckoned that the Argonauts were the best 3-engined airliner ever due to the high rate of failure on the Merlins. So I guess it must have been Hucknall but a super bit of nostalgia, thanks for sharing.

Does the Spitfire AB910 still exist?

Cough… Splutter!!

A continuous UK display history for fifty-five years. First in private hands, then company hands – Vickers and finally BBMF.

Who said MH434…….

Mark

Hi all

here’s another link with some photos of this P-47 ‘in action’ in 1961:

http://groups.msn.com/hamiltonafbmemories/photosbynormankietzman.msnw

Cheers
Martin / Swiss Mustangs

The JP T.4s are indeed “The Red Pelicans” from CFS Little Rissington. I think I am right in saying that the P-47 only UK displays were at Hucknall and North Weald (it mainly came to Europe for the Paris Air Show), and the shots were clearly not taken at North Weald.