Biggin Hill 1973

So that return trip from Biggin has certainly stayed with you, Al.;):D Biggin was always one of our favourite shows when my brother and I were taken as youngsters and I was mortified, some years ago, to have lost boxes of photos both monochrome and colour from those shows.

Thanks – that’s jogged my memory to dig out my slides of Biggin Hill in 1973, when I was there for RAF aircrew selection. Whittled down from an initial mass of 72 people to me and three others, only to be rejected later after multiple eyesight tests.
I was feeling rather sorry for myself, until a very nice girl gave me a leg-over in the train’s guard’s van on the way back…;)

Is that a Lancaster??

Great set of photo’s, would be great to see more of Biggin in those days.

Thanks for the comments. It would be great to see some even earlier ones. But I have some more and as soon as I can get my hands on a slide copier i’ll post some more. I have some nice gnat arrows shots (but then who hasn’t).

Great set of photo’s, would be great to see more of Biggin in those days.

When I fished out this photo for this thread, I too thought they looked very low. I don’t ever remember them going into the valley but I’m sure they use to fly lower in those days.

I maybe wrong but it looks like the reds are coming out the valley maybe?

I remember that show well and that was only a part of the flypast. There were even more than that.

The Gnat was such a pretty aeroplane. Am I right in thinking that there are more helicopters in the Wessex picture than are serving in the forces today :diablo:

Such a shame, we had armed forces back then, not so now it seems.