http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1945to51/filmpage_itb.htm
Here is an interesting video about ten minutes long which shows a Stratocruiser, Viking, Aerovan, Halifax, Accountant, Solent, Princess, Brabazon, Viscount, Ambassador and Hermes. Great flypast by a BOAC Constellation 200 feet above some beach, where is it? 😀
By: Ron Cuskelly - 1st March 2006 at 00:02
Ah the nostalgia. Why is it that you can’t get a good feed of bottle caps these days?
By: Papa Lima - 28th February 2006 at 21:45
The Berlin Airlift film is also well worth a look, plenty of Sunderlands, Tudors and Yorks, for instance.
By: ALBERT ROSS - 28th February 2006 at 20:36
Indeed the Farnborough clip is from the 1950 show. There are also several more aviation films on this site of interest, including this one of early operations at London Airport in 1949. Great stuff:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1945to51/filmpage_la.htm
By: Newforest - 28th February 2006 at 19:54
Thank’s for finding that. Very good.
I never knew that the Queen worked as a Public Announcer at the London Air Terminal 🙂 The voice was extremely plummy wasn’t it – but the diction was perfect.
Oh yes, the Queen does voice overs, the secret’s out!
I didn’t spot any Accountants though. That film was made very early in the 50s, almost ten years before the Accountant flew. There was some footage of the Armstrong Whitworth Apollo. Probably right! I wrote down Appollo first and then amended it to Accountant.
But where is the Constellation doing the flyby? A pier with a swimming pool on it should be a good clue!
By: Eric Mc - 28th February 2006 at 16:47
Thank’s for finding that. Very good.
I never knew that the Queen worked as a Public Announcer at the London Air Terminal 🙂 The voice was extremely plummy wasn’t it – but the diction was perfect.
I didn’t spot any Accountants though. That film was made very early in the 50s, almost ten years before the Accountant flew. There was some footage of the Armstrong Whitworth Apollo.
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