Colour footage 1950's British Jets…

Excellent footage of excellent aircraft at an excellent show!
Its the first time I have seen colour footage of the Valiant B.2 and the Folland Midge.
What amazes me most is how close the photogs were allowed to the runway!

Amazing footage, thanks for the link. Great to see colour footage of the B2 Valiant and Supermarine Type 525, really great stuff. Was this footage ever released or is it some kind of off-cut??

In the same vein go to Youtube and put in Vampires and Meteors of the 1950’s, RauxAF, black and white but with sound, really good stuff.
P.D.Truman, Building Consultant.
Sorry, didn’t notice I’d slipped in an advert, I may have noticed it even less if it had taken over the whole page and it had been in colour, snarf, snarf.
There is obviously more of this footage, where can it be seen, remembering airshows in the 50’s, and being lucky enough to experience them, you can see how dangerous they were, but at the time, it was every day events at Hucknall.
Incidentally, the picture of the RR Spitfire and Lightning as published in this current addition of Flypast make me think it was an air to air taken from a typical days flying from Hucknall, both a/c were sitting out on the ramp everyday during the summer.

I think seeing WJ954 the B.2. Prototype was the biggest thrill for me, although the Javelins were a close second.

Bit of info…

‘The B.2 prototype (WJ954) flew for the first time on the 4th of September 1953. The B.2 was a one-off prototype stressed for low-level, high-speed penetration as a target marker required by outdated RAF WW2 tactics. Shown off at Farnborough a few days later, the aircraft had two major visible changes – the nose was longer and the undercarriage was now located in big fairings underneath the wings instead of within the wing itself. This meant the wing could be a stronger structure for its low level requirements. WJ954 continued as a flying test-bed for a while but was eventually transported to Foulness in 1958 to be destroyed by having various weapons fired at it to assess the vulnerability of modern aircraft to gunfire.’

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Sorry, it was not intentional, I wasn’t aware at the time I had posted any…

Awesome, but why no sound, I’ve checked my settings and it isn’t me.
Sad to think that the Vulcan shown, VX770, was the Hucknall example that broke up over Syerston in 1958, I wonder how many of the others were lost in accidents.
The all black Valiant was fantastic, so was the Canberra being rolled and the Vulcan looped.
Was the all white jet flying with the Swift the Hawker P1052 with a revised tail, it looked a pretty tasty a/c, a cross between a Seahawk and a Hunter, what happened to it.
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Many thanks for that – superb!