Music and Aircraft……….

I’ll go with Clannad/Theme from Harry’s Game/Vulcan. As I recall, the music finished as the Vulcan arrived overhead (you wouldn’t really have been able to hear it after then, anyway).

From a quick Google, part of the lyrics translate as:

“I will go east and go west

[To the places] from whence came

The moon and the sun”

Spooky and appropriate, in a V-Force sort of context.

And the Gliders/Pink Floyd routine was nice too.

Oh yes, and Moonlight Sonata seems to be a favourite piece of music to link to any wartime footage of Bomber Command, very moving.

Only music I want to hear is the sound of the engines.

I hate it. “Chariots of fire” with the Grasshoppers, “Chariots of fire” with any solo display in the late 1980s, and Jean Michel Jarre’s equally horrid syntherizer crap with any late 1980s/early 1990s display teams. Horrible.

Der – the song was titled “Theme from Harry’s Game” and there are no English words in it. It is entirely in (very badly enunciated) Gaelic.

Its has to be Sally b with Glenn Miller songs playing springs to mind,

Dont know the title but it sounds like “follow the dawn”.
Listening to it in the car earlier and always feel that in the dying moments of the last bar, the music should be replaced by the sound of four Olympuses spooling up. Music indeed.

That was the theme from the 1982 TV series “Harry’s Game”. It was performed by the Irish group “Clannad” (lead singer Enya) and is the only Irish language song to top the UK charts – not that I could ever make out a single word she was saying.

I get goose bumps every time I hear the track by Enya (can’t remember the title at the moment) which used to accompany the vulcan’s display everywhere she went. A very moving and suitable track – I wonder if they will use it again if she flys!

RichB

I’ve never been a great fan of having music accompanying air displays. That was something that came into vogue in the 1980s.

However, I do associate music with some aviation related matters – such as all those great Ron Goodwin scores (“633 Squadron”, “Battle of Britain”, “Where Eagles Dare” etc). I also have a tenuous mental link with Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” and a spotting trip from Dublin to the 1979 RAF Valley Open Day for some reason. Maybe a trader was playing it on his stand or something. I can’t remember now but in my mind, red and white Hawks and a strong saxophone solo are somehow connected.

“THE RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES”
Has to be Middle Wallop Army Air Corp display of 80+ helicopters …. I first saw the display back in 1975 and again a couple of times in the 80s pretty impressive for a bunch of eggbeaters:)

Shine on you crazy diamond always makes me think of those graceful aerobatics that the Foulnier motor glider duo used to do… 🙂

I always wanted to make a war movie with a load of warbirds and put it to classical music.

“Ride of the Valkyries” to a formation of He111s or Me109s on a “frei jagd”? Bombs going off all over the place… da da da da DA da….! (Imagine it ;))

Well whenever I hear Queen’s ‘A Kind of Magic’, I am always transported back to the RAFA airshow at Shoreham, 1998, when the Army Helicopter display team performed with this song playing 🙂