Check out http://www.britishpathe.com to view and download free previews of old newsreels from the late 1800’s right through to 1970-including, of course, no end of historic aircraft type footage! For instance, I’ve just been watching footage of the 100th op of Lanc S-Sugar being celebrated, and also, a reunion of Dams crewmen, inside Lancaster NX611, complete with excellent footage of it flying/landing etc!
By: stringbag - 23rd November 2002 at 17:28
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I have also got the 1953 review of the fleet – Firefly, Sea Fury, Dragonfly are three types included in the clip.
M
By: Bluebird Mike - 23rd November 2002 at 14:30
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Yay!
By: stringbag - 23rd November 2002 at 13:20
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Just downloaded a clip of the first F4K Phantoms for the Royal Navy arriving at RNAS Yeovilton 😀
Cracking toast gromit 🙂
M
By: Bluebird Mike - 23rd November 2002 at 13:18
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PS, I’ve just accessed the ‘broken’ site perfectly normally for the third time today!
By: Bluebird Mike - 23rd November 2002 at 13:11
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Hey! Chill out a bit! I was only trying to point out that you need to stick with it, as loads of others have done, who have really enjoyed the results!
Happy Landings!
By: Bluebird Mike - 23rd November 2002 at 10:58
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Blimey! The site is NOT ‘broken’, it’s BUSY!!! Probably depends what server you’re going through too. Maybe in fact it’s your end that needs fixing mate!!!
Well, lots of us on here-and even more of us Donald Campbell enthusiasts elsewhere on the web-have had more patience, and have downloaded some absolutely AMAZING old material as a result.
By: Bluebird Mike - 23rd November 2002 at 00:14
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…the 50th anniversary of the RAF at Abingdon is well worth a look, too- also from 1968, with all sorts of historic airframes on show like you wouldn’t believe!
By: stringbag - 22nd November 2002 at 23:11
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I got the same message about 10 mins ago. It was working fine earlier though. Just got to be there at the right time I think.
M
By: Bluebird Mike - 22nd November 2002 at 21:13
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Just watched the one about the end of Bomber Command-oldest footage of PA474 I’ve ever seen! (Searched for ‘lancaster bomber’)
By: Bluebird Mike - 22nd November 2002 at 20:48
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Phew! Hooray!
By: neilly - 22nd November 2002 at 20:38
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I think you may be right, Lancman. I finally got to see a couple of clips, but the third one came up with the notice. At least I know it works, now.
Cheers,
Neilly
By: Bluebird Mike - 22nd November 2002 at 20:17
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Ah, right-I think that must be simply the site being so busy at the times you’ve both tried then! I’ve never had that particular error message, but a couple of times I’ve just not been able to get on there at all, especially on the day when it was all over the national press. As of a few moments ago, the whole site was down for me, too. I’d say, keep trying-when the place is not clogged up, it really does work well, and there’s so much to see! Don’t let this put you off.
By: neilly - 22nd November 2002 at 20:01
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Damien, that looks familiar!
Neilly
By: Bluebird Mike - 22nd November 2002 at 18:30
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…if you DO get it working okay for you, the results for ‘Vulcan’ are fun, too!
By: Bluebird Mike - 22nd November 2002 at 18:27
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That’s even MORE annoying-it’s been brilliant throughout for me, some others here, and some friends elsewhere online. Can anyone help with this? Maybe something to do with a browser setting? Or perhaps it IS the site, and it’s just happening to random people-what does the error message actually say guys?
By: Bluebird Mike - 22nd November 2002 at 18:11
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That’s damn strange-I’ve just tried it and it’s fine. Click on the ‘add to basket’ to the right of the clip you want, it will come up and tell you it’s been added, then it goes back to the search results page. Click ‘basket’ up above, and you should get a page that looks a bit like an invoice, showing your basket contents and lots of ‘£0.00’ where the previews are free. You have to click what country you’re in from the list on the left, then click ‘proceed’ where you’ll need to fill in a couple of details.
Can anyone more computer literate than I please help Neilly out here?
By: neilly - 22nd November 2002 at 12:59
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Hi Lancman,
I did all that, but it keeps telling me my basket is empty & that’s as far as I can get.
Cheers,
Neilly
By: Bluebird Mike - 22nd November 2002 at 11:26
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Example-
Type ‘Lancaster’ into the search box, hit ‘enter’. Choose ‘King Visits The Dam Raiders’ by clicking ‘add to basket’ over on the right there. It adds it to your basket, and then takes you back to the search results page where you came from-then, click on ‘basket’ up at the top, in the yellow bar, and you should be okay to follow everything through from there.
By: Bluebird Mike - 22nd November 2002 at 11:23
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Neilly, once you’ve got what you want in your basket-not too many at a time mind, or they’ll take years to download if your connection is anything like mine-you’ll need to go through their ‘checkout’ procedure-just fill in your name/email etc, then it will take you through to a screen where you can click on each of the files you wanted, and start to download them. Download times vary-a couple of minutes to about fifteen, based on my experience so far.
Remember the previews are free, but are also low res-BUT, they’re still worth the effort!
There’s no sound on the S-Sugar 100 ops one, in case anyone is wondering!
By: neilly - 22nd November 2002 at 09:16
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Pardon me for being stupid, but how do you get the clips to run? As none of the ones I’ve clicked do, they just go to the shopping basket & that’s it!
Neilly
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