This picture was taken from my car, on my way to work, as the RAE Canberra was being dismantled, in April 1990.
And a couple more which I took from my car on the same day.
Fanborough Air Show, back in the early 70’s, before I got involved in Railway preservation. In those days I had a realy crap camera. but I was only in my teens.
By: LAHARVE - 29th February 2004 at 15:45
The only image I have from Farnborough, is of Lightning G-AWON? taken at the 1968 show, all the other shots were of such bad quality they had to be disposed of, I kept this one because of the Queens Award marking.
By: Eric Mc - 29th February 2004 at 10:39
Interesting pics. I took some Video 8 footage of that Canberra shortly before it was broken up. Some day I’ll have the technology to post video on my computer.
As an aside – the old Apprentice Hangar (which is just out of shot to the left of the Canberra in the above pictures) was demolished only last week.
Although of dubious architectural heritage, it was historic in that it was used as the UK operational base for Richard Noble and his Thrust SSC team in the mid 1990s.
I was wondering about the picture of the Nimrod and the Comet. Is the Nimrod saying to the Comet – “Can I have my tail fin back now?”
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February 29, 2004 at 10:30 am