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Television goes Flying – BBC 1955 RAF Watton

Filming from on board a Varsity,formating with Lincoln/3xHunters/Meteor NF12/Vampire NF – with sound !

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By: bazv - 30th November 2017 at 21:48

Pleasure Alan.
Must have been right on the limit for the camera/recording technology of the time,the camera mounted at the co pilot position was only just managing to cope most of the time (and was really struggling a couple of times) – the camera mounted at the bomb aimers position in the under fuselage bathtub giving a great forward view (and of the nosewheel steering on the ground) seemed to be working very well.
From memory the pilot who managed to stay in camera view the longest at formation break was the Lincoln pilot – he actually did a fairly steep breakaway : )

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By: AlanR - 29th November 2017 at 22:52

Thanks for posting that Bazv, Very nostalgic. When we first used to visit my parents, who lived very close to the airfield,
there was still a Meteor on the main gate.

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