I like the one with The Falcons departing the Argosy.
A.

While I’m a devoted Shuttleworth fan, I have to say the reception I (and Septic) received when we accidentally wandered into the chickenwired-off SVAS enclosure on our first visits in the mid eighties was very much ‘the old boys club’ and we were certainly regarded as unwelcome.

It took many years for my antipathy towards that attitude from some SVAS people to wear off. It’s a lesson to all of us to be welcoming to the less ‘included’ than ourselves if we want our aviation to have a future. It’ll take more than a couple of crusty gits to put me off 😉 and I’m sure today’s SVAS is open-armed to all ages, isn’t it?

James,
the removal of the SVAS members enclosure was the subject of much heated debate and the subject of much letter writing back in those pre-word processor days, some of which are still on file!
Even more ill feeling was generated when a local chap who had a burger van concession against the flight line fence for many years was asked to remove it!!

For many years also, the Collection was the British Class system in microcosm and this certainly still lingers in some of our darker corners–but not much!!
These days we work hard to be as open as possible and occasionally we nod towards the fact that it’ll never be 1966 again… 🙂 😉 🙂
The proof is obviously me–as I’d never normally join a club that would have me as a member–let alone on the committee!–to slightly corrupt what Groucho Marx said.
These days also, the Collection is, despite what some people will tell you, is managed on a much sounder financial basis.

Andy

Mark.
The Shuttleworth Set.
Stunning!!–thanks for posting these.
The collection as I remember it from early years.
Hangar One before they had front doors for it and the long grass and low hedges.

Cheers
Andy

I’ll second that and I’d also like to thank You, Nick, Andy, Ian, Gordon, Darren and everyone else who has helped and made me welcome at OW during the season.

Steve,
hopefully, you’ll be around next year too.
Andy

N-I-C-E-!!!

DragonflyDH90.
Well you asked so here’s a random selection from the case I keep in my potable DVD player bag.

The Third Man
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.
Lawrence of Arabia (full length version)
Regeneration
The Bicycle Thieves
The last Samurai
Il Postino
Malena
Last orders
The Blues Brothers (original)
Get Carter (original)
Das Wunder von Bearn
Almost Salinas
The italian Job (original)
The World’s Fastest Indian.
Walk The Line.

Strangely and despite what I’ve been accused of, not a documentary among them.
I first went to the pictures when I was five. Throughout my teenage years I went to see a film twice sometimes three times a week.
Some good, some bad, some awful.
It worries me that that many of you seem to need to be told what’s good and what you need to see instead of making your own minds up.

My long standing cinematic ambition is to see the original ‘Gone in Sixty Seconds’ at the pictures again. Sadly it’s long lost.

Andy

Not like in the good old days, eh Andy…? :confused:

Since when was the movie industry (note – industry) interested in anything other than making a profit?

I suppose you thought Band of Brothers was “mostly cr&p” too.

Well I might suggest that there was time when certain directors made an effort to make better films–although you’re correct about it always been a money making industry.

I certainly didn’t think Band of Brothers was crap.
I could discuss the finer points of it with you at length but you seem to have made all sorts of assumptions about what I like already so that’s probably a pointless exercise.

It certainly made some effort to be sympathetic to the characters and their situations rather than the ‘Hammer down’ or ‘Only Hero’s are allowed in that tent’ b*llocks of Pearl Harbo(u)r and Flyboys.

Surely you can differentiate between the two schools of thought.
If you can’t you must lead a very limited life.
Andy

Well Dave,
simply put modern film makers are mostly cr*p at making anything that even vaguely resembles reality and I’m not just talking about real aeroplanes but realistic characters who appear to live and interact with other characters–that used to be part of an actors craft as well.
Many films today treat the audience with something approaching contempt, seeing audiences as a cash cow without any sense of discernment whatsoever.
When anyone has the temerity to raise any concerns, that person is instantly branded an anorak or seriously in need of a documentary etc, etc.
What people seem to fail to understand is that there’s a difference between good entertainment and sh*t.
There have been thousands of films made which are entertaining without being documentaries, it now seems audiences can’t tell the difference between good and bad–or can they???
I rather hope they can.

However, I do agree with you that this hasn’t been made yet and we must give it a chance.
Even if I’d still prefer a new subject was tackled.
Andy