I shall be going, but the weather forecast will dictate which day. As we are split between Saturday & Sunday (and some on Friday) I propose that those going meet at the same time and place on both days, say by the nose of the Viscount at 1200?

pphhhnnrrrr!!

I wanted to call our son Belvedere, but for some reason my wife wasn’t too keen :confused:

It’s not the size of the chopper that counts!! 😮

Wrong decision!

I had plans to do Biggin Hill on Saturday and Old Warden on Sunday, but a late night on Friday plus lots to do at home, meant only one show at the weekend – decisions – planes I needed shots of at Biggin Hill AND Old Warden, but which should I choose? I had been briefed on the planned formation with the Seafire at OW but the Biggin Hill show held more nostalgia as it was my 40th consecutive Biggin show 😮 I was still undecide going along the M4 and made the decision at the M25 interchange – Biggin it was…WRONG DECISION! Although I did well at Biggin and got all I wanted, that formation upstaged everything that will appear this year! Just one question, does anyone know if Yeovilton will re-enact this….Lee perhaps?

This certainly sounds like the Hendon Air Pageant of 1932. The Rank Organisation made a series of films called “Look at Life” during the 1960s and have just licensed some of their aviation films to DD Entertainment and 125 Video. The latter have just released one on Military Aviation, which arrived today. I’m delighted to say that one of these 10-minute films features the Shuttleworth Collection aircraft in 1962, when they took part in the “50th Anniversary of Military Aviation” display at RAF Upavon in June of that year. Delightful to see the Bristol Fighter and SE-5A both painted silver, the Avro 504 painted green and more. Movietone News and British Pathe both made superb short aviation news films in 16mm, but they capitalise on their archives and would probably charge an arm-and-a-leg for its commercial use!
I can’t imagine any museum hoarding archive film and doing nothing with it, when they could sell DVDs to raise restoration funds? Your best chance is to appeal in forums like this, as there must be many ‘mature enthusiasts’ that have some 8mm or even 16mm collecting dust in their attics, probably mixed up with the family holiday movies. I am involved with a company called Avion Video that are looking for just such archive material and they produce DVDs from it, which you may have seen examples of.

Very nice – I’ve always been a bit of a Stampe collector myself! 😉

I was there today also! Some great shots and don’t think I can add anything to those, but here are a few I took.

Glad someone else agrees with me about the building.

How can anyone not like this imaginative piece of architectural design that doesn’t look old and boring, yet will be functional and have aircraft in every corner?

That’s IT! I have kicked Biggin Hill into touch for Sunday and am diverting to OW!
Lee, Stringbag et all, how about a meet up?