Great video. Reminds me of Finningley 1992 when they visited the UK. Unfortunately the weather didn’t co-operate and it was very grey and hazy…pity because their display was just awesome. I always felt they had the edge on the Thunderbirds.
Also Concorde and the penultimate RAF Vulcan display complete with “Farewell” banner in the bomb bay.
Some additions here…the Manning-Flanders was photographed when it visited Old Warden, and the Fokker and Morane were at Booker, all in 1976 as far as my archives tell me..
The following item doesn’t seem to fit with the idea of the MF1 being designed by Roy Chadwick, though?
“MANNING-FLANDERS MF.l monoplane (W.O. Manning and Howard Flanders)
This aircraft is one that was not completed in 1910-1911, when it was originally conceived. The basis of it was apparently the Flanders F.l, which was abandoned in June 1910-1911 (q.v.) and which Flanders passed on to Manning, at the time when Manning was employed by the Coventry Ordnance Works. Pressure of work prevented Manning completing the design and construction, the aircraft being broken up at Battersea in 1912. A Crossley aero engine, intended to be fitted, was also not produced.
The was a conventional style tractor monoplane of the period, using a triangular section fuselage, uncovered behind the pilot. A central skid undercarriage and a cabane above the fuselage provided anchorages to brace the wings, which probably employed warping control in the original design.
However a replica aircraft based on some of the original drawings was built in 1974 by Personal Plane Services of White Waltham. The replica MF.l has flown successfully at intervals, including a Channel crossing in 1984, powered by a 65hp Continental flat four air-cooled engine.”
The Gull as she was in the skies over Old Warden…
and as I saw her in Auckland Int Airport in 2008
It’s actually a well presented display, but such a pity to see an airworthy aircraft suspended in a shopping mall.
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