My pleasure. I am so pleased that the community here seems to be more vibrant lately than it has been for ages. I stopped coming for ages because I’d make a post and get tumbleweeds. I still have a few of those posts, like the one the Ayro wheels in the RAF that I posted a few days back. I guess no-one knows about them.

Thanks, turns out I found Firefox on my laptop, but I had to switch my VPN to the UK to watch it. But it played in the end.

What was going on with that Avro Tutor, he was all over the place taking off, and then be nearly took the heads off those boys. Did they used to do the “drunken redneck steals aeroplane” way back then too?

I came across some more coloured footage from an RAF air display in 1937. No coloured smoke but some neat aeroplanes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVMcJ5RZBm0 

No bombs? It’s ‘elf ‘n’ safety gawn mad.

Good stuff.

That Cierva looks fantastic!

Can you imagine if the RAF had adopted these machines as fighters? The Luftwaffe would have died laughing when these showed up to defend Britain.

I’d love to see one in the air though to gauge how fast and ferocious they were.

TO PROVIDE SPORT AT HENDON.— Prehistoric “animals” being prepared for the Pterodactyl type of aeroplane to destroy in the air during the Royal Air Force Pageant at Hendon on June 24.
Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1933

I wonder how the Pterodactyl destroyed these balloons?

Weird. I have not clicked on it, but rolling the cursor over it, the pop up url looks like it is untampered with.

Anyway… I hope you use my link and have a listen.