Air Pageant (Silver Jubilee Celebrations) - 1977

[RichB]

Some great footage here from White Waltham in 1977 including a Flying Fortress, Mosquito, Lancaster & Spitfire, replica SE5a and Fokker Triplane plus a very low pass by a VC10

https://youtu.be/2XlSaJGtF5g

[eharding]

RichB said:

Some great footage here from White Waltham in 1977 including a Flying Fortress, Mosquito, Lancaster & Spitfire, replica SE5a and Fokker Triplane plus a very low pass by a VC10

https://youtu.be/2XlSaJGtF5g

Epic stuff - I'd never seen the video of the VC10 before, only the photos - I wonder what the habitual noise complainers would have made of that!

[Tony1963]

eharding said:

Epic stuff - I'd never seen the video of the VC10 before, only the photos - I wonder what the habitual noise complainers would have made of that!

Someone posts a really good video.
Someone finds something negative to post.

[RichB]

Tony1963 said:

Someone finds something negative to post.

No worries, it's a quip about people who live near White Waltham, buying a house by an airfield that's been there since long before they were born and then complaining about aircraft.

[GT03ROB]

I'm sure that Fokker triplane used be based at Waltham, Unfortunately it crashed into a field next to the aerodrome a few years later. Great seeing that VC10 do such a low pass

[Ian Geary]

Thanks, reminds me of airshows I went to as a kid in the 80s.

That vc10 is crazy low. I'm not sure what zoom the camera had, but the h&s bods would go nuts about that today being anywhere near a crowd.

Having said that, cv-19 has probably killed off any air events now...another piece of the past consigned to history.

[Simpo Two]

I had no idea British Movietone News was still going in 1977 - makes it seem like 1947!

[Yertis]

Ian Geary said:

another piece of the past consigned to history.

History is normally where the past gets consigned to.

I wouldn’t give up on airshows just yet. They’ll be back.

[lost in espace]

I went to a Shuttleworth show last year, so want to return to another!

[RizzoTheRat]

Fantastic, that's some incredibly low passes by the big boys, not just the VC10 but the Lancaster and B17 looked to be lower than their wingspan too.

Lovely to see a Mosquito flying too, am I right in thinking the only ones still flying are in the US?

[eharding]

RichB said:

Tony1963 said:

Someone finds something negative to post.

No worries, it's a quip about people who live near White Waltham, buying a house by an airfield that's been there since long before they were born and then complaining about aircraft.

Precisely.

[Eric Mc]

RizzoTheRat said:

Fantastic, that's some incredibly low passes by the big boys, not just the VC10 but the Lancaster and B17 looked to be lower than their wingspan too.

Lovely to see a Mosquito flying too, am I right in thinking the only ones still flying are in the US?

One of them is in Canada.