Read the forum code of contact
By: - 3rd September 2009 at 18:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
AAAaaahhh !!!
By: - 3rd September 2009 at 18:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
And finally!
Jim
By: - 3rd September 2009 at 18:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
And the log!
I had to cut and paste this from Excel to Word and the extreme RH edge has been cut off!
Jim
By: - 3rd September 2009 at 18:22 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
AAAaaahhh !!!
I hope that wasn't a coronary OE!
Jim
By: - 3rd September 2009 at 19:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Superb photos Jim. I was due to attend this particular display (at the age of 8) but my parents decreed that I was too ill to go. Many thanks for showing me what I missed!
Were you at MSG for the Battle of Britain display in 1962 by any chance? I did make it to this one which was my first close up encounter with the Lightnings of 226 OCU. I seem to recall that there was a USAF F-104 Starfighter in static which departed after the show. On take off the pilot retracted the gear but maintained a height of about 10ft for the length of the runway before pulling up into a near vertical climb, all in reheat of course. If you did attend, do you have the serial and unit in your records?
Peter
By: - 3rd September 2009 at 19:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hello Peter,
Sorry, I was at the Acklington show in 62 and the F-104 didn't come there. Acklington was my usual base to visit on BoB day and MSG in 1961 was a one-off as my brother and I were offered a free lift from Newcastle on Wallsend ATC's coach!
I'm always puzzled by the fact that there were thousands of spectators at these shows, many of whom were taking photos and logging aircraft and yet all that information seems to have vanished!
One coincidence that year was the fact that my brother's future wife had just been born less than a mile away from MSG!
Jim
By: - 3rd September 2009 at 19:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thanks Jim
That F-104 departure is still a cherished memory after all these years. I think the pilot must have been a bit fed up having been forced to watch RAF Lightnings all afternoon.
Another (even earlier) memory is of a Short Sunderland heading south along the North East coast and seen off Whitby in about August 1958. I've often wondered about that one as well!
Peter
By: - 3rd September 2009 at 20:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
What - No Voodoo !?
Lovely snaps, my first airshow was Greenham Common 1976/77 (?) so like you I can remember the pre F-16 days in airshows !
By: - 3rd September 2009 at 23:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
There was supposed to be a Sunderland flypast at the RAF Ouston BoB display in 1956 but the weather was too bad for it (for a SUNDERLAND???? we thought) so it didn't turn up although it made to the Yorkshire displays, inc Leconfield, I believe. What we did get though was a flypast of 3 RAF Neptunes from 36 Sqn from Topcliffe who braved it through the murk.
You're right about the quality of airshows of that period BSG. I was lucky enough to be at the Farnborough shows from 1956-62 and they were simply superb. In 1958, for example, as well as the famous 22 aircraft loop by the Hunters of 111 Sqn there was also a flypast of another 45 Hunters and 45 Javelins plus stunning displays by teams from 9 Sqn's Canberras, the CFS's Jet Provost Mk.1s, 800 Sqn's Seahawks and 803 Sqn with their awesome Scimitars!
All that plus the company demonstrators, Bill Bedford, Roland Beamont, Roly Falk,Peter Twiss, etc.,etc. Without wishing to denigrate them in any way,how many people can bring to mind the name of just one present day test pilot?
Ah,me!
Jim
By: - 4th September 2009 at 10:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Great photos, the 1960s Battle of Britain Days were just great; Abingdon and Benson were mine.
By: - 4th September 2009 at 11:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Wonderful photos! Have you any more of the same era?
By: - 4th September 2009 at 13:33 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
111 Sqn Lightning
Wonderful post, sort of thing that makes this web site such a wonderful experience- nice people sharing nice memories! I think the Lightning F1 A is probably the Solo Display flown by Flt Lt Anthony "Bugs" Bendal later Wg Cdr. The Aircraft is of course XM192 K still around and the subject of about 2 million 1/72 models! The picture is very similar to one taken by Roger Lindsay a well know author of the 60s 70s anyone know where he now is? Thanks for posting regards SF- Is that the 1 sqn ~spit?
By: - 4th September 2009 at 14:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
re;
What more to add? Absolutely wonderful pics.
By: - 4th September 2009 at 16:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Great nostalgia, the airshows of the 50's and 60's.
John
By: - 4th September 2009 at 17:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Great photo's Jim,
Would you be interested in sharing your BoB logs & photo's for inclusion in NEAM's Tailwind magazine? Credit & copyright would remain with you.
In the NEAM archives I've found most of the Sunderland (airport) airshow programmes, a few from Teeside & fewer still from the BoB days at Ouston / Acklington so any further info would be gratefully received!
Cheers
Dave
By: - 5th September 2009 at 08:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Great images, thanks for sharing. Any idea as to the identity of the Spitfire??
C6
By: - 5th September 2009 at 08:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Great images, thanks for sharing. Any idea as to the identity of the Spitfire??C6
TB382
By: - 6th September 2009 at 07:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
TB382
Ah, thank you Mr A.
C6
Posts: 705
By: jim_jobe - 3rd September 2009 at 18:02 - Edited 2nd October 2019 at 11:40
This is a follow-on from the B-66 thread.Photos plus my log for the day:
Jim