Alan Cobham on BBC2

Post by **Trev Clark** » 06 Mar 2007, 09:30

It was on last night at 19.30, I had no connection then so could not give you a H.U. :crying:
Lots of footage of inter war years flying, good stuff!

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 06 Mar 2007, 10:20

Oh don't start another thread about last night's television, we'll only have Garry telling us he hasn't got a TV again!

But for those of us who do (in the UK anyway, Dan), thoroughly enjoyable, lots of nice grainy footage of "proper planes".

AndyG

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 06 Mar 2007, 11:05

Oh yes we can ;-)

This thread started off with the channel-name in the title, so instantly it told me that is was nowt for me.....

And that's why I comment on it... :roll:

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 06 Mar 2007, 15:33

Did they have anything about the gent who used to jump about of Cobhams aircraft with a pair of bat wings on -- Trying to think of his name - German I think - My mum said she say the Circus at Haddock Park once long long ago ---edit well theres a sharp octegenarian for you - she says it was Haddock Park 1934 the fellows name was Clem Sohn and he used to jump out of a
Moth as part of Cobhams Circus

Never mind ansered my own question (well Old mum Min did

)

Leif

cstorey · Post by **cstorey** » 07 Mar 2007, 08:30

I was fascinated by some of the footage, which I hadn't seen before - in particular, the wing walker almost certainly was a man I knew, Martin Hearn, who was a pilot for Cobham throughout the early 1930s, and was said to be the model for Tom Cutter in Nevil Shute's book "Round the Bend"