Wonderful photos, Pete thanks very much for posting.
I can only imagine how exciting it must have been to arrive at Farnborough and see such a selection of great British aircraft all lined up.
The future must have looked very rosy. Sad that just 35 years later we would have no aircraft industry left
Kevin
Stratospheric traces, of our transitory flight.
Trails of condensation, held in narrow paths of white...
On the civil side it was already known the VC 10 and the Trident were going to be hard to sell and the Vanguard had already failed to sell apart from two fleets.
The Herald was struggling against the F-27, but the 748 was enjoying success
The 125 offered hope as did the One-Eleven, still on the drawing board at that time
The decision had already been made that there would be no Farnborough in 1963 and from then on it would be biennial, rotating with Paris.
The biggest mistake was that they saw it coming and failed to take the right steps to stop it declining further.
:-(
Garry
Garry
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
Garry..I hope you're not insinuating that some of us don't take Grumpy Old Man status seriously.....
..actually you may be right, I feel more like the bloke in the back of the Scout....
Derek
'My Auntie Mabel told me I'd make a great soldier, though I don't know how 30 years working in a biscuit factory had qualified her to make that judgement.....' Eddie Nugent
Three of us were there that Summer - I clearly remember my father loading us all into the Sapphire and motoring down
to Farnborough - having left Glosters he was now employed by Hawkers at the 748 design office at Harrow and had managed
to wangle tickets - Was that not the year that there a HUGE Lightning formation flyby?? and I seem to remember my mum
showing me a Mosquito for the first time in the flesh
Thanks to all those who posted notes of appreciation. It makes the time spent scanning worthwhile - and it isn't easy to get decent results from 35mm slides with the fairly basic equipment I have. :-(
There are quite a few more boxes of slides taken by this photographer, at various locations and times between the 50s and 70s, in existence but I'm very concerned about the propriety of posting someone else's work without permission. However, they're far too good to be left lying around unseen, gathering dust and deteriorating - as you may have noticed from the odd patterns on some of the photos, moisture has already got in between the glass on some of the mounts and it's only a matter of time before the emulsion begins to suffer irreparable damage - so I'll try to chase up some proper authorisation to show them here.
Leif, I'm really impressed with the style in which you visited the display - in a Saphire, indeed. I had to get there on a chartered Southdown double-decker bus! It was a long time ago but I'm pretty sure that the combined return fare and entry ticket cost me the princely sum of ten bob (that's 50 pence or about 1 US dollar for those who don't understand real money) :roll:
Del mentioned the guy lying down in the Scout (is he real or a dummy?) but did anyone recognise the two famous test pilots in two of the P1127 photos - or are they not who I thought they were? ;-)
It's also nice to see a 125 with it's proper name on the fuselage, I've always thought of it as the De Havilland 125 (too much reading of Uncle Roger in "Flight" methinks). I guess that would also make the 146 a DH, at least by default?!
I suffer from paranoid amnesia. I can't remember who I don't trust.
