1961 Coltishall

[Garry Russell]

Picked this up on Key Pub from a post on P Prune

News film about the forthcoming 1961 At Home Day

http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/110556

[TobyV]

Lovely footage, especially the sound quality, makes it seem much more real even though it's black and white. One thing grabbed me, why doesn't the average person speak as well today as the people interviewed here? Even the lad from Edinburgh tasked with retrieving the parachute had a certain eloquence and humility that you don't find today. Today's equivalent wouldn't be content with such a job, they'd want to be on "I'm an x-factor pop idol get me out of here" or whatever

[Scorpius]

A most excellent find!

Nev

[petermcleland]

I was at RAF Coltishall in late 1961 but all that in the film must have already happened. I was learning to be a Lightning Simulator instructor and at the end of the course on the Mark 1 Sim at Coltishall I was posted to RAF Leconfield to instruct on the Mark 2 Sim...It was my last posting in the Royal Air Force and I did enjoy it. I left Leconfield and the RAF in 1963

[airboatr]

News film about the forthcoming 1961 At Home Day

And you were giving O.D.G. a about being late.

It's Tweny Twelve man!








PS
O.D.G. is Our Dear Graham

[steelsporran]

Thanks for nothing Garry I've just realised it's over 50 years since I used to walk past that field shown at the beginning, on my way to RSF.

[Garry Russell]

Ah...those far off care free days when there was not yet a speck of rust of the ole Sporran

The youngest Lightning pilot shown would now be 72

[steelsporran]

The youngest Lightning pilot shown would now be 72

Sadly Vaughan Radford died in April 2003.