- 11
- 142 821
foxonefour
Registrace 5. 09. 2008
NAVY AIR DAY R.N.A.S. LOSSIEMOUTH 1967
The Navy Air Day at R.N.A.S. Lossiemouth on the 9th September 1967 featuring an Atlantic and Starfighter from the German Navy plus rare footage of a MK.3 Shackleton.
zhlédnutí: 1 330
Video
Tactical Bombing Competition RAF Lossiemouth 1977
zhlédnutí 11KPřed 3 lety
Footage from outside the fence at RAF Lossiemouth during the Tactical Bombing Competition 2nd to 10th October 1977. The stars and ultimate winners of the competition were the USAF 23rd TFW A-7Ds from England AFB. There was other USAF participation with 20th TFW F-111Es from Upper Heyford. RAF participants included Jaguars from 6, 14, 17, 41 and 54 Squadrons and Buccaneers from 15,16 and 208 Squ...
RAF Leuchars Battle of Britain Airshow 1976
zhlédnutí 3,5KPřed 3 lety
The Battle of Britain airshow at RAF Leuchars on the 4th September 1976 which included Les Diables Rouge from Belgium and a USAF F-111 in the static in a special colour scheme to celebrate the 200th anniversary of America's independence.
RAF Lossiemouth Airshow 1977
zhlédnutí 7KPřed 3 lety
Airshow at RAF Lossiemouth on the 13th August 1977.
R.N.A.S. Lossiemouth in the Sixties
zhlédnutí 18KPřed 4 lety
Rare film of Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm aircraft shot at the fence-line at R.N.A.S. Lossiemouth in the sixties along with a few visitors including RAF Meteors, Belgian Air Force Starfighters, S.58 helicopters and S.2 Trackers of the Dutch Navy.
Leuchars Battle of Britain Airshow 1966
zhlédnutí 46KPřed 4 lety
RAF Leuchars Battle of Britain Airshow 17th September 1966
NAVY AIR DAYS AT RNAS LOSSIEMOUTH 1966 and 1969
zhlédnutí 11KPřed 4 lety
Air Displays at R.N.A.S. Lossiemouth in 1966 and 1969.
Leuchars Battle of Britain Airshow 1969
zhlédnutí 3,4KPřed 4 lety
The Battle of Britain Airshow at RAF Leuchars 20th September 1969.
Fascinating slice of history - thank you for posting this. (Great choice of music too!)
fantastic footage & to think the Hunter is still flying today
fanatsic vid, used to love watching F-111F's flying out of Lakenheath & F-111E's out of Upper Heyford,luckily the 20 TFW commanders F-111 is beautifully preserved on display at the IWM Duxford
All metal finish Javelin…never seen that before.
What a great archive!! Great post!👍🏻
We used to travel over from RAF Kinloss which had Shackletons based there that our fathers flew in.
Superb. Love it.
I was there as an ATC cadet on an Annual Camp, I was lucky enough to be sat in the control tower watching all the aircraft coming in for the display. I particularly remember the Constellation as it was ancient even back then. In the preceeding days a Starfighter had folded an undercarriage leg on landing and slid to an undignified stop. A mate of mine ( a Cadet) was sat in the runway control caravan at the time, ran with a fire extinguisher and beat the crash crew to the scene. He caught an almighty bollocking from the Sergeant in charge of the fire team but eventually went home clutching a "Well Done" certificate.
I was there as a member of the 20TFW F-111E team. Bomb-Nav.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
When Britain still had an air force !!
In a time when we had a 'Force'!! Look at all those frames! 🙂
After completing my 3 years of training, I became an Aircraft Engineering Technician & was posted onto 23 (Red Eagle) Squadron ( You don't see many of them until near the end of the film - They are the ones with the vertical Blue & Red bars, either side of the nose roundel ) @ Leuchars in mid September 1967.Just as they were converting from Mk.3s ( small ventral tank) to interim 6s (large ventral tank), then eventually on to full mk.6s with an arrestor hook. Like all "newbies" I started off doing 1st line sevicing ( daily inspection @ beginning & end of day & turn rounds between flights.) After I got up to speed there, I was "promoted" to 2nd line/hangar servicing. That's when life got all rather serious as the "superuior idiot" who designed them, knowingly didn't give a damn about lack of accessibility - & while he got chewed out @ the time, refused to solve the problem. Whereas, our view was whoever designed it should have had to work on them '@ hangar level, for ' least a year, just to see how bad it REALLY was (At my time 60 man hours servicing for every ONE flying hours - Eventually it got so bad that became a ratio of 90:1 ! ). - There's no denying it was all VERY character building ! But even with playing locally arranged "war games" every Friday, "Tacevals" - 3 day long TACTICAL EVALUATION exercise, about 3 times a year & more than my fair share of real Q.R.A. (Quick Reaction Alert ) see offs, armed with live missiles, to intercept Russian reconnaisance bombers "somewhere over the Faroes gap" Certainly the intensity of it all is still something I'll always remember with fond memories. Certainly # 23 was the best ever posting I got ! :) After that I was posted to #56 Sqdn @ Akrotiri in Cyprus. The sunshine & sea, along with a slight boost in pay for "Local Overseas Allowance was good, but the squadron suffered from a serious morale problem as the C.O. was after "glory & promotion", @ everybody else's expense. Though towards the end they started to recognise that & I got a "jolly" up in the " T bird" (Mk5 trainer) & a chance to earn my certificate for going "10 ton" - 1,000 mph ! :) - helped a bit to make up for the rest of it !
The kit on display then was alot more diverse than it is now.
The Swiss Airforce used Vampires. Flying from Gatwick to Basel got speaking to an Ex Swiss 🇨🇭Airforce Pilot. Amazing video those were the days when the Airwing was huge and varied
Great to see,
Magnificent
I was at that show on a school trip. Great memories.
What a brilliant display aircraft they had in the 60s
Typical Leuchars weather, good choice of music
I was stationed at Leeming 1956-59 with Javelin 228 OCU. Hairy scary aircraft were the Javs . ‘Night flying Blues’ on a dark dreary cold airfield with RAF Fire Service. Great memories.
The Red Arrows in Gnats - wonderful!
That brings back Memories. I was on 763Sqn (Hunters). I must have been there at the Time the Films were made. I later changed to the RAF and was there for 8 Years on 8Sqn Shackletons.
Thank you for this up load takes me right back to happier times.😊❤😊❤
The days when they RAF had interesting aircraft
Nothing can beat the low pass just below the speed of sound and then the pull up to infinity (well almost!). You heard nothing then the roar of two RR Avons in full reheat. Tremendous ... !!!
Terrific video of a legendary aircraft. The Tri-Colour or French flag on the vertical stabiliser always surprises me. The RAAF here in Australia continued the tradition with the Dassault Mirage III but seemed to drop it from the F/A-18 Hornet, Super Hornet and F-35 Lightning. Our Defence Ministry has had very poor relations with the French Government over the last couple of decades with a reneging on a new Dassault jet fighter deal and contract termination with a submarine supply.
They didn’t have a French Flag. The Drapeau Francais is blue, white and red from the hoist, while the RAF tail flash is red, white and blue (or sometimes red and blue) reading from the front of the aircraft, the opposite. The Union Flag is, of course, red, white and blue and so the RAF tail flash and roundel take the colours of our national flag. The French tail flash (seldom used) is blue, white and red. In a similar vein the RAF roundel is red, white and blue from the centre (often with a thinner yellow outer ring to add contrast) and the French roundel has the same colours reversed.
I would have been 5, in fact just weeks away from my 6th birthday when that was filmed and 11 years later would attend my first airshow at RAF Leuchars. Great video👍🏻
Great collection of images. Spent some time at Lossie, and I think I flew in at least one of the aircraft shown. Even got an F4 from Woodbridge that got me started down this road :-)
This can't be Lossiemouth - the weather is too good.
Nice to see the Grumman S2F Tracker in which my father flew and the Sikorsky helicopters of the Royal Dutch Navy.
Before my time, but great footage and a reminder that in the 1960's the FAA was more powerful than most air forces.
⚡
Lightning display provided by the Wattisham TFF, black & yellow bars either side of the roundel.
I went to that air display in the back of a Harrier Tbird! The aircrew wanted somebody to do the flight servicing and see off the GR3 for the display and I got the job. I remember thinking it was the only time I'd seen an aircraft out and observed its entire sortie! Sadly I don't seem to feature in the film, but thanks for the memories
Joined HMS Fulmar from training at Condor(Armourer) in '63, Ordnance workshops, 738 Sqn, 736 Sqn and station flight.Got my QM and QS there prior to joining the old Ark in '64.Happy days.Monday night-Buckie night, Tuesday night -Craigellachie night, the Two Red Shoes(In Elgin) and The Coulard, Lossie>
I wish I was 21 one again brings back so many happy memories .thank u for up load 😊😊❤❤
A great up load thank you 😊😊😊
Great video. Brings back lots of memories. My father was in the RAF from 1937 to 1972 so I was brought up in and around RAF camps in the fifties and sixties when all those aircraft were around. Forget how many airshows I attended. My mother served in the RAF during the war and brother in the seventies and eighties. All gone now. I have a daughter currently serving in the Royal Australian Air Force to carry on the family tradition. Thanks for sharing the video.
I was at Culdrose for a couple of years holidays '66 to '68, but I was a Lossie rating really! Armourer and SAR Aircrewman with Jamie Bauld and Co. Happy days mostly...
Brilliant
probably one of the best Scottish shows I went to in the 70's
When being British was still something to be proud of!
I was there in 69 ...at Lossie High School the class, in primary 5, was split into 4 groups named after FAA aircraft ...I was in the Buccaneer's. Mrs Britten was the teacher and her husband worked on the base.
I was there. 23rd TFW. Engine shop.
Thank you for sharing this excellent footage. Fascinating to see 43 Squadron showing it's non RAF standard F4K/FGA1 Phantoms. Nicely put to music. If I have one gripe, and it is a small one, it's with the rather condescending print at the beginning. Anyone of the "iPhone generation" who took the time to watch this video would surely be aware of the limitations on cine photography in the sixties. It in no way detracts from the video.
Thank you for your comments. The "iPhone generation" notice was a reaction to comments on other videos I posted which went along the lines of, 'we want to hear the engine noise not rubbish music'. Clearly there are some who don't understand that most home movies in the sixties didn't come with sound and certainly don't have a clue what's involved in getting a strip of celluloid 300 feet long with thousands of tiny 4.5 x 3.5 mm images into a digital format. Glad you appreciate the effort. A case of damned if you do and damned if you don't!
@@foxonefour I've watched this many times now and really enjoy it. A gem. Definitely a time capsule. Thank you.
Brilliant if only we had this now and an aircraft industry
Great video ruined by so called music.😮
Thanks for sharing this film. Lots of iconic aircraft my older brother would have enjoyed seeing again. He served 15 years from 1962, on bomber and interceptor Squadrons after they all became Strike Command. Great soundtrack too!
What was that plane the red arrows were running? T-tail? It looked old. Straight wings too. Never seen that before. Luv and Peace.
I think the aircraft you are referring to is the Gloster Javelin which was not flown by the Red arrows but part of the then based 23 Squadron.