RAF Binbrook 1987, arrivals and rehearsal for the Airshow.
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- This is a video of the arrivals and rehearsal for the RAF Binbrook airshow I believe in 1987.
Transferred from a VHS tape I have, I don't know who filmed this so I claim no copyright on this.
Check out my other videos for more Air Show footage from the 1980s/1990s/2000s.
What a wonderful watch that was. I was born in 83 so I missed the glorious years of aviation. I surely wished I was a 70s baby. Lightnings, harriers, u2, f111, phantoms.... Amazing. Thank you for posting
Pfft the 90s weren't that bad surely : tornadoes, harriers, jaguars, hawks. Very poor selection these days though 😔
I spent many an hour at the crash gates watching and photographing the planes at binbrook in my younger days thanks for posting this video
Great to watch. Our family were based at RAF Coltishall in Norfolk in the sixties when they had Lightnings. Spent a lot of time at the 'Crash gates'. Unfortunately, I didn't have a cinecamera, and my slides didn't turn out all that well either. Thanks for sharing.
1987! All those years ago. Gosh, this is truly nice. Thank you for posting.
Great video I will never forget that 9 ship take off everyone thought they would go straight up but they turned left stayed low and came in 90 degrees to the runway climbing vertical at centreline with the later lightnings still rolling for take off underneath them. Happy days.
Started my RAF career at Binbrook in 1951 and ended it there in 1973 after many postings in uk and overseas the best station by far in the fifties great times.
Only went there once, after it was decommissioned, marshalling on a car rally there. Fortunately I was in the ready hangar because it was raining. Still, that was interesting to see all the warning signs about the planes being armed. Never been there before, wish I had. Still, any mention about it now makes me perk my ears up. I presume it was WW 2 airfield.
Thanks Mike for taking the time to post this. Childhood memories relived.
I'm glad I was born in the late 60&s and have seen so much great stuff
Brought back some wonderful childhood memories, most summer evenings we was at crash gate 3, got loads of lightening and air show photos, somewhere in the loft that my late father took, and by god did he love planes and cameras !!
A rundown old camp with Nissan huts back in the day. H blocks weren't too bad but I recall the overall cold feeling of many of the older buildings. Miss that old world a bit, but at the time it wasn't great. I longed to go back to Valley or Scampton and believe me, Scampton had its issues even back then.
Some great E E Lightning video shots there ..nostalgia at it's best.
A lot of people forget that not only was Binbrook home to 5 and 11 sqn., but also to 85 with their Canberra and Meteor jets... The good bit about being on camp was that you and your family usually got the best viewpoints during the shows. One year we all scrambled to the top of the ATC tower, with binocs. food and flask of tea....excellent...........
It was at an airshow that Oi watched a Vulcan bomber " tree tppping " it was an awsome sight that I will never forget.
Amazing footage.
I can remember the airshow , it was terrible weather
Me too....soaked to hell...
@@nervo6321 Certainly was. I displayed the Puma helicopter. We were soaked and flying so low with the cockpit windows misting up was "interesting".
Okay, pouring rain and very low cloud base, but a wonderful airshow! I will never forget the conger line of Lightnings going between the hangers in full reheat and then straight up. Wow! I hope there was a tanker or two above the clouds. Thank you to all the RAF personnel who made this last Lightning show an unforgettable day.
I used to cycle from Grimsby with a pal of mine for the airshows and just for the bike ride during my childhood.
I had the spitfire and lighting gate guards and the P1b on my inventory for a while when I was on lesf prior to being posted to cottesmore in 1984.
Binbrook, sadly another base now just ghosts and nothing else......... in those days the aircraft were full of character
Last time saw Phantom/s was in 98, I think.
Gate guardian at sentried Coningsby entrance. Top from the man with a gun was to drive right round to the far side of the airfield where might be sighted several more. Apps were dismantling, rebuilding and sure enough just managed sight of several, all in light grey.
Looking at the Phantom, I liken it to a fast-jet equivalent of a 70s muscle car: it is not particularly manoeuvrable (compared to, say, an F16 or F18), but does it narf make a loud roar and punch its way through the sky!
Great to watch some old footage from those great aviation times when Britain produced so many great aircraft. Particular favourite was the lightning and would only go to air shows if the lightning was putting in an appearance. Party piece of departure was a low level run in stand it on the tail and full afterburner climb vertical into the cloud base then silence Magic
On another note seeing the Kestral at certain angles it looks quite sinister with its extended tail and canted wings like some fearsom insect of pray. And the lightnings I'm coming to get you look.
Sadly British aviation was destroyed by governments in favour of American planes when we ditched the TSR2 all documented on utube. We led the way in so many fields of aviation.
We gave so much away.
A lot has been said and written about the Lightning's range, but I cannot find the real information about the subject. Anyone?
www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/english-electric-lightning
Thanks, Michael.
And what does the crap RAF have now.not only no aircraft but nowhere to land them if they did have.
You can blame politicians and Treasury for RAF not having much these days