Highlights of Farnborough Air Show - 1952 | Shell Historical Film Archive

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Supersonic fighters and the gas-turbine airliner, which, it is hoped will give Britain a world lead, dominate the 1952 display of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors. Over 300,000 people come to Farnborough to see and hear.
In a Hawker Hunter, Neville Duke flies through the sound barrier at 700 mph. The Vickers Supermarine Swift and the Vickers Supermarine 508 are on show - the latter has a ‘butterfly’ tail, helping to give the wide speed range needed for naval, work. The Avro 707B, low-speed version of the 707A, is now seen to have been planned with a view to development of the world’s first Delta-wing bomber - the Avro 698.
In airliners, besides the Comet and the Viscount, the Bristol Britannia is on show, designed to carry up to 114 passengers, at a cruising speed of 400 mph, for a lower cost per ton-mile than any competitive aircraft. The Bristol 173 is the first British twin-rotor helicopter; able to fly on one engine only, it can vary 13 passengers at speeds of up to 158 mph.
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@nicknicholson2452 2 күн бұрын

I was there in 1954. My dad who was a US Navy officer w was a guest. It was just as impressive and still is one of the best airshow I’ve ever attended.

@inglepropnoosegarm7801 2 күн бұрын

Must have been truly mind-blowing seeing (and hearing!) these futuristic aircraft in 1952.

@davedee923 2 күн бұрын

The plural of aircraft is .... aircraft! (OED)

@donerskine7935 2 күн бұрын

Some beautiful aircraft. Plus the Gannet.

@pippin1ful Күн бұрын

I went to the 1953 airshow on the train, on my own, aged 13.

@markiliff Күн бұрын

0:46 Just 7 years after a war fought with Hurricanes & Spitfires, this Hawker Hunter must have been *mindblowing* 5:11 Ditto for bombers: Lancaster v Valiant

@davidgapp1457 2 күн бұрын

Easy to forget the British once led the way in aviation.

@ianpunter4486 Күн бұрын

It's an extraordinary range of aircraft just 7 years after war's end! I think my first Farnborough would have been in about 1954. Neville Duke in the Hunter was always a favourite. Nothing dated about this film, (except the jazz sound track, which to my ears has not worn well!)

@pippin1ful Күн бұрын

I bought my first Kiwi Fruit there from a bloke selling from the back of his car. In those days they were called Chinese Gooseberries, and they cost 2/6d each. Neville Duke's Hunter was painted in a pale green, but not in bright hi-viz, like today.

@roberttatlow5535 11 сағат бұрын

The Vulcan VX770 crashed at Syerston in 1958. It was suggested in the crash report it was due to the pilot going to quick. It seems to have been subject to lots of high G manoeuvres before that

@mattaikay925 2 күн бұрын

Thanks to some brilliant minds all of this was lost - sad sad sad very very sad

@mattaikay925 2 күн бұрын

videos like this bring me back to same gloomy state - even as late as 1982 there was so much of super high tech around - so many companies all tanked - Racal, Plessey, GEC, Sinclair, ICL... all gone..vanished- hope ARM will restore some of the fame... guess we need a proper govt to start with....

@davidgapp1457 2 күн бұрын

@@mattaikay925 ARM is owned by foreign countries, namely the Japanese company, Softbank. British In Name Only.

@michaelshore2300 Күн бұрын

Like Labours Minister for Technology

@Gracievision 2 күн бұрын

No mention of the disaster that resulted in the deaths of thirty-one people including the aircrew. The fifties were another world. Danger and death seemed to be an accepted thing with the show continuing once the runway was clear. Quite reminiscent of the disaster at Le Mans three years later.

@ClausB252 2 күн бұрын

It was indeed mentioned at 9:50.