The beautiful Fairey Gannets and Aermacchi MB-326H 😊
@kevinbutters59643 күн бұрын
Oh…….Fiat G 91s…….Lufwaffe…… our Jags…… what a brilliant video. I loved our trips down to Decci with 20 and II(AC)…….the year(s) of the cat! Thank you for posting this……..brilliant stuff
@dayvidmathews11823 күн бұрын
Wow ❤❤🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@garypearson32535 күн бұрын
I was 6 years old, and can still remember the shows,went to everyone right up to them closing,even went to the charity ball the year there was no airshow and Lorraine Kelly was there and nick nairn was the chef. So many different types off aircraft that sadly all gone now Those were the days
@AlanWatt-qu2zn12 күн бұрын
Fantastic film!! Back in 1958 3 teenagers from Aberdeen entered the Lossiemouth by sneaking under a fence at the north end,near the golf course. The main attraction was a "graveyard" of old RNAS aircraft.We recognised about 10 different types..Sea Vampires,Seafires,Sturgeons,Fireflies...can't remember them all.Then 2 Blue Land Rovers came from nowhere and with the help of dogs,they rounded us up.Their main concern was how we'd entered,so we showed them,then we were given a stern warning and were driven to the Main Gates.Glorious memories.
@RexyH2673 күн бұрын
I did that back in 1956, my dad was a pilot in the SAR helicopters at Lossie. We didn't get caught though.
@paulhaynes804522 күн бұрын
Fascinating slice of history - thank you for posting this. (Great choice of music too!)
@stevecurd394424 күн бұрын
fantastic footage & to think the Hunter is still flying today
@stevecurd394424 күн бұрын
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
@nervo6321Ай бұрын
All metal finish Javelin…never seen that before.
@lawrencemartin1113Ай бұрын
What a great archive!! Great post!👍🏻
@TonyCutressАй бұрын
We used to travel over from RAF Kinloss which had Shackletons based there that our fathers flew in.
@AVMamfortasАй бұрын
Superb. Love it.
@robertwinsper7409Ай бұрын
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.
@RickVlymenАй бұрын
I was there as a member of the 20TFW F-111E team. Bomb-Nav.
@erolbrownАй бұрын
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
@davidhunt38082 ай бұрын
When Britain still had an air force !!
@Lee-ew8dw2 ай бұрын
In a time when we had a 'Force'!! Look at all those frames! 🙂
@jimlyon72763 ай бұрын
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 !
@clives3444 ай бұрын
The kit on display then was alot more diverse than it is now.
@clives3444 ай бұрын
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
@billb78764 ай бұрын
Great to see,
@G11PMD4 ай бұрын
Magnificent
@captainfantastic92385 ай бұрын
I was at that show on a school trip. Great memories.
@whathasxgottodowithit3919.5 ай бұрын
What a brilliant display aircraft they had in the 60s
@paulmca85145 ай бұрын
Typical Leuchars weather, good choice of music
@anthonyeaton51536 ай бұрын
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.
@John-pn4rt7 ай бұрын
The Red Arrows in Gnats - wonderful!
@nicholassiminson26997 ай бұрын
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.
@shirleydrury55657 ай бұрын
Thank you for this up load takes me right back to happier times.😊❤😊❤
@ozzy82867 ай бұрын
The days when they RAF had interesting aircraft
@theqslearningmethod7 ай бұрын
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 ... !!!
@downunder44047 ай бұрын
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.
@paulmca85146 ай бұрын
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.
@artyfingers44887 ай бұрын
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👍🏻
@iainbradford42548 ай бұрын
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 :-)
@jjsmallpiece92348 ай бұрын
This can't be Lossiemouth - the weather is too good.
@matsnevets48188 ай бұрын
Nice to see the Grumman S2F Tracker in which my father flew and the Sikorsky helicopters of the Royal Dutch Navy.
@annierichards8 ай бұрын
Before my time, but great footage and a reminder that in the 1960's the FAA was more powerful than most air forces.
@denniscashell24078 ай бұрын
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@davejackson21908 ай бұрын
Lightning display provided by the Wattisham TFF, black & yellow bars either side of the roundel.
@ianstewart74058 ай бұрын
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
@jimmacpherson87068 ай бұрын
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>
@shirleydrury55658 ай бұрын
I wish I was 21 one again brings back so many happy memories .thank u for up load 😊😊❤❤
@shirleydrury55658 ай бұрын
A great up load thank you 😊😊😊
@Parawingdelta28 ай бұрын
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.
@SaxonSuccess8 ай бұрын
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...
@rovercoupe71049 ай бұрын
Brilliant
@gordonshields278811 ай бұрын
probably one of the best Scottish shows I went to in the 70's
@patriotunion7211 Жыл бұрын
When being British was still something to be proud of!
@alexanderfarquhar2712 Жыл бұрын
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.