Ah back in the day, this is September 1963, when Britannia's still were 2-a-penny in Singapore. Changi had the 'Changi-slip' of almost daily RAF Brits of 99 and 511 Sqdn's from Lyneham and Paya Lebar had BUA and Cunard Eagle plying trooping flights. Although the Malayan Airways chartered ex-BOAC Brit 102's had by then been replaced by rented Comet 4's.
This was BUA Flight BR633, leaving at 12.45 local time for Bombay, Istanbul and Stansted, the usual destination for UK civilian trooping flights. Obviously the presence of an air display taking place at the Paya Lebar’s Singapore Flying Club, celebrating the formation of the Malaysian Federation, has prompted departing BUA Britannia G-ANCD to do a showy take off. The pilot very promptly raised his undercarriage but kept low to impress the crowd at the Flying Club end of the runway, however you have to wonder about at the guy standing at the very end of the runway though.
A few months later I flew home in this same Brit.....Istanbul was well below freezing...what a shock after Singapore, and Stansted...raining hard of course. London looked so utterly dismal...I so wanted to go back to Changi!
David Taylor