Apart from the excellent coverage of the Brabazon, the YouTube footage got me thinking.
All those young lads on the derelict building cheering the aircraft into the sky. No "Health and Safety" gestapo clearing them off, no-one worried about a "security threat" to Britain's #1 prestge project at the end of the Berlin Airlift period and the first post war Communist scare and no derisory remarks in the commentary about their interest.
Fast forward 60 years and any such gathering would be swiftly cleared by a heavy handed mix of Health and Safety and anti terrorist police and the media would shake its head and poke fun at the "trainspotting mentality", whilst at the same time bemoaning 13 year olds carrying and using knives whilst their less dangerous bretheren head for obesity in front of their games consoles.
So much misdirection.....so much lost.