"The Plane Makers" 1960s TV series opening shot

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Originally Posted by GQ2

My recollection of 'The Plane Makers' was primarily that of some sort of silver swept or delta-winged fighter mock-up. This also used to appear at various airshows around that time for some strange reason.

Just found an image here;-

The "But that aircraft never flew with that airforce"-picture thread - Page 19

...rather more convincing than the 'airliner'....!

The same photo of the "aircraft" (named, it was the "Scott Furlong Predator") suspended by cables from a crane appeared in Flight magazine of the time, along with some accompanying notes

1964 | 2616 | Flight Archive

I'll be there were some suckings of breath in various drawing offices in Weybridge, Hatfield, Woodford, Filton, etc the day that came out in 1964.