BEagle,
Thank you for a wonderful wallow in nostalgia ! - how many types, in service and experimental, we could field then - the contrast with today is pitiful.
Many names completely forgotten now (at least by me), but then could trip off the lips of any schoolboy. Loved the fairweather cumulus background in the early part (the photographer was lucky there), and the clever way the head- on shots were presented, with the subjects sashaying to the camera.
And oh, those 'greaser' landings !
A beautiful piece of work altogether - brings a lump to the throat, it do !
Was young then, at Valley with 20 Squadron, flying Spitfires and Vampires, and had a few training hours at Driffield on the Meteor, but no more.
Eheu, fugaces....
Danny.
PS: Once heard a story that an (Ambassador ?) display aircraft couldn't start one engine; but was light, stripped out inside and little fuel. Test Pilot managed to take off on one. That brought the house down !
Any truth in it ?