Britain from Above

[circle kay]

Just been looking at the excellent pages on the BBC web site for this new program that starts at 9:00pm tonight on BBC1.

One of the extras is a link to flying on TV over 60 years Aerial Journeys (http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/aerialjourneys/)

Including a 1976 edition of Go With Noakes with the Reds Go with Noakes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/aerialjourneys/5328.shtml?all=2&id=5328)

And a live program from 1955 with Raymond Baxter and Peter Dimmock Television Goes Flying (http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/aerialjourneys/5347.shtml?all=1&id=5347)
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[Green Flash]

cirK - I don't know about others, but non of your links works for me.



They do now!:ok:

Just watched Television Goes Flying.


Watton.


Varsity (one of the first aircraft I flew in)


I'm just going to go to a quiet room now and be uncontrollably emotional for a few minutes. Thank you.

PS Spot the Hunter cutting the corner and taxing over the grass!

[Beancountercymru]

Were those Argosies (10 +) parked on a dispersal at Kemble during the Red Arrows display practice?

They seemed in Transport Command colours

[MReyn24050]

Today we have had a Twin engined aircraft, possibly a Cessa Titan, carrying out a series of what appeared to be photographic runs over Carlton Nottingham. The aircraft was noted to be flying a series of runs over Carlton from east to west and moving a little further north with each run. Possibly the local council had tasked the company to photograph any improvements carried out by the owners of the houses so that they can increase the council tax. I was in the process of mowing my lawn and I was tempted to do a spot of mooning when the aicraft flew over my house but my better judgement took control.

[BOAC]

Were those Argosies (10 +) parked on a dispersal at Kemble during the Red Arrows display practice? - mothballed, south side if my fading memory serves me well.

[Historyboy]

:yuk:
An interesting and thought provoking programme, just didn't realise that the RN kept a 24/7 watch of the UK airspace from the back of their Sea King whisky's!

[Talk Split]

Lets face it, the Baggers would have bugger-all else to do!!

[Chugalug2]

Thank you CK for that brief journey into "All Our Yesterdays"! Dear old Dickie Duckett and the Red's Gnats. Ah yes, I remember it well. Loved the live Tx from the pig as well. If that was the timeframe didn't they do well? Rather suspect there was some post tx editing though. Even so a notable plus for Dimmock and Auntie Beeb in 1955! Oh the humanity!

[Hangar_9]

Where is the "television Goes flying" being filmed from on the ground at the start?

P.S UPDATE : I should have fininshed watching before commenting :ok:

[BEagle]

Fascinating! I did like the comment by the Wg Cdr that there would probably be some Canberras still in service after the B2 goes...

About 50 years more service, in fact!!

And how good it was to hear TV commentators who could speak the Queen's English rather than the common oiks of today with their yoofspeak.

Innit....

[Double Zero]

As to " where are the A-G (inc. I understand the close-up versions of Google Earth ) aircraft based ? " look around Blackbushe, not the gang who were operating C-172's, the other ones with twin engines...I seem to remember more like Islanders, though may be confusing them with other occasional flypasts by chaps in black suits.

If however they were A-G fitted Aztecs from a scruffy eastern town, start digging a bunker & run like hell if they re-appear, as the chances of them shedding a large part is quite likely !

[L1011GE]

Re banding of properties for council tax purposes is not allowed until the property changes hands.

My house is in Band E I think and is valued at 53K

I have owned it 16 years and in reality it is 200K but the council cannot change the band until I sell.

[Gainesy]

Some ace filming in the John Noakes/Reds programme.

Very vintage, smoking in the debrief in a kids' programme?:uhoh:

[Groundgripper]

The synopsis of the Operation Pegasus video states:

Television takes to the air in this short news report about the first BBC attempt to film Britain aerially, using a Bristol freighter plane, the Giant Brabazon. The test footage of St Paul's Cathedral in London gives us a glimpse of what was included in the programme, which was aired on 1 October.

:eek::eek::eek:

OK, so it was in the background as they taxied out, but......................

[Gainesy]

Modern BBC dragging it down to their sloppy standards.:ugh:

[cliver029]

Beagle


You watched the pair who front the R*D B**L air race recently:ugh:

Cliver029

[PPRuNeUser0211]

Haha yes, quite spectacular. You have a round with two (just two!) pilots in. How hard can it be not to have a two minute discussion about a pilot who is, in fact, not in that round... doh!

[Old Ned]

Loved the wonderful piece from Raymond Baxter (B of B spitfire pilot, I believe). But shock horror, Varsity starter crew wearing berets and no ear defenders. "Cpl, take that man's name!". :=

Sigh, wasn't life simpler then? :ok:

(I say, these smilies are rather fun).

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