Queens Birthday Flypast Wattisham '92

[Al_Paché]

Not too sure if posted before:
Queens Birthday Flypast 16x Phantom FGR2 RAF Wattisham (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3552947960606093444)

[maxburner]

Good to see that. I spent some great years at Wattisham.

[Neptunus Rex]

How boring; serious editing needed. After four minutes watching aircraft taxiing and shutting down, I gave up.

[SirToppamHat]

Bit harsh NR.

Thanks for posting - I enjoyed most of it.

There are loads of films of displays out there, but this one takes a bit of time to show the other side of it - interesting to see an AVM getting some hands-on (AVM Johns?). Would he have been with a Nav or was it a twin-sticker? Often wondered how the chap in the back felt when the Staish or above decided to take a trip.

STH

[polyglory]

A different perspective, many thanks for posting it, spent six years there in the Seventies.:)

[XV490]

And four months afterwards, the Phantoms were all gone; so it's good to see someone shot some film of their last days.

[Hueymeister]

Won't play on my iThingy!

[Neptunus Rex]

Sir Toppam Hat,

Today I had a day off, so I watched the lot. The 4 x 4 was good, then the Diamond 16 was really impressive. It was just a shame there was no air-to-air footage. The Air Commodore's QFI 'Minder' deserves a special award!

[RAFEngO74to09]

XV490

In case you didn't see it when I first posted the link last year, here's another Phantom video:

F-4 Phantoms in Cyprus - YouTube

[INT_QRU]

Excellent video - very evocative. Thanks

[Safeware]

I have the video and DVD filmed by Manners with Queen as the sound-track :)

[APG63]

Outstanding. Brings back so many very happy memories. Hey, another F4 thread. Can't be bad.

[staplefordheli]

Thanks for the post
Brings back memories visiting Needham Market sitting eating sarnies at lunchbreak on the North west perimeter road of the field in the early 90s before the F4s went
Got more than i bargained for one day after what i believe was a turbine exploded as it lifted off showering bits of the on base golf course and runway with various ejected burning remnants and burning fuel as it climbed into the low cloud base still streaming burning fuel. Lots of bemused players as the base fire trucks rolled into action. Seemed an age before the F4 came back around the circuit out of the clouds and made an emergency landing from the East on the badly running second engine into the arrestor. I swear the crew out in under 5 seconds of stopping :ok:
Never made the local news though
These days it would have been on youtube in seconds

[Geehovah]

Why do I not feel the same nostalgia for the F3?

[H Peacock]

I just can't believe that Tim B or Geoff W were ever that young! Great stuff.

[BEagle]

Both videos provide an excellent insight into the last days of the 'real' RAF....:\

We were so fortunate. In my opinion, it began its death spiral in 1994 and will never recover.

[Mach Two]

Geehovah, I do!

BEagle, I think you have that about right, my friend.

[Doctor Cruces]

Wonderful videos, wonderful times, a real aeroplane not like these plastic all electric things we get nowadays!!

Doc C