Video of the Great Display Pilots

[rjtjrt]

This long since closed thread made me wonder.

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/48488-who-best-display-pilot-you-ever-saw.html

Is there any film now put onto video, of the reputedly great displays from yesteryear of such as Geoffrey de Havilland, Alex Henshaw, or Prince Cantucuzene/Prince Cantacuzene, etc, available on the net?
Are there any other great display pilots I should be looking at?

[SincoTC]

Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that thread and haven't had time to read it through yet, but I'm sure that others will come along with links to videos as requested, but a Google search on many of the names will turn quite a few up; it's also worth searching Pathe News Home - British Pathé (http://www.britishpathe.com) for the Farnborough Air Display and names like Jan Zurakowski, John Derry and Roly Falk.

Are there any other great display pilots I should be looking at

I would also include Roland Beaumont, Canberra and the EE P-1A/B

Bill Bedford spinning the two-seat Hunter and displaying the P.1127 and of course John Farley in the Company Harrier G.VTOL.

In the latter era, the Russians Anatoly Kvochur and Viktor Pugachev with their Tail-slides and Cobras

[ozaggie]

Bob Hoover. That is all.....:ok:

[GeeRam]

Ray Hanna, Mark Hanna, Neil Williams, Stefan Korwalski, Steve Hinton, Dave Southwood, Cliff Spink & Stephen Gray are among the stand out display pilots I've seen over the years.

Although Pete Chapman's Lightning aero's displays back in 73/74 were pretty special.

[ozaggie]

Dont know how to do a link, dont even know if there is a vid, but the late Col Pay in his Mk IX Spit was a sight to behold. Especially the land-roll-land off one approach. Story goes his wife caught him practicing the manoeuvre one morning, and upon landing said to the intrepid aviator, "Colin, I want the keys to that aircraft!!" Great man, and a great mentor to me in my Ag career. RIP