British Pathe - A Treasure House
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British Pathe - A Treasure House
I found this website while searching for info on my Dad's old ships. Use the search function and it comes up with all manner of treasure.
For example, here's a sample of Hawker Hunters...
For example, here's a sample of Hawker Hunters...
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I wish you had not found this site as now I am in trouble again with "her In doors" for sitting here for hours watching films about old aircraft AGAIN.
A good find and thanks for posting it
A good find and thanks for posting it
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You have to chuckle at the 'Day Fighter' contributing to 'better night-time defence than any country in the world'.
Great find, BS! Some great early Arrows stuff.
Great find, BS! Some great early Arrows stuff.
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Some brilliant clips of Lightnings, Hunters, etc. But, who are the old men flying them?
(Only a josh, and with the greatest respect, and a twinge of jealousy!)
(Only a josh, and with the greatest respect, and a twinge of jealousy!)
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This is just not fair. First a link to Public Information films and now British Pathé. Some of have work you know and should not spend all of our time looking at aircraft films.
Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the link.
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Just stumbled upon myself on there, playing in the No 1 Group Pipe Band at Scampton during the 50th anniversary. There's an excellent close-up of our Officer I/C, Ginge Knight. As a Vulcan AEO he was, and probably still is, holder of the world bagpiping altitude record. I wonder how he looks today?
I guess Mrs BS is right when she claims I'm just another piece of Aviation History and Nostalgia these days.
I guess Mrs BS is right when she claims I'm just another piece of Aviation History and Nostalgia these days.
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Blacksheep: If you are referring to Knight's 43,000ft record, I think it was exceeded by a handsome margin by a bagpipe playing Kiwi pilot during a Vulcan visit to Ohakea, but I do not know if his altitude was ever claimed.
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...but I do not know if his altitude was ever claimed
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British Pathe - BIGGIN HILL AIR FAIR (NEWS TAKES THE AIR)
Biggin Air Fair 1965, Neil Williams' Stampe crash (walked away) and Reds Gnats
Biggin Air Fair 1965, Neil Williams' Stampe crash (walked away) and Reds Gnats
I'm hooked on this damned Pathe site now, much to my wife's chagrin (then again, she always did enjoy a bit of chagrin).
I unearthed this USAAF (British Pathe - AIR FORCE - AIR FIELD ENGLAND) footage the other day, and was able to confirm it was shot at Earls Colne. Splendid film of US aircrews before a mission.
What's more, there's footage of WACs (US Army ladies) plotting a mission in a control room at the long-demolished Marks Hall. Given their map shows all the B26 bomber bases eventually operating in Essex, it was probably shot in mid-1944.
Can anyone help me identify the group of six or so colonels in the film? Sorry for creep...
I unearthed this USAAF (British Pathe - AIR FORCE - AIR FIELD ENGLAND) footage the other day, and was able to confirm it was shot at Earls Colne. Splendid film of US aircrews before a mission.
What's more, there's footage of WACs (US Army ladies) plotting a mission in a control room at the long-demolished Marks Hall. Given their map shows all the B26 bomber bases eventually operating in Essex, it was probably shot in mid-1944.
Can anyone help me identify the group of six or so colonels in the film? Sorry for creep...
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Oh Yes ! one of the best 'wasters of time' I have had for a long time !!!
Search for Stansted Airport and watch the firemen reducing history to scrap, necessary I suppose, but if only ......
Thank you for the link.
Keith.
Search for Stansted Airport and watch the firemen reducing history to scrap, necessary I suppose, but if only ......
Thank you for the link.
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Love this site!
I like this one. Great clip of a TwinPin taking off in it's own length, but a howler in the commentary - "the crowds seek shelter under the wing of a Comet III" and you see a crowd - under the wing of a turboprop (Britannia?)! Doh.
I like this one. Great clip of a TwinPin taking off in it's own length, but a howler in the commentary - "the crowds seek shelter under the wing of a Comet III" and you see a crowd - under the wing of a turboprop (Britannia?)! Doh.
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British Pathe
Oh dear, many thanks for the info. Just watched a very youthful John Stapleton doing a piece to camera about the problems at Luton Airport in 1974 which includes a nice short of a court Line TriStar blasting off from 08. Looks like many hours of interesting films to watch.
