Video of the Great Display Pilots
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Video of the Great Display Pilots
This long since closed thread made me wonder.
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...-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?
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...-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?
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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 for the Farnborough Air Display and names like Jan Zurakowski, John Derry and Roly Falk.
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
Are there any other great display pilots I should be looking at
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
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.
Although Pete Chapman's Lightning aero's displays back in 73/74 were pretty special.
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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