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DozyWannabe 17th Apr 2013 00:32

Haven't seen that one, but there are a couple linked in this thread from a few months back:
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...rnborough.html

BOAC 17th Apr 2013 09:58

I also recall some even older RAE film taken from a Varsity as it rumbled out of the fog for an autoland with a digital radalt bottom right going "50 -40 30-20"... - look there's a runway!!.

Allan Lupton 17th Apr 2013 10:39

Quote (how can one do this properly without any "quote" buttons showing?)
FWIW...many years ago, when black and white TV was in fashion there was a TV show in the USA called: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY...it was on CBS. Either Mike Wallace or Walter Cronkite was in the cockpit of the trident as it made an autoland, the captain looking backwards at the Camera explaining what was going on.

Not sure about anything shown in the US, but there was a film made by the de Havilland film crew of a Trident autoland which featured Jimmy Phillips in the captain's seat with his back to the approaching runway, explaining to the camera what was happening.


Wander00 17th Apr 2013 11:51

Ref BOAC's post I well remember being surprised to be stopped by the traffic lights on the A15 at Waddington on a very foggy evening in 1964 or 65, and even more surprised to see a Varsity lumber out of the murk and land - until we saw the Blind Landing Experimental Unit titling. Well impressed.

chevvron 17th Apr 2013 13:51

This would have been the Bedford based BLEU Varsity which operated from about '62.


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