BBC 1955 First Live airborne TV broadcast
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This is brilliant, wonder what the good Wg Cdr and Raymond Baxter would have thought if you told them that the Canberra they were discussing being replaced by the Javelin would actually stay in service until 2006. 
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If you dont mind a "civi" butting in on this forum, and perhaps move it to the historical section you might find that it wasnt the first time a television camera was put in a plane. I remember Richard Dimbleby ( senior) around the middle 50,s hosting a show from above Boulogne with a 3tube pedestal camera mounted in the rear door of a Bristol Freighter with all the gubbins in the nose. There are some ex BBC Techies out there who lurk who could supply all the details. It wasnt all that succesfull, a little bit like the first sattelite transmission through Goonhilly, but I do remember seeing the church on the hill above the town through a an electronic mist.
As a matter of interest around the mid sixties the founder of one of the pirate pop stations bought an aged Constellation based in Luxemburg and filled it with transmitting equipment and intended to fly a racetrack above Europe transmitting un licesed programmes to all and sundry It foundered for some reason and I have always wondered why, the americans did something similar around the same time and the technology certainly existed for it to work. Regards Alan
As a matter of interest around the mid sixties the founder of one of the pirate pop stations bought an aged Constellation based in Luxemburg and filled it with transmitting equipment and intended to fly a racetrack above Europe transmitting un licesed programmes to all and sundry It foundered for some reason and I have always wondered why, the americans did something similar around the same time and the technology certainly existed for it to work. Regards Alan
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Is this not what Peter Dimmock refers to about 30 seconds in?
I know you say mid '50s and he mentioned 5 years previous.
Also see a memo by P. Dimmock on the subject of costs;
BBC - Archive - Aerial Journeys - Operation Pegasus Memo
BBC - Archive - Aerial Journeys - From an Aeroplane over London
The note at the end of page 4 is quite interesting !
Aaron
Is this not what Peter Dimmock refers to about 30 seconds in?
I know you say mid '50s and he mentioned 5 years previous.
Also see a memo by P. Dimmock on the subject of costs;
BBC - Archive - Aerial Journeys - Operation Pegasus Memo
BBC - Archive - Aerial Journeys - From an Aeroplane over London
The note at the end of page 4 is quite interesting !
Aaron
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I remember an early 'airborne' broadcast where the reporter/cameraman was, IIRC, called Noble. He carried a huge backpack, it looked about 18x24x10, and he jumped from a Beverley on a mass parachute assault on Salisbury Plain. He was right there when the paras took out a pill box with a bazooka.
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Bigal, thanks for that. I should have said that this was a live broadcast after a para jump. It says something for the ruggedness of the kit that it worked after the jump.
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Bigal, thanks for that. I should have said that this was a live broadcast after a para jump. It says something for the ruggedness of the kit that it worked after the jump.
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He was Ronnie Noble and was very much a legond in the BBC as a News cameraman. He covered the D day landings, the pictures from the landing craft which is well recorded were his. He covered the Inchon landings in Korea, and ended up on Sportsview where I remember him well both at Lime Grove and Ken House, all parties long gone. Alan
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Thank you for posting the link.
I couldn't help but think that the hunters still looked like modern aircraft, while all the others shown looked very dated in shape and style. Although aircraft design has had several shapes and 'fashions', and the hunters shape was even pre 'area rule' (although not sure on that), they still look agile and business like.
I know many PPRuNer's are serial hunter fans, but does anyone else agree on this, or is it just me?
Sorry for thread drift.
I couldn't help but think that the hunters still looked like modern aircraft, while all the others shown looked very dated in shape and style. Although aircraft design has had several shapes and 'fashions', and the hunters shape was even pre 'area rule' (although not sure on that), they still look agile and business like.
I know many PPRuNer's are serial hunter fans, but does anyone else agree on this, or is it just me?
Sorry for thread drift.
The earliest Outside Broadcast I remember was when I was a boy shortly after the war ended. Children's Hour (radio) broadcast a radio commentary from an RAF Stirling bomber flying over London.
I lived in North London at the time and followed the broadcast intently watching out for the Stirling as the commentator reported what part of London he was flying over. In due course it appeared flying over Broadcasting House and firing off Very Lights, very visible to me and my schoolfriends in my house as we listened to the broadcast.
I guess it took place in 1945/46.
I lived in North London at the time and followed the broadcast intently watching out for the Stirling as the commentator reported what part of London he was flying over. In due course it appeared flying over Broadcasting House and firing off Very Lights, very visible to me and my schoolfriends in my house as we listened to the broadcast.
I guess it took place in 1945/46.
I loved it that the Hunters started on Avpin (nice flames at the rear) and then taxied over the grass without any remark. And that it was at Watton, not too far from my home.
