Found this 1957 gem on youtube
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Found this 1957 gem on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l4byhJVA8o
Some very interesting flying sequences of classics :-)
Nice to see the graduation music at Cranditz hadn't changed between 1957 and 1985 :-) ....probably still the same today ?
Some very interesting flying sequences of classics :-)
Nice to see the graduation music at Cranditz hadn't changed between 1957 and 1985 :-) ....probably still the same today ?
CLIVE: But I'll tell you one thing Tony Newley said to me .....
DEREK: What was that?
CLIVE: "Who are you?"
DEREK: Yeah? Just like that.
CLIVE: Just like that. And I thought that made Tony Newley a-, a wonderful human being.
DEREK: What was that?
CLIVE: "Who are you?"
DEREK: Yeah? Just like that.
CLIVE: Just like that. And I thought that made Tony Newley a-, a wonderful human being.
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Just had a run through the comments on your thread Coff, and I have to say that I concur with the analysis that much of the plot was..er..borrowed, for Top Gun :-)
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I'd forgotten that there was footage of Fairy Swordfish Carrier ops in Sink the Bismark. (from 53:30 if you want to skip to it)
Aged about 13 when I saw High Flight at the cinema with my dad, mum would not come with us and younger brother not interested, no pop singers. Part of the plethora of drivers that led me to an RAF Scholarship and a cadetship. And I really did enjoy my 3 years at the Towers.
Well I enjoyed the academics, loved the flying, and nearly burning the place down when my superhet radio made as part of the electronics syllabus caught fire. And gliding, and karting, and basketball and acting and...........never had a problem filling the time, and Sqn Adj for the last term kept me off the streets. Never bored.
Thanks. Sounds like a degree course- was it an actual one? Was RAFC a degree awarding institution?
It was a different world then. The Cadet course in modern terms was worth at least an Honours degree equivalent,combined with a tough practical leadership drilling which scrubbed many aspirants. '
Going back as a "post grad" the rot was already manifest,with REMF pushing themselves onto the training programmes and elucidating what Beags would well describe as "wanquespeak" upon us.
I will never forget a so-called "educator" using the term " us in the trade" with respect to giving Air Power presentations.
Yes ,sure.
It was a different world then. The Cadet course in modern terms was worth at least an Honours degree equivalent,combined with a tough practical leadership drilling which scrubbed many aspirants. '
Going back as a "post grad" the rot was already manifest,with REMF pushing themselves onto the training programmes and elucidating what Beags would well describe as "wanquespeak" upon us.
I will never forget a so-called "educator" using the term " us in the trade" with respect to giving Air Power presentations.
Yes ,sure.
Going back as a "post grad" the rot was already manifest,with REMF pushing themselves onto the training programmes and elucidating what Beags would well describe as "wanquespeak" upon us.
I will never forget a so-called "educator" using the term " us in the trade" with respect to giving Air Power presentations.
Yes ,sure
I will never forget a so-called "educator" using the term " us in the trade" with respect to giving Air Power presentations.
Yes ,sure
I've spent the last few years in jobs that involve projecting Air Power - not by sitting in a cockpit - but by persuading other nations that it is in their interest to buy British weapons systems and to allow us to use their airspace and bases. But then what would I know? In your eyes I'm a REMF.
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is in their interest to by British weapons systems
I rest my case.
is in their interest to by British weapons systems
I rest my case.
But again, what would I know?
The quality of the filming of the low level hunter shots at the end is really very impressive considering it was done in 1957.
Elsewhere on the net it suggests they fitted a camera to another Hunter.
Elsewhere on the net it suggests they fitted a camera to another Hunter.
