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 ?

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.

Sorry, I started to watch it & then got distracted by Sink the Bismark! :ok:

Rmac ...

Posted before :ok:

http://www.pprune.org/military-aviat...ood-laugh.html

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 :-)

Rmac ...

Try this other classic :ok:



Best ...

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.

Serious Q...

What did you do for 3 years?

CG

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?

CG

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.

Presumably you mean that those who don't fly can't have a say or give a presentation on Air Power? In which case I'm pleased that Cranwell - and officer training - has moved on since your day.

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.

The Air Minister was Kynaston Reeves, does anyone (of my vintage) remember him from the Billy Bunter series when the cry went up 'Oh cripes! Here comes Quelchie!

I rest my case.

Wood for trees perhaps? I think you would be surprised to see who does espouse air power these days. I was visiting a deployed HQ recently - a third of the staff were women - and not just plotters - and the intelligence officer was a Personnel Branch officer (Admin Sec in old money). Progressive reductions, sorry, efficiency measures means that there are fewer aircrew employed in ground-based jobs; most ops-related posts are filled by air space battle managers (fighter controllers).

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.