My Dad took me to the Air Fair in 1968. It was my first airshow. It was also my first flight as Dad paid for a pleasure flight for us before the flying started. So many display teams, including Le Patrouille de France, Les Diables Rouges, Il Frecce Tricolori, the Red Arrows, and Simon's Sircus with four Sea Vixens. Bob Hoover performed his famous energy management display routine in his Shrike Commander. There was also a Lancaster in the static park, open to visitors to raise funds for restoration. My ever generous Dad (a WW2 Bomber Command veteran) bought me a ticket to see inside. A magical , memorable day. I took my own family to the Air Fair in the 1990s.

Some years ago I was a chauffeur for a wealthy Dorset based couple, who celebrated a birthday with an afternoon at Biggin Hill which included several Spitfires and all the then remaining members of The Few. I was able to chat with the men who were restoring a Spitfire in one of the hangars there, which was extremely interesting. Very movingly a Spitfire which had been crash landed on a beach during the D Day invasion by a Polish pilot was also present and he was reuntied with the machine for the first time.

Wow! I didn’t know there was video of the Do24 ATT flying down the white cliffs ( 28.46 )only photos!! I was in it! We where flying from Jersey to Biggin.

I spent my childhood in Castle Bromwich overlooking the RAF base. One of my early memories was having the de Havilland racer ‘Grosvenor House’ fly over me at a very low altitude, when Spitfires were the frontline fighter.

To all the gen z and late millennials, this is what airshows were like back then. From a gen X who's seen it all.

Oh my, I went to the first one in 1963!

Thanks for this upload, I remember seeing this documentary on Discovery Wings before

Shame they don’t do it anymore 😢

Many an airshow back in the 70’s & 80’s. The aircraft we flew back then were incredible. Haven’t seen a Pitts Special doing a display for a long time. I’m guessing they were banned?…

She's now in Germany with Meyer Motors and flying again. I was there that day and was afraid Rob was not going to get out. Given where the P-51 control runs are He would have got her back on the ground safely had the A-1 hit about 3 feet further back.

The crowd were chanting " get out, get out" as the P51 started it's final dive. Some of us "no, no, no." I thought there was no way from that height, a cold feeling crept over me, a man was about to die here. The canopy tumbled, and then something else, the pilot, but to late, the aircraft was almost down. And then the parachute burst open by pure miracle, just in time. A great cheer went up from the crowd and people clapped with absolute joy and relief. At the same time all eyes were drawn to the Sky Raider as this must be critically damaged and about to hit the ground but this was downwind and still flying and maintaining height, an almost impossible outcome. But sure enough, it turned and lined up to land and touched down and rolled out left wing high and on one wheel for some distance until it stopped close to us. The pilot stayed in the cockpit for a very long time before clambering down and inspecting the damage. A dreadful responsibility to shoulder. As close to fatal as is possible to come and walk away, for both parties.

The fact that BB Doll's pilot managed to get out and parachute to safety at such a low altitude was wonderful!

Marvelous variety and lots of formations. Very briefly glimpse "BB Doll" which must be "Big Beautiful." I enjoyed knowing Col. John Landers, a colorful Texan who really got around the war.

I was there with my good mate Dieter who was nuts about ME 109s. I was going through the outbuildings to get something out of my car when i bumped into Cats Eyes Cunningham! I think he had a soft top BMW which made us both laugh at the irony. 😂 Seemed a very nice man.

Sadly the Firefly is no longer with us though one is being rebuilt.

Between The Fighter Collection and The Old Flying Machine Company they have restored many historic fighters to the air and keep them there. They have done wonders for the warbird restoration movement in this country. Thank you Stephen Gray and Ray Hannah.

Thanks for uploading this!

Oh this is a special watch, thank you Terry

Remember this well. If I remember rightly the big July show used to be called 'The Classic Fighter Display' before it eventually took this name. This and the North Weald Fighter Meet were just incredible shows.

Always a great show, weather permitting. You did a fabulous job with the filming, thank you for sharing it.

A memorable show!

Pure golden footage, thank you again Terry for this upload. Those were the days!

Beautiful aircraft, all. ‘Shame about the inaccurate paint job on the FW-190, though.

Oh the 'Princess Elizabeth ',; Apparently applied to a pilots P51 while he was off for the day, the Royals visited the squadron and the Mustang was given the Princess Elizabeth name as a P.R. press thing. When the pilot came back to see what they'd painted on his plane he was NOT happy. Can't say i blame him, im British, but as a fighter pilot that's pretty lame to have as your nose art, even more so if you're an American.

Excellent Presentation thankyou

very good!

I grew up in the 80s as a boy just 2 minutes walk over the road from the base. At 8,9,10,11 this base was like area 51 to us. We had to get in and explore. And we did.

Glad I wasn’t there to hear that goddam awful music playing over the tannoy drowning out the music of the Merlin

Spoilt with loud music

🤤 *promo sm*

Of course I like, I went several times to Duxford, visited the museum, and so...always a great moment ,exceptional ( from France)

Love that Mk 1X Spit beautiful

Fantastic footage as always. This one is particularly helpful to me for a modelling project I'm working on. However, there is something that is confusing me. All the footage I've seen of Flying legends 2005 shows the catalyna in white. Yet here she is still in her old colours. Can you shed any light on the matter please?

Thank you for this tonight, I was there!

Thank you for uploading these nostalgic clips from Duxford, reminds me of my childhood again!

Really enjoyed that - thank you for sharing, happy memories!

Wow! How I miss those days...

Wish Biggin still did air shows 😔

You notice they don't put the Jug and Spitfire together No jug could compete down here up top yes but not down here

B17 second only the mighty Lancaster

Nice video !!!

Given the technology, media of the time and weather conditions, this is exceptionally well filmed and excellent footage. It's so nice to see such a good range of historic jets and piston power, sadly with so many of them no longer flying - the RNHF Seahawk and Sea Fury, the now retired Tornado, the Sabre and Shooting Star. A great 7 Spitfire set piece and the dependable Sally B B17. That solo aerobatic performance was amazing. Thanks for the memories!

I remember having a model kit for that DO 24. It had radial engines and a lot of gun positions and I think it was a Matchbox kit

Great video , I just subscribed!!

All chopped up. What a mess.

Fantastic. Warbirds.🤩 Whats that smoke @ 11:16?

The early oos were definitely the pinicle of Duxford airshows from 2007 onwards its gone downhill

You found some good vantage points producing great close up shots. Pity the weather was so dull but it look like another great show.

GOD GOP

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