3:15 Did something crash? whoops!

Long time ago, when the British Empire existed.

yOUR gRANDFATHER MUST'VE BEEN ONE INTERESTING MAN

Amazing! A priceless piece of aviation history.

It's possible my father was flying the Canberra or other aircraft this day. He was Squadron Leader Arthur E. Callard, DFC, AFC. He won the AFC for flying the first non-stop jet crossing of the Atlantic in 1952 flying a Canberra bomber. He subsequently became an RAF Test Pilot based in Farnborough.

Reverse thrust in the 40s ! I need to read up on my aviation history!

Stunning ...just STUNNING !!!! Thanks for sharing

What an amazing piece of film! Vickers Viscount (taxiing, 0:20); Handley Page Hermes (0:30); Bristol Freighter (1:00); Airspeed Ambassador (reverse taxiing, 1:40); Short Solent (flypast); Boulton Paul Balliol (2:00); Percival Prince (2:15); Supermarine Seagull (2:30); Cierva Air Horse (2:45); Westland Wyvern (3:00) and Armstrong Whitworth Apollo (3:30).

guess they had to choose between color or sound !

At 3.02 there is an early Wyvern taking off - outstanding of your Grandfather. I loved the policeman's uniform :) Thanks for this. A great little movie just four years post war.

great stuff

Flew from there a couple of times as a passenger with my dad piloting , that was back in the late 90s . I remember the take off was explained as " bear right as soon as you are airborne to avoid landing aircraft , watch out for the rescue chopper based there and by the way look out for low flying golf balls from the golf course " , landing was easier as you just had to " Watch for those damned golf balls and get it right first time or you will hit the mountain behind , there isn't enough room to pull up and go round again " Thankfully dad had flown from there several times before and I,m still here to attest to his skill , though dad died in 2012 I think he will still be flying around there with angels wings instead of his RAF "shitehawk" ones .

Absolutely wonderful!!!! Thank you for posting and sharing. What a rare treasure!

Wonder what the column of smoke off in the distance is when the Westland Wyvern is taking off? 3:11

By the way, what IS the music? My sources suggest a Chopin Mazurka, but I can't find it.

I know the place. That approach keeps you on your toes. Gorgeous music.

Fantastic film, there's a few B&W films of this airshow but seeing it in colour is totally awesome! :D I only wish though the person who filmed it filmed the De Havilland Comet passenger jet prototype, that would of been awesome to see but I guess the film ran out before it took off. Anyways totally enjoyed watching this, thanks for uploading! :)

A priceless film, thanks for sharing.

Having grown up in the '80's, it's difficult to contextualize these aircraft as brand-new or state-of-the-art. There was a time when both of these terms apply, and not a jet was flown.

When Britain ruled the air ! Great video !!!

Wheres the sound?

...amazing, the Viscount prototype, an Airspeed Ambassador, the Air Horse prototype. This is priceless.

Priceless stuff! Many thanks.

Fantastic bit of footage. Lovely to see colour from that era. The Ambassador taxying backwards was impressive.

Excellent! Better than some of the B&W official films.

You need to show more of the interior.

Please tell more about your home-made P.A.P.I.

My mistake it's a Short Solent according to a list I just found of aircraft at the show in '49...must revise my flying boats!

Fantastic footage, thanks for sharing. Great to see a Wyvern TF 2 in motion and in colour too! Couple of other identifications to note, that's a Short Sandringham rather than a Sunderland and could that be an Avro Athena rather than a Balliol? (they do look pretty identical mind you!)

That kid at the end holding the flying schedule would be in his 70s now. Wonderful colour clip.

@Proplinerman The seaplane is a Supermarine Seagull ASR.1

Awesome! Do you or anyone else know all of those types? Apart from what looks like the Viscount prototype, a Shorts Sunderland (I think) and the Hawker Sea Fury, this American cannot identify the others. (and I'm usually good at these things!)

180K with floatplane kit has the 185 dorsal. Usually a 90" diameter prop, too. I flew a 1979 180K for a couple of years. It wasn't set up with float kit, so had 82" prop and no dorsal fin. Look for the electric fuel pump scoop to identify a 185!

how did you manage to fly this wonderful plane?

Cool. Where is this over? Fly safe.

Nice wan guys!

looks like a beautiful place to fly into

It's a C-180K. The 1978 - 1981 (final year the C180 was produced) came with the larger dorsal fin, same as the C185. I own a 1980 C180K which has the large dorsal fin.

Great aircraft! Really want to see it certified soon!

The stupid bird was talking me down! We don't all have Cat 3 autoland to help us onto the ground, you know.