Hi, I am trying to get some footage of the Turnberry airfield, I wonder if you have the images without the simulated plane as I want to turn it into a Pathe news report type clip. I would also need your permission to use it.

Very good video Frank. Thank you! In the mid 30's Cleveland's airport was the largest in the world. Unfortunately, the crash of Bill Odom Labor Day 1949 that killed three people ended the air races that used to take place here. Ohio has contributed probably more than any other state to flight. The Wright Brothers were the original first in flight pioneers. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk the moon. John Glenn the first American to orbit the earth. I recently loaded MSFS 2024 and was surprised the Rock-n-Roll hall of fame building is not modeled. I'll need to look at some of the add-ons to see if I can get it loaded. Take care,

Terrific video. What a crew saving a those airmen 👍🏻

That must of taken quite a while to fly the route 😮

Memories of s failed radio on a Tiger Moth departing Biggin Hill for Damyns Hall!

Been flying and gliding 57 years and done a ground and air survey of historic airfields last 10 years. 250 sites so far.

Good video Frank👍🏻

Comment from video producer: hours shown for the radio comms transcript should begin with 19 not 09.

Good video Frank, interesting story.

Other then no airfoils to speak of, a propeller that couldn't drive a hamster cage, and the utter absence of a rudder that completes the tri-axis requirements of flight. And did I mention not one photo? Not a flippin' chance, unless he fell off a cliff, and straight down is not flying.

Now I know why I didn't get to fly with you this weekend :)

We don't know who was first. Richard Pearse certainly didn't promote himself as first.

Great video Frank, beautiful scenery.

Cool video Frank, especially liked the video of the real aircraft at the end. Keep working on those landings mate😉

And the caption at 7:50 needs work. HP went into liquidation in March 1970 and SA took over a contract for 25 Jetstreams intially all for the RAF in about 1972/3 and delivered all these before being absorbed into BAe. Then the Jetstream 31 was produced from 1981 with 386 Jetstream 31 and 110 Jetstream 41 aircraft being assembled at Prestwick.

The caption at 5:40 is incorrect. The Pionair was the BEA designation for their passenger C-47/DC-3 fleet and the Pioneer Leopard was the designation for the freight version of these aircraft, not C-54/DC-4s (which BEA never had).

I'd much rather fly through clouds than fly through mountains.

Hey there, yes I was still subscribed. Don't know why it stopped on my feed? Fly with you soon 👍🏻

This is great video! It would be lovely to make MSFS AI powered interactive illustrated tour from it, where pilot can talk to a virtual guide! How could I get in touch with you? I have an early example on how it works here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnWsgZZmpp6EaNE

There are 2 books every simmer should read: 'Wind, Sand, Stars'; 'Fate is the Hunter'. Thanks for this video. These kinds of historical flights open up a new use for MSFS.

Thanks for posting. I remember seeing the memorial in person up on Mt dandenong. It's nice to have a visual documentary of what happened. Very tragic indeed!

I’m born & Bred Pembroke Dock. So proud of our heritage and the Royal Dockyard. Pembroke Dock, the town built to build ships. The Garrison Chapel is known now as the Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre. (Formally the Sunderland Trust). The Golf course was the site of the biggest fire since the Great fire of London in WW2, after constant german bombings set fire to the admiralty oil tanks. Our County Council and the Port Authority are wiping our heritage off the face of the map, smashing down the Georgian dockyard buildings and lately filled in the last UK pickling pond!

Scottish Aviation also serviced Canadian CF 104s and CT 133s from their bases in Germany

Great video, thanks for making it. 😊 That was an interesting chair they used. I hope all pilots get to try that chair. 🙂

History well worth remembering. The one casualty among the commandos was the older brother of a future Israeli prime minister.

For this portion of the trip. In having been aware of a few events of the trip my entire lifetime. To have went to school with the children of Harold Newton. Because I am from what was his neighbourhood in New Zealand. The landing at Lord Howe Island is the true stuff of a daredevil. Yet the fact that he attempted and managed it. Against any advice given. With the animation of the Lord Howe Island beach landing. Along with the description of the aircraft at the end of the video. Certainly are eye opening. There once was talk of a movie being made about Harold Newton. However it failed to be financed or getting off the ground. His farming side certainly came out in the words of the letter once he reached Australia. Also perhaps because it was so close to getting home by that time. I am not sure he flew directly to Auckland and first came into New Zealand in the vicinity of New Plymouth. However was unable to land there and flew onto Auckland. Where he landed. Eventually flying on to New Plymouth once much of the paperwork had been done with customs. I used to travel past his house on route to school by bus. To also have looked at the farm from a distance and from my parents property at the time.

In having known of this flight my entire life as well as being a form of neighbour to Harold Newton in a rural sense. To have known him and his family personally. I always wanted to read what was in the letter. l was aware he had written in describing his trip back to New Zealand. After he had returned to England after World War Two. He made the trip back to England in seeking out an old girlfriend, he had hoped to propose to in marriage. To discover that on his arrival in the UK that she had since married a former Naval man. After that disappointment he did not want to wait for several months to arrive back in New Zealand by ship. Some rumours were he got involved in flying black market goods in Europe and had to leave before the authorities caught up with him. However that has never been confirmed or reported on. Either way, this was a true adventure from a man who had survived flying in the Air Force during WW2 and becoming a prisoner of war twice. To which he managed to escape each time. Even if the door of the prison may have been left unlocked on purpose on one occasion. He said to me that he enjoyed driving a bulldozer on his NZ farm because it reminded him of his time of flying. Regrettably it was a tractor accident on the farm that eventually took his life as a rather old man at the time. Just to finally read those words quoted from the letter is a blessing.

My father was stationed with the American Air Force in the late 50s and early 60s. I enjoyed Prestwick very much as a young man there. 😊

We were just talking about this flight "on the drome" today, cracking video!

I’m from the area in this video lol, good video btw

I was looking forward to this part 2. Great video, thanks for sharing. 😃

Very interesting. Was at Tyabb recently. 🌟

Very well done. 🌟

Looking forward to part 2. 😊

Wow, super interesting. Thanks for sharing. 💖

I have the same P 51, for some unknown reason my engine shuts down after a 15min flight, do you have any problems with yours?

Bravo!!

Charles Hawker, MHR for Wakefield, South Australia, had been a junior Minister in the Lyons Government for 9 months in 1932, until his resignation over the issue of tariff protection for industry, which increased costs for the rural sector. He was the most loved and respected political figure of his time. He was described in the biography written by his sister and published in 1969 as 'Scholar, Soldier, Pastoralist, Statesman'. He was a born leader and was instrumental in the formation of the Liberal-Country League (LCL) in South Australia in 1929, the amalgamation of a number of conservative groups. In the election of that year, he was elected as the MHR for Wakefield, and thereafter, benefitted from an ever-growing personal vote at each successive election. People who had never before voted for anyone else but Labor candidates were voting for him. He had a key role, because of his expertise in the rural sector, in the negotiations for the Ottawa Agreement in 1932, in which the UK and Dominion countries agreed that the former would give preference to exports of agricultural and other commodities from the latter, in return for their giving preference to British exports of manufactured goods and capital equipment. This agreement would be a key factor in the cause of the Kyeema disaster. One of Australia's obligations under it was to give preference to British aircraft, despite these being of less advanced design, and with much longer delays in delivery than was the case with US aircraft. This was the reason for the impasse which resulted in nothing being done to put the Lorenz radio navigation beacons along the air routes and at capital city aerodromes into service. The Civil Aviation Board repeatedly implored the Lyons Federal Government to authorise it to purchase a Lockheed Electra 12 to carry out the necessary test program to formulate procedures for pilots to use the beacons for navigation, and the government repeatedly authorised the purchase, with the proviso that the aircraft must be British. The problem was that there was no British aircraft in existence which was suitable for the testing. A suitable aircraft needed to be of all-metal construction and have performance similar to the DC-2, DC-3 and Lockheed Electra 10 and 12. All British aircraft were of wooden contruction. Ironically, when Neville Chamberlain went to meet Hitler in September, 1938, the British Airways aircraft he travelled on was a Lockheed Electra 10. For months leading up to the disaster, the Civil Aviation Board had been negotiating with Associated Airlines and then Guinea Airways of Adelaide to hire their Lockheed aircraft, but no deal had been done because one member of the Board kept objecting to the per-hour cost quoted. Hawker moved into his just-completed new home on his sheep station over the weekend of October 23-23. An article written by him appeared in the newspapers at this time in which he held that it was inexcusable to have three ministers in the federal government responsible for Commerce but only one for the large portfolio of Defence. There were clear indications that he would be asked to rejoin Federal Cabinet as the Minister for Defence. He was booked to travel on Australian National Airways on Monday, October 24, to return to Canberra, but a friend asked him to make a keynote address at a function the Navy was hosting in Adelaide to mark the Anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar, so he decided to accept and delay his return to Canberra until Tuesday, October 25. He was the most prominent among several prominent people who were killed in the disaster. Robert Menzies had been elected to Federal Parliament for the division of Kooyong in 1934, and at that time was Attorney General. He was ambitious and seen by many as a future Prime Minister, but was not popular among his colleagues. He had been a prominent constitutional lawyer in his earlier career and made no secret of his intellectual prowess, his inability to suffer fools gladly and his ambitions, and this was very offputting to his colleagues, who saw it as arrogance. Doctor Earle Page, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Country Party, which served as coalition Partner in the Lyons Government, had a particular dislike of Menzies and would have been likely to rule out any continuation of the coalition agreement if Menzies was chosen by his party to succeed Joe Lyons. Hawker, by contrast was universally liked and respected. Lyons had wanted to step down as Prime Minister and retire from politics at the 1937 election, but was persuaded to stay on as PM. It is quite possible that on arrival back in Canberra, in meeting with Hawker to seal the deal for him to re-enter the Cabinet, Lyons would have gone a step further and suggested that if Hawker agreed to stand for the Party leadership, he would step down and retire. Had that happened, Hawker would have gone straight from the backbench into the Prime Ministership. Lyons might then have benefitted from the strain of leadership being lifted and been able to retire with his wife and twelve children, back in Tasmania. Instead, he died in office on Good Friday, April 7, 1939. It is therefore possible that the Kyeema disaster had a nineteenth victim, Joe Lyons, even though he wasn't on the aircraft. John Howard, Australia's Prime Minister from 1996-2007, wrote a biography of Menzies in which he made no mention of Charles Hawker or the Kyeema disaster, a glaring and inexcusable omission as the disaster was instrumental in enabling Menzies to succeed to the Prime Ministership. Had it not happened, Menzies would have remained a minister in the government but with no chance of becoming PM unless or until Hawker chose to retire.

super interesting.

Impressive!

Used to work for The Contractor of garbage for Brissy, worked in an old hangar the was originally part of Archefield Airfield.

Flew in the sister Ju52 a week before this crash! flight was to say the least exciting we flew far to close to I think Mt Rigi and a lot of turbulence. I have a picture of the crashed aircraft in the hanger being prepared for its last flight. The 2 pilots were the same guys but you failed to mention the female stewardess who also was on our flight and died in the crash?

Great series Frank, thanks for the views of beautiful Australia. And thanks to Mr. Owen Zupp for his dedication to flight and the RFDS.

Thanks again, Frank. You’re making me want to do it all again!

Yes you made the right choice there. Getthereitis has led to so many accidents. Better to be safe than sorry. 😊

Very interesting. Thank you for the video.

The KLM pilot was an absolute idiot

Wow! I just discovered this online and it certainly brings back some wonderful memories of an amazing flight. Thanks for creating this. Cheers.

Wow! I just discovered this online and it certainly brings back some wonderful memories of an amazing flight. Thanks for creating this. Cheers.

Could you provide me with a list of all the airports you stopped at?