A Day in the Life of RAF Scampton 1965

[@c8136132]

Simply superb, both subject and film quality. Weren’t we good once!

[@marilyndeverell6613]

So proud to have been a member of the Royal Air Force Fire andCrash Rescue team to serve there back in the early 70s it was the finest camp to be stationed at

[@babuzzard6470]

I’m an Aussie 🇦🇺 but love the Vulcan, what an aircraft she was. Thanks

[@paulhurst4327]

Visited the base for a week in 1967. (ATC Cadets) Great time with the station and the Vulcan squadrons.

[@gordonrayfield3502]

Well done Ade! This was the year before I arrived but it tells the story well!

[@richardmarshall4322]

Glory days of the RAF. I was in later from 84 to 93. In a sad state today i am afraid, just like the rest of this once great country

[@Firebrand55]

Excellent footage....at a time when pointing a camera at a V bomber could lead to a weekend's jankers! I know; in 1961, I took a night time pic of a white-painted Victor at RAF Luqa, Malta and was immediately surrounded by MP's with dogs. After some gentle ribaldry,and my obsequious over-praise for their rapid response, they let me keep the pic; which I still have!

[@captainblake2583]

That’s an amazing story! I certainly bet they didn’t like people taking pictures then. It’s awesome that the Vulcan bomber is still around today, for future generations to see. 🛫

[@kenstevens5065]

Yes indeed not just taking pictures. In 1960 I biked to Scampton about 20 miles from home, not bad for a ten year old and stood gawping at the Lancaster for half an hour. Setting off home I took the lane which runs along the north perimeter fence and stopped as there were three Vulcans landing. Within about three minutes a blue police land rover rolled up and two huge RAF coppers and a dog got out and told me to go away. Not very good PR for the RAF but I did as I was told as schoolboys did back then. Some years later I found that the earthworks 50 yards inside the fence was the nuclear bomb store. Even later I learned that within 25 miles of my home there were three V bomber bases, a fighter station and three Thor missile sites! Target for tonight Mr Khrushchev?

[@gazza2933]

Haha. 👍

[@GSP21]

Excellent-Although I didn’t get there until 1968 loads of great memories.The swimming pool was next to the bowling alley.

[@davegoldsmith4020]

Did my Sgts course there in 1987, visiting again next month to see the dam busters museum.

[@kenstevens5065]

What a gem and on 16mm color film, the best the public could get at the time and very expensive. Today you can take almost HD quality on an inexpensive mobile phone for free. Many people took even stills in monochrome in the mid sixties because of the high cost of colour film and developing. In the seventies with new film formats and camera design and competitively priced postal developing and printing colour took off but even with careful storage in darkness prints deteriorated in many cases over the years. Long live todays digital world. Don't loose your memory cards though.

[@KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841]

Not great if an EMP strike device cripples your computer's for some time as an act of terrorism, what good is your memory card going to be, then? That's why there should always be an analogue backup. We're becoming far too reliant on digital tech.

[@johngrimshaw523]

Some is '65, I remember them doing the shots overflying S-Sugar. They were professionals and were around for several days filming in various places. Centralised servicing is shown by all three Squadron Crests (27,83 and 617)on the door. Mixed In are later (70s ?) shots after the "Elves" have brought in Hi-Vis and the aircraft have reverted to Squadrons with the crest on the fin.................Having said that it's still an excellent piece of work and well worth seeing. I wish I could remember the name of the Crew Chief with the 700🤔

[@johnp8131]

Thanks. Loved it there. I left for Bruggen in '82 after a couple of months of re-building Vulcans for some reason???

[@vulcanpainter2539]

Some great memories in this film.

[@JoeStudd96]

I can see XM575 and XL318 in this, both of which still survive in preservation, and XM569's cockpit section is still about too.

[@adrianlambourne2083]

@@JoeStudd96 Thanks for the info Joe. All three you mention in my log book many times.

[@thedgchannel4249]

Air Cadet summer camp at Scampton in 1969, this takes me back.

[@RedKachinaWZ]

SAVE SCAMPTON #2023

[@scroggins100]

Off to great start mate. Thanks

[@simonlunt353]

As a kid I can just remember the Lancaster been at the front gate but I can’t remember the Vulcan they now l live on the flight path of the base l see the red arrows all the time wish they was sound on this video the howl of the Vulcan just sounds so good 😊 great film

[@grahambuckerfield4640]

In the 1970’s as a kid I went to the RAF Museum in Hendon, the Lancaster on display then was painted up as the same aircraft then the gate guard at Scampton.

[@timhancock6626]

At some stage the gate guardian at Scampton was removed and replaced by the abandoned Lancaster ( ex aeronavale) at Blackpool Squires Gate..which is now under restoration to flying condition at East Kirkby. It is possible that the Hendon aircraft is the same one you saw at Scampton....but I'm not 100% certain.

[@ronstewart7831]

Yes served there 1968-1970 had some good times there

[@amstel23]

I was at Goose Bay in Canada, 1978, and no doubt I was towing some of those Vulcans in and out of the hangar as well as guiding them back to the pan after landing.

[@KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841]

Sadly, those days of RAF Scampton are now gone.

[@johnbobson1557]

Days of the UK now gone. Tragic.

[@teedoubleudee]

I was stationed there 66-68. Got married in Lincoln registry office 1966. I don't remember a bowling ally though? Memories fade so fast.

[@johnp8131]

A bit foggy but...... Past the guard-room and turn right, then head up towards the married quarters. It was near the top of that road on the right, just before the married quarters. Those quarters on that side of camp were allocated to singlies, mainly technical trades from MEAS and MEGS, three per house, when I was there 80-82, as there wasn't enough single man blocks available after they moved single WAAF's in a couple of years earlier. My favourite tour, although short. I loved working on Vulcan ejection systems.

[@DarrenGoadsby]

My Dad was their at that time, I was born in the Jan 66 we lived on base.

[@sjmachrihanish]

I was living at RAF Scampton at this time and this interesting video lacks just one thing...

[@grahamfisher5436]

grew up in Newark upon Trent

[@offgrid8445]

Really good to watch - were the bowling alley scenes shot at RAF Lindholme by chance? I recall they had a full size alley in the Leger Club facility.

[@jamessmythe3873]

Please tell me the Lanc is still preserved somewhere….

[@davegoldsmith4020]

Its in the RAF Museum,

[@SusanR-x5y]

Oh dear I was only five!! Great video thank-you 😂

[@brutter602]

The days in which we had a large airforce.

[@grahamvale7620]

Vulcan XM575 now preserved at East Midlands Airport Aeropark 1 minute intofilm

[@Samisage]

Awesome

[@IS-L]

Great film and I reminder to when I was at Scamp-ton, but why no sound?

[@johnp8131]

Think of the equipment available to the amateur then? We're lucky it's not in black and white.

[@VulcanDriver1]

Pity it was closed.

[@paulbarker5179]

Served there on 617 1976 to 1979 To see it now makes me weep. So much history so much tradition consigned to the dustbin of history by small minded politicians. The RAF of today is a joke.

[@scopex2749]

I served from 76 to 88 frankly I am DISGUSTED at all the RAF bases being levelled to make HOUSING for immigrants? Really? Generations of my family served this country and they will be turning in their graves to see this broken country - Jerusalem will NEVER be builded here again................😪

[@adrianlambourne2083]

@@scopex2749 I served 61-80 including almost 9 years at Scampton, then migrated to Australia in ‘81. We have our problems here but at least the sun shines. I agree with you because my ancestors who served and died or were seriously injured in two world wars would be looking down saying is this what we served to create.

[@mariovuksanovic5077]

This jet was very cool looking...they don't have the same style..the 1960s had better.looking airplanes in my opinion. The Brits hot rid of all these great looking planes...understandably, they were very fuel thirsty....we are lucky to still have the

[@mariovuksanovic5077]

B 52.....still around from that era. This video is excellent. .thanks very much Long live our friends the RAF

[@KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841]

@@mariovuksanovic5077 for sure, and the Russians still use the "Bear". But in terms of our RAF, it's all but modernised. The VC10, went out of service in 2013, followed recently by the BAe 146. The only old indigenous jet aircraft in RAF service (for now), is the Hawk, which has been around since the mid Seventies.