R.N.A.S. Lossiemouth in the Sixties

[@billparr4723]

Oh this brings back so many great memories of my time in the Fleet Air Arm at Lossie in early 1967. My first assignment as a JREM ( Junior Radio Electrical Mechanic ) fresh out of training was on these Sea Princes and Sea Venoms of 750 Squadron. Just great to see this film which I see also features Sea Vampire of Station Flight. Hawker Hunters from 764 Squadron. Mk I Buccaneers from 736 Squadron. Mk2 Buccaneers from 800 Squadron detached to HMS Eagle. Mk 2 Buccaneers from 809 Squadron detached to HMS Ark Royal.. Good to know that they decided to keep Lossiemouth as a front line air station, even though it's now manned by the RAF..... LONG LIVE “ THE FLEET AIR ARM”

[@bosl24164275]

I lived at Silversands Caravan Site from 1965 to 1967, used to go to the Old Road every day on way back from school and watch the planes. Great memories, Thank You

[@jonoedwards4195]

That was unreal Mate! You beauty, had Me locked on from the start.

[@terryhackett2059]

I won sea cadet of the year in 69, and the prize was a week at Lossiemouth, 12 years old and shooting on the range, being lowered from a wessex helicopter, learning firefighting, damn I'll never forget that week, or the one a year later on TS Royalist

[@allgood6760]

Thanks... we have a Sea Venom warbird here in NZ 👍🇳🇿

[@nicholassiminson2699]

That brings back Memories. I was on 763Sqn (Hunters). I must have been there at the Time the Films were made. I later changed to the RAF and was there for 8 Years on 8Sqn Shackletons.

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

What is striking about this vid is the sheer high quality of the footage for it's time, plus the amazing variety of aircraft...Great vid, better than most TV pictures of the era. 👍🏻

[@rontiemalo9513]

I am in 'Rescue One'...at 5mins 5 secs!!! I remember it was the only time I combed my hair....just for the camera.!!! This cine film appears to start around 1966....then progresses to the early 70's....then jumps back to 65/66 again. The 'choppers' and Trackers were from the Dutch carrier Karel Doorman which was in the Moray Firth at the time. The Canberra footage is also very interesting....we foamed runway 05 on one occasion for a Canberra from Germany...nosewheel stuck 'up.' I was a Mk7 monitor operator on L/A 'West Ham' Walsh's crew for that one. Happy days. Pity no cine film of the Sunday night Fulmar Club dance. Lots of action there!!!

[@HighFlight]

Great stuff - Possibly the best 16 minutes I've had all day!

[@DaveMcKay0960]

My grandparents lived in Lossie, and we used to trail up there from north Wales to spend the Summers with them, through the 60s and early 70s. Another big difference is that back then, the harbour used to house a fishing fleet. My granfather owned one of the "seine netters". My father was stationed at Lossie when he met my mother, a local girl.

[@GrahamInnes1]

Gannets and Sea Princes, LOVELY!! I was lucky enough to get a flight in a Sea Prince at Topcliffe in the mid 70's. They used to come in to visit the RN elementry flying training school. This is one superb movie. Well done on converting it and sharing!

[@philreading3836]

My first ever flight was in a Sea Prince at HMS Condor Arbroath during my training flown by pilot known as mad mac

[@zoomer325]

Awesome thanks for posting. We left in 72! I returned in 94 for four years. The base has changed so much over the years, but never the view from runway 23.

[@seriousfun213]

Awesome thanks!

[@GrahamInnes1]

Just watched this again. SUPERB! In a day when we had many aircraft types and built them all in this country!

[@martinchamberlain542]

This is brilliant, nostalgic filming,with a brilliant soundtrack. Thankyou, I really enjoyed watching this!

[@lawrencemartin1113]

What a great archive!! Great post!👍🏻

[@bugler75]

Great footage, great music. Thanks for sharing. Ian

[@caterhamsuperlightr81]

Fantastic colour footage - thanks so much for sharing.

[@bengello]

Excellent film...thanks for posting👍

[@matsnevets4818]

Nice to see the Grumman S2F Tracker in which my father flew and the Sikorsky helicopters of the Royal Dutch Navy.

[@bugler75]

Great footage from a wonderful time of military aviation. Thanks for uploading

[@AVMamfortas]

Superb. Love it.

[@jimmacpherson8706]

Joined HMS Fulmar from training at Condor(Armourer) in '63, Ordnance workshops, 738 Sqn, 736 Sqn and station flight.Got my QM and QS there prior to joining the old Ark in '64.Happy days.Monday night-Buckie night, Tuesday night -Craigellachie night, the Two Red Shoes(In Elgin) and The Coulard, Lossie>

[@ОмаоАминтаев]

Очень интересное видео, спасибо! Музыка супер.

[@rayday1588]

or in the Nubian 6x6 Crash Tender on the "Graveyard" at the highest point on the airfield!!

[@JohnSmith-qq8ok]

“In the days when we had a navy/fleet air arm.”

[@russellmiles2861]

Well, they had Ballistic missile submarines so really all that was needed was a few aircraft to guard the submarine base.

[@annierichards]

Before my time, but great footage and a reminder that in the 1960's the FAA was more powerful than most air forces.

[@rayday1588]

I may have been on the "D" in the Rescue Land Rover on some of those shots!

[@rovercoupe7104]

Is nobody going to say “In the days when we had a navy/fleet air arm.”?

[@alanwoodcock6542]

Ii was on 800 and 764 in those a6ds thanks for the memories

[@davidmoffat6791]

I spent many happy hours "stuck to the fence" at Lossie around the late '60s/early '70's FAA days and this captures the time so perfectly. Huge variety of continuous activity of both based and visiting aircraft, not to mention easily visible Kinloss approach just to the south. I think some of it must be into the early '70's as I don't think LM tail code Gannets (T.5 , 11.40ish) appeared until about then, after Brawdy closed. Anyone confirm? I don't normally like music on these vids but the choices are just so right for the time. Thankyou so much for sharing.

[@billb7876]

Great to see,

[@stevecurd3944]

fantastic footage & to think the Hunter is still flying today

[@jamesthomas-uc9wq]

Based Sea Prince T.1s, Sea Devon, Hunter GA.11s and T.8s, Sea Venom FAW.22s, Sea Vampire T.22s, Buccaneer S.1s & S.2s, Gannet AEW.3s, COD.4, & T.5s, disembarked Scimitars and Buccaneer S.2s from Ark Royal and Eagle, and what about that pair of Meteor TT.20s! As if that wasn't enough, visiting Institute of Aviation Medicine Hunter T.7 (XL563 with nose probe), RAF Germany 16 Sqn Canberra B(I).8 and 213 Sqn Canberra B(I).6, Belgian Starfighters, and Dutch Trackers & S-58s are also seen. Such a rare treat to see as over the fence 'spotting' footage is very rare from that era, especially in colour and in such clarity. Shame sound wasn't a straight forward part of amateur filming then. Thank you posting👍

[@charlesclark2917]

Thanks to foxonefour for the video and james thomas for the IDs.

[@clives344]

The Swiss Airforce used Vampires. Flying from Gatwick to Basel got speaking to an Ex Swiss 🇨🇭Airforce Pilot. Amazing video those were the days when the Airwing was huge and varied

[@paulmcwilliams8641]

If you look at a plan of the base it is shaped like a ship, not a RAF base. I was there in the late 80's.

[@paulnorthard488]

Round about 1970 my dad ejected from a 2 seater Hunter up there. Bob Northard and Pickles.

[@magna4100]

Top of the fucking pops???

[@iananderson7883]

Better photography than some of these idiots and their iPhones. What is so difficult about holding a device that weighs a few ounces steady.?

[@CH-pv2rz]

Yep pretty much all obsolete aircraft even for the 60s... Except, perhaps, the Buccaneers. Though they were a mid 50s subsonic design they did have a good low altitude bombing system... And shouldn't you be playing British Rock from the 60s instead of American Rock from the 70s?

[@russellmiles2861]

They were all obsolete when the first H bomb was proven.

[@billybellend1155]

They were mostly used as trainers.

[@andrewcisalowicz1326]

@scotscan, grow up!

[@Scotscan]

hmm can we not see the footage minus the music please?

[@tonightwefly]

It was filmed in the 60's, some cameras couldn't record sound then

[@Scotscan]

No music would have been better.

[@foxonefour]

@@Scotscan A single mouse click mutes the sound if you don't like it. Everybody's happy then!

[@Scotscan]

@@foxonefour nah I disagree I want to hear the natural rumble of the engines and the whine of electronics inside the cockpit.

[@foxonefour]

@@Scotscan I suggest you build yourself a time machine and go back and record the sound too. It says at the beginning of the film the cine camera used was not able to record sound. Your choices are music or you can mute it.