Highlights of Farnborough Air Show - 1952 | Shell Historical Film Archive

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@nicknicholson2452 3 ай бұрын

I was there in 1954. My dad who was a US Navy officer w was a guest. It was just as impressive and still is one of the best airshow I’ve ever attended.

@tobyfountain414 2 ай бұрын

That Hawker Hunter prototype is absolutely gorgeous, such clean lines! One of the most beautiful jets of the cold war in my view.

@inglepropnoosegarm7801 3 ай бұрын

Must have been truly mind-blowing seeing (and hearing!) these futuristic aircraft in 1952.

@nervo6321 2 ай бұрын

Priceless footage

@billgiles3261 2 ай бұрын

I may have been there as an aircraft obsessed kid living nearby. I later joined the RAF and was an engineer and worked on the Hunter for about ten years.

@markiliff 3 ай бұрын

0:46 Just 7 years after a war fought with Hurricanes & Spitfires, this Hawker Hunter must have been *mindblowing* 5:11 Ditto for bombers: Lancaster v Valiant

@derekantill3721 3 ай бұрын

From the golden years of the British aircraft industry and the days of Neville Duke.

@davedee923 3 ай бұрын

The plural of aircraft is .... aircraft! (OED)

@qasdex 3 ай бұрын

They do it to get you to click on it and leave a comment.

@johnbb99 2 ай бұрын

@@qasdex They got me... :(

@TheFallibleFundi 2 ай бұрын

Actually, I think it's ignorance. I work for an organisation that does this all the time. It drives me mad....

@kristinajendesen7111 2 ай бұрын

Beat me to it. Makes me cringe when they put 'aircrafts'. Mind you, I don't like it when the Tommy tanks say 'airplane'. Sounds like a 5yr old that can't pronounce aeroplane. Don't know why they can't just say 'plane' like we normally do.

@stevena9305 2 ай бұрын

Yes it’s ignorance.

@ExcitedWhaleEye-xx9qv Ай бұрын

I was there that year and several years after. Great period for British aviation. My father was posted to Bulford camp near Boscombe Down the test pilot aerodrome so I had a grandstand view of all the test aeroplanes.

@js14a Ай бұрын

It was the best period. You could reasonably make an argument for Britain being the leading aviation innovator in the world at the time. Even just in this one video you can see how far Britain was pushing the boundaries. All lost because of political short sightedness and probably some US influence in the background.

@johnburden291 2 ай бұрын

It made a lasting impact on me. Never stopped loving them.

@donerskine7935 3 ай бұрын

Some beautiful aircraft. Plus the Gannet.

@johnburden291 2 ай бұрын

Loved seeing the Gannet flying overhead between Culdrose and Ilminster.

@ExcitedWhaleEye-xx9qv Ай бұрын

@@donerskine7935 looking for a restaurant to eat came across a Gannet recently at a ATC hut near the DH Museum. Seen them flying but never realised how big they were.

@CraigCholar 2 ай бұрын

The lines of the Hawker Hunter are sublime. As for the Supermarine Swift, wellll....

@pippin1ful 3 ай бұрын

I went to the 1953 airshow on the train, on my own, aged 13.

@frostyfrost4094 2 ай бұрын

That must of been a mission

@DrivermanO 2 ай бұрын

When I went to grammar school in 1962, there was an aeronautical society. These Shell films were a staple of many meetings - a Bell And Howell projector running film. Great days!

@andysandy97 2 ай бұрын

This film is sensational!

@theoccupier1652 2 ай бұрын

Imagine seeing the Vulcan for the first time ... must have looked like a Space Ship back in 1952 :)

@TheFallibleFundi 2 ай бұрын

@@theoccupier1652 I gather the Victor fooled some USAF personnel age wise during the Gulf War. They couldn't believe the design was so old.

@davidgapp1457 3 ай бұрын

Easy to forget the British once led the way in aviation.

@johnburden291 2 ай бұрын

@@davidgapp1457 I remember seeing the original "Flying Bedstead" at Farnborough with my Father. It went on to become the forerunner of the Harrier

@MrVulcanbomber 2 ай бұрын

Just magical ❤

@CraigCholar 2 ай бұрын

To the many eagle-eyed people repetitively complaining about "aircrafts", by commenting about an obvious error you did exactly what the channel planned on. This happens over and over on KZbin because content creators know the tricks to increase viewer engagement. So anyway, the video itself is interesting. There were so many different plane makers in the cold war 50s, before they got absorbed or went belly-up.

@roberttatlow5535 3 ай бұрын

The Vulcan VX770 crashed at Syerston in 1958. It was suggested in the crash report it was due to the pilot going to quick. It seems to have been subject to lots of high G manoeuvres before that

@jackdoyle9448 2 ай бұрын

Only 7 years after the end of WW2. An incredible leap in technology and capabilities. The lose of British leadership in aerospace was a crime.

@SirReginaldBlomfield1234 2 ай бұрын

LOSS ! FFS.. 🖕

@adrianwaygood7156 3 ай бұрын

The plural of 'aircraft' is 'AIRCRAFT'!

@simongarrettmusic Ай бұрын

The Comet was such a pretty aircraft it's a shame we couldn't have fixed the window design before it went into service.

@sutapabanerjee2294 3 ай бұрын

😊😊😊😢i was just 3 years or so at this time,and as the child of an administrative n accounting staff in IAC,posted in Kathmandu,i was seeing n travelling into DC3's .But the thrill was always there,😊despite the persistent earache and the giddiness 😅for days afterwards.Later as India advanced we were introduced to yhe Heron,Viscount ,tha Avro 748,the Boeing 707,the Caravelle,theVC10 et al but no airshow in CALCUTTA!!😊

@nicholasbell9017 3 ай бұрын

The plural of aircraft is aircraft, not "aircrafts".

@danaschoen432 3 ай бұрын

You beat me to it!

@promerops 2 ай бұрын

Such a valuable historical document - this video. I like the jazz, but wonder how appropriate it is...

@simongarrettmusic Ай бұрын

imagine how new it would've sounded in 1952

@promerops Ай бұрын

@@simongarrettmusic Or in 1912, come to that.

@acsimpson2633 2 ай бұрын

Didn’t anyone notice the two ground crew seeing off the Hunter - the engine was running and as they pulled the chocks out their heads were quite close to the air intake (sucking tons of air) and they were wearing flat caps á la Andy Capp. WTF???

@michaelshore2300 3 ай бұрын

What are Aircrafts ????????

@mattaikay925 3 ай бұрын

Thanks to some brilliant minds all of this was lost - sad sad sad very very sad

@mattaikay925 3 ай бұрын

videos like this bring me back to same gloomy state - even as late as 1982 there was so much of super high tech around - so many companies all tanked - Racal, Plessey, GEC, Sinclair, ICL... all gone..vanished- hope ARM will restore some of the fame... guess we need a proper govt to start with....

@davidgapp1457 3 ай бұрын

@@mattaikay925 ARM is owned by foreign countries, namely the Japanese company, Softbank. British In Name Only.

@michaelshore2300 3 ай бұрын

Like Labours Minister for Technology

@EricIrl 3 ай бұрын

What was lost?

@derekferguson385 2 ай бұрын

@@EricIrlmarbles.

@tomarmstrong1281 3 ай бұрын

It was a time when Britain was leading the world in aircraft design and construction, and an exciting time to be a pllot in the RAF.

@ianpunter4486 3 ай бұрын

It's an extraordinary range of aircraft just 7 years after war's end! I think my first Farnborough would have been in about 1954. Neville Duke in the Hunter was always a favourite. Nothing dated about this film, (except the jazz sound track, which to my ears has not worn well!)

@pippin1ful 3 ай бұрын

I bought my first Kiwi Fruit there from a bloke selling from the back of his car. In those days they were called Chinese Gooseberries, and they cost 2/6d each. Neville Duke's Hunter was painted in a pale green, but not in bright hi-viz, like today.

@Firebrand55 2 ай бұрын

Quite right....I'm a jazz fan but that soundtrack s actually jarring....and I don't know why.....it just doesn't fit aircraft flight.

@chrislucy1812 2 ай бұрын

@@Firebrand55the music is the blues and very fitting when you see what became of the British aircraft technology not long afterwards.

@danaschoen432 3 ай бұрын

The plural form of "Aircraft" is "Aircraft"

@neilward9932 3 ай бұрын

Beat me to it, one of my pet hates !

@Gracievision 3 ай бұрын

No mention of the disaster that resulted in the deaths of thirty-one people including the aircrew. The fifties were another world. Danger and death seemed to be an accepted thing with the show continuing once the runway was clear. Quite reminiscent of the disaster at Le Mans three years later.

@ClausB252 3 ай бұрын

It was indeed mentioned at 9:50.

@Jack-bs6zb 3 ай бұрын

The life and soul of any party … that’s you that is.

@a-fl-man640 3 ай бұрын

aircraft is the plural of aircraft, not "aircrafts"

@pikachu6031 3 ай бұрын

The word is: “AIRCRAFT” Not Aircrafts!!…..It is both singular and plural….Please change the Title of your video……

@rosewhite--- 2 ай бұрын

what is the music?

@benitalong8785 3 ай бұрын

Oh WoW

@andypandy9013 3 ай бұрын

The plural of "Aircraft" is "Aircraft" and NOT "AircraftS"!!!!! 😠

@davidpfister5138 2 ай бұрын

BUT A REAL PERSON IS DOING THE COMMENTARY!

@mikecawood 2 ай бұрын

A shame that the Supermarine Swift was unsuccessful in the end.

@mrbharathkiran.1508 3 ай бұрын

Hello there

@Win100n 3 ай бұрын

Those were the days when the air we breathed was polluted with DDT from the ground.

@sixpackpilot 2 ай бұрын

Every aircraft shown seems to have "super priority" 😂. I don't think giving priority works like that.

@freeman8128 2 ай бұрын

The plural of 'aircraft' is aircraft (no 's').

@davidreid8075 3 ай бұрын

Investing money in interesting technology instead of boredom.

@davidpearn5925 3 ай бұрын

Why the added s ???. Are we going to add an s to sheep also.....sheeps ???.

@UKMike2009 2 ай бұрын

Sheeps are what float on water aren't they?

@johnbb99 2 ай бұрын

The plural of aircraft is 'aircraft' .

@johnhudghton3535 3 ай бұрын

Aircraft no s needed

@rosewhite--- 2 ай бұрын

Valiant got its massive undercarriage up pretty quick!

@davidreid8075 3 ай бұрын

What a shame The Swift proved to be a failure

@JohnWentworth-n5c 2 ай бұрын

And this was only seven years after WW2

@nicolasbecerramondaca6004 3 ай бұрын

@jocelynstclair3901 2 ай бұрын

Whether one aircraft or 101 aircraft - the word aircraft is BOTH singular and plural. Do NOT upload videos if you are incapable of using English correctly.