This Jet Age ( Farnborough 1953)

A promotional film reviewing the 1953 Farnborough Air Show
This film is featured in the Brtish Jet Age - The Early Years a DVD from Beulah. Visit www.eavb.co.uk/store/index.html

[@coopdivi]

I used to go to the Farnborough Air Display nearly every year in the 1960s. The one aircraft that made the most impression on me was the Avro Vulcan V-bomber. When it took off the noise was deafening and the ground shook -- you could feel the vibration through your whole body. Then the pilot lit the afterburners and this massive piece of machinery shot vertically upwards at incredible speed. What an aircraft!

[@gliderboy438]

Strange, never seen a Vulcan with afterburners............

[@coopdivi]

@@gliderboy438 I had to look it up and you're quite right, the Olympus engines fitted to production Vulcans didn't have afterburners -- my recollection must have been coloured by the tremendous noise they made (after all, it was about 60 years ago!). Interestingly, the Olympus engine was later developed with reheat (afterburners) for the ill-fated TSR-2 Tactical Strike/Reconnaissance fighter, and also Concorde.

[@Bonypart]

Ah the Vulcan. My Schoolboy favourite. That nose is such a graceful design.

[@justinroberts8622]

Pleasing to see the Valiant B.2 here. Definitely a missed opportunity and a big "what-if" for British Cold-War aviation.

[@dennisgauss7644]

I lived off the end of the airfield and when they broke the sound barrier all my Dad's tomatoes fell over !!

[@nervo6321]

They certainly cranked those early jets up...how fantastic do those prototype Vulcans look?

[@mercomania]

Brilliant, the best of British aircraft design and then at 1.11 a trnsport plane with a BMW car in the cargo area.

[@tonygray6587]

That's an early Bristol car in a Bristol aircraft !

[@mrrolandlawrence]

2:00 wait, did they invent winglets in 1953 already? :O

[@OldGeezer55]

I'd give you extra likes if you'd have turned on CCs (English Auto-generated)