I remember this well. I was on 12 Squadron at the time based at Honington. We'd not long returned from a detachment in Malta and sent our Buccs off to Withering and then down on to Salisbury plain. We had some great aircraft back then and a great pleasure to work on many of them.
Just watched this for the first time in many years. Was wondering if you went into the RAF. The Bulldog is a great little aircraft. One of the last few types I have worked on. Would've loved to fly in one but never got the chance, through did get four flights in Chipmunks.
@@crazybrit-nasafan No I didn’t. At the end of my engineering degree I opted instead for postgraduate studies followed by a career in business. But, I was fortunate enough to marry the daughter of a serving RAF pilot!
@@stephenwilkin5836 nice one, I too went into engineering. Then the oil industry. Now gone into retail /logistics, less stress and not bloody dangerous 😂 All the best to you 👍
I was just a wee nipper back then but loved growing up in the 70's, I always had my eyes scouring the skies for military aircraft, was blessed to live not too many miles from Upper Heyford, home to F111's and they always passed over my parents house much to my joy.
Hiya might be totally the wrong place but my dad was a qfi in the 80s in valley and was flying in Saudi until 97 ish his surname is Brady just wondering if there's any footage of his flights?
Joined up in 1979, following in my dads footsteps, spent 24 wonderful years as an airframes tech, Rigger, or Rigpig, to those who are in the know. This was filmed when Great Britain had an airforce, and a military in general. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
I joined in 79 too (fairy - avionics). I seem to remember RAF strength was about 102,000 (or 108,000?) at the time. Compare that to the 135,000 we now have in the TOTAL armed forces (RAF now circa 31,000)!!
I watched this on TV and as it ended we got a crash-out call, all men of 46 Shadow company were to deploy to BAOR, to the feba around Celle, as forwards reinforcements too, help block a soviet build-up, we were driven to RAF Waterbeach and flown to Raf Gutersloh, happy days
I Signed up as an airframe fitter in 1976 - the days when most of our aircraft were BRITISH BUILT and THE BEST. I loved the cold war era we got to work on so many classics. Todays RAF has a 'token' number of staff and aircraft (which are mainly American)🙁 It frightens me if another war kicks off our 'armed forces' and Navy are a mere shadow of the past - we would get a real hammering! If not losing ALL our defences. I was sat at the threshold, about to cross the runway, in an RAF coach at Waddington once when they called QRA. We were held where we were and witnessed the AWESOME sound of 16 Olympus engines HOWLING into the Lincolnshire skies! Best moment of my life.
Fabulous thanks for sharing. Just goes to show that if Ivan had ever done the unthinkable and attacked the Pebble Mill studios he’d have had a rude awakening. Great effort all round from the RAF.
At 5.40 .i can remember doing OTR`S (OPERATIONAL TURN ROUNDS) at RAF Coningsby (54 SQN) 1973 and if you went over the allotted time you started all over again untill it was done in the allocated time ....GREAT FUN ....
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I remember this well. I was on 12 Squadron at the time based at Honington. We'd not long returned from a detachment in Malta and sent our Buccs off to Withering and then down on to Salisbury plain. We had some great aircraft back then and a great pleasure to work on many of them.
Thanks for the upload - I was the student pilot on his first flight!
Just watched this for the first time in many years. Was wondering if you went into the RAF. The Bulldog is a great little aircraft. One of the last few types I have worked on. Would've loved to fly in one but never got the chance, through did get four flights in Chipmunks.
@@crazybrit-nasafan No I didn’t. At the end of my engineering degree I opted instead for postgraduate studies followed by a career in business. But, I was fortunate enough to marry the daughter of a serving RAF pilot!
@@stephenwilkin5836 nice one, I too went into engineering. Then the oil industry. Now gone into retail /logistics, less stress and not bloody dangerous 😂
All the best to you 👍
43 knots? Woof!
'You can't say 'retarded' now. What do we call that, Beryl? We call it political correctness gone mad.'
I was just a wee nipper back then but loved growing up in the 70's, I always had my eyes scouring the skies for military aircraft, was blessed to live not too many miles from Upper Heyford, home to F111's and they always passed over my parents house much to my joy.
great film thanks i was in the RAF fire rescue service for 15 yrs now MOD great footage of the vulcan
Fantastic - video looks more like mid 90s quality
Raymond Baxter was the only education i got throughout the entire 70s.
My dad was most probs in the tower controlling the land/take offs for this
Hiya might be totally the wrong place but my dad was a qfi in the 80s in valley and was flying in Saudi until 97 ish his surname is Brady just wondering if there's any footage of his flights?
Remember watching this in 74, ended up doing 22 years as a RAF Armourer!
So do I! I was 2 years into my 22 as a Rigger on Canberras at West Raynham...wonder why they didn't get a mention?🤔🙂
54Sqn Phantoms and 111 sqn Lightings 1971/76 also a armourer....loved every minute..
Joined up in 1979, following in my dads footsteps, spent 24 wonderful years as an airframes tech, Rigger, or Rigpig, to those who are in the know. This was filmed when Great Britain had an airforce, and a military in general. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Thank you for your service sir, and I certainly agree re:- the (lack of the) British military nowadays
@@crazybrit-nasafan You are welcome 🙏. Thanks.
I joined in 79 too (fairy - avionics). I seem to remember RAF strength was about 102,000 (or 108,000?) at the time. Compare that to the 135,000 we now have in the TOTAL armed forces (RAF now circa 31,000)!!
I watched this on TV and as it ended we got a crash-out call, all men of 46 Shadow company were to deploy to BAOR, to the feba around Celle, as forwards reinforcements too, help block a soviet build-up, we were driven to RAF Waterbeach and flown to Raf Gutersloh, happy days
Just Absoloutely Fabtastic
Proud to be 🇬🇧
Raf
Much respect
I Signed up as an airframe fitter in 1976 - the days when most of our aircraft were BRITISH BUILT and THE BEST. I loved the cold war era we got to work on so many classics. Todays RAF has a 'token' number of staff and aircraft (which are mainly American)🙁 It frightens me if another war kicks off our 'armed forces' and Navy are a mere shadow of the past - we would get a real hammering! If not losing ALL our defences. I was sat at the threshold, about to cross the runway, in an RAF coach at Waddington once when they called QRA. We were held where we were and witnessed the AWESOME sound of 16 Olympus engines HOWLING into the Lincolnshire skies! Best moment of my life.
AAD 14 …
Thanks for the upload, I’ve been looking for the full Skywaych for many years! Thanks again
Fabulous thanks for sharing. Just goes to show that if Ivan had ever done the unthinkable and attacked the Pebble Mill studios he’d have had a rude awakening. Great effort all round from the RAF.
At 5.40 .i can remember doing OTR`S (OPERATIONAL TURN ROUNDS) at RAF Coningsby (54 SQN) 1973 and if you went over the allotted time you started all over again untill it was done in the allocated time ....GREAT FUN ....
classic.
Good stuff 👍 from the days when we had a good sized potent air force
Make Britain Great again.
Stop it, Harry.
I'll tell the king.
Live from RAF Wittering. I watched on the TV, and also watched through the window of the MT Section, Wittering, where I was stationed at the time.
Need a repeat of this in 2020 please - get this done BBC
Awesome.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
Fantastic video, I was stationed at RAF Buchan twice, once in 87-88 and later 94-2000.
Fantastic 👍
PawnWatch
Wow, that is a spectacular effort :-)
What unit was this filmed at in the opening sequences?
RAF Honington, the 12 Sqn base at the time
Many thanks
Doesn't Raymond say its RAF Wittering?
@@bigblokeinuk8974 that’s true, just watched it again and he did say Wittering. I served there once but strangely didn’t recognise it.