Super compilation. Having worked in Short Bros. Aircraft Belfast for 45 years starting out as an apprentice in the 70's this video brings back memories of the English Electric Canberra maintenance line. I was basically a child looking on with amazement at these aircraft and under strict supervision by my journey man. I was really like a kid in a toy shop which stayed with me until my retirement day 45 years later. So proud to have been part. I can still smell with great clarity all those aircraft fluid smells. Lovely! How weird is that! Many Thanks for a great video.
@@garymalcolmson Hunters saw combat service with the RAF as a ground attack aircraft in Aden, with both the Lebanese and Jordanian Air Forces in conflicts with Israel, with the Indian Air Force against Pakistan, and with the Rhodesian Air Force in the ground attack role, so I’d say it saw plenty of combat.
@ RAF interceptors, which is basically what most British fighters were in the ‘40s and early ‘50s, tended to be built around the principle of defending the U.K. mainland, so tended to be built to be short legged but fast, this started to change when they introduced “all weather” fighters.
Thank you for such a great watch! My dad flew with the fleet air arm during the war to de-mob and join the RAF immediately after and stayed in until 1973. I grew up watching many of these types fly around me...what memories, what displays and what people. Sadly where I live now, the most exciting thing I regularly see is an A380!
Wow .what great memories for an 81 year old aviation enthusiast.. the only plane i don't remember was the AW 52 and i live in the city where it was built.. many thanks. DAVE from Coventry.
It was killed off long before the EU. Labour governments would cancel amazing projects and have the plans and records destroyed to salt the water so a subsequent government couldn't revive it.
They weren't that good. Note that all of the people who think the british built good aircraft have never worked on or flown an aircraft in thier lives!!!
Brilliant video and a great insight. Thanks for loading. I notice they included a number of clips of Meteor IVs with longer nacelles when discussing the Meteor III. Was the Mosquito cockpit grafted on the Vampire to create the Trainer? Never heard that and given the seating wasn't exactly symmetrical, I would question that comment!
Sad to see how few aircraft the RAF have now when compared to post-World War II. Really sad and I wonder that without help from other countries, how long the RAF would last!!!
Hard to believe how much Britain has declined in just about every area in the space of a few decades, once the income from the colonies dried up, the vultures were circling!.
So sad to see what has become of the RAF, From 6000 odd aircraft to have no British aircraft. Diversity has also crippled the British army glad the queen is not around to see what has become of the uk and monarchy
This must be an old BBC film. It repeats the old nonsense about the RAF using Meteor jets to shoot down V-1''s. That was wartime propaganda design to fool the Germans about why the V-1 programme was ineffective. V-1's were destroyed in flight by the American VT proximity fuzed radar controlled AA guns, which the US insisted on keeping top secret. Given the top speed of a Mk 1 Meteor was the same as the V-1 cruise speed, it would be nearly impossible for a Meteor to catch up and attack a V-1. the narrator claimed the F-86 was supersonic. It was not - it could just get to Mach 1 under special conditions. The Super Sabre, a quite different aeroplane, was supersonic, reaching Mach 1.4.
The majority of V-1’s destroyed by fighters were destroyed by the then new Hawker Tempest, in total over half the V-1’s launched against the U.K. were shot down by fighters.
@@mrjockt No. Go read Churchill's history of WW2. Go read up on the VT fuze. Nearly 11,000 V-1's were launched against Britain. Tempests didn't come into use until 1944, only 1700 were made, so somewhat less would have been available to whack V-1's There's no way something like 1,000 Tempests, which were not much faster than a V-1, could destroy thousands of V-1's. Much of the V-1's launched never even reached the British coast- they were shot down by US forces using VT fuzed AA in areas newly released from German control. In Churchill's book he wrote that Britain basically had no defense agaisnt the V-1, but he was bale to, by appealing to the US president, to get the US built radar controlled guns using the top secret VT fuze made available in the nick of time.
@ Official figures credit the Tempest V with just under 600 of the roughly 1000 V-1’s shot down by fighters, when the Tempest V was introduced into squadron service in mid ‘44 its primary task was the interception of V-1’s, next highest was the Mosquito followed by the Spitfire XIV and XII.
@@mrjockt What official figures? Even if true, 1000 V-1's shot down out of 11,000 is hardly the half of them (5,500) that you claimed in your first post. And in terms of war-winning effort, negligible. Not even the British propaganda masters claimed the V-1's were shot down by fighters using their guns. They knew the Germans knew the V-1's were pretty immune to bullets. The Brits put it about that their fighters snuck up behind the V-1's and used their wing tips to tip the V-1's over. Since a V-1 averaged about 640 km/hr after burning most of its fuel and a Spitfire flat out did only 600 km/hr, a Spit downing a V-1 was nigh on impossible. The Mosquito could achieve only 670 km/hr, only marginally faster than a V-1. Only with extreme luck in being in the right place at the right time could a Mosquito make contact with a V-1 - a risky maneuver anyway. The role of the Tempest was intercepting enemy fighters, with a secondary role of ground attack. It was designed before the V-1 was known about.
@jerryjencik3879 This was a recorded programme, the uploader was not responsible for any commentary or statistics on the aircraft. And do your research on spelling Jerry, it was the English Electric Lightning not British electric lighting. Note the correct use of grammar here. Many thanks for your incorrect input. 🤫
The Super Sabre was the worlds first supersonic jet fighter long before the EE Lightning, do a bit of basic research before typing a load of uneducated drivel.
@@jerryjencik3879 If you're going to appoint yourself chief pedant, at least be accurate. This is a 1950s propaganda film, to be picking it apart is a little silly.
the Gloster whittle was the 1st jet to enter service in 1933. it never got used in combat though as they couldnt make enough jet fuel for more than pilot training. they could only use 1 plane a week for a 1 hr training excerise but they did have 2 squadrons of them by 1934. They were suppior to the spitfire but not as good as the hurricanes in dogfights. The mosquito was designed as jet fighter/bomber but lack of jet fuel had them converted to piston engines.
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Excellent! Thank you for sharing once again.
My pleasure!
I'm disgusted that the coronation fly past consisted of more aircraft than the whole of Britain's armed forces aviation assets now.
Thank you. You do a splendid job keeping the memories alive.
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you for this upload much enjoyed😊.wish you happy and healthy new year 😊regards 👍👍
Super compilation. Having worked in Short Bros. Aircraft Belfast for 45 years starting out as an apprentice in the 70's this video brings back memories of the English Electric Canberra maintenance line. I was basically a child looking on with amazement at these aircraft and under strict supervision by my journey man. I was really like a kid in a toy shop which stayed with me until my retirement day 45 years later. So proud to have been part. I can still smell with great clarity all those aircraft fluid smells. Lovely! How weird is that! Many Thanks for a great video.
Thanks for following!
I am proud to have taken the Oath of Allegiance to our late Queen, her Heirs and Successors and to have served in the Royal Air Force.
Me too.
You think Charles is worthy of an oath?
Behave yourself, he hates the Native British people.
andnow n
and now your country is overrun...
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Must have been a very proud moment for you Ian. 👍🇬🇧.
A pretty good life too I hope 👍.
Look at the state of the RAF now, they can't even get enough qualified jet pilot trainers.
From this moment it's all the way down
Excellent, love 50's types the aeroplane development progress was shattering & sorely missed today .
Sabre supersonic? Presumably only in a dive?
Yes, in the dive it was, thanks for following!
Those Hawker hunters flying in formation was mightily impressive✈️✈️✈️✈️👌
Yes it was!
Terrific! 🇬🇧
Thank you JM.
Fantastic info
The Hunter was a beautiful aircraft, and lethal in the right hands
It never seen combat
@@garymalcolmson Hunters saw combat service with the RAF as a ground attack aircraft in Aden, with both the Lebanese and Jordanian Air Forces in conflicts with Israel, with the Indian Air Force against Pakistan, and with the Rhodesian Air Force in the ground attack role, so I’d say it saw plenty of combat.
@@garymalcolmson OH! OH! congratulations, ever heard of doing a little research before printing an inaccurate comment.
My impression of all uk aircraft was that they had short-range and couldn't carry a sizable weapons load. So many men live in the past.
@ RAF interceptors, which is basically what most British fighters were in the ‘40s and early ‘50s, tended to be built around the principle of defending the U.K. mainland, so tended to be built to be short legged but fast, this started to change when they introduced “all weather” fighters.
I'm proud to have served in the raf from 1967_1980
@@richardwilliams7668 ex MTD '86 - '00, med discharge after bad motorbike accident...
Thank you for a amazing video.
Thank you for such a great watch! My dad flew with the fleet air arm during the war to de-mob and join the RAF immediately after and stayed in until 1973. I grew up watching many of these types fly around me...what memories, what displays and what people. Sadly where I live now, the most exciting thing I regularly see is an A380!
Glad you enjoyed it.
The 'Sabrinas' nickname quickly glossed over 🤣
Wonderful .
Many thanks!
Wow .what great memories for an 81 year old aviation enthusiast.. the only plane i don't remember was the AW 52 and i live in the city where it was built.. many thanks. DAVE from Coventry.
Brilliant video, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
If we did a review now for king sausage fingers you could put all our planes we have now in a pub carpark!
Joining the EU ended this and has never been right since
It was killed off long before the EU.
Labour governments would cancel amazing projects and have the plans and records destroyed to salt the water so a subsequent government couldn't revive it.
GAMMON ALERT!!!!!
Excellent!
This Country may be run now by Clerks and sycophantic Politicians, but our engineers made some fabulous aeroplanes. Bless em.
They weren't that good. Note that all of the people who think the british built good aircraft have never worked on or flown an aircraft in thier lives!!!
@@richardvernon317. Which British aircraft have you flown or worked on?
@@richardvernon317 Did you sweep the floors and were jealous of the fitters wages?
I have built serviced and repaired; Islander, Trislander, 2:39 PC 9 and 12, Also written manuals for Boeing 737 and Airbus A340.
Oh, and Spitfires, mk.9 and 14
Best on the web !!
Thanks!
Brilliant video and a great insight. Thanks for loading. I notice they included a number of clips of Meteor IVs with longer nacelles when discussing the Meteor III. Was the Mosquito cockpit grafted on the Vampire to create the Trainer? Never heard that and given the seating wasn't exactly symmetrical, I would question that comment!
It was the Coronation review I was looking at...Lincolns, a Lancaster MR8, a York and Boeing Washingtons.
Point of Order: You can't be both "the largest and most powerful air force in the world" whilst also being "second to the US Air Force".
No mention of the Lightning?
Sorry but in this clip they did not.
How many jets have we got operational at the moment? I’m sure I’ve read that the Italians have a more robust military than we have currently.
Lightning!
Sadly, Lightnings were not mentioned in this clip, but in this channel, you see a lot of Lightnings. Thanks for following!
Awesome.. UOur RNZAF operated DH Vampire and Canberra planes we have them in museums and there is a Sea Venom warbird 👍🇳🇿✈️
God Save the Queen.From Argentina.🤗🇬🇧❤🇦🇷
Very enjoyable thanks. And after that we got the English Electric Lightning, which is another story on its own.
Glad you enjoyed it
Love the Gloster Javelin.
Sad to see how few aircraft the RAF have now when compared to post-World War II. Really sad and I wonder that without help from other countries, how long the RAF would last!!!
It wasn't my fault that Vampire crashed! I checked my mirrors!
NASA still flies the Canberra to this day.
The Swiss Air Force have chosen the DHL Vampire/Venom and the Hawker Hunter as their first jets after WW2.
Thanks for the info!
What about the English Electic Lightening
That was another story.
Hard to believe how much Britain has declined in just about every area in the space of a few decades, once the income from the colonies dried up, the vultures were circling!.
6000 aircraft back then, i think now, if we ignore helicopters, we could probably muster about 300, fighters + cargo`s
The tragedy is, that by rearming, the UK squandered its Marsial plan money
Smoking is such a filthy habit.
So sad to see what has become of the RAF, From 6000 odd aircraft to have no British aircraft. Diversity has also crippled the British army glad the queen is not around to see what has become of the uk and monarchy
I agree with you sir.
FIRST SUPER SONIC JET WAS THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTENING
Nonsense ............ and 'capitals' just compound your stupidity!
@@gregtaylor6146 what was?
@@BelleBlu Level Flight, F-100 Super Sabre in the west.
No mention of the Lightning - shame on you
sabre wasnt supersonic
On a shallow dive it was.
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Glad you liked it. :)
This must be an old BBC film. It repeats the old nonsense about the RAF using Meteor jets to shoot down V-1''s. That was wartime propaganda design to fool the Germans about why the V-1 programme was ineffective. V-1's were destroyed in flight by the American VT proximity fuzed radar controlled AA guns, which the US insisted on keeping top secret.
Given the top speed of a Mk 1 Meteor was the same as the V-1 cruise speed, it would be nearly impossible for a Meteor to catch up and attack a V-1.
the narrator claimed the F-86 was supersonic. It was not - it could just get to Mach 1 under special conditions. The Super Sabre, a quite different aeroplane, was supersonic, reaching Mach 1.4.
The majority of V-1’s destroyed by fighters were destroyed by the then new Hawker Tempest, in total over half the V-1’s launched against the U.K. were shot down by fighters.
@@mrjockt No. Go read Churchill's history of WW2. Go read up on the VT fuze.
Nearly 11,000 V-1's were launched against Britain. Tempests didn't come into use until 1944, only 1700 were made, so somewhat less would have been available to whack V-1's There's no way something like 1,000 Tempests, which were not much faster than a V-1, could destroy thousands of V-1's.
Much of the V-1's launched never even reached the British coast- they were shot down by US forces using VT fuzed AA in areas newly released from German control.
In Churchill's book he wrote that Britain basically had no defense agaisnt the V-1, but he was bale to, by appealing to the US president, to get the US built radar controlled guns using the top secret VT fuze made available in the nick of time.
@ Official figures credit the Tempest V with just under 600 of the roughly 1000 V-1’s shot down by fighters, when the Tempest V was introduced into squadron service in mid ‘44 its primary task was the interception of V-1’s, next highest was the Mosquito followed by the Spitfire XIV and XII.
RAF bunch of posers
@@mrjockt What official figures? Even if true, 1000 V-1's shot down out of 11,000 is hardly the half of them (5,500) that you claimed in your first post. And in terms of war-winning effort, negligible.
Not even the British propaganda masters claimed the V-1's were shot down by fighters using their guns. They knew the Germans knew the V-1's were pretty immune to bullets.
The Brits put it about that their fighters snuck up behind the V-1's and used their wing tips to tip the V-1's over. Since a V-1 averaged about 640 km/hr after burning most of its fuel and a Spitfire flat out did only 600 km/hr, a Spit downing a V-1 was nigh on impossible.
The Mosquito could achieve only 670 km/hr, only marginally faster than a V-1. Only with extreme luck in being in the right place at the right time could a Mosquito make contact with a V-1 - a risky maneuver anyway.
The role of the Tempest was intercepting enemy fighters, with a secondary role of ground attack. It was designed before the V-1 was known about.
Sabre wasn't supersonic, do your research buddy. First supersonic was British electric lighting.
@jerryjencik3879 This was a recorded programme, the uploader was not responsible for any commentary or statistics on the aircraft. And do your research on spelling Jerry, it was the English Electric Lightning not British electric lighting. Note the correct use of grammar here. Many thanks for your incorrect input. 🤫
The Super Sabre was the worlds first supersonic jet fighter long before the EE Lightning, do a bit of basic research before typing a load of uneducated drivel.
Like the Hunter the F86 was supersonic in a shallow dive
@@jerryjencik3879 If you're going to appoint yourself chief pedant, at least be accurate.
This is a 1950s propaganda film, to be picking it apart is a little silly.
the Gloster whittle was the 1st jet to enter service in 1933. it never got used in combat though as they couldnt make enough jet fuel for more than pilot training. they could only use 1 plane a week for a 1 hr training excerise but they did have 2 squadrons of them by 1934.
They were suppior to the spitfire but not as good as the hurricanes in dogfights.
The mosquito was designed as jet fighter/bomber but lack of jet fuel had them converted to piston engines.
Can you provide the source for your two statements?
The gloster Whittle was an experimental aircraft and never entered service. It didn't fly until, I think, 1941.
Anymore unfactual stories you wish to make up?
Decadent Kingdom United.