It was a sad day around here recently and hardly anyone around here even know it. The last old factories that DeHavilland used to build planes in here in Christchurch, Dorset got pulled down recently. Some other companies had been using them for a while sold up and they built a Lidl or something on it. Anyway cheers for the upload.
My late father was an airframe fitter on Vampire jets with RAF 249 Squadron in Egypt from 1950 to 1952. At the time, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Egypt were still part of the British Empire.
when I was with the USAF in Turkey, HMS EAGLE visited Istanbul and I was privileged to visit that ship and wander amongst jets like this....great times there.
Now that WAS a cool video! =) Love, love, love them old turbojets. Such a cool sound. This guy is good too; that pull-out hed does after 1:50 looks like some pretty damn high G's! Somehow, if I coul have a jet fighter, it would be an old 1950's style one, where they were still just really fast WWII fighters. No crazy computer systems or radar or $1,000,000 missiles, just guns and brass balls! ;)
Dad flew the Vampire, Meteor and Javelin on 23, 74, and 85 Squadrons in East Anglia. I was born at that time at Drayton Hall when we were stationed at Horsham St Faiths, now Norwich airport.
My Dad flew the Vampire in the "50's especially around Scotland. Mum and Dad met there. Point the Vampire down in a dive and Dad did the sound barier, all the time! And the Northern Lights were a sight to behold when flying. British and Russian jets were so close when flying they held up cardboard signs saying, " Hello Ivan" & "Hello Tommy", and they could each read them.The friendly sky's.
The Vampire was'nt able to break the sound barrier ever!! Its mach limiting number was only around 0.70 or slightly higher depending on model. My last flight a few short years ago was repositioning a vampire in formation with a meteor. Magic and what a way to leave flying!!!
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Rubbish the 108 may have broken the sound barrier in an uncontrolled dive with Geoffrey de Havilland at 0.9 mach and later with John Derry at possibly just over mach 1 but killed Geoffrey when it broke up!!! Eric Brown described it as a killer!!! But not the Vampire which was a nice aircraft but never able to get near to Mach 1!!!
@@johngadsby6599 All absolutely true! BUT here is _an account_ of a de H pilot *‘doing the sound barrier all the time’,* there has to be some explanation of this _incredible_ news. Perhaps he had a personal DH 110 prototype then?
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 No straight wings!!!!!! could not do it the 108 had swept wings like the Me 262 and others!!! but even they didnt manage to break the sound barrier!!! The Miles m52 which was cancelled!!!! could have and we gave America the secret!!! They were having huge difficulties going faster than Mach 1 and we gave them all our research and go bugger ALL BACK!¬!! AS WITH THE ATOMIC BOMB!!! Our friends???????? I dont think so. Evidentially we flew a few models that achieved nearly 1000 mph!!!!!
I have seen Ellingsen in his Vampire a lot of times. The aeroplane is now grounded. It is expensive to keep the old birds flying. Good luck to Øyvind Ellingsen and his new projects!
Beautiful video...takes me back to early 50's when I'd spend many hours watching the take-offs and landings of 612 Squadron(RAAF) Vampire FB5's based at RAF Dyce (near Aberdeen)
The Vampire is fitted with a Turbine close to the front of the intakes. The so called piston engine sound your hearing is the fan blade turning at the speed of sound giving off a distinct humming noise, hense the piston engine type noise.
Back in the 1970s (as featured in a late 70s issue of "Flying" magazine, in an article titled "Kerosene Toys"), two fellows, both named Al (I forget their last names; one might have been Hansen) both owned Vampire jets, which they kept and flew out of Mojave Airport in California. They had also bought, at military surplus auctions, large quantities of surplus JP-4 jet fuel and even an antique (from the Vampire's heyday) fuel-bowser (tanker) truck. The article also said that they had the technical data necessary to install an afterburner (a "re-heat," in British parlance) on their Vampires' Goblin turbojet engines, but that they considered that project "pretty far off." Also: While only a few Vampires (mostly--if not entirely--privately owned) are still flying, the aircraft should lend itself to being fairly easily replicated, just as a replica of the World War II German Me-262 (and possibly also the He-162) fighter has been built and flown, using modern jet engines (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_262_Project ).
Beautiful plane. Had to go look the plane up when I read of a fellow mentioning having seen one rusting away in the yard of a backwater gas station in Finland.
i don't know about this plane, but a while ago i was at a air show. and when the f-16 started up like 500 meters away, my tummy was shaking! damn loud! and i had plugs in my ears too
Macchi 326 were our training stuff but I fortunately got to fly a bat once!!! We progressed onto the mirage 3 built by CAC back in the early 1980s out of Williamtown NSW Australia my plane went to paf due to upgrades for RAAF its still going apparently ! At the moment I'm still flying @ 60 years of age on alcoholic beverages !!!!! Lol
I heard the piston sound, too, and it's either an artifact of digital recording or it's a chugging of the jet engine itself, an oscillation in the combustion chamber.
It would be unique, the Goblin was designed by Major Frank Halford while he headed the de Havilland engine division which manufactured the engine. The R-R Nene was used in a few Vampires including the Australian built ones. Halford then designed the Ghost and finally the Gyron, a very powerful axial flow engine with reheat designed specifically for supersonic flight. Unfortunatley, the British cancelled all the aircraft this engine was designed to power with the final death nell being the 1957 White paper (the Gyron being cancelled was just a small part of this fiasco), the final nail in the coffin of the British aircraft industry - dead man walking,
Real? Oh yeah. It just missed being flown by the RAF during WWII. I believe it was the second operational British Jet right behind the Meteor. It was very maneuverable and would have torn apart the ME-262s had the war gone on long enough.
These type planes much seen at Oulunsalo afb in northern Finland. My dad told me so. Planes of this era (developed before 1950) I've seen only Ilyuchin Il-28 Beagles af FAF usage.
Some of the Vampire's airframe was a bonded laminate containing wood. deHavilland had a lot of experience with this type of construction: the 1930's Comet racer, the Albatross airliner, the Mosquito and Hornet. Strength was not an issue, although my father refused to fly in Mosquitos that had returned from service in far flung regions where wood destructive insects abounded. He had the choice. Even though he sometimes crewed as radar observer in Mosquito night fighters, he was a radar technician, not officially aircrew. Dad theorized that some of the mysterious, explosive ends to some airframes was due to structural failure and consequent mixing of oxygen supply, hydraulic fluid and gasoline - all due to airframes eaten away by bugs.
what an unusual sound she makes! does anyone know why? on approach she sounded like its a piston engine then when she flys past shes back to sounding like a jet again?? lovely aircraft with a crazy pilot to boot!
it's the gun ports whistling a lot of the early Brit jets did it they call it the blue note the hunter was famous for it because unlike the vampire it got louder the faster it went were the vamp only dose it at certain speeds
@Martin716 I always thought if it as more of a scream than a whistle! But I agree, love the sound. LOL, I just noticed the RC Vampire on the ground next to those kids! That's like me as a kid. Well...technically I guess I still have toy planes. You just call them "models" when you get older, because adults don't play with toys, right? LOL.
"i remember them flying as a boy back in the 40's." OMG.....must have been the worlds first transformers! aircraft which can fly as boys. is there a video of that?
Marvellous to see 50/60 year old British jets being flown in such a sprited fashion. Hats off to all those involved! Great filming.
its actually 79 years old lol
@@Pelliq_E that comment was made 13 years ago
oh xD
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@@gregtaylor6146 true
It was a sad day around here recently and hardly anyone around here even know it. The last old factories that DeHavilland used to build planes in here in Christchurch, Dorset got pulled down recently. Some other companies had been using them for a while sold up and they built a Lidl or something on it. Anyway cheers for the upload.
This plane just flew over my house today! It came so close. I'm so happy! That was such a cool experience :)
This has always been one of my favorite jets, it's like a meteor and a p-38 collided on a drawing board. Just a beautiful little thing.
The best...
Absolutely beautiful. I simply cannot understand why people would give this a thumbs down.
never seen an old jet thrown around like that before! Bloody hell that was great to watch.
Cute little plane. Love the whistle
I'm 71 and I saw one take off from the grass at Hobsonville when I was 6, the line of dead grass was visible for years
I NZ one ripped the runway up till dirt and chunks of asphalt were all that was left
i love the whistling sound of the old turbojet-engines!
Beautiful. Also remarkable: all those people watching with their bare eyes, unobstructed by smartphones :-)
Very aggressive display, loved it, good pilot.
My late father was an airframe fitter on Vampire jets with RAF 249 Squadron in Egypt from 1950 to 1952.
At the time, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Egypt were still part of the British Empire.
when I was with the USAF in Turkey, HMS EAGLE visited Istanbul and I was privileged to visit that ship and wander amongst jets like this....great times there.
Now that WAS a cool video! =) Love, love, love them old turbojets. Such a cool sound. This guy is good too; that pull-out hed does after 1:50 looks like some pretty damn high G's! Somehow, if I coul have a jet fighter, it would be an old 1950's style one, where they were still just really fast WWII fighters. No crazy computer systems or radar or $1,000,000 missiles, just guns and brass balls! ;)
Dad flew the Vampire, Meteor and Javelin on 23, 74, and 85 Squadrons in East Anglia. I was born at that time at Drayton Hall when we were stationed at Horsham St Faiths, now Norwich airport.
Brought back beautiful memories of my Flight Cadet days in the Fighter Training Wing of the IAF.
Did you fly a Vampire?
They so fun to watch race at Reno air races.
Amazing to see and hear, no flying by computer here! well maybe a little one.These old videos they'll keep them alive for ever.
My Dad flew the Vampire in the "50's especially around Scotland. Mum and Dad met there. Point the Vampire down in a dive and Dad did the sound barier, all the time! And the Northern Lights were a sight to behold when flying. British and Russian jets were so close when flying they held up cardboard signs saying, " Hello Ivan" & "Hello Tommy", and they could each read them.The friendly sky's.
The Vampire was'nt able to break the sound barrier ever!! Its mach limiting number was only around 0.70 or slightly higher depending on model.
My last flight a few short years ago was repositioning a vampire in formation with a meteor. Magic and what a way to leave flying!!!
He must have had a personal DH 108 then.
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Rubbish the 108 may have broken the sound barrier in an uncontrolled dive with Geoffrey de Havilland at 0.9 mach and later with John Derry at possibly just over mach 1 but killed Geoffrey when it broke up!!! Eric Brown described it as a killer!!! But not the Vampire which was a nice aircraft but never able to get near to Mach 1!!!
@@johngadsby6599 All absolutely true! BUT here is _an account_ of a de H pilot *‘doing the sound barrier all the time’,* there has to be some explanation of this _incredible_ news. Perhaps he had a personal DH 110 prototype then?
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 No straight wings!!!!!! could not do it the 108 had swept wings like the Me 262 and others!!! but even they didnt manage to break the sound barrier!!! The Miles m52 which was cancelled!!!! could have and we gave America the secret!!! They were having huge difficulties going faster than Mach 1 and we gave them all our research and go bugger ALL BACK!¬!! AS WITH THE ATOMIC BOMB!!! Our friends???????? I dont think so.
Evidentially we flew a few models that achieved nearly 1000 mph!!!!!
I have seen Ellingsen in his Vampire a lot of times. The aeroplane is now grounded. It is expensive to keep the old birds flying. Good luck to Øyvind Ellingsen and his new projects!
Early 2021. I still occasionally see a Vampire apparently flying the circuit out of Coventry Airport, England.
Im a fighter pilot f 18 My hat is off to this pilot.
Beautiful, graceful aircraft wonderfully flown and demonstrated. Thanks for sharing.
Couldn't be bettered
Hell damn, that's a great sounding jet! Awesome sound quality. Well done!
The aerial kiddy car still beautifully flyable by the looks of it. Definitely my favourite jet of all time 😁
That was awesome thanks mate! We have a flying DH Vampire here in Australia but it didn`t do anything like those mad low passes the day I saw it fly!
very well filmed thanks
Beautiful video...takes me back to early 50's when I'd spend many hours watching the take-offs and landings of 612 Squadron(RAAF) Vampire FB5's based at RAF Dyce (near Aberdeen)
Love the Vampires distinct sound
Nice made video...nice jet
Excellent video,the flying is superb my congrats to the skilled pilot.I remember them flying as a boy back in the 40's
Im only 14 and I think this is the most beautiful jet aircraft ever constructed
ever seen a mig-21,sr-71,f-4,su-30?
Ever shut up? The vampire’s gorgeous.
The Vampire is fitted with a Turbine close to the front of the intakes. The so called piston engine sound your hearing is the fan blade turning at the speed of sound giving off a distinct humming noise, hense the piston engine type noise.
It's the (centrifugal) compressor, not turbine. But yes, that sound comes from intakes :)
Thank you for that, was wondering why it had a prop sound which turned into jet howl once it had passed.👍
Beautiful aircraf, the "Speedy Crab".!!!
He's up there having a lot more fun than us. Great video, and what a treat to see one of these classic first jets of the RAF.
MAN THAT WAS SWEET. GREAT VIEWS.
You just have to love these old birds
I agree also - pretty aeroplane froma great era. Good shots and no music. 5 stars.
Very familiar sound from my childhood! I remember these beauties buzzing around RAAF Williamtown. Gorgeous sight.
I'm only 72 and I think this is the most beautiful jet aircraft ever constucted
"only"
Sorry, Hawker Hunter has that spot.
You forget the Sea Hawk
^_^
Dehavland Sea Vixen?
superb
Thanks for uploading that. It was great!!
The sound of freedom in the 1950's. Awesome video!!!
A magnificent old girl!
And superb flying!!
What a beautiful aircraft, sleek and graceful
Back in the 1970s (as featured in a late 70s issue of "Flying" magazine, in an article titled "Kerosene Toys"), two fellows, both named Al (I forget their last names; one might have been Hansen) both owned Vampire jets, which they kept and flew out of Mojave Airport in California. They had also bought, at military surplus auctions, large quantities of surplus JP-4 jet fuel and even an antique (from the Vampire's heyday) fuel-bowser (tanker) truck. The article also said that they had the technical data necessary to install an afterburner (a "re-heat," in British parlance) on their Vampires' Goblin turbojet engines, but that they considered that project "pretty far off." Also:
While only a few Vampires (mostly--if not entirely--privately owned) are still flying, the aircraft should lend itself to being fairly easily replicated, just as a replica of the World War II German Me-262 (and possibly also the He-162) fighter has been built and flown, using modern jet engines (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_262_Project ).
Beautiful plane. Had to go look the plane up when I read of a fellow mentioning having seen one rusting away in the yard of a backwater gas station in Finland.
Remember as a kid going to an RAF open day at Jurby, IOM. There were Vampires on show and they also did an aerobatic display,
Awesome stuff, thanks for sharing!
Excellent Video ... Thanks for posting : )
Such a beautiful plane.
i don't know about this plane, but a while ago i was at a air show. and when the f-16 started up like 500 meters away, my tummy was shaking! damn loud! and i had plugs in my ears too
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AIRPLANE (JET)!!!! Oh yeh! Thank you Kjellern150
Macchi 326 were our training stuff but I fortunately got to fly a bat once!!! We progressed onto the mirage 3 built by CAC back in the early 1980s out of Williamtown NSW Australia my plane went to paf due to upgrades for RAAF its still going apparently ! At the moment I'm still flying @ 60 years of age on alcoholic beverages !!!!! Lol
Thats some top flying there, looked very sharp
I heard the piston sound, too, and it's either an artifact of digital recording or it's a chugging of the jet engine itself, an oscillation in the combustion chamber.
Excelente video muy bien logrado, y sobretodo con el audio original, no como en otros videos que le ponen una musica horrible.
Love the squeal of those old subsonic jets! Only sound better is the howl of the F- 104.
Schönes Video mega Kult flugzeug danke
Nice!.. our RNZAF operated these planes and there is a Vampire neer me in a museum 👍✈️🇳🇿
yep - I've seen it in action too :-) That first low pass in this vid was very fast!
Beautifully flown!
this is great!!!! thanks
Great aircraft- by all accounts a pleasure to fly.
I remember them well, at Oakington, 1962. Sgt Pilots back then.
Displayed in front of an aero model club..
The RR Goblin engine is so unique sounding. Possibly the only EDF model jet that actually sounds similar!
It would be unique, the Goblin was designed by Major Frank Halford while he headed the de Havilland engine division which manufactured the engine. The R-R Nene was used in a few Vampires including the Australian built ones. Halford then designed the Ghost and finally the Gyron, a very powerful axial flow engine with reheat designed specifically for supersonic flight. Unfortunatley, the British cancelled all the aircraft this engine was designed to power with the final death nell being the 1957 White paper (the Gyron being cancelled was just a small part of this fiasco), the final nail in the coffin of the British aircraft industry - dead man walking,
Nice! Sound, engineering, construction? Who made the airplane?
Real? Oh yeah. It just missed being flown by the RAF during WWII. I believe it was the second operational British Jet right behind the Meteor. It was very maneuverable and would have torn apart the ME-262s had the war gone on long enough.
These type planes much seen at Oulunsalo afb in northern Finland. My dad told me so. Planes of this era (developed before 1950) I've seen only Ilyuchin Il-28 Beagles af FAF usage.
No one can deny that British aircraft engineering in those days was world beating
Excellent video
flippin' awsome stick and rudder all the way!
Great to see,he was really throwing it about!
Very old plane but still flies pretty well!
surprised that the plywood wings did not come apart during that high-speed pull-up and roll
Some of the Vampire's airframe was a bonded laminate containing wood. deHavilland had a lot of experience with this type of construction: the 1930's Comet racer, the Albatross airliner, the Mosquito and Hornet. Strength was not an issue, although my father refused to fly in Mosquitos that had returned from service in far flung regions where wood destructive insects abounded. He had the choice. Even though he sometimes crewed as radar observer in Mosquito night fighters, he was a radar technician, not officially aircrew. Dad theorized that some of the mysterious, explosive ends to some airframes was due to structural failure and consequent mixing of oxygen supply, hydraulic fluid and gasoline - all due to airframes eaten away by bugs.
@SeptemberFury That makes sense. Thank you for the explanation! :-)
Nothing like first-gen jet fighters. P-80, Me 262, Vampire etc.
Love it!!
Ohh, that SOUND! Vzzzzrrroumsssss
Awesome!
Man he flew that thing like a RC model lol
LOL, look at the guy plug his ears at 2:27! I guess I don't blame him, but why would you want to block that wonderful noise out?
Wow that thing looks nimble in the air! And to think how old it is!
Sweet post!
Absolutly beautifull looking A/C & wonderfull sound. If only they were in time for the end of the war.
My question has always been, WHY weren't Both are jets in service much quicker. These's a Y.T vid about it's creation, back in 1942.
That Vampire is from New Zealand. Our airforce was flying them into the 1960s.
My dad did his national service working on these in Germany 1950s
Our country should have a squadron of these, just for raising public morale, and pilot training.
I couldn´t agree more....great sound
what an unusual sound she makes! does anyone know why? on approach she sounded like its a piston engine then when she flys past shes back to sounding like a jet again?? lovely aircraft with a crazy pilot to boot!
it's the gun ports whistling a lot of the early Brit jets did it they call it the blue note the hunter was famous for it because unlike the vampire it got louder the faster it went were the vamp only dose it at certain speeds
Does the centrifugal compressor make a different sound?
@Martin716 I always thought if it as more of a scream than a whistle! But I agree, love the sound. LOL, I just noticed the RC Vampire on the ground next to those kids! That's like me as a kid. Well...technically I guess I still have toy planes. You just call them "models" when you get older, because adults don't play with toys, right? LOL.
Reminds me of my childhood when these were common.
@kraist14 1:09 - 1:13, 1:25 - 1:28 and 2:29 - 2:31 too; at 1:45, the sound is already like a normal jet.
"i remember them flying as a boy back in the 40's."
OMG.....must have been the worlds first transformers! aircraft which can fly as boys.
is there a video of that?
Flown very “strongly” brilliant display.
NZ registered ?
My Dad worked on these with 6th squadron.
That was almost a religious experience... :)
Er bare så flott. Savner Ellingsen i sin DH Vampire