SkyWatch RAF 1974
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มี.ค. 2014
- The Royal Air Force demonstrating their effectiveness in real time coordinated operations using live ordnance, during the height of the Cold War in 1974.
Phantom II. Buccaneer. Jaguar. Harrier. Victor. Vulcan. Gnat. Bulldog. - เพลง
Just found this in March 2023 - utterly amazing! I was 12 in 1974, and my interest in flying was well and truly embedded in my mind when I saw this. All these wonderful types of yesteryear...
And listening to the voice, I can still remember Raymond Baxter commentating on the Farnborough airshow - back in the days when it was worth televising.
Happy days....long gone. 😪
Look at the aircraft diversity we had back then.. bloody marvellous
Good for show, bad for maintenance and supplies
@@AbcdEfgh-sq2tf I agree especially the phantom, that Westinghouse radar was a pain
Oh how I wish we could go back to these days of the RAF.
Wonderful aircraft and so many great memories of air displays in the very early eighties.
Lump in the throat stuff and to hear dear Raymond Baxter’s voice again.
Fantastic memories.
The truly inimitable Raymond Baxter. Commentator par excellence!
And ex RAF Spitfire pilot in WW2
Raymond Baxter what a legend , wasn't he an ex spitfire pilot? I remember sitting at home One Sunday in the 1970s, my mum did Sunday tea, pot beef sandwiches or cream cheese if we're lucky and cream cake ,a word wasn't spoken whilst we watch the RAF, Harriers, jaguars, those magnificent F4s and lightnings, Canberra, Victor's, vulcans and credit to the support squadrons with the Bulldog jet provost and let's not forget the Old chipmunk where is it all gone wrong
Oh I agree. We've been sold off to the highest bidder
Yes he was a spitfire pilot - most memorably he and his wingman were witnesses to a V2 launch whilst patrolling his 'patch' of the dutch coast in 1945. Search on here for 'The Secret War' for the full story.
@@PlayerFalcon4 I think I read about that in a modelling magazine some years ago great story
He was a conceited toff who put on an act for the cameras but was a nightmare to work for .
oh what a joy to watch, every aircraft I loved of that classic air force era is here, the film quality is looking dated but still brilliant to see them.....if I look at the aircraft flying today they seem dull as dishwater compared to this collection
No Lightnings or Canberras :(
Scottyrafferty the Lightnings where at 1:59
Great watch! My Dad gets a mention at about 6m40s flying the Puma with the tv camera in it. 😁
My god, just looking at all these take off, weren't we a potent nation
That was great- simply fantastic! What a treasure trove of classic aircraft, all gone today. One is left with the impression that the RAF was a service training and equipped to mean business. Great to see those Vulcans, the Lightnings with their steep angle of climb after takeoff, the Phantoms, Harriers doing among other things tooling across a field and taxing on a city street, the Red Arrows with Folland Gnats and last but never least the Blackburn Buccaneers. A sincere thanks to however posted this- well done!
I've managed to locate the missing last 15 mins (so will try & get up soon), that shows the Buccs, F-4s, Jags & Vulcan all doing their ground bombing & strafing runs.. The Buccs are awesome & absolutely Shred!!!
Phased Spaces have you uploaded second part
Phased Spaces any news yet?
Watching this wonderful video for a second time - any chance the second part is still coming?
I remember watching this on TV when it was broadcast. I was an armourer at Leuchars at the time.
I was on 12 Squadron at this time with the Buccaneers. Absolutely amazing aircraft. Remember this so well.
Could you just imagine something like this be broadcast during prime time on a major network in the US? Never. UK you got us on national love of aviation that is for sure.
This has brought memories flooding back as I was on 54 squadron phantoms in the early 70s .I can remember doing OTRs and many detachments to Sardinia ..Can any one else recall !!!!!!!! My trade ARMOURER !!!!! LOVED EVERY MOMENT........
Decci - Aaaaghhh!
Ah Wittering 1974 early summer. The Vulcan on finger one is piloted by Joe L'Strange the Strike Command Bomber Display pilot. During one of the practises the Frightnings were slow in moving thus they found a Vulcan belting down the runway after them- he nearly got the buggers too ! Bloody great detachment.
Golden era of military jet aviation - so many aircraft types, no fly by wire, seat-of-the pants flying at high speeds. Get me a time machine!
Did you watch that climb from the lightning? Nothing could match their climb rate, imagine going straight up at supersonic speed! Awewsome power.
Su27: hold my beer...
but you have to look at lightning in service in 1960;s su27 in service nearly 20 years later and two generations later . shows how far out aircraft industry has fallen
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@Terrell Antonio Instablaster =)
Like a home sick angel heading home
What fantastic footage......wonderful glory days of the RAF.....never see anything at low level now.....
Superb programme - greatly enjoyed watching this.
to this day and can remember sitting in our front room with my late mum & dad watching this live this night
Despite having left the RAF as a flight lieutenant, there was no keeping Raymond Baxter away from their planes. it wouldn't surprise me if he took to the air in a fucking Lightning! When the BBC knew they were going to do Skywatch, the controller of BBC1 must have sent for him and said, "Raymond, I've got a programme that's right up your street". Incidentally, this went out at 20:15 on 21 June that year...the longest day. If you ask me, it wasn't blood that was running through Raymond Baxter's veins but high octane aviation fuel!
RB was the man, many a time he commented on Biggin Hill and Farnboro, and RIAT, I met him once a true gentlemen who loved aviation…RIP RB.
I remember watching the aircraft taking off and landing at RAF wildenrath when i was a kid on trips there for shopping or the flicks. Canberras, lightnings, and alot of activity around where we lived. Later AS a young soldier i joined baor and rearlly miss all that. The military was a good safe place to grow up in.
What an amazing piece of archive!
I used to love watching the air Tattoo on TV with the whole family back in the 70s and 80s....Mr Baxters voice so familiar......Great Times!
Those were the days
What a beautiful clip thanks for uploading
Ooh! All my favourite aircraft in one handy video! Many thanks to you for posting this!
I watched this as a child. When IMO we used to have an Air Force, which is what my father used to say about the RAF in the 40s and 50s.
wow fantastic stuff cheers for putting this on.
Those Phantoms, still love them to this day! Of course. along with the stunning Vulcan and the prima Lightning.
I worked on the Phantom with 54 sqn RAF Coningsby ,we had the occasional Vulcan drop in from RAF Waddington . This was about 1972 ,then onto lightenings 111 sqn at RAF Wattisham great times ..
@@1tonyboat I lived near Lossiemouth, family within the RAF, had the joy of watching the comings and goings during the 70's and 80's. Most memorable for me is a Vulcan doing a low pass, through the Speyside glen where I lived, and watching it from below.... the RAF used to use the distillery chimney as a target/waypoint on their runs.
Oh just wonderful to watch and recall my 12 years service, 1979 - 1992, in which I have flown (of the aircraft shown here) in a Bulldog, Jet Provost, Phantom twice and a Victor. I have seen Buccaneers drop live 1000lb bombs on Garvie Island in the far north west tip of Scotland, I have watched Jaguars strafe and bomb on Tain Range and watched a Jaguar crash on the range and I went to the aid of the pilot after he ejected and landed close to his burning aircraft.
You were the rare RAF person who didnt have aflying job but was actually keen on flight etc, we were not the usual RAF bods, I did similiar flightsand lots of adventure sports.Also AATC !!!
@@garybrindle6715 Great years for me as an AATC, two towers, a bombing range, a radar unit, squadron ops and station ops. My second Phantom flight was a Leuchars to Wattisham transit move towards the end of 228 OCU and I got the trip by kept saying "I'll go" in place of a nav who needed to be back at Leuchars to show his house he had for sale. As the weather at Wattisham was poor but improving the trip was delayed numerous times and when it became too late for him my consistent badgering paid off and I was strapped into the back seat. We went supersonic over the North Sea......and I threw up!! hahahahaha!
Phantom, Harrier, Bucs, Jags, Lightning, Vulcan.......RAF at their best !!
great video of some great aircraft
No programmes like this are broadcast anymore, loved the Air Show programmes on Sunday afternoons with Raymond Baxter commentating. The modern RAF are sadly a shadow of what they were thanks to Government cut backs, I was an avid supporter of Airshows in the 80's and 90's, but don't attend now as there is nothing to see apart from the Typhoon or Red Arrows. Sad times.
I've actually half-met Wing commander 'bunny' Warren at an ACPV. He is now the OC of no.22 training group with the rank of Air vice marshal.
Loza Aviation I think you will find it is actually Bunny James. The chap mentioned in the programme would be in his 80s now.
@@gmanderson2009 oh right, cheers for the info
Bunny James was a young Fg Off at Shawbury in 1990 ish, I was the FG WG Adj at the time, he was a great Officer and a gentleman.
@@gmanderson2009 nice to know
Five different types of aircraft of the same airforce in the first five minutes. Those were the days.
Ironic to think the bear is still flying today while all the RAF aircraft in this 1974 film are now razor blades.
They wouldn't be useful as much else anymore unfortunately
Was stationed here at the time this was made.
I was born at RAF Wittering in 1974 my dad was stationed there
Don’t know why but I love the British Phantom more than the orginal us phantoms
I absolutely love THE VULCANS just waiting
Raymond Baxter was a great commentator I remember him commentating on the Farnborough specials in the 70s and 80s
4 months before I was born, I wish I had been born 20 years earlier!
And now we have Typhoons. And that's it.
You just don't get blokes called Bunny anymore.
Omg this video is amazing
Cool vid...Ian Dick the team leader of the Red Arrows is a Kiwi pilot. thanks from NZ✈️ 👍🇳🇿
Wow, Brings back memories for me. Updated of course but still the same ideas. Qiute different from the 1950;s in Canada. ' Per Ardua ad Astra'
Raymond Baxter. The legend!
Hopefully i can find the last 15 mins of the Buccs, Vulcans & Phantoms unloading onto targets...
Raymond Baxter in his heyday!
Unbelievable capability...... brilliant range of aircraft ....... surely RAF during its heyday?
Brilliant vid, I’m not sure what threat that Phantom launching at approx 10:00 would have posed , it wasn’t carrying any ordnance! Maybe the pilot would shake a fist at the Bear and give him a stern talking to !
4 Vulcans .. imagine that today.. remember seeing some buccaneers at RAF Honington being converted from naval to RAF use in 1975 .
Thay actually dripped fuel when in the hanger..
OMG, I think I have died and gone to heaven!
The purpose of the exact time on target? Deconfliction performed by Strategic Air Command who controlled the SIOP - Single Integrated Operational Plan. It was considered bad form to drop a thermonuclear 'special weapon' in front of another aircraft. Using the Vulcan to fly low -low-low to drop a nuclear weapon was overkill when the Panavia Tornado was designed to replace the F-104G on the same mission.
Great times to the RAF.
mebering watching this live when I was 8.
Me too :-)
But I was 10
RobRidleyLive
I loved to watch it live I was thinking about it I was borne 2 months after this video was taken so you could say watched I was a complete baby at the time
You guys are lucky to be at that good old times
I was eighteen and off to the RAAF at Point Cook for OTS.
Be good to get a demo of this in 2024 given that the cold war is still with us today. Would make great TV
Ahh the chiefy in the beige dust coat, happy days.
All of them have been phased out, scrapped or put in a museum.
Oh the memories! I was at RAF Bawdsey or SaxaVord radar station at this time and know the WRAF woman on the plotting table. Brings back bittersweet memories of 40 plus years ago. Wonder where they are now. How technology has changed. Used to get a tie with a red star and portcullis on it when you worked on an interception like this. Good times.
Hello Steve, I was in Cyprus at the time this was made however I married the young lady on the plotting table. All are ok but 65+ now!!!
Ha the wonderful Raymond Baxter.
Excellent video. Amazing the readiness state we had back then. I know we still monitor the air and send Typhoons up to intercept but back during Cold War it was different. Would be interesting to see any videos on comparisons between Harrier and new F-35 with regards to VSTOL capabilities. The Harrier seemed so suited. Cannot see a F-35 being robust enough for forests and urban environments like the Harrier. Thanks again for sharing such a good piece of film.
+Paul McCabe alas its not. The f35 also needs a temperature controlled hanger otherwise the stealth coating will get damaged. Yes a total blast from the past. Seems so twee these days, but easy to forget the fear of nuclear armageddon.
Roland Lawrence Temperature controlled hangar? What an absurd claim! The USN/USMC don't have airconditioned hangars and never will. Do you make up this tripe or pick it up somewhere else?
If only the ABILITIES of the Harrier could have been incorporated into the nascent PUNCH of the A-10.
The harriers took a lot of maintenance
Temperature controlled hanger, rubbish. Do you think they would spend billions on making an aircraft which would loose its stealth coating so easily.
rock on!
At 21:24 the Harrier wrecks it's starboard outrigger on the kerb. Luckily it goes unoticed by the film crew but the grondcrew don't look too happy.
I was a cadet in 481 sqd ATC at the time, we were told that a former member of the sqn was one of the crew of the Phantoms from Laarbruch , any one know who they were ? the guy was Brian Henley , he was navigator in the RAF
Do you remember Cameron? Libya had just licked off and the RAF were tasked to support so Cameron said "send a Nimrod to control the aircraft", then came the response "Prime Minister, you ordered them scrapped last week and the last was bulldozed yesterday" ... "AH" said Cameron, "Then what we need then are some Harriers, they cand land anywhere!". "Prime Minister, you sold them all to the United States Marine Corps when you scrapped the Nimrods."
The Americans flew the AV-8B manufactured by McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing. Some new aircraft went to the RAF as F.7s. Italy and Spain also flew the AV-8B. BAE were also involved in manufacturing aircraft for the U.K.
As described below, the US ran the last manufacturing program and never bought used RAF aircraft. The last UK built aircraft I remember the USAF using was the PR version of the Mozzie. The RAF flew Montreal-built Canadair Sabre 4's to fill a NATO requirement while everyone waited for the Hawker Hunter to be ready. These went to other NATO partners as part of US foreign military sales. A lot of people forget that the US and Canada built a lot of aircraft for Europe in the fifties. The Luftwaffe were kick-started with Canadair Sabre 6s and surplus RCAF Sabre 5s and both the Luftwaffe and RCAF went on to the CF-104/F-104G in the sixties.
I still believe the Lighting would be an effective Aircraft today.
So sad to watch this, the spirit is still there, the talent is still there, but the money has long gone. Shame on all the government's since then.
The year I joined up.
How depressing watching this 46 yrs later and our air force has about 20 serviceable front line aircraft. No longer a major player are our military :(
I must have missed this in 1974 I was probably playing football, cricket or pretending to be a para with my mates 😃 I was only 10
The Buccaneer's YES!
4 vulcan taking off! Think just wet my self
Remember watching this as a plane mad kid dreaming of joining the RAF went one better and joined the Fleet Air Arm 😂
What happened to the last 15 mins of this programme, which shows the RAF dropping bombs on a weapons range, the Vulcan dropping 21 1000lbers
+Stephen Weatherley Good question. I did see a version of that on here a couple of years ago but I have no idea where it's gone.
Really enjoyed. Would love to see the end of it
you missed the magical lightning fromr the list of planes
Where is the rest of it? I remember it having those bombing runs on salisbury plain with the Harriers, Buccaneers and a Vulcan showing what they can do but it's been cut out of this.
Hi, yes i know. If you read my comment below, i have thankfully found the last part. Just need to get round to uploading it.
Raymond Baxter also did a similar programme about the Royal Navy. Can anyone remember what it was called? The Navy at sea?
Capt. Tom Plank was US Marine Corps, not Air Force. The irony of the Harrier is that the United States will be operating and updating it's AV8B squadrons for years to come, long after the RAF and RN has since gotten rid of all theirs. The AV8B is a mainstay of Marine Corps aviation. I don't see the F-35 filling it's shoes, at least in the short term.
The Marine Corps is looking to retire all active AV8Bs by the middle of next decade and the reserve ones by about 2030. It's not that they love the AV8Bs so much
it's ability of industry to get the newer planes to the fleet and for the necessary alterations to the flight decks of the Wasp and America class ships to be completed.
blkyank1 :think we mayt 'reinvent' the bedstead, now the yanks own it all and are scrapping it - the way things are/are going?
"...Jaguars, as a replacement for the Rolls Royce powered Phantoms". Really? Each to is own!
I suspect that would be as a replacement for the Phantom strictly in the low level attack role. After all they were procured by the Royal Navy as fleet defence fighters and ended their RAF service as interceptors
Well, atleast weve got two cessna’s now!!
If your wondering why TWO Sparrow missiles were fired instead of one, they were so unreliable that it was necessary to fire 2 in case of malfunction, especially after the poor performance of the missile in Vietnam just a few years before this video was made. In fact it isnt clear if the second missile hits the target in the clip!
Could somebody put the second oart up again? Thanks.
I have it... just need to sort it :-)
try watching anything with closed captions on and the attempt at translation is often funny.
That was great 👍 but where’s the rest of the film?
“Speed of erection being one of its major qualities “ ohh matron.
Back when you chaps actually had a military.
Phantom F 4 , 1/72 Machtboox
Who is the narrator? He used to commentate on all the tv airshows and other tv programs. His name escapes me - can anyone provide the answer?
Raymond Baxter . He used to present Tomorrow's World.
Joy
Good of the Soviets to join in by sending a bear for the Phantoms to monitor 😉
It used to carry Nukes
What happened to the UK and the RAF.... :(
Killed of by Government traitors and the EU.
What really happened was that communism - supposedly - toppled in the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact. The government couldn't believe it's luck, and in the rush to cash in on the so called 'peace dividend', left us with the rump of an Air Force that we've got now. This 'GBH' was repeated across the Army and Navy, and all the time we're given the glib party line of "we're trimming the tail whilst keeping the teeth sharp." Twice in the 20th century this country was caught with it's trousers down metaphorically speaking, and trying to buy time. It's the prime duty of the government - whoever that may be - to guarantee the security and protection of this nation. All the lost assets and resources can't be just conjured up at the drop of a hat, should we suddenly find ourselves in very grave and dire circumstances. I wouldn't have been all that surprised if Labour had been responsible, but this was set in motion by the Conservatives! Why oh why do they never ever learn the lessons of history?
A 'direct hit'? with a missile? I very much doubt it. Missiles are designed to miss and detonate next to the target.
Peter Mitchell missiles gave a proximity fuse which detonate never the target but missile can detonate by impact on the target.
Here is the full video.
th-cam.com/video/2gHwsnBeHUs/w-d-xo.html
Sorry but a mig21 is not a Gloster meteor
Worse thing the UK defence of our country did, was close the Harrier Squadron s and get rid of them…….
Make Britain great again.