What an absolute gem of a video. My 4 year old son and I have just spent 41 minutes of complete happiness together thanks to this, thank you for sharing this. I was born in 77 so many of these aircraft were the "pin-ups" of my youth and it was great seeing them again.
Ahh the Viggen. Love the sound of that thing 27:10 Viggen means lightning in old Scandinavian and is referring to the lighting that Thor threw in anger. Love the sound! Thanks for sharing
Fantastic stuff. I was there in 1978 as an aviation-mad 14 year-old and this video brought back many happy memories. Ironic to think that 2 of my favourite aircraft at the show were the Sea Harrier and FMA Pucara. Little did we realise they'd be at war 4 years later. The video's title is a little incomplete since, as Mark Richardson said below, it covers 76 from 0.00, 1978 from 8.43 & 1980 from 15.08. Thanks so much for uploading this video.
We moved to Camberley in 1970. My dad took me to Farnborough either thar year or '72 for the first time and I'be been going ever since, maybe missed only twice in all thos years. Watching the Blackbird SR71 fly off into the sun back to the USA in '74, looking down the runway as we were leaving, is one of my best memories and I was only 9.
Thanks for posting. Not only was I there for many airshows, but worked at the good ol' RAE from about 1970-1973/4.Spent many a happy winter ankle deep in snow and freezing me whossits off doing trials out on the airfield! Happy dayz!! 😜😜
G-BFAN at 1:33 is a personal favourite - it was the cover model on one of my dad's Air Internationals from that year, and I completely fell in love with 125's there and then.
I still have the programme shown at the beginning of the video. I was 11 and it was my second Farnborough airshow. It's a shame they no longer have a public display.
At 30:42 the narrator states Concorde has 5 years in service with British Airways.. This puts the air show as 1981 as the first schedule BA flight of Concorde was in 1976
There was no Farnborough Airshow in 1981. Farnborough went biennial in 1962 and has only ever been on "even" years since. The F-15 is in Bi-Centennial colours which makes it 1976.
The Wilf Lunn lookalike at 1:40: Who he? And where's Raymond Baxter? 6:25 Unidentified, unannounced passenger jet. An Airbus? Ah yes, 1976. Ladybird plague, water from standpipes, and our documentaries came as a kit of parts that you had to assemble in your head into a coherent whole.
When I was nine years old in 1976 I was at a very big air show. More than a million spectators. It was the 200 years celebrations for the independence of USA. It was at Mildenhall Airbase in England at the fourth of July 1976. Just 10 miles outside of Bury St. Edmonds. I remember it as the most incredible day in my life. The highlight was the B52 bombers. 8 engines with so much black smoke comming out of them. Imagine how cool that was for a nine year old! Still the best vacation of my life.
I was there when the F-15 made it's first appearance at Farnborough, now that's quite something. Thanks for this great video, from those wonderful times!
They still do pleasure flights on Dragon Rapides from Duxford in Cambridgeshire. I live locally and in the warmer months we have them going over very frequently, lovely old ladies they are, they seem to effortlessly drift across the sky.
Great stuff, anyone else notice the blatantly wrong engine noise for the A-10 display? The A-10 was never that loud, it had a much more distinctive noise
These were the years of Farnborough air show. Not like nowadays when most of the exhibits have left by Wednesday, leaving just the bare bones of the exhibits left for the public day on the Friday and not even worth the journey
I remember going to one of these shows as a kid and sitting on one of my ex RAF Uncles shoulders, I was probably about 8 or 9 so about 1967 ish All I remember was a Vulcan or other V Bomber flying over with a blue steel missile in the bomb bay oh and the noise
Memories, i grew up in farnborough, cove, fleet & had an aunt who always was able to get us in on press day (no public) so from the age of 12 it was the ultimate play day, sitting in various cockpits and, bagging all the freebies. Had to laugh at the Hms Invincible 'command' cruiser comment, i was on the command carrier down in the falklands & it wasn't called Invincible, Hermes was the ship.
Awesome - many thanks for the upload. Hope you don;t mind me asking but have you got any other airshow footage from the same period or even earlier, especially from Biggin Hill!! ;-)
And here we are in 2022 and less than a week until the next instalment of the Farnborough Airshow, except it isn’t a public airshow, apart from some tickets being given to local schools so they can “explore a career in aviation”, other than that it is a trade show as far as I can see, other years us local residents have been able to get tickets with a big discount (should have been free), just to keep us sweet because of the noise, and, more importantly, because of the congestion, road closures, and increased pedestrian traffic, but not anymore, same issues but no sweetener, ok, I can still enjoy some of the air displays from my flat, but it isn’t really the same. Farnborough airshow is now a complete bust for any aviation enthusiasts, I wish that it had not come back, and that it gets cancelled again, for whatever reason. An excellent film, thanks for sharing, looking at all those BRITISH aircraft from not so long ago I get sad 😞 and angry 😡 at the same time, poor decisions (putting it politely) by successive British governments consigned the British aviation industry to the scrap heap, all those brilliant designs are now, mostly, gone, the engineering expertise gone, and the revenue they could have brought to the United Kingdom was never realised, we might not have been in the poo 💩 pile we are know. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦 Per Ardua Ad Astra.
sorry guys but this is NOT 1976...its 1980.. the tornado f2 (adv variant ) was NOT around in 1976 and also the red arrows were still flying the gnat in the 1970s...in fact they did NOT change over to the hawk (as shown here ) untill the 79 airshow season was over..the FIRST year they were publicly displaying the hawk was 1980.
Taken at the W.S.Shackleton's Sales Weekend Kiddlington Airfield,Oxford 1959. see: Aircraft Sales 1959 video with same aircraft and pilot and sales demonstrator showing the Chipmunk aircraft.
Are you sure this is from the 1976 show or at least, all the footage is from 1976? G-HOOK Hughes 500D apparently wasn't constructed until 1980 and first appeared at Farnborough in that year.
Im a bit confused as to what year this video is from the description says 1976 but one of the jets in the beginning says it first flew in 1979. Then when the concorde was flying the announcer says its been flying for 9 years and the concorde first flew in 1969 so that would make the video from 1978. Then they say that the F2 Tornado is making its debut at this airshow and the F2 made its debut in march of 1984. So when is this video from? 1976? 1978? 1979? Or 1984? Oh and then later he says the 40th anniversary of the battle of britain that was in 1940 so we have yet another year this video could be from 1980? So is it 1976? 1978? 1979? 1980? Or 1984?
Great to see these Farnborough videos posted however as a big A-10 fan, I was disappointed they replace the audio with F15/16 engine sounds over the real A-10 sound which has a bit more whine to it.
Is this Farnborough - 1986? The Strike Eagle didnt enter service until 1989 and the one viewed here was a development airframe... The Edgeley Optica first flew in 1979 as did the F2 Tornado. Also the commentator mentioned the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, in 76 that would have been the 30th. The Red Arrows were still flying the Gnat in 76, the Hawk didnt come in until 1979. Edit: Oops just read some more of the comments below... Sorry for posting the obvious O.o
I was at that show. I'll never forget it for as long as I live, seeing that horrific crash that killed 893 people when that 747 went out of control and flew right into the spectators as well as the hotel.
One of the last memories i have of my brother before he was murdered, this means more than mere words, thank you so much
What an absolute gem of a video. My 4 year old son and I have just spent 41 minutes of complete happiness together thanks to this, thank you for sharing this. I was born in 77 so many of these aircraft were the "pin-ups" of my youth and it was great seeing them again.
Thank you for sharing. I was there with my dad and granddad in 76. Happy memories!
70s 80s had some amazing airdisplays literraly packed with fighters and bombers
Thank you for sharing this outstanding piece of history: it is BOTH the 1976 and the 1980 Farnborough air show(s).
Ahh the Viggen. Love the sound of that thing 27:10
Viggen means lightning in old Scandinavian and is referring to the lighting that Thor threw in anger. Love the sound! Thanks for sharing
Great video. Really hot summer of 76. Wish I could go back in time !
Fantastic stuff. I was there in 1978 as an aviation-mad 14 year-old and this video brought back many happy memories. Ironic to think that 2 of my favourite aircraft at the show were the Sea Harrier and FMA Pucara. Little did we realise they'd be at war 4 years later.
The video's title is a little incomplete since, as Mark Richardson said below, it covers 76 from 0.00, 1978 from 8.43 & 1980 from 15.08.
Thanks so much for uploading this video.
Thanks for sharing! - I was there in 76 and 78 as a kid! Makes me feel old !
And me.
And me. I lived in Aldershot and we used to walk the three miles there and back because the parking was so awful.
We moved to Camberley in 1970. My dad took me to Farnborough either thar year or '72 for the first time and I'be been going ever since, maybe missed only twice in all thos years. Watching the Blackbird SR71 fly off into the sun back to the USA in '74, looking down the runway as we were leaving, is one of my best memories and I was only 9.
Thanks for posting. Not only was I there for many airshows, but worked at the good ol' RAE from about 1970-1973/4.Spent many a happy winter ankle deep in snow and freezing me whossits off doing trials out on the airfield! Happy dayz!! 😜😜
Thanks very much indeed for uploading these videos! It really made my evening! 👍
G-BFAN at 1:33 is a personal favourite - it was the cover model on one of my dad's Air Internationals from that year, and I completely fell in love with 125's there and then.
I still have the programme shown at the beginning of the video. I was 11 and it was my second Farnborough airshow. It's a shame they no longer have a public display.
Thank you for this gem of a vid. incredible
shear nostalgic enjoyment thank you very much for sharing
Thank you for sharing this. I really enjoyed.
Was definitely there in '76..:)
Nearly 45 years on the Harrier is still breathtaking...
Amazing. Super constructions and solutions.
At 30:42 the narrator states Concorde has 5 years in service with British Airways.. This puts the air show as 1981 as the first schedule BA flight of Concorde was in 1976
Can't be as the Red Arrows seen in the video are flying the Folland Gnat, they transferred to the Hawks in 1980
There was no Farnborough Airshow in 1981. Farnborough went biennial in 1962 and has only ever been on "even" years since.
The F-15 is in Bi-Centennial colours which makes it 1976.
The Wilf Lunn lookalike at 1:40: Who he? And where's Raymond Baxter?
6:25 Unidentified, unannounced passenger jet. An Airbus?
Ah yes, 1976. Ladybird plague, water from standpipes, and our documentaries came as a kit of parts that you had to assemble in your head into a coherent whole.
First ever drone at 02:15 ! Westland Wisp had contrarotating blades and a camera (film)!
My grandpa, Christer is flying the Viggen at 27:16
When I was nine years old in 1976 I was at a very big air show. More than a million spectators. It was the 200 years celebrations for the independence of USA. It was at Mildenhall Airbase in England at the fourth of July 1976. Just 10 miles outside of Bury St. Edmonds. I remember it as the most incredible day in my life. The highlight was the B52 bombers. 8 engines with so much black smoke comming out of them. Imagine how cool that was for a nine year old! Still the best vacation of my life.
And 48 years later, the B52 has just visited Farnborough Airshow!😅
@@composimmonite3918 That's cool. Very old airplane.
Agreed ! This is not only the 1976 issue, in 1978 (I was there) the Red Arrows were still flying the Folland Gnats... So a mix with the 1980 event...
I was there when the F-15 made it's first appearance at Farnborough, now that's quite something. Thanks for this great video, from those wonderful times!
I always enjoy an air show of any vintage thanks for the posting.
Was there as a child in 1976,still got the flying display programme. Good to see the prototype Tornado too....
This brought back lots of memories.
thank you, so nice to see such variety of planes and makers
My first passenger flight was as a five-year-old in a De Haviland Dragon Rapide, with a silver skin like the one here, to Alderney for holidays.
They still do pleasure flights on Dragon Rapides from Duxford in Cambridgeshire. I live locally and in the warmer months we have them going over very frequently, lovely old ladies they are, they seem to effortlessly drift across the sky.
love the retro airshows
Thank's for uploading. R
Thank you! Wonderful.
My speed Machine back in 1976 was my brand new triumph 750 bonneville
Excellent footage of Sea Harriers with the Pre war livery.
Brilliant archive .
Great stuff, anyone else notice the blatantly wrong engine noise for the A-10 display? The A-10 was never that loud, it had a much more distinctive noise
These were the years of Farnborough air show. Not like nowadays when most of the exhibits have left by Wednesday, leaving just the bare bones of the exhibits left for the public day on the Friday and not even worth the journey
I remember going to one of these shows as a kid and sitting on one of my ex RAF Uncles shoulders, I was probably about 8 or 9 so about 1967 ish All I remember was a Vulcan or other V Bomber flying over with a blue steel missile in the bomb bay oh and the noise
Definitely "1967ish" because there was no airshow in 1967 - so most likely 1966 or 1968.
Огромное спасибо за видео! Респект и уважение автору 👍👍👍
50% increase in range on that small Hawker jet, amazing 👏 engineering
1976 Our Nation's Second 100 years.
A rare Air Show.
Within the first 2 minutes alone, it is mentioned three times that the show in this video took place in 1976.
Farnborough as a public airshow is now finished! Was at the last show 2yrs ago Hopeless! Won't go again! It's all about money now!
Epic
Memories, i grew up in farnborough, cove, fleet & had an aunt who always was able to get us in on press day (no public) so from the age of 12 it was the ultimate play day, sitting in various cockpits and, bagging all the freebies. Had to laugh at the Hms Invincible 'command' cruiser comment, i was on the command carrier down in the falklands & it wasn't called Invincible, Hermes was the ship.
Back from when the UK still built aircraft.
UK still does, Hawks are still rolling off the production line.
Typhoons are built In the uk too
The jet evolution in design was dramatic back then. Incredible how they evolved over the Cold War
Awesome - many thanks for the upload. Hope you don;t mind me asking but have you got any other airshow footage from the same period or even earlier, especially from Biggin Hill!! ;-)
The video is a number of air shows: 76, 78, 80, etc. In the 76 and 78 airshow sequences they were flying Gnats...
Conroy tri turbo three at 10:26 a rare 3 engine DC-3
Wow!!!! I was not been created by my parents until 1979
And here we are in 2022 and less than a week until the next instalment of the Farnborough Airshow, except it isn’t a public airshow, apart from some tickets being given to local schools so they can “explore a career in aviation”, other than that it is a trade show as far as I can see, other years us local residents have been able to get tickets with a big discount (should have been free), just to keep us sweet because of the noise, and, more importantly, because of the congestion, road closures, and increased pedestrian traffic, but not anymore, same issues but no sweetener, ok, I can still enjoy some of the air displays from my flat, but it isn’t really the same. Farnborough airshow is now a complete bust for any aviation enthusiasts, I wish that it had not come back, and that it gets cancelled again, for whatever reason.
An excellent film, thanks for sharing, looking at all those BRITISH aircraft from not so long ago I get sad 😞 and angry 😡 at the same time, poor decisions (putting it politely) by successive British governments consigned the British aviation industry to the scrap heap, all those brilliant designs are now, mostly, gone, the engineering expertise gone, and the revenue they could have brought to the United Kingdom was never realised, we might not have been in the poo 💩 pile we are know. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦 Per Ardua Ad Astra.
18:24. I’ve heard of this , it inspired the Rafale I believe
How nostalgic. Footage of a time whrn the UK actually built its own aircraft.
UK still does, Hawks are still rolling off the production line.
The Mirage 4000 first flew on 9 March 1979.
A good tip. If you go in The Ship Inn on Farnborough Road you can drink beer and be landed on ocasionly. Or is it The Swan?
Wow awesome upload!
Was there 1976. :) iirc the same pilot flew the largest aircraft and that little jet.
And me.
sorry guys but this is NOT 1976...its 1980..
the tornado f2 (adv variant ) was NOT around in 1976 and also the red arrows were still flying the gnat in the 1970s...in fact they did NOT change over to the hawk (as shown here ) untill the 79 airshow season was over..the FIRST year they were publicly displaying the hawk was 1980.
The first section of the video is definitely 1976.
Taken at the W.S.Shackleton's Sales Weekend Kiddlington Airfield,Oxford 1959. see: Aircraft Sales 1959 video with same aircraft and pilot and sales demonstrator showing the Chipmunk aircraft.
I remember 76 and 78. When it was worth going to.
The Buffalo did a hover taxi as a party trick.
"Even Concorde paid a flying visit." -- Yes, well, it's not going to travel up the motorway on its undercarriage and top up at the petrol station.
Are you sure this is from the 1976 show or at least, all the footage is from 1976? G-HOOK Hughes 500D apparently wasn't constructed until 1980 and first appeared at Farnborough in that year.
Fantastic.
I used to get a day of school when the show was on in case a plane hit the school
wow.. I was there in '76 as a kid.. I remember going on the Concorde!
Birthday treat for me as i was soon 16 in Sept.
Im a bit confused as to what year this video is from the description says 1976 but one of the jets in the beginning says it first flew in 1979. Then when the concorde was flying the announcer says its been flying for 9 years and the concorde first flew in 1969 so that would make the video from 1978. Then they say that the F2 Tornado is making its debut at this airshow and the F2 made its debut in march of 1984. So when is this video from? 1976? 1978? 1979? Or 1984? Oh and then later he says the 40th anniversary of the battle of britain that was in 1940 so we have yet another year this video could be from 1980? So is it 1976? 1978? 1979? 1980? Or 1984?
Great to see these Farnborough videos posted however as a big A-10 fan, I was disappointed they replace the audio with F15/16 engine sounds over the real A-10 sound which has a bit more whine to it.
We would have a few A10 flying around the Midlands late 80's, they were easy fodder to track on with our Cherokees.
The Tornado F2 is my favorite fighter on the video.
Tornado F2 maiden flight was 27th october 1979!
Indeed. A lot of the aircraft showed here were from the late seventies/early eighties. So is not a documentary about the 1976 show.
@@magoid First section is.
17:39 our Aermacchi Mb339s are great💪🇮🇹
The '76 part of the film, the Red Arrows are still using Gnats.. NOT Hawks!
Something not quite right here. The Red Arrows did not display with Hawks until 1980, in 1976 they still had Gnats.
Superb footage
The mirage 4000 looks exactly like a eurofighter typhoon 30 years previously ......
I must say the British even made sexy looking military aircraft.
i'm still in manila 76 but like it reason free and educational.
That's true but it's a mixture. The Red Arrows didn't get Hawks until 1979.
Seem to remember seing them at Farn 1980?
27:50 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgley_Optica
Is this Farnborough - 1986? The Strike Eagle didnt enter service until 1989 and the one viewed here was a development airframe... The Edgeley Optica first flew in 1979 as did the F2 Tornado. Also the commentator mentioned the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, in 76 that would have been the 30th. The Red Arrows were still flying the Gnat in 76, the Hawk didnt come in until 1979. Edit: Oops just read some more of the comments below... Sorry for posting the obvious O.o
Someone else pointed out the years are all mixed up.
see that turbo-porter take off like Draco N-123T
Mole! MOLEY MOLEY MOLEY!
super clip thanks
Wonderful.
Compare the narration with that of 20 years previous, a very pointed change.
Great upload :)
This can't be 1976. The Red Arrows did not display in Hawks until 1979.
How do you know how rare it is?
Gollum spying at 8:05
It's an Alien ?😂🤣👽
The greatest airshow on earth was Mildenhall in the eighties.
There is one of them on YT somewhere.
this is 1980 and 1976, the AEW Nimrod didnt fly till 1980 and the 748 2B was the 80s too nevertheless an amazing video
I was at that show. I'll never forget it for as long as I live, seeing that horrific crash that killed 893 people when that 747 went out of control and flew right into the spectators as well as the hotel.
Britain has great aircraft and technology,pity they don't use it! ?
F-14?! I would love to have seen that fly in the UK. Born in 85 though, stinker.
I could have been there. Sometime in the 1970s, anyway.
Really good. I think this is 1980 though.
No - definitely 1976.
the fella at 14.20 has got something from area 51 on his forehead!