Fantastic Air show,

[Captain Kong]

This is a fantastic show of old air force planes. flying in formation.
You may never see anything like this again.

Brian
click on link.....

Legends 2014 Trailer from chris g on Vimeo

[cappy]

near wher i live is a RAF training base ......when the course is over they do a squadron flight ...it is the biz to watch ...they fly so close in formation almost as if they atouching each other ....scary to watch .....but exciting to think they are all young new pilot officers in the RAF....regards cappy

[Richard Quartermaine]

Fantastic Brian. For years we overlooked Laucala Bay, Suva from our house. It was the RNZAF Sunderland Flying Boats 'landing strip'. They had four magnificent 'boats' and Qantas also called in regularly en route to Papeete from Rose Bay, Sydney. In 1967, just prior to our transfer to Singapore, the squadron was taken back to NZ and there was a take off and fly past farewell. Beautiful to see, sad too. Even our babies would sleep through their take offs and 'landings'. It's a nice gentle feeling looking back. The next eighty odd years?
Richard

[Braid Anderson]

When I was a teenager Leuchars Aerodrome, across the River Eden from St Andrews, was the home of 43 (the Fighting Cocks) Squadron, which was the official RAF aerobatics team. We had our own frequent air displays of Hawker Hunter fighters practicing their formation aerobatics. Also stationed at Leuchars was 151 (City of St Andrews) Squadron, with their eerie-sounding Gloster Javelins. Before I left home 111 Squadron took over from 43, but with more Hunters in the formation. I used to cycle to Leuchars, and sit on the fence at my favourite spot. This was on top of a road cutting, from where I looked straight down the main runway. Turn 180 degrees and I was looking at Leuchars Junction railway station, where the Fife Coast Line left the East Coast Main Line between Edinburgh and Dundee. This had an almost constant flow of A4, A2, A3, V2 express engines, plus WD 2-8-0s, and many less glamorous ones. Schoolboy's paradise!

[Doc Vernon]

Would loved to have seen that live Capt
As you know I was in the RAF in my time ,and have a koce of all Aircraft!
Some real good old beauties amongst those!
Thanks for that Link!
Cheers

I am sure Brian (Admin) will also enjoy watching that!

[happy daze john in oz]

We have an RAAF museum not far from where I live. Two weeks ago we took a group of senior men to take a tour of it. Some of the old craft there just make you wonder how they got off then ground. Including a Bi Plane from 1915 which compared with modern craft looks more like a kite than an aircraft.

[Richard Quartermaine]

Schoolboy's paradise!

I can relate to that Braid. We lived 2 miles out the back from Minto station 30 miles from Sydney on the main railway line to Melbourne. By the station there was a railway crossing with two big gates by the station and during WWII I would be opening the gates for pennies (and thinking back, Mr Hartigan, the Stationmaster, never ever tried to dissuade me). Massive 47 class steam engines, sometimes two in tandem, pulling great lengths of munitions wagons with a lonely guards' van way down at end, would thunder and clatter over the gaps in the rail lengths at great speed. I would hold myself against the gate as they roared by with an intoxicating warm rush of air and smoke and steam as the weight of those great engines made the very ground on which I stood in my bare feet furiously vibrate. That probably was when the urge to wander crept into my psyche. Oh, and watching autogiros and wirraways and many other small planes flying over our property.
Richard