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Mudgie

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this is fantastic! @Gramaisc I've not seen this one?

Cant quite see the registration number of the C1 so not sure on the squadron this could be?

It looks like 47 Squadron based at Abingdon perhaps? 30, 34 and 47 Squadrons mainly overseas in the far and middle east

Great video though :)
You probably already know that RAF Abingdon features prominently in the 1953 film The Red Beret.
The older ground equipment is blue and the newer yellow.
 

Mudgie

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Although Abingdon had Morlands Brewery until about twenty years ago a mirror and a pump clip, at about 19½ minutes, indicate that it was Ind Coope beer being drunk there.
 
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Gramaisc

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You have to wonder about 'professional' people sometimes...


My 'favourite' of this sort of thing was a picture of 'an RAF bomber over Berlin in1942' - the plane in the photo was an 0/400, which, possibly, had sneaked through by having such a low radar echo..?

Not this actual picture, but similar, although over an urban area.

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Noah

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You'd be surprised what they used on the early 1000 Bomber Raids, just so they could get something like 1000 aircraft in the air at the same time.
 

Mudgie

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You'd be surprised what they used on the early 1000 Bomber Raids, just so they could get something like 1000 aircraft in the air at the same time.
I saw a short promotional film about the RAF made in the late 1930 and was surprised that not long before the Second World War it looked like nearly all biplanes.
 

Gramaisc

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You'd be surprised what they used on the early 1000 Bomber Raids, just so they could get something like 1000 aircraft in the air at the same time.
I think we can be reasonably confident there were no 0/400s used, if any were even still capable of flight - and certainly not to Berlin.
 

Gramaisc

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The 1,574th, and last, Boeing 747 has been rolled out.

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Maybe they stopped because they ran out of windows?
 

Thehooperman

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The link that followed after watching that one is a bit dramatic. Wouldn't like to be a passenger on any of those flights.

 

BobClay

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The caption for this pix is: 'Phantom taking off from the Ark Royal.' That suggests it's fairly old. I would dearly like to know how the pix was taken !!

Unlikely from a drone given the age.
Possibly another nearby ship using a quality telephoto lens ?

Good pix however it was done.

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Gramaisc

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The caption for this pix is: 'Phantom taking off from the Ark Royal.' That suggests it's fairly old. I would dearly like to know how the pix was taken !!

Unlikely from a drone given the age.
Possibly another nearby ship using a quality telephoto lens ?

Good pix however it was done.

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The perspective suggests a fairly wide-angle lens, so from the catch netting, I would think, not a particularly safe viewpoint.

You would need to be secure in your footing, if you're still there and not using some sort of remotely controlled camera - there will be considerable wash as they go past...

If you were to fall off there, you wouldn't just get wet - the ship will be pounding along, to increase the take-off airspeed, and you'll pass through the propellers, which wouldn't be nice.
 

Gramaisc

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This picture says that it's the last fixed-wing launch from it - on November 27th, 1978.

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The larger print area shows that there was some sort of structure, to the left of the catapult line, that could have been available to support the camera/photographer.
 
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