Farnborough

[emfrat]

Lots of cool stuff here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqT7GHfQkWQ

[Charl]

Well they certainly don't make airshows like they used to (or crazy prototype aircraft, for that matter)
Supersonic flyby's... my word.

Before my time, but y'know what? if it don't look right, it ain't right.
And they sank without trace.

Was tickled by the need for (rather wonky) subtitling!

[Splitpin]

Superb find Mike.... I really wish I had been of age to remember those days....so very British.
I do recall watching some of the coverage, must have been late 60's or early 70's , after that I seem to have lost track.

[emfrat]

Marty, I was only three-and-a-bit in 1952, but the aircraft on display were ones I grew up with. One memory is hearing on the morning news that the Fairey Delta had set a new world speed record of 1140 mph. That made me want to be a test pilot
There is a passing reference to John Derry losing his life at the 1952 airshow, but of course the crash would not have been released for public viewing. This is what happened:
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/1 ... -disaster/

I have an old book (published 1969) titled 'Aircrash Detective', about the evolution of air safety. The point is made there that from a crowd of over 100,000, only one of the letters sent after an appeal for witness accounts was actually of any value in establishing cause.
ATB, Mike