BMI727 From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 14315 posts, RR: 26 Posted (6 months 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 3670 times:
I ran across this old RAF promotional video from the 1960s featuring the English Electric Lightning and strange narration. It's cool footage, although the overall style could be described as 1950s instructional video meets creepy old porno.
Newark727 From United States of America, joined Dec 2009, 1172 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (6 months 3 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 3657 times:
What the heck was this commenter trying to get at
Quote: That's one ugly ass airplane.
No wonder Britain got it's ass kicked in Vietnam.
He's wrong in every way that it is possible to be wrong.
...or maybe jealous of a successful jungle counter-insurgency campaign around the same time, in Borneo?!
So low key, no one bothered to make any crap movies about it either!
(A rather unfair analogy I know, but if you are going to Troll, why not make an effort rather than just sounding just ignorant and/or insecure)?
Back to topic, I well remember seeing my first Lightning, at an airshow in 1980.
It did a very low, very, very fast pass along the crowd-line.
You felt it in your bones.
jumpjet From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2005, 217 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (5 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2637 times:
Hah, it's hysterical and sooooo dated!
I took part in a similar RAF recruiting film made in 1973 all about the Harrier. I was an RAF Flight Line Mechanic at RAF Wittering at the time. I recently tracked down the only copy left, it was in the Imperial war Museum archive and they let me have a copy of it. It was all so wooden and the voice-over, which is supposed to be me, is utterly ridiculous, and a severe embarrassment. I was just 17 at the time and my teenage children now find it all highly amusing.
AF1624 From France, joined Jul 2006, 572 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (5 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 2553 times:
Quoting jumpjet (Reply 7): I took part in a similar RAF recruiting film made in 1973 all about the Harrier. I was an RAF Flight Line Mechanic at RAF Wittering at the time. I recently tracked down the only copy left, it was in the Imperial war Museum archive and they let me have a copy of it. It was all so wooden and the voice-over, which is supposed to be me, is utterly ridiculous, and a severe embarrassment. I was just 17 at the time and my teenage children now find it all highly amusing.
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