BMI727 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 3806 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.
...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 , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (6 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 2773 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 , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (6 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2689 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.
Sponsor Message: 
From , joined Dec 1969, posts, 
From , joined Dec 1969, posts, 
From , joined Dec 1969, posts, 
From , joined Dec 1969, posts, 
From , joined Dec 1969, posts, 
Sponsor Message: 
Printer friendly format
