This must have been a great airshow, RAF Gaydon 14-9-1968

[ian elliot]

Ive always been intrested in cold war metal, and thats reflected in my FS9 install, so this tread over at the Flypast historic aviation forum really tweaked my intrest, thing is , this was quite normal for the 50's 60's, most RAF stations would hold there own Battle of Britian airshows and im imagining the line-up was fairly common.
I started going to airshows in the early 1990's and can just about remember displays by Vulcans, Buccs, Victors and Canberras but they soon disapeard, it must have been great to watch this flying display.
this is the link to the thread, check out the pics of the static park
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=55136

and this is a rundown of the display
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41003466@N00/4303859146/

cheers ian

[sandar]

I used to live in Kenilworth before moving to Banbury when I was a lad. Gaydon is half way between the two towns and having a dad who was a pilot in the RAF during the latter part of the war up to 1950 inevitably meant we would go to plenty of what were then termed as At Homes, Most of Gaydon's air shows were in September. I couldn't say for sure whether I went to that air show, but I probably did.

Gaydon was home to Valiants in the 1950's and early 1960's, later on becoming a training station with things like Varsities, but there were plenty of other things regularly going in and out of there. Beverley's, Argosy's, Vulcans and Victors, Javelins, Lightnings as well as the old WWII aeroplanes and foreign visitors. I remember seeing a Mosquito once.

Ahhh, nostalgia, it isn't what it used to be.

[Matt Wynn]

and look what Gaydon is now :monkies:

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/Gaydon.jpg

if i recall correctly, Land rover, Aston Martin and Jaguar own the site...

[sandar]

When the MOD sold Gaydon, it was eventually bought by British Leyland and developed into a test track. Presumably it has been inherited by the heirs of the now defuct BL and Rover

It is also home to the first class Heritage Motor Museum, http://www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/

[Matt Wynn]

yeah the runway is 3 surfaces, side by side, for braking tests on various surfaces, you land on that you'll end up in a whole world of trouble! i know about Gaydon as my dad is an engineer specialising in motor and aviation rivets/screws, and those at Gaydon are among his top customers, be good to have it back for FS, back in it's Heyday... along with Long Marston and Honiley, and RAF Lichfield (Lichfield if i recall is where the beautiful AW52 flew)

[ian elliot]

be good to have it back for FS
If i could find some good info, maps ect, who knows :d.
cheers ian