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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 1359.PDF
473 final public day, but, despite a cloud base of some 700ft and indifferent visibility, the pilots and radar controllers together produced the complete programme—and made it well worth watching. Vulcan, Victor, Britannia and Valiant flew past drenched in thick veils of mist while their speedier brethren made some very low and very fast passes indeed. Ranald Porteous in the Aiglet Trainer, profiting by an early lifting of the cloud base to some 1,200ft, performed his aerobatics with The three "Flight" photographs above, below left and below give a yiyid idea of the site of the crowd—it numbered 102,000—-which attended on the final day. Above, the Vulcan is seen streaming its braking parachute and (left, below—a photograph taken from an unusual viewpoint on the far side of the runway) the two-seat Hunter is making its high-speed pass. The general scene below was taken by "Flight" photographer L. W. McLaren from the Skeeter 6, flown by J. J. M. Jeffery. At top right, Sir Anthony Eden is seen entering the Avro Vulcan in which he flew after Tuesday's display.
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