Hawker Hunter crash at Airshow.

Farnborough Airshow photo's from the late 1950's ( ? ) when you could park next to the exhibits.

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Airdisplay appears to be with wheels down ( ? ) are they Hunters ?

Nice pictures there Dave. Looking at the first one with my magnifying glass it looks like they are Hunters with their wheels down.
The Morris 1000 has 1976 as part of the registration, though obviously this was a pre-reg vehicle no-doubt from the late 50s very early 60s.

The aircraft in front of the Moggy Thou is a Blackburn NA-39, first flown in 1958.

canberra;163651 wrote:

Theres a letter in todays Telegraph pointing out that this isnt the first crash involving spectator fatalities since Farnborough. The writer remembers the Vulcan crash at Syerston. Okay the 3 people killed on the ground cant trully said to be spectators as they were working, but they werent aircrew.

with reference to ' Farnborough 100 years of british aviation ' by peter j cooper. The last time anyone died on ground as a consequence of an accident at a UK airshow was 1968. When the breguet Atlantic crashed killing all five crew as well one onlooker and one RAE employee. I've not found any other mention of fatalities after that date, until the unfortunate accident at shoreham. If any one knows otherwise.

I think the Hunters may be Scimitars.....?

The first person to be killed by an aeroplane in Britain was Mrs Annie Pitt of Hindlip near Worcester, at a demonstration given by showman "Captain" Cecil Clayton of Mansfield. Having been injured in a previous attempt at flight, he got his mechanic, Ernest D'Artigan (his stage name, true surname Beresford) to attempt at least a fast taxi surrounded by a rushing and inquisitive crowd who expected the machine to ascend vertically. June 1910.
CS Rolls, the first pilot fatality didn't occur until the following month.

Definetely Scimitars.

There were 18 aircraft in the display team plus one of a Victor Flyby in the pack of my Fathers old B&W's ~ assume that these must have been before the official display teams ?

If any one is interested then I can add them to the appropriate thread if you let me know if such a thread exists.

pauline;163670 wrote:

No Paul (hope I've got that right?) somehow I wouldn't want to talk about what happened to me on radio although, as you can tell from this, I will talk to friends. The memories of the break up of the aircraft are still so vivid to me and the engine passed so close to my father, his friend who had been a wireless operator on a Lancaster during the war, and me, that we could almost have reached up and touched it. It is impossible to forget something like that, and seeing the film of the smoking engine on the ground afterwards, as I have recently, gives me feelings that are impossible to describe, sheer horror that all those people died so close to me, when moments before we had been thrilled by what we had been watching and listening to. And how brave Neville Duke was, as what he did certainly helped in the aftermath and made people try to carry on as normally as possible, everyone just kept out of the way of those helping the injured, no-one then would have been taking 'selfies' of themselves at the scene!

Many thanks for that Pauline. By pure chance early this morning again on Radio Oxford we heard them talking about the Farnborough accident. They replayed part of what we heard on Tuesday, the lady talking about this must have been just a few yards away from you as she said the engine went over her head at normal ceiling height. But she was a young girl sat upon the roof of her dads car at that time, though her mum was just literally dragging her off. Her name is Moira Bremner and she is an Author of some kind. Maybe you can hear about her experience on some sort of catch-up from Radio Oxford.