Farnborough Air Show 1949

3/28/2022

"The greatest air show the world has yet seen" is how narrator Leslie Mitchell describes this and after ten minutes I could well believe him. A gathering of top brass from around the world gather at the British International airshow to see a great array of modern military and civilian aircraft, and with some excellent photography we are introduced to helicopters that really do look like giant metallic locusts; English Electric's "Canberra B1"; the enormous Avro "Shackleton" bomber; the De Havilland "Comet"; Vickers "Viscount"; the "Hermes 5" which can travel at 330mph for a distance of 2,000 miles; the "Apollo"; "Marathon 2"; some gentle acrobatics from a De Havilland "Venom" and some action from her twin-seated sister ship the "DH113". There are also some flypasts from the "Meteor" fighte