Farnborough Fly Past

3/29/2022

Actor Geoffrey Sumner takes us on a review of this 16th annual Farnborough Airshow, demonstrating the continuing success of this internationally renowned festival. Lord Mountbatten and Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlands lead the famous (with a brief appearance from the Italian Foreign Minister demonstrating post-war diplomacy seemingly working) and the not so famous as the De Havilland "Comet" opens the show. Quickly followed by the 4 jet "Vulcan" bomber put through it's paces by Roland Falk including a free fall; the AVRO "Shackleton MR3"; a formation of the Short "Sea Mew"; the new Rolls Royce "Conway" gas turbine engines are powering an "Ashton"; the Handley Page "Victor"; Vickers "Valiant"; the highly manoeuvrable AVRO "CF100" all weather fighter; the English Electric "P1"; the compac