Yeovilton Air Day 1975

[Sixoneseven]

Yeovilton was my local back in the 70s and 80s and always enjoyed them. These are scanned from slides and the quality is not the best on some so apologies for that:

VL75-1 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-5 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-6 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-7 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-8 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-9 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-10 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-11 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-12 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-13 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-16 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-17 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-18 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-20 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-22 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-23 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-25 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-26 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-28 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-29 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-30 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

VL75-31 by Chris Tyler, on Flickr

[SeaFuryFan]

Fantastic post!!! Now how to build a time machine.....

[Sparts99]

Excellent, no apologies needed.

[Vulcanone]

Excellent post. The good old days

[Mustang531]

Thanks for sharing these with us, I attended this show and I was lucky enough to have a Mum who was happy to take me and a schoolmate down to Somerset for the day. It was close to a 300 mile round trip too. I remember that the show was marred by the sad incident, when the Harrier pilot was killed after finishing his display, his ejection seat activated and not nice to see. I notice the two-seat Spitfire G-AIDN behind the Hunter, in the days when it wore an all yellow scheme. I still regularly see it operating from Biggin Hill as MT818, now camouflaged. Nice to see the Gannet, Paris, Belgian Mirages and the Admirals Barge Wessex. A lot of memories there.

[paddyboy]

‘Quality’, perceived or otherwise, is totally irrelevant when you have subjects like those gems in a set

Thanks for sharing your record of a proper air display, Chris

Paddyboy

[eLaReF]

Thanks for sharing these with us, I attended this show and I was lucky enough to have a Mum who was happy to take me and a schoolmate down to Somerset for the day. It was close to a 300 mile round trip too. I remember that the show was marred by the sad incident, when the Harrier pilot was killed after finishing his display, his ejection seat activated and not nice to see. I notice the two-seat Spitfire G-AIDN behind the Hunter, in the days when it wore an all yellow scheme. I still regularly see it operating from Biggin Hill as MT818, now camouflaged. Nice to see the Gannet, Paris, Belgian Mirages and the Admirals Barge Wessex. A lot of memories there.

I only heard the 'whoosh' of the ejector seat going off as our bus left. Took me about two months to find out what had happened since it didn't seem to be widely publicised.
Your pics are much better than mine which are from my B&W period and include a 1/2 double exposure where in my excitement, I never wound the film fully on!
I'll just add a link to the album rather than hijacking someone else's post https://www.flickr.com/photos/elaref/se ... 356460383/

[Blue Diamond]

Lovely set. Thanks for sharing.

[F3]

Great set Chris. Particularly likin the Lightning.

[ciaranchef]

Absolute heaven ......

[jpickers56]

Cracking set thanks for sharing.

[SW Sky Blue]

Great stuff

[Herkchaser]

Fantastic set

[Seacat192]

Excellent set.

[ST24]

Thanks for sharing these with us, I attended this show and I was lucky enough to have a Mum who was happy to take me and a schoolmate down to Somerset for the day. It was close to a 300 mile round trip too. I remember that the show was marred by the sad incident, when the Harrier pilot was killed after finishing his display, his ejection seat activated and not nice to see. A lot of memories there.

Absolutely, a 10 year old me was very much shaken on the long ride back to the midlands. I remember my dad asking a serviceman on the walk back to the car if there was any news on the Harrier pilot, he said nothing but his face told us what we needed to know...

[Vulcanone]

I might be wrong but I assume the Canberra behind the Gannet in pic 25 is the ex RAF B.2 that lingered on the fire dump in the mid 70s.