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Early on in the video I got to thinking about autogyros. And THEN I got to 2:57...👍

At about 1:36 in this video: The _markings_ on that aircraft did not age well...🙄 *EDIT→* YES, I realize this was shot PRIOR TO 1939. But still.

FWIW: I thought the _"Cessna Airmaster"_ looked like the later _"Cessna 195."_ I did a quick search online and found the _195_ was developed from the _Airmaster._

Lovely video to start the year with. On this cold wet and windy new years day, i settled down to watch H.G.Wells 1936 film adaptation of The Shape of things to Come. In it was an a number of actule flying seans. One was a Hawker Fury in combat with a Mew Gull. Then in a post apocoliptic sean was collection of Avro 504s and DH types taking off in lose formation. Throught did cross my mind that might of been Sir Alan Cobam lot trying to earn a bit of reverniew in the last dying days of the national air days?

I think the Ferry is rather handsome in a slightly odd sort of way? How did they start the centre engine?

Brilliant, thank you for showing it. Just think how those pilots would react if suddenly appearing on a modern military airfield or better still an aircraft carrier. Development in such a short time. 90yrs

Ralph Park the pilot at 1:16 was my great Grandfather. He was a ww1 flying instructor and also he flew the first couple on thier honeymoon in a 504 limousine. When Harry Gordon selfridge came to the uk he would ferry him around by air too also in the 504.

Good narrative and many interesting photographs. Thanks. Rmb

really Amazing footage. I love old videos and photos Thanks for sharing.

Nevil Shute Norway was the famous novelist Nevil Shute. His book 'Round the Bend' uses Cobhams National Air Day in the plot of the book. Well worth a read for anyone interested in aviation.

Amazing video, thankyou, as always I wonder where you dig out your facts, but am very glad that you do. All the very best for 2025.

Thank you so much for posting this! As a Pouducielist myself, it was fantastic to see Monsieur Mignet and my favorite model of the Pou du Ciel, the HM.18! Also I had never seen the Carden-Baynes Pou flying before, really great. I fly that particular Pou in Flight Sim all the time. Happy new year!

I'd never heard of this before, so thanks for posting this video. Kirton must have been in severe shock after opening the door to find the passenger cabin empty. All the more impressive that he kept his head and maintained his professionalism. Although it puzzles me why he didn't land at much closer airfield? Lympne would have been practically underneath him when he discovered what had happened.

Great video as per usual. All the best from downunder in NZ.

I don't believe that they could get 10 people out and 10 new people in in 30seconds.

I just love those British pre-war films. Thank you and Happy New Year.

Airspeed made the oxford and that was about it. Cant think of anything after that.

G'day, Great stuff ! Thanks for making and posting this... That upper dorsal "Pterodactyl-Fin" Fueltank certainly contributed to the Ferry having an "Ungainly" sort of a "Look" to the thing..., though it more or less made Aerodynamic Sense of the period British Air Ministry requirement for Fueltanks to not be sited in the Fuselage - which duly led to whole flocks and herds of British Biplane Sky-Chariots with lumpy bumpy chunky bulbously-streamlined Fueltanks, sprouting as Excrescences all over, under, and at the Centre-Sections of their Upper Wing - in order to both Comply with the Regulations, and get away with Gravity feeding the Motion-Lotion from the Tank to the Carburettor.... My "worries" concerning the setup are that, firstly - unless the "Stand-Pipe/Fuel Bowser" was guaranteed to be waiting at the site where one had landed, and wanted to refuel one's Ferry (which, when barnstorming..., might not be such a rare event...?) ; then climbing up above the top Wing to be able to pour Fuel into a Chamois-lined Funnel (as was apparently de-rigour in the waybackwhen, to better avoid Fuel Contamination) protruding from the top of that Dorsal Tank..., would have been a VERY unpopular job, among the Crew..., I'm guessing. But, probably my greatest issue with that Top Wing Fueltank-behind-the-Engine approach - which was otherwise attractive in that it left the Fuselage vacant for the Walk-on Cargo Seating ; but it had all the "Crash/Burn/Die" potential associated with putting the Fueltank immediately behind the Engine's Firewall - which the whole , "Fueltanks to be located well outside the Fuselage" Doctrine/Regulation was intended to guard against...! And, in the event of a Landing onto any surface sufficiently soft as to arrest the Wheels, pitch the Nose down to dig that in as well - and then nose-over to finish up inverted on the ground...., then the Fueltank would be the first thing to hit the ground - even before the top of the Fin & Rudder... If the Exhaust-Stubs of the # 2 Engine were hot when the spilt Fuel hit them - the Accelerant would be in a perfect position to ignite, and burn UP, all the splintered Woodwork & Nitrocellulose/Acetate doped Linnen overtop of the emerging Fireball...(!). It would've been painful to watch, and very much worse to be sitting within, strapped to the seat, inverted.... It's between disconcerting and disorienting, when regaining consciousness inverted in a Potato-Patch, I found, and when the Fuel spilling from the under-seat Tank was "Glug-glugging..." and soaking me from my Bum to the Shoulders, running down the Seatback....; that woke me up, and spurred undoing the Lap-Belt, bouncing off the underside of the Wing - falling over twice while running from the Fear of a Fire on a broken Ankle (crushed Calcaneus...), and finally hopping away 20 yards - before pondering how big a Fireball 2 gallons of spilt 2-Stroke Fuel could possibly produce, and then sitting down to survey my doings, and contemplate ALL the inevitable changes to Plans thus having beenlocked in... "Oopsie ...; Buggar...!" The idea of an Engine & Fueltank being overhead..., when arriving inverted after encountering an obstacle at speed ; strikes me as being quite a wildly optimistic sort of a Choice. Cobham's, no doubt - rather than Tillman or Norway (?). They got away with it, though, in the event (nobody ever turned their Ferry upside-down and squashed the top Tank, to test the issue...)- so maybe they were correct...(?). Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

Had my first ever airplane ride out of there in 1967. It was a Gateshead Grammar School trip to Paris and we flew on a Hawker Siddely HS748 from the grass runway. Can't remember the name of the airline now.

Great stuff :-) Happy New Year

Happy New Year🫡

Thank you for another great piece of aviation history.

Biggles was there.

1930s vintage plane vs 1930s vintage train.. and to cap it all - a nice piece of music that captures the era so well (even if it only dates to 1952)... Now if only someone had managed to sneak in a shot of a 1930s Morgan...😊

I'm sure Tiltman Langley had a hangar and workshop at Redhill Airfield into the early 1980s.Not that I ever bumped into Tiltman or Langley during infrequent visits to the airfield.

Thank you for all the interesting and much appreciated quality posts you've uploaded. Happy New Year!

You certainly know how to finish the year in style Sir, that was truly uplifting and beautiful aviation history brought to life! I still have every Nevil Shute proudly in the library, just so satisfying a read! It wasn't recommended to land my autogyro vertically other than if you had to, if only we had Cierva kits now I'm sure they would make lovely toys! Happy New Year Nick!

Delightful as always Nick many thanks. Chris in Devon.

Never thought I'd see a photo of Arthur C. Clark in an AVRO 504!! Then again, I've seen a few unexpected things in my extended run, LOL! I also was unaware of the Airspeed Ferry. Seems a very interesting and capable aircraft! A couple had an unusual engine installation, with two inverted and the upper one not, I presume that was to optimize the thrust line. A great video finale for 2024!!! Thank you, Nick, and Happy New Year!!! See you *next* year!!! 😁

Another great episode. Thank you. Also, Nevil Shute wrote an excellent autobiography that gives enthralling first hand insights into the early UK aeronautical sector, its called 'Slide Rule : Autobiography of an Engineer' and is available on Audible.

That tell sure comes up fast, doesn't it? I love this video, so relaxing and instructive at the same time. That is one fine little airplane.

I confess I'd never heard of this aircraft. Thanks for uploading. 👍

Oh I did enjoy that! Thank you so much.

Another great treat - thanks so much, and a Happy New Year to all !

Alan Cobham flew into Melbourne( Essendon) aerodrome and was received by a huge crowd of wellwishers Happy New year 👍

Well _of course_ Noël was wearring white trizers!

What a nice surprise to find this film and your channel. As a youngster in the early 70’s I often visited to watch the DC3s come and go, the airline was Skyways then Danair. after I started working, I realised I had enough money to fly from Lympne to Beauvais for Paris in a DC9. My first flight, and first holiday without parents! It was so good I went again the same year. But little did I know that decades later I would be running a business there, I retired and left Lympne Industrial Estate in 2020. There are not many landmarks in the film to work out the bearings but I believe my desk was a couple of metres to right of where Noel Coward is standing!😉

Thank you

Absolutely stunning - where on earth did you find the film?

Marvellous! I owned Miles Falcon G-AEEG for many years, now in great hands with Shipping & Airlines at Biggin Hill.

A really lovely watch, the way flying should be! Interestingly a previous inhabitant of the house I grew up in Pinner, middx, built an Aeronca in the lounge! Sure I have a book about it somewhere?

I worked at Lympne during the summer as a relief immigration officer dealing with the emerging cheap 'bucket and spade' flights to the Costas etc. in the early 70', when it was called 'Ashford Airport' for some reason. I was on duty when the Goodyear blimp made what I believe was its first arrival in the UK there.

Saw the original at Old Warden about 60yrs ago...Best of luck!!

Very nice. Was the lack of honing the reason for the occasional smoke? Great little engine… deserves to be on a plane

Thank you for this treasure.

This channel has quickly become my favorite channel

My Dad was stationed at Lympne in June 1940 with 26 Squadron on Lysanders after they withdrew from France. He was there when it was heavily bombed and spent some time in a shelter.

Fantastic what a gem I have subscribed just excellent

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