Farnborough 1962 - Colour Photos

[MALTBY D]

Those are great shots, thanks Pete.

Love the one of the P1127, where they're all deep in thought. Looks like it was all a bit intimidating.
I thought I was looking at Jock Bryce in that one, but I'm not sure.
And check those pristine white flying suits! They make the VC10 look scrufy.

Thanks
DM

[Brian Franklin]

Just look at the shine on that Trident - wouldn't have been out of place at Benson! Great shots Pete, thank you

Brian

[PeteP]

I wasn't going to post any more but as everyone seems to be entranced by the shiny Trident, here are a couple more shots which show off that superb natural metal finish.





Pete

[Nigel H-J]

Absolutely wonderful Peter, you can almost feel the atmoshere there in those photographs. Thanks for showing.

Regards Nigel.

[RAF_Quantum]

Superb colour pics, such a shame they've been hidden for such a long time. Keep 'em coming

Rgds

John

[PeteP]

Love the one of the P1127, where they're all deep in thought. Looks like it was all a bit intimidating.
I thought I was looking at Jock Bryce in that one, but I'm not sure.

Ah, now that's an interesting guess, Dave. I thought it might have been Hugh Merewether who had an engine fire in that same aircraft just a couple of weeks later when it was written off, but I'm not sure it's him either. Someone here will know.
Pete

[FlyTexas]

Wonderful pics!! Thank you very much for sharing them with us, Pete!

Brian

[Scorpius]

You are right regarding Hugh Mereweather's engine fire. It was with XP984 on 19 March 65 and during a dive from 28000 ft the engine failed and caught fire. He made a sucessful emergency landing at Thorney Island and the aircraft flew again on 15 Oct 65.

Hugh received an OBE for his gallantry.

It is now on display at Brooklands.

[Scorpius]

Sorry, forgot to add that XP984 was built in 1963.

[PeteP]

Thanks for that, Scorpius but what you describe is a different incident from the one I'm referring to. The P1127 in the photo is XP972 and the Merewether engine fire/failure incident in this aircraft took place, just a few weeks after these pictures were taken, in October 1962 and, I believe, the aircraft was a write-off.
Best
Pete