Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 7142 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
STRATHALLAN AIR SHOW | 1979 | 1979-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 3 mins 51 secs Credits: Ken Ellwood Genre: Amateur Subject: Wartime Transport Entertainment/Leisure |
Summary An amateur film produced Ken Ellwood of the Strathallan Air Show taking place at Strathallan Airfield near the town of Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Various aircraft from microlights and power hand gliders to World War Two and post-war propellor and jets engines feature taking off and flying in the sky overhead. The film also features Wing Commander Ken Wallis (DSO) and his autogyro ‘Little Nellie’ which featured in the James Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’ and Yorkshire born James ‘Ginger’ Lacy (DFM & Bar) who was the top scoring RAF fighter pilot during World War Two. |
Description
An amateur film produced Ken Ellwood of the Strathallan Air Show taking place at Strathallan Airfield near the town of Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Various aircraft from microlights and power hand gliders to World War Two and post-war propellor and jets engines feature taking off and flying in the sky overhead. The film also features Wing Commander Ken Wallis (DSO) and his autogyro ‘Little Nellie’ which featured in the James Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’ and Yorkshire born...
An amateur film produced Ken Ellwood of the Strathallan Air Show taking place at Strathallan Airfield near the town of Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Various aircraft from microlights and power hand gliders to World War Two and post-war propellor and jets engines feature taking off and flying in the sky overhead. The film also features Wing Commander Ken Wallis (DSO) and his autogyro ‘Little Nellie’ which featured in the James Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’ and Yorkshire born James ‘Ginger’ Lacy (DFM & Bar) who was the top scoring RAF fighter pilot during World War Two.
A microlight aircraft taking off from a field and a powered hang glider flying overhead. As the microlight rises into the sky three aircraft can be seen parked on the field, two have Royal Air Force (RAF) insignia one possibly is a de Havilland Mosquito. Two men and a woman make their way across the field towards a hanger as the microlight flies in a circle overhead.
A German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch is rolled out of the hanger changes to a woman speaking with Wing Commander Ken Wallis who stands beside his autogyro ‘Little Nellie’ which is attached to his car. Behind them the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch is rolled past.
Former RAF fighter pilot James ‘Ginger’ Lacy sits at the controls of a Ryan PT-22 Recruit. He taxi’s the aircraft across the field for take-off and flies overhead. At the far end of the field ‘The Famous Grouse’ hot-air balloon comes into land with a bump.
A Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft taxis across the field before taking off and flying overhead. A crowd watches from behind a gate as the Hurricane flies low overhead. A Spitfire Mk 1a may also feature in this sequence.
A de Havilland Tiger Moth flies past with a man wing walking, he waves as he passes. An RAF Westland Lysander flies past overhead followed by a North American T-6 Texan flying past in the opposite direction. A Gloster Meteor and a de Havilland Vampire fly past in formation.
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