Long line of jet planes on airfield, they are getting ready for fly past. Various shots of the RAF jet planes flying in formations. Various air to air shots of different passenger aircraft in flight.
Long line of jet planes on airfield, they are getting ready for fly past. Various shots of the RAF jet planes flying in formations. Various air to air shots of different passenger aircraft in flight.
Plane landing on unknown airport - definitely not Farnborough, possibly just used for air to air shot of the aircraft.
"Plane landing on unknown airport - definitely not Farnborough, possibly just used for air to air shot of the aircraft." - I don't know which airport this is, but the aircraft is a Handley Page HPR.7 Herald 100, Reg. No. G-APWA. This aircraft has been preserved, and as of 2012 was housed at the Museum of Berkshire Aviation.
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"Long line of jet planes on airfield" - the aircraft seen here are the RAF's "Blue Diamonds" display team, comprising of 16 Hawker Hunter aircraft.
The statement "Various air to air shots of different passenger aircraft in flight" can be replaced with the following:
At 04:19, air-to-air shots of a de Havilland DH.125, Reg. No. G-ARYA.
At 05:19, air-to-air shots of a Royal Navy Blackburn Buccaneer S1.
At 05:42, air-to-air shots of a Handley Page Herald, in the livery of Maritime Central Airways.
At 06:17, air-to-air shots of a de Havilland Trident 1, Reg. No. G-ARPC.
"Plane landing on unknown airport - definitely not Farnborough, possibly just used for air to air shot of the aircraft." - I don't know which airport this is, but the aircraft is a Handley Page HPR.7 Herald 100, Reg. No. G-APWA. This aircraft has been preserved, and as of 2012 was housed at the Museum of Berkshire Aviation.