Woodvale video question.

[woodvalewarrior]

Found this video on youtube of a Fokker type plane I think displaying at Woodvale. Does anyone know the year & the operator please?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJ-z9_B6Ds

[Deleted]

Dutch Air Force F-27 Troopship in display colours. Looks like it might be serial C-8, but I don't know the date.

Cheers,

Dave

[viscount]

The Dutch F-27, RAF Jaguar, Tornado, Tucanos (note red/while training colours) and Hercules were all at Woodvale to participate in a Southport Airshow. Quite an early one, so early 'Nineties. After a few years of using Woodvale as a base for the show, when the Southport show became two day affair, there was a problem with Woodvale possibly overnight security costs(?), so the aircraft mostly moved to Blackpool, although Navy and Army helicopters continued to use Woodvale.

[woodvalewarrior]

Thanks for the responses. Shame we don't see all the airshow types using Woodvale still, would be good seeing a typhoon going over the house! Does anyone have any pictures of aircraft at Woodvale for the airshow? Would be good to see whats been in over the years.

[coaxingtin]

Going back a bit to the Woodvale Airshow in 1957, I saw Constantin Cantuzino perform here. He was also at a show on the same day at Squires Gate.

This poor quality film clip of him performing over a bullring in Spain gives an idea of his skills. He was a master of ultra low level rolls, including flick rolls just after take-off and just prior to landing. Unforgettable! I have never seen an aerobatic performance that comes anywhere near to his level.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXEmAYJ4xU

[woodvalewarrior]

He does look a bit good in that video! You've not got any photos have you?

[coaxingtin]

Sadly no photos. A box Brownie with a 1/50 sec shutter speed was not up to it!

[Beemer]

Woodvale Warrior. This is a photo I took at Woodford air show in 1981 of G-AXMT Bucker BU-133 Jungmeister not the same as in video but same model.


Hope this helps. Regards Beemer.

[Beemer]

This is the actual aircraft that performed at the Woodvale Air Show 12-06-1957. Don't know if it was taken there but G- reg Miles Gemini? aircraft behind it.


Thanks to the web for photo.

[coaxingtin]

Just for the record, Beemer and certainly not wishing to score points, the Woodvale aircraft was EC-AMO. He brought AEX to the UK earlier on. Good try with the Gemini, but that aircraft in the background is a GAL Cygnet II, not one familiar to modern enthusiasts! We (me and PHB) still haven't identified where the pic was taken.

[Beemer]

Another letter further down the thread confirms what you say.

"To add to your very interesting account of Bazu in Spain, he did fly EC-AMO because I saw him display it at RAF station Woodvale in NW England on 12 June 1957. I was a teenager at the time and I have never seen a display so spectacular. He also flew at the Blackpool Squires Gate Airshow the same day. I am told that EC-AMO had a Lycoming engine. "