8th Great Warbirds Air Show - West Malling - August 28th 1989. Transfer from damaged VHS material.

I found some old VHS tapes in the loft. They'd been up there for well over ten years and most were air shows and gigs that I'd filmed on a Panasonic camera in the late eighties/early nineties. Unfortunately, most were mouldered away and had rotted apart. A few were salvageable with a lot of work. This is a rough cut together/edit of the air show that I did for mates. The original footage is unplayable/lost. It's therefore a transfer of second generation material in a delicate state. It took a while to clean the tape and I had to manually fix two breaks in the tape itself. It's not great I'm afraid. The video seems to stick in places but that isn't on the original material and so is likely an issue in the transfer process. I've tried multiple times to fix this but haven't been able to. I doubt that the original tape has many passes left in it to be honest and I don't think it warrants any further man hours. I'm also aware that some of the labelling is incorrect (I did the original edit in the early hours and we didn't have access to the internet then). It does give a flavour of what air shows used to be like and, some of these airframes are no longer with us as they've either been destroyed in accidents or sold on and moved abroad. Enjoy it for what it is.