Farnborough show opens its hangar doors to the world
Twelve years after the first Farnborough show in 1948, the Society of British Aircraft Constructors (SBAC) opened the event to foreign engine makers whose

Twelve years after the first Farnborough show in 1948, the Society of British Aircraft Constructors (SBAC) opened the event to foreign engine makers whose products equipped UK aircraft. The daily 1960 display began with a simulation of Britain’s planned retaliatory response to nuclear attack as flights of four Avro Vulcans, Handley Page Victors or Vickers Valiant “V-bombers” were “scrambled.”

Unconsciously anticipating Royal Air Force developments, the show saw the last “Black Arrows” aerobatic-formation display in Hawker Hunters and the Folland Gnat trainer, which later would become a familiar mount for a future team.
New engine technology came in the form of the Rolls-Royce Conway bypass engine, and Beagle Aircraft’s Airedale, Husky and Terrier light aircraft debuted despite SBAC’s standard “no dogs” rule.