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Flying was still a bit of an adventure.

My 1st flight was from here. (Moth.)

10:26 Fokker F.XXXVI (F36) "Arend". The Fokker F36 first flew in 1934, and was intended for the intercontinental Amsterdam - Batavia (Dutch Indies) route; with room for 32 passengers in great luxery + 4 crew members (making 36 in total hence the types name); 6 were promised to be bought by Plesman (founder and director KLM), however he then was so impressed by the Dougklas DC2 that after this 1st no more F36's were bought (and made). It entered service with KLM on 27.3.1935 (so I reckon this film was made also in 1935...) and was only used on the London - Amsterdam - Berlin route. Later it was rented to the French airline SFTA Air Tropique. Just before WW2 it was sold to Scottish Aviation (together with a Fokker F.XXII which was a smaller scaled down version), got the registration G-AFZR and these planes were intended for the planned Edinburgh-Glasgow-London night route; which could not be realised because of the outbreak of the war. Instead they were used by the RAF as training planes for navigators. This sole F36 crashed 21.5.1940 after it stalled just after take-off at Prestwick, nobody was seriously hurt but the plane was a written-off.... 10:39 Fokker F.XXII (F22) "Lapland". Swedish airline AB Aerotransport (ABA) was very interested in the concept of the F36 but thought it was too big. One customer was not enough for Fokker so in the end 4 F.22's were built: 1 for ABA and 3 for the KLM. The F.22 could take 22 passengers plus crew. This SE-ABA crashed on landing at Malmö june 1936, nobody was killed but the plane was a written-off.. One of the KLM F.22's crashed just after take-off at Amsterdam only 3 months after delivery to KLM, of the 15 passengers 2 English passengers were killed, of the crew of 5 4 were killed, only the steward survived. Bothe remaining F.22's of KLM were sold to the UK just before the war: one to Scottish Aviation, one to British American Air service. Both were transfered to the RAF to be used by the Air Observers Navigation School as flying school classes. The former BAAS plane crashed in 1943 as it got on fire, the other was at that moment already out of use due to an engine fire. After the war it was returned to Scottish Aviation, got a big overhaul and on 18.10.1946 it entered service again. It was painted and owned by Scottish Aviation but it was rented and flown by British European Airways (BEA) on the Prestwick - Belfast route, until august 1947. It then was offered to the Netherlands but due to a lack of money and space the offer was rejected. In 1953 it just was put on fire....

Despite the poncy snooty commentary that really ground my gears the video is awesome as I love 1930,s fashion and aircraft the same way as a junkie a fresh bag of weed,. Two Fokker F-22,s a Wibault Trimotor, a Junkers Ju 52/3m brashly displaying a swastika on its tail fin and a Fokker F-7 Super Sport with two pitch Hamilton Standard Bracket propellers. Cherry on the cake oh wow a Douglas DC-2 Swissair that would not look out of place at Bristol Lulsgate. Video graphically shows how the British aero industry was so backward in coming forward, just look at the Handley Page 42 so anachronistic a left over from the first world war. This ariel joke created more drag than a Ru Paul,s piss up, on a good day the pilot might get ninety ninety five miles an hour. Swissair Douglas DC-2 cruises one hundred fifty without breaking a sweat.

Love the suicide doors on the cockpit.

I knew there was no radar in 1935, and wondered how air traffic control was managed. Now I have a better idea! I can (just!) remember some of the Morse Code the pilot was using. thanks! Those HP-42s were amazing to see. I also spotted what must be an early Douglas DC-3.The first plane I flew in almost 25 years later, age 14.

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your great uncle so he is also mine My name is Michael Blackburn great nephew of Robert

6:47 Burbank?

Hymne à la gloire de l'aéronautique anglo-saxonne sans, de grâce, oublier Santos Dumont et Louis Blériot. Exit la fabuleuse aventure de l'Aéropostale dont l'initiateur et constructeur d'avion, Pierre Latécoère confia à son équipe : "J'ai fait tous mes calculs, c'est impossible à réaliser. Aussi c'est pour cela que nous le ferons".

Coaxial rotor helicopter.

Never seen this helicopter before.

Unique airplane.

Interesting aircraft.

Anybody know the year these were produced? Thanks!

Wish they had recruited him for Project Mercury in the name of cooperation with our allies.

If he was Home counties and/or ex-OxBridge….. we would be welcoming, then warmly applauding ‘Sir Eric’. Shame about that Scottish accent too.

Love the flag being lowered just before take-off !

What a legend of aviation, and what an amazing life he had 👏 👏 RIP Mr Brown

I find this such an incredibly valuable piece of information, especially considering that there is no publication available about this incredible feat. Is there a version of this video available on a more permanent repository, maybe with a DOI?

Brilliant video really enjoyed that

😆😆😆The Fokkers are everywhere!!!

The UK was the first to do everything looking back at history. 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍

Then came radar …

We should get back to basics. Fly by planes agai. Radial engines. To apreciate flight again. Damn it. Advanced world lost it do to technology. No longer exitment.

Thank Americans Britz learned how to fly. And learn how to make planes ? Now Britz are proud taking credits

Fascinating. The engineering of those days, the dress codes!

3:04. "expert wheel washing technician". actually, i suppose this is to wash off clumps of dried mud so as to keep it from detaching and damaging the wing tail during takeoff? checking for leaks? just washing to be spiffy?

Fascinating, thanks! That biplane was a beast.

Who remembers building the Airfix HP 42 as a lad, all those Z shaped struts , quite an achievement when you finished it .

Just imagine flying to Australia i one of those string bags, taking the best part of a week together with overnight stops in the stragest of places.

Never has any man, risked his life so many times, on so many aircraft, for as such as long as he had, and survived and thrived on such adversity and challenge as Eric "Winkle" Brown. I'm only sorry he didn't get to fly the X-15.

I live in Croydon.... And there's no airport where I live, but the view out the mountains is pretty damn good! Guess where?

Safety even in the early ages of aviation is just astounding. I would have liked to have known the turnaround time for when they got that plane into before it was ready for the engine rebuilds and all that.

📽️🎞️A very good perspective of everyday older commercial aircraft. A great viewpoint. Thanks. This was the kind of film that would be shown to kids in school, when the teacher called in sick, too late to get a substitute. Somewhere in the first two minutes. some kids would male fart noises.

Wow that is amazing film . That bird looks very nippy . I'm not a pilot or engineer but I noted those little aerofoils that were mounted on the main rotor 90 degrees to the 2 main blades - that could be pitched up and down - I wonder if that meant the main rotors were fixed . The hands-free stability seemed impressive . I presume that was an auto-rotation at 4:41 .

What a wonderful record of those pioneering times. Amazing to see the extreme difference in designs that were flying together at that moment in aviation history. The DC3 looked so advanced in comparrison....it was!! The fact that they are still in service around the world to this day is testement to their great design and usefulness. The narrator of course, the great Carlton Hobbs, was a big star in radio drama at the time and famously made his name as Sherlock Holmes. He can still be heard in the role on BBC Sounds.

How lovely to see my beautiful mono culture Britain before the world’s violent §hit started to arrive.

Such a shame that all of the interwar large airliners are gone; there's quite a few interesting ones here - the AW Atalanta, the Short Scylla, the HP42 (of course), the Fokker and Junkers trimotors and an early DC1? or DC3?? reconstructing one, even for ground display would be very expensive but it would be such a sight to see an HP 42 in the metal (and wire).

ATC watch logs , some from earlier times than shown here, were (maybe still are) displayed in the lobby of the College of ATC at Bournemouth Airport. Many of the entries reported pilots making that most heinous of actions, turning right after landing!

How close were the ground crew when that plane parked up and they ran forwards under the props! 😲

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The father of my late aunt was Frederick Stanley Mockford. He was the senior radio officer at Croydon Airport and devised the Mayday distress call in 1923.

~0:20 "…slightly shortened" ↑ I'd be fascinated to know what was cut… some obliging reference to that cheeky chappie Herr Hitler, perhaps?

"..first-ever film made film by the Shell Film Unit describing a day in the Croydon Airport". Think someone needs to work on the title of this video.

Incredible to think each plane had a coal fire and a smoking lounge where passengers could sip port and listen to a string quartet. Talk about travelling in style!

When people travelled in smart clothes. Unlike today where people don’t give a sh1t….

why theres only 1 video of it? and does clapping actually does anything or it go up anyways?

Brilliant thanks for shearing 👍🏻 🏆