Haven't we come a long way since 1963 ! Amazing. First time I saw one of these aircraft was in the mid 1970's at Changi Airport Singapore. I was on a military flight out of Kuala Lumpur heading back to Oz. We did a very brief touch-down, engines kept running, in a C130 just to load two pallets, one of Bacardi Rum and another of Johnny Walker black label, both duty free ! I jumped down off the ramp to photograph the Bristol and immediately raised the ire of the airport security ! I retained the camera and the film, but cannot find trhe resulting photo any longer.
As a kid, I used to watch these Bristol freighters in Ostend airport. Back then there was hardly any security. You could enjoy a coke on the outside terrace, some 20 meters away from where the planes were parked. I still love the deep rumble of these big prop engines.
@@saulnier Hi Yves, I guess you're a bit older. I started visiting Raversijde airport (as we called it back then) in the late sixties. But maybe you can help my memory... were the Bristols flying to Ostend replaced by Carvairs ? I believe Carvairs were transformed DC4 planes. They looked a bit like small jumbo's with props :-)
@@janentomenkafka Yes you are correct about DC4 conversion, carried out by Freddie Laker who founded Aviation Traders converting bombers etc into freight carrying aircraft. He also founded amongst others over time Laker Airways and was a pioneer in cheap atlantic flights to the US with his " Skytrain" flights Londo Gatwick to New York operating with DC10s.
It is said that for Wellington airport you need to be carrier qualified on some days just get in, let alone get out again. Having flown into Wellington many times, I can believe it.
Freddie Laker used to fly these from Llyd in Kent over to France, you could take your car in it. Flew on it in 63 to La Touquet, with Diana Dors and her Cadillac no less
As a child in the sixties we often went to the beach near Lydd Airport and watched these Bristol Freighters flying in and out. If we went to Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, we saw Bristol Freighters going into Southend. In 1968 we had a holiday in holiday camp at Littlestone. We kids were taken on a trip to Lydd Airport, where we were given a tour of a Bristol Freighter. Later we watched them load the cars and then passengers and finally take off.
@@denishoulan1491 on the flight I was invited into the cockpit. Two seats like a Citroen 2cv, and a paper map on a scroll! My mate flew them in the RAF and the nick name was Super Frightener
The late Arthur Sharrock was the tower controller. Vern Powell was in the right hand seat. I was a tower controller at Blenheim from 1984-2001 and have fond memories of my time there. Was a tower controller at Wellington in 1984 also dealing with the Bristol Freighters daily.
@GAZZA55 Yes. Also up until about the early '80's there was a Precisoon Approach Radar that was a radar that scanned azimuth and elevation and the controller "talked down" the pilot advising him of how high or low and how left or right he was of the glidepath. All ancient valve driven, I think. Hell, I'm getting old.
I used to watch this aeroplane in the 1970s $80 to watch this aeroplane taking off and you didn't count towards the South Island it's nice to know I saw the pilot flying aeroplane thanks Guy for sharing that story with me and the pilots probably have passed on that's a long time again
In 1963 i was an 11 year old boy living beside Wellington airport and for the air minded kid I was it was heaven. The “fatty Freighters” were very much a part of my audio world. This movie was made on a rare idyllic day, not often did windy Wellington turn it on like this. I can only imagine the challenging flying conditions that a strong westerly would present. Very violent lee turbulence is not uncommon and would make an approach to Woodburn quite spicy. And not forgetting the Northerly approach to Wellington when winds were strong.
As a kid I loved to watch, from our Hataitai/Evan's Bay lounge window, the Bristol Freighters coming in to land. My favourite plane! Around 4pm? I was on the last sailing of the Aramoana and got one of those pressed coins to remember it. We also had a Commer van in bright road yellow!
I had the pleasure (?) of going to the Chatham Island in one of these beauties in 1979, quite an adventure. Off to work on Māngere Island to save the Black Robin.
Many thanks - a world gone by! I flew once as a passenger in one of those, taking a small car from the UK to northern France. I wish I'd owned a 16mm camera and filmed it...
I seem to remember these aircraft majestically lumbering over Leigh on Sea when my father had a boat there on their journey over the Channel. I understand the aircraft would struggle to maintain height on one engine fully loaded which would make starting such a trip over water more exciting. Though I expect they spared you that information if true.
Always remember these aircraft flying out of Hurn Airport, Bournemouth, when I was a kid. For some strange reason it was always a joy to see them. It was also a long time ago !
I remember watching the last one of these flying in and out of Chch in the late 70s as a pre-schooler. They were a pretty unique aircraft, and to my three-year-old eyes looked as though they had hit some kind of invisible wall on as they took off (because they were so slow compared to the jets and turboprops!).
Mid to late 60s when i served as resident MoT Traffic Officer at Picton, a friend, Roy McKenzie worked for SAFE AIR based at Woodbourne. I often wonder what happened to Roy? Bob W.
Good old-fashioned seat of the pants flying, with excellent airmanship at all times, So relaxed he makes it look so easy. I suspect that with less than ideal weather, there could be some squeaky bum moments!
In the 60's RAF, the Bristol 170 Freighter was known as the Bristol Shaker. If you fancied having your molecules rearranged, you had a flight in one. There was no sound proofing. A strong head wind would find you going in reverse. Mercifully, flights were short. When you landed, you tumbled out and kissed the ground in thanks for your salvation....but......want a car taken to France from the UK?...easy; cheap and readily done. The Shaker was unloved but some jobs it did well...just like the Beverley in Borneo, 1966.
I didn’t know they were in service with the RAF ? I thought only the R N Z A F used them in the military. Please send us the link to their RAF service.
6:00 "Not too noisy". I remember the RNZAF Bristol Freighters from Whenuapai taking off, circling & landing when living in Birkenhead in the early 70's, the old bone rattlers weren't quiet.
Roger Turner, I flew in one in 1959 to Rotterdam from Southend. I recollect that some of the seats faced backwards, so unusual then. Now all military transports have that layout I believe. Channel Air Bridge and Channel Airways. They even had Rapides and DHDoves.
Well I like the music. Growing up in Nelson the Bristol Freighters rumbling overhead were a familiar sound. I flew the same routes eventually for a short period. I don’t know if it was true or not but a SafeAir pilot job was rumoured to be a sweeet gig.
….agreed….I find it refreshing to hear good classical music on a video for a change instead of the frenetic racket usually on videos. I flew night freight in the states in my early career flying canceled checks in a Piper Navajo….back in 1986.
That bought back some memories I was so used to the freighters coming into Nelson. When my parents and myself moved down from the North Island back in 1957 we flew down in one of the Bristol Freighters with all our furniture. I remember Mum saying that it was rather a rough crossing of Cook Strait and my Father and the copilot spent some time holding down our gear. Of course I do not remember this as I was Two years old at the time.
In the mid to late 1970s there was a Bristol, a Catalina & a Canberra bomber laid up at Essendon airport in Melbourne Australia, me and a couple of friends used to ride our bicycles there & jump the fence to explore them. Ive still got the photos of me in the pilots seat of the Bristol & in the bomb aimers position of the Canberra. There was also a guy restoring a Mustang there that very generously let us take photos with it, no sitting in the cockpit though :)
11:33 "Let's go a little lower and say hello to the Tamahine. She'll soon be gone, and the Aramoana will replace her. I wonder how it will affect us." ... It put SAFE Air out of business. Wonderful film of a bygone era. 18:50 Spectacular approach from the North-West over Wellington Harbour. 21:08 A TEAL Electra taxis by at Rongotai... Some of those Electras are still flying 60 years later in Canada's far North-West, a climate they are uniquely suited for.
I was just a kid growing up on the Chatham's, but I'm pretty sure we had a twin tail one of these flying to and from the Chatham island's back in the 80's if I remember correctly.
That was the four engined Argosy? I flew in either Bristol LT or RK from Wellington to Chathams (Te Hapupu) on 9 April 1968. Used to work them from the radio station ZLC. The date was significant because that was the day before the Wahine disaster.
Bristol Freighters were used by the RNZAF. A RNZAF Bristol Freighter evacuated the NZ Ambassador from Saigon on 21 April 1975. I saw a Bristol Freighter on the runway of the Omaka Aviation Centre in June 2018.
I have driven one of those awful Commer vans. The gear box was designed in Hell, especially for some matching awful British motor vehicles. Well matched to the Commer.
Looks like a Commer to me, with hinged doors and bulgy sides. IIRC The BMC had sliding doors (which cool drivers like me left open). The BMC van had its own gearshift hell because 1st and 3rd were on the right with 2nd and 4th on the left. Can't remember where reverse was hidden. And then the Transit came along and all the horrible old vans like this were instantly obsolete.
@@andyariel304 The J4 was was Ok, except the suicide cargo door. A friend travelling in the back decided to throw out some rubbish (I know!), and disappeared out the rapidly opening door. Don't know how he managed to hold on until we stopped and let him back in.
On my holiday in Westgate on sea (1960s) b 4 hovercraft I'd lay on my back and love to watch and hear the the drone of the sleave valve old Queen of the ( thanet) sky drone by xxx I'm 68 now mmmmm boys dream rest in peace Bristol twin engine plane 😂❤
Anyone from Southend-on-Sea out there? These and the 170 Type 32 (long nose) used to take off and fly over our school in 1957/58. I have no problem with the music.
*Han de Ridder* - I fully agree! I don't know WHY these productions insist on drowning the natural sound with overly-loud music and narration! Guess that they can't hear the music in a Bristol Hercules sleeve valve engine, or some such. Shame.
Music overlay was how it was back in the day. I was 3yr old when that was film was shot. My Grand Parents lived in Kilburnie in those days, in later years they lived in Lyall Bay, we would stay there in School Holidays and we used to spend a lot of time around Wellington Airport plane spotting. Great times and memories.
Making a natural backing with sound to 1 camera shot film on location is difficult to this day! And these days we have a billion times more gizmos to help us do it! Back then it was time consuming and difficult to the point of being as good as impossible for anything less than a feature film budget. -> Music to the rescue.
It looks from their method that the weights and positions were worked out by some qualified person first, before the stuff was arranged, appropriately, onto the loaders; and without the pilots' intervention, who at the time were up in the sky anyway with the previous consignment. I should think, though, that the pilot would take a look at the calculations and the load, before setting off, as the ultimate responsibility lies of course with him.
Nice vid ! But - - - ,that music,I am a fan of Classical music ,however I found that a major distraction.Love the Bristol Freighter,we have a Hercules Engine on display at the Wellington Aviation Museum here in England,at Moreton - in Marsh.Sir Roy Fedden we salute you !
Music ruined videos even back then. Sorry, just being honest. Absolutely destroys any atmosphere and nearly the will to live. But thankful for this film.
Interesting footage from a lovely time and place. As for the soundtrack, while I am fond of classical music, I’d rather have had it reduced to the background or eliminated entirely.
Good video but ruined by the drunk playing the piano in the hold. The film ,as a result, gives the impression of a tourist or emmigation promotion,not an aviation documentary.
Haven't we come a long way since 1963 ! Amazing. First time I saw one of these aircraft was in the mid 1970's at Changi Airport Singapore. I was on a military flight out of Kuala Lumpur heading back to Oz. We did a very brief touch-down, engines kept running, in a C130 just to load two pallets, one of Bacardi Rum and another of Johnny Walker black label, both duty free ! I jumped down off the ramp to photograph the Bristol and immediately raised the ire of the airport security ! I retained the camera and the film, but cannot find trhe resulting photo any longer.
As a kid, I used to watch these Bristol freighters in Ostend airport. Back then there was hardly any security. You could enjoy a coke on the outside terrace, some 20 meters away from where the planes were parked. I still love the deep rumble of these big prop engines.
OMG! Same here... early 1960's
@@saulnier Hi Yves, I guess you're a bit older. I started visiting Raversijde airport (as we called it back then) in the late sixties. But maybe you can help my memory... were the Bristols flying to Ostend replaced by Carvairs ? I believe Carvairs were transformed DC4 planes. They looked a bit like small jumbo's with props :-)
@@janentomenkafka Yes you are correct about DC4 conversion, carried out by Freddie Laker who founded Aviation Traders converting bombers etc into freight carrying aircraft. He also founded amongst others over time Laker Airways and was a pioneer in cheap atlantic flights to the US with his " Skytrain" flights Londo Gatwick to New York operating with DC10s.
@@Pan1man4 Thanks for confirming. Back then they looked huges. Today they'd look smaller than a 737, except for that big bump :-)
It is said that for Wellington airport you need to be carrier qualified on some days just get in, let alone get out again. Having flown into Wellington many times, I can believe it.
Freddie Laker used to fly these from Llyd in Kent over to France, you could take your car in it. Flew on it in 63 to La Touquet, with Diana Dors and her Cadillac no less
As a child in the sixties we often went to the beach near Lydd Airport and watched these Bristol Freighters flying in and out.
If we went to Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, we saw Bristol Freighters going into Southend.
In 1968 we had a holiday in holiday camp at Littlestone. We kids were taken on a trip to Lydd Airport, where we were given a tour of a Bristol Freighter. Later we watched them load the cars and then passengers and finally take off.
@@denishoulan1491 on the flight I was invited into the cockpit. Two seats like a Citroen 2cv, and a paper map on a scroll! My mate flew them in the RAF and the nick name was Super Frightener
I knew Diana. I think she had a film of that or one of her trips.
@@CaptainK007 if you come across it let me know
The late Arthur Sharrock was the tower controller. Vern Powell was in the right hand seat. I was a tower controller at Blenheim from 1984-2001 and have fond memories of my time there. Was a tower controller at Wellington in 1984 also dealing with the Bristol Freighters daily.
did wellington have the ILS. back then.
@GAZZA55 Yes. Also up until about the early '80's there was a Precisoon Approach Radar that was a radar that scanned azimuth and elevation and the controller "talked down" the pilot advising him of how high or low and how left or right he was of the glidepath. All ancient valve driven, I think. Hell, I'm getting old.
@@toycollector10 thanks for that info. I also remember when i was around 6 years old the Viscount that overshot runway 16 and went down the bank.
The Bristol Frightener, one of the few aircraft with a built-in headwind component.
Beautiful piece of NZ aviation heritage, thanks so much for posting this!! Cheers NZCH
Echo that! Might've been a deep dive but well worth it. Thanks.
Takes me back to these flying out of Lympne and later Lydd airports with Silver City car ferries to Le Touquet across the Channel.
I used to watch this aeroplane in the 1970s $80 to watch this aeroplane taking off and you didn't count towards the South Island it's nice to know I saw the pilot flying aeroplane thanks Guy for sharing that story with me and the pilots probably have passed on that's a long time again
In 1963 i was an 11 year old boy living beside Wellington airport and for the air minded kid I was it was heaven. The “fatty Freighters” were very much a part of my audio world. This movie was made on a rare idyllic day, not often did windy Wellington turn it on like this. I can only imagine the challenging flying conditions that a strong westerly would present. Very violent lee turbulence is not uncommon and would make an approach to Woodburn quite spicy. And not forgetting the Northerly approach to Wellington when winds were strong.
Living in 1963 near Paraparaumu airport we saw them when Wellington was closed. Sometimes carrying cars when the ferries were not sailing.
As a kid I loved to watch, from our Hataitai/Evan's Bay lounge window, the Bristol Freighters coming in to land. My favourite plane! Around 4pm? I was on the last sailing of the Aramoana and got one of those pressed coins to remember it. We also had a Commer van in bright road yellow!
Beaufighter Engines - 2000 HP of 18 cylinder, sleeve-valved loveliness . . . Bristol Centaurus
Bristol Hercules 14 cylinder sleeve valve
Hercules.
Yes I thought they were Hercs, is 2000hp (as per narrator) correct? I thought that sounded high for a Freighter?
I had the pleasure (?) of going to the Chatham Island in one of these beauties in 1979, quite an adventure. Off to work on Māngere Island to save the Black Robin.
Took less time to fly Christchurch to Melbourne than it did to fly Christchurch to Chatham Islands. It's a bit different now I beleive.
Many thanks - a world gone by! I flew once as a passenger in one of those, taking a small car from the UK to northern France. I wish I'd owned a 16mm camera and filmed it...
I seem to remember these aircraft majestically lumbering over Leigh on Sea when my father had a boat there on their journey over the Channel. I understand the aircraft would struggle to maintain height on one engine fully loaded which would make starting such a trip over water more exciting. Though I expect they spared you that information if true.
wow, we can't do that anymore, must have been a adventure!
Brilliant video, great to have a record of this history
Always remember these aircraft flying out of Hurn Airport, Bournemouth, when I was a kid. For some strange reason it was always a joy to see them. It was also a long time ago !
Same here, watched them to the Isle of Wight.
My first flight was out of Hurn to Cherboug. Went with my mum and a friend in a her Austin A30. Silver City. i have a photo somewhere.
@@markpowell4601 So nice Mark to have memories of these things, I seem to recollect the sun always shone back then.
I remember watching the last one of these flying in and out of Chch in the late 70s as a pre-schooler. They were a pretty unique aircraft, and to my three-year-old eyes looked as though they had hit some kind of invisible wall on as they took off (because they were so slow compared to the jets and turboprops!).
We used to be treated to Instones Bristols moving horses from Stansted 30 years go, happy days,,,,!!
Remember seeing one of these flying backwards just above Wellington's runway when the wind changed suddenly while it was landing.
Absolutely superb.
These were such different times.
Mid to late 60s when i served as resident MoT Traffic Officer at Picton, a friend, Roy McKenzie worked for SAFE AIR based at Woodbourne. I often wonder what happened to Roy? Bob W.
First aircraft i ever flew in and it was so noise i was deaf for two days that was back in 1965
Good old-fashioned seat of the pants flying, with excellent airmanship at all times, So relaxed he makes it look so easy. I suspect that with less than ideal weather, there could be some squeaky bum moments!
Fond affection of the Bristols. So interesting to see images of Rongotai in the 1960’s
In the 60's RAF, the Bristol 170 Freighter was known as the Bristol Shaker. If you fancied having your molecules rearranged, you had a flight in one. There was no sound proofing. A strong head wind would find you going in reverse. Mercifully, flights were short. When you landed, you tumbled out and kissed the ground in thanks for your salvation....but......want a car taken to France from the UK?...easy; cheap and readily done. The Shaker was unloved but some jobs it did well...just like the Beverley in Borneo, 1966.
I didn’t know they were in service with the RAF ?
I thought only the R N Z A F used them in the military.
Please send us the link to their RAF service.
@@skylongskylong1982 Quite right......however, XJ 470, Mk. 32, served with A & A.E.E. at RAF Boscombe Down.
What’s a Beverley?
@@navion1946 ua-cam.com/video/a3oO4gm88T4/v-deo.html
@@navion1946 Video about the Blackburn Beverley:- ua-cam.com/video/o9TJXXzWCEA/v-deo.html
6:00 "Not too noisy".
I remember the RNZAF Bristol Freighters from Whenuapai taking off, circling & landing when living in Birkenhead in the early 70's, the old bone rattlers weren't quiet.
Roger Turner, I flew in one in 1959 to Rotterdam from Southend. I recollect that some of the seats faced backwards, so unusual then. Now all military transports have that layout I believe. Channel Air Bridge and Channel Airways. They even had Rapides and DHDoves.
Well I like the music. Growing up in Nelson the Bristol Freighters rumbling overhead were a familiar sound. I flew the same routes eventually for a short period. I don’t know if it was true or not but a SafeAir pilot job was rumoured to be a sweeet gig.
….agreed….I find it refreshing to hear good classical music on a video for a change instead of the frenetic racket usually on videos. I flew night freight in the states in my early career flying canceled checks in a Piper Navajo….back in 1986.
I remember them well. DC3s for passengers and Bristol freighters for goods, out of Nelson.
That bought back some memories I was so used to the freighters coming into Nelson. When my parents and myself moved down from the North Island back in 1957 we flew down in one of the Bristol Freighters with all our furniture. I remember Mum saying that it was rather a rough crossing of Cook Strait and my Father and the copilot spent some time holding down our gear. Of course I do not remember this as I was Two years old at the time.
I remember these lovely old Freighters lying into Southend Airport when I was a lad!!!
Oh my god! I went to Marlborough College alongside Pat Lyford & other SAFE maintenance ground staff 60 + years ago. Wow 👀👍
In the mid to late 1970s there was a Bristol, a Catalina & a Canberra bomber laid up at Essendon airport in Melbourne Australia, me and a couple of friends used to ride our bicycles there & jump the fence to explore them. Ive still got the photos of me in the pilots seat of the Bristol & in the bomb aimers position of the Canberra.
There was also a guy restoring a Mustang there that very generously let us take photos with it, no sitting in the cockpit though :)
Great video!!
Interesting they had to taxi to the chocks.......
11:33 "Let's go a little lower and say hello to the Tamahine. She'll soon be gone, and the Aramoana will replace her. I wonder how it will affect us." ... It put SAFE Air out of business. Wonderful film of a bygone era. 18:50 Spectacular approach from the North-West over Wellington Harbour. 21:08 A TEAL Electra taxis by at Rongotai... Some of those Electras are still flying 60 years later in Canada's far North-West, a climate they are uniquely suited for.
I was just a kid growing up on the Chatham's, but I'm pretty sure we had a twin tail one of these flying to and from the Chatham island's back in the 80's if I remember correctly.
That was the four engined Argosy? I flew in either Bristol LT or RK from Wellington to Chathams (Te Hapupu) on 9 April 1968. Used to work them from the radio station ZLC. The date was significant because that was the day before the Wahine disaster.
Bristol Freighters were used by the RNZAF. A RNZAF Bristol Freighter evacuated the NZ Ambassador from Saigon on 21 April 1975. I saw a Bristol Freighter on the runway of the Omaka Aviation Centre in June 2018.
Great video fantastic!
The old Bristol Vibrator. Memories..
This must have been filmed before 1963. The Aramoana entered service in 1962. Enjoyable and interesting to watch. Thank you.
I have driven one of those awful Commer vans. The gear box was designed in Hell, especially for some matching awful British motor vehicles. Well matched to the Commer.
😁 Well, at least we learned to double de-clutch!😆
Looks like a Commer to me, with hinged doors and bulgy sides. IIRC The BMC had sliding doors (which cool drivers like me left open). The BMC van had its own gearshift hell because 1st and 3rd were on the right with 2nd and 4th on the left. Can't remember where reverse was hidden. And then the Transit came along and all the horrible old vans like this were instantly obsolete.
Austin or Morris J2 mini bus.not nice to drive. J4 was better. Transit was much better.
@@andyariel304 The J4 was was Ok, except the suicide cargo door.
A friend travelling in the back decided to throw out some rubbish (I know!), and disappeared out the rapidly opening door. Don't know how he managed to hold on until we stopped and let him back in.
On my holiday in Westgate on sea (1960s) b 4 hovercraft I'd lay on my back and love to watch and hear the the drone of the sleave valve old Queen of the ( thanet) sky drone by xxx I'm 68 now mmmmm boys dream rest in peace Bristol twin engine plane 😂❤
Anyone from Southend-on-Sea out there? These and the 170 Type 32 (long nose) used to take off and fly over our school in 1957/58. I have no problem with the music.
Great video, pity the music is drowning out the Hercules music.
*Han de Ridder* - I fully agree! I don't know WHY these productions insist on drowning the natural sound with overly-loud music and narration! Guess that they can't hear the music in a Bristol Hercules sleeve valve engine, or some such. Shame.
Music overlay was how it was back in the day.
I was 3yr old when that was film was shot. My Grand Parents lived in Kilburnie in those days, in later years they lived in Lyall Bay, we would stay there in School Holidays and we used to spend a lot of time around Wellington Airport plane spotting. Great times and memories.
Making a natural backing with sound to 1 camera shot film on location is difficult to this day! And these days we have a billion times more gizmos to help us do it!
Back then it was time consuming and difficult to the point of being as good as impossible for anything less than a feature film budget. -> Music to the rescue.
nice video -- please share more
Anyone out there from the olden days who knows how they kept the CG within limits with varied loads?
It looks from their method that the weights and positions were worked out by some qualified person first, before the stuff was arranged, appropriately, onto the loaders; and without the pilots' intervention, who at the time were up in the sky anyway with the previous consignment. I should think, though, that the pilot would take a look at the calculations and the load, before setting off, as the ultimate responsibility lies of course with him.
With the ss Tamahinea in the shot, this is more like 1960, not 63
I am surprised, I flew for brain and brown in Aus years ago
Maybe the name Bristol, reminds a lot of people of their heritage.
what was the advantage of air transport here, over the ferry?
Speed and you have to remember the cook strait ferries in those days were run by NZ Rail Say no more.
The Bristol and the ferry both had the same top speed.....ha!
@@tomsamuelson8512 Oh, I just realized it was in NZ. In this case I would fly myself, too, instead of rolling on the high seas in Cook Strait.
Nice vid ! But - - - ,that music,I am a fan of Classical music ,however I found that a major distraction.Love the Bristol Freighter,we have a Hercules Engine on display at the Wellington Aviation Museum here in England,at Moreton - in Marsh.Sir Roy Fedden we salute you !
Music ruined videos even back then. Sorry, just being honest. Absolutely destroys any atmosphere and nearly the will to live.
But thankful for this film.
That was the era of the double breasted jacket.
The aircraft looks quite ghastly.
Crikey. 500 feet separation between oncoming a/c. Bit risky in bad weather.
Interesting footage from a lovely time and place. As for the soundtrack, while I am fond of classical music, I’d rather have had it reduced to the background or eliminated entirely.
Lovely period video. Can’t complain about the footage but the music could have been more appropriate.
Good video but ruined by the drunk playing the piano in the hold.
The film ,as a result, gives the impression of a tourist or emmigation promotion,not an aviation documentary.
Where's the kitchen and bog on that chunk
And turn off that Death Music plz
You are right. Drown the music
If only you could get rid of that music.
You can - just turn the volume down/off ......
The terribly loud music could turn every lover of classic fiddlering into a everlasting hater!
Stopped watching has soon has the music 🎧 starts