BAC 1-11 at Bristol and then it's last flight and landing at Brooklands
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2008
- Brooklands was offered this unique 1-11 for their collection, in 1994. I went with Julian to look at how difficult it would be to transport it by road.
It soon became clear the aircraft could be flowing into Brooklands and so this was done.
Background: This 1-11 was retained by the British Aircraft Corporation throughout its 29-year flying career. During this time it was used as a development and test aircraft for 1-11 variants and testing technical equipment.
The aircraft was the prototype 400 series first flown 13th July 1965, piloted by Peter Baker. It was then converted to the series 500 prototype before being converted into the series 475 prototype, which is the configuration it remains in today.
Donated by British Aerospace Airbus ltd, G-ASYD made its final (5,043rd) landing at Brooklands on 14th July 1994.
This aircraft and many other Hawker, Vickers and BAC types, can be visited at Brooklands Museum in Surrey.
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BAC 1-11 the best plane ever in it's day. I flew on them with both B Cal from Gutersloh to LGW and with BA from BHX to Milan, Germany and Holland in the 90's. Very sad to see them go!
Hardly used any runway as she landed, great plane and one that took me on many a holiday in Italy.
I've actually been in this at brooklands, sat in the cockpit too it was really interesting.
I remember standing in my garden watching this go over.
British engineering at its best. The right a/c at the right time. Lovely crackling Speys.
I used to fly these many years ago with Dan Air!
I remember flying from Bournemouth to Guernsey -1986 - going on holiday with my mum during a storm. We were in a Dan Air Hawker Siddeley HS-748. As we came in for approach to Guernsey I could see the runway lights out of port side, it was dark and the weather terrible. We got down safe and everyone got off except me because I wanted a photo of the cockpit. The captain came out as cool as a cucumber after a landing that would have scared most people to death. I said can I take a picture , he said " help yourself" and let me enter the cockpit , he just got off the plane and left me in there 😁. Different days back then.
grew up in dublin with the house windows rattling thanks to these flown by aer lingus!!
After the main rubber stripes on landing, you can see several small dots of rubber... I believe this is the old style ABS in action!
(and yes, ABS was invented for planes, then ported over to cars...)
Love the 1-11!!
My first airline flight was in a BAC 1-11 from Luton to Madrid on a Court Line aircraft in April 1973. I flew on a few mainly on B.A. UK internal flights after that. It was a brilliant aircraft really.
CourtLine painted their bac 1-11 aircraft in all different bright colours. I remember seeing a bright green one on the Tarmac at Naples Airport around 1911/72
Sad, but fun day..lots of support...nice to see
Yes it was a sad day but another one saved for a little longer.
Very nice shots. Thank you very much for posting and sharing.
In 2001 I flew in Egypt with a ROM-BAC on a local flight. I got some video recordings out of the window. This aircraft was taken out of service the same year and scrapped in 2003 - a great pity. I can still remember them very well and am now happy to see the whole thing from a different perspective.
And one can consider oneself lucky that a plane was preserved for posterity.
Absolutely fantastic
Wow! A carrier landing without the arresting gear! I flew only once on a BAC One-Eleven. That was in the mid nineteen eighties when I flew on Britt Airways from Chicago (ORD) to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. By then the aircraft were fitted with "hush kits" to calm down the noisy, Rolls Royce, rear mounted, jet engines. Thanks for sharing!
Great Landing !!!
This was the first jet airliner I ever flew on, With my Dad from Heathrow, courtesy of British Eagle. We came down from Manchester and flew to Paris. What a great aircraft: very under rated.
I was working on the electrical sub station enlargements at New Haw and the unmistakable sound of the Lancaster started up and took off right overhead unforgettable site, I guess it is very likely the one that we still see at fly passes because even in the 1960's there weren't many left. Sorry, no pictures, us construction workers those days didn't walk around with cameras.
Fair Point 🙂
Amazing bit of film. Love the 1-11
Iv actually been on this plane at Brooklands....if you have not been to the museum and get a chance then go, its amazing there, theres a Concorde to go on and a VC10 too
BAC 1-11s were the loudest, most deafening aircraft I've ever encountered. The roar of those RR Spey engines, in full takeoff power, was so noisy it could wake up the dead for miles around, figuratively speaking. I do miss them though.
Same engines as the British engined Phantoms.
@@bfc3057 how could he not have? People existed back then lol. I’ve heard RR speys and i am 24…
I worked on it as a a&c mechanic in the 1990s. strong wonderful machine. RR SPEY ENGINE. The major engine problems is mostly the CSD input shaft., which mostly disengage with that screaming noise or shread totally.
That was a short runway landing . nice on I.
watching this gave me goose bumps!Hearing that APU start. I worked as an aircraft handler at BHX from 1989 to 2003 and took many out on ground runs after maint work."200 & 400`s" all ours had hush kits fitted but thing i remember the best is watching the vortex from of the top the wings along the fuselage and into the engine caused by the pressure of the humid air or during drizzle.
"WET STARTS" were pretty awesome too if the engine start hung too long, usually the engineers forgetting the igniter switch lol
flew to Toulosue many time in YD - it was all in first class config then ,a great aircraft but we were never sure quite what is was ! it had many changes of parts ,wings and also had ventral stairs ,a great aereopland and I worked with 1-ll's for many years both at BA and BAC ,great memories and glad it's still at Brooklands ...where I also worked for many years before transferring to Filton
My first ever flight was on a 1-11, Manchester to Malta - Laker airlines.
I remember these being the first Jet liners I saw flying in & out of the old Liverpool Airport in the 1960’s ,They were operated by British Eagle on flights to London & could take off & land on the old runway . Speke Boulevard used to tremble like an earthquake when the 1/ 11 engines spooled up & roared off up the old runway for the aircraft to soar high up into the blue yonder at a steep angle ,
They were among the most deafening aircraft I've ever encountered. Had they still been in commercial service today, tons of lawsuits would've been filed against the airports and car alarms would've gone off all at once and woken up the whole neighborhood. Not even the 727s could match up the decibel sound of the 1-11s.
Just found out that this aircraft is in the Brooklands museum.Need to go and see it .Actually flew on it around 1993 . Test pilots flew into Airbus Toulouse from Filton to take us home .👍👍👍
Sorry to say the Museum is closed at the moment, but all being well it will not be too much longer, you will find many other interesting aircraft at Brooklands. Once the museum is open again and especially If you are coming from a long way away give the museum a call first to make sure the 1-11 is open that day. Most aircraft are open all the time, but clearly with Covid19 no one is sure just how the aircraft will be manned when things open again.
You will find a little more in the two Brooklands Playlist, but apart from light aircraft (up to a Dove), from the eighties on, the only major landings were the Goodyear Blimp VC-10, The 1-11 the Vanguard / Merchantman and the Vimy. All the others (including Concorde and the Viscount) were brought in by road.
The first large aircraft I flew in, back in 1973, from Shoreham to Le Touquet (I think on BEA) with my Dad. A fantastic experience.
Awesome, this is how the inside of the 787 would look like when am 50 years old.
Because by that time(2050) there would be newer airplanes.
+Andrew Anane I think a few people in aviation would give you an argument on that Andrew. I remember when Prince Michel opened Concorde after we had moved it to Brooklands a few years ago. He observed that just around the corner from where we were all standing was a replica of AV Roe's first plane. Some 50 years after that collection of wire, bamboo and canvas had first flown, Concorde had taken its maiden flight. He then asked the question what in the 50 years after Concorde's maiden flight had aviation achieved and I am sorry to say in comparison, not a lot.
@@AndysVideo Do you have any footage of the Rombac 1-11 Tarom from the 90s? (1994 1995).
@@alinasimoncini3604 Sorry to say no I don't, this is the only 1-11 I have been involved in.
Once upon a time, you could drive along the old A3 and see the VC10 tails above the greenery at Wisley airdrome
When I lived in Send in the late eighties a neighbours used to talk about the Valiants taking of and going over the A3 blowing them off their push bikes, but I think they may have exaggerated a bit!
Thanks for posting.
Terrific landing! Love the 1-11, flew many in the US. Is this aircraft the prototype or oldest surviving BAC 1-11? Thanks for posting!!
hi we were at far end of runway did not know about plane coming in ,so had no video with us. plane came in low dropped on to runway great dust cloud and fire engines chasing it down runway fantastic sight
Also saw a Lancaster bomber fly out of Brooklands having been serviced, that must have been 1965 or 6.
Never heard of that before I will pass it on. Don't suppose you got a photo?
My early childhood holidays to Costa brava early seventies on these to girona , childhood revisited
The Brooklands runway that new aircraft used to fly out of, has now been cut in half by a road.
So YES the runway is short and being so wide, looks even shorter in those last few seconds as you touch down.
Good evening, do you also have videos of Rombac Tarom interiors from 1995 - 1996?
@@alinasimoncini3604 Sorry no I am afraid I do not.
Never has a machine been created that so efficiently converted energy into noise as the 1-11.
Have you got video footage of the VC10 and Vanguard flying in?
Well, I was never aware of an aft entrance to this wonderfull, now obsolete aircraft.
2:25 wooooowwww.....short landing!!!
The day British Caledonian and Dan Air retired the last of their 1-11s was the day Gatwick got a whole lot quieter! (Oh and Laker as well I think had them).
Remember flying out of Luton on one to Spain
Awesome. Can I share this video to my group?
Thanks for your support Riki and all my videos are free to be shared. What a lot of people don't know was that Paul Stoddart the Australian businessman was involved in the Museum getting it because at the time he was the owner of European Aviation who were responsible for it. In later years he became famous when he purchased the F1 Minardi team.
I was always told that the VC10 could only take of from Brooklands but not return due to it needing a longer runway which is why they were stored at Wisley, am I mistaken?
If you are mistaken then so am I as that was what I was also told. They could fly out because they were not finished and went to Wisley to have the interior etc. fitted.
Still one of my favourite British planes of all time....better marketing and a quicker expansion of the 111 family and this plane could have been as succsesfull as the 727, this plane was very popular with US airlines and if it wasnt for the fact that BAC were slow to offer a slighly bigger version then todays aircraft industry would be very different, indeed a lot more of it would be based here in the UK...
To the best of my knowledge, only American Airlines had a fleet of BAC 1-11s. They would eventually replace them with 727s.
I do not think United Airlines, Delta, Eastern Airlines,........ had a fleet of BAC 1-11s.
Nevertheless, I miss these old silver birds. BAC 1-11s were even louder than 727s on takeoff.
@sfrenchhorn07 I know. There are three of them even in Romania operating for MIA Airlines. They don*t have romanian registration , but the company is romanian. They had even an 727 but i think they*ve sold it.
The Romanians built them under licence.
Struth........he stopped really quickly.... almost a carrier deck landing.
Short landing! How much distance did it have to land?
Looks to be a few hundred feet. A short landing indeed!
When you say Bristol, do you mean Lulsgate or Filton. ?
We viewed it at Filton and that was where it flew from on the last flight.
Thanks for replying Andy, I spent most of my early years at the end of the runway on the A38 main road, and saw the Bristol 188, TSR2, thousands of Vulcans, many more including several swing wing F 111s, alas all gone now.
At least you got to see them. Shame Video devices were not so common back then.
The BAC is not gone...it is still operating for Romavia, a company that operates for the goverment of Romania, and there are BAC's that are operating in Africa too...so they still live..:D and by the way : why the pilot brake so hardly????? the runway was to small, or just for show off????
So the BAC 1-11 is basically the British version of the DC-9?
No, more like the DC 9 is a copy of the BAC 1-11 which first flew two years before the DC 9.
It does. But in fact it is/was British Aerospace's private aircraft colours. I learned to fly in their 172, in the same scheme. Past current a/c include ATP, 146, Jetstream, HS125, C172 and PA28s. Colour scheme has changed now to a horrible EU-inspired blue with stars. Check out my channel, I made a model of their 172 I learned to fly in.
I worked for Bae
Lovely plane. However its a shame when they get a bit tatty. They should always be immaculate, but I am being picky.
You know, I wish one could buy a piece of land and buy a airliner from the 50's 60's, park it there and live in it.
Has anybody ever tried to do that? If you know anyone with such an aircraft needing a 'home' please let me know.
My Name?
Howard Hughes. (The one from Thorton Heath).
Yes bro, there is one park on a garden in Delta state in Nigeria. Me and my group moved it there from Lagos Nigeria. It used to be flown by Oriental Airlines the in the late 1990s. BAC 1-11 400s
Best place for rubber