Hunting down Africa's LAST Boeing 707 in UGANDA!
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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I flew to Uganda to chase Africa's last Boeing 707 with my friend @JoshCahill and ended up scoring a ride on the flight deck in the process!
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I have to admit defeat - you are the Master of Loo Reviews 🙇♂️
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Josh, had to laugh when Noel said he was feeling lighter after the review! Personal reduced landing weight.
Your review was great too. Great to meet the awesome crew.
Maybe
But Josh is good looking
Come on now Josh, your talking sh@t :)
Noel Phillips brings new meaning to the concept of 'Time-off, in loo'...
The dynamic between Noel and Josh is hilarious! Please do more videos together whenever possible!
They are really good together, and play off of each others personalities really well.
Fantastic video with the two of you! If you added in Jeb Brooks and each took turns reviewing one another's favorite flights and worst flights, what might those videos look like? :) Thanks for always being such a great reviewer!
They are both immensely knowledgeable, appreciate dry/deadpan humour, and are compassionate towards each other. I hope they consider merging their channels or at least doing many more flights together. Two amicable, aviation ambitious best friends catch flights, feelings, and face any obstacle with fearlessness. 💯💖
Another fun collab! Thanks for letting us sit in the jump-seat!
28:19 I can't believe you went for the trislander and didn't even noticed the Caravelle!!!!!
Wow!! Incredible views from the flight deck and Areo Beach was super cool - what an adventure! 🤯
That 707 is amazing! I watched some of those Boeings take their first test flights as a kid in Seattle. It's like going full circle to see one retired like that . Thanks for sharing that!😊
whats amazing about it? theres nothing left except corroded scrap metal!
This is probably my favourite video that you've done to date, that A220 flight deck is amazing! Thank you so much for bringing us that view of the take off and landing
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am always stunned to see how freely you can use your video equipment on board, on the airfields, even filming officers at immigration, the crew... Always comparing this to "Olga" and my many "Olga experiences" as well. How do you do that ? Great work, as always !
Thanks for the memory from Aero beach. The Boeing 707, I flew on as a BOAC G-APFL in July 1967 from London Heathrow to New York JFK as a nine year old child First Class.
The only good thing about being ‘older’ is that we got to fly on awesome aircraft like the 707 when we were kids.
How do you know the registration? I was looking for it but couldn't see one. I could only just make out the faded British Airtours lettering on the fuselage.
@@rafflesnh with the wonder of the internet you are able to confirm the registration. In this case jetphotos. Also supplied the caravelle details.
@@stevescullion4568 I asked a perfectly civil question, so why the sneering reply? Perhaps the answer lies in the obvious snobbery imbued at an early age in the First Class cabin of a transatlantic jet. ;-)
Noel and Josh.... Love it!
The Starsky and Hutch of the UA-cam vloggers.
I love watching both videos of the same flight.
Very different styles.
Cheers
Phil
Awesome, thank you!
Being on the flight deck must of been an amazing experience and the sound of those P&W engines is something else
Noel, your face on arrival in Uganda said it all, you both were extremely lucky to have flight deck access what a difference modern tech makes i remember going on concorde at Farnborough in my youth with the ATC and seeing the cockpit too much to take in in one go, and now so well laid out and clear... safe journeys to you both
Hi Noel, indeed it's so nice to see you and Josh flying together in this expedition to the Aero Beach in Entebbe. I too was fascinated by that Boeing 707 which I flew back in 1977 or so. It was good that both you and Josh could join the flight deck of the Airbus 220 taking truns. It's always fun to watch you both. All the best :)
LOVE that A220 cockpit. Clean and modern. Looks like a joy to fly, just like all the other latest generation aircraft from Airbus and Boeing. I'm a sucker for gorgeous large glass MFDs!
That A220 has an amazing flight deck, so cool to see that. You were all smiles deplaning! 😃
I was in Tripoli many times in the 2000s. There was a pile of 707s in the corner of the airfield, don't know what happened to them once the West blew the place to bits 😞
Hi Noel. .I thought I would come check you out today. I want to say how much I appreciate your travels. You let me experience traveling to so many places and seeing different cultures. I am not as interested in traveling to exotic countries, but watching you is so much more satisfying than if I went....really. I love watching you on your adventures.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hi mate, just wanted to say love the videos! Came across your channel the other day and have binged your videos since! Really enjoy the videos mate! Hopefully see you here in Australia again one day!
Thanks!
28:35 fast and pointy would make an intresting callsign lol
Great duet Noel. Your chemistry with Josh made for excellent viewing. I've always felt the guys at aero beach could do a better job at making that place a proper aviation 'museum'
Agreed about Aero Beach! They don't even like you taking photos of the planes (officially they charge you extra to take photographs, although we kind of snuck in).
Both of you taking turns on the jump seat. You wouldn't get that anywhere else. Way to go. Brilliant vlog Noel, great collaboration.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fascinating video Noel. Great views from the cockpit. Loved the scrapped Trislander flew on many of those around the Channel Islands. I have a sensitive stomach with any food slightly hot, so felt for you.
Take care, Jeff
Many thanks!
Wow Noel, how awesome is that to be invited these days into the cockpit and watch the pilots doing their job. I was allowed to visit the cockpit of a Lufthansa 737 in July 1979 from FRA-BEG. The pilots allowed me to sit in the observer's seat behind them for most of the flight including landing. Best experience I've ever had in all my years of flying. Pity I didn't have a camera. I was only 12 at the time.
Noel what a brilliant video ! The Tanzanian A220 looked very smart and the catering very tasty. The Aircraft grave yard what a bonus to see some old frames inc a Caravelle .😀👍
Would have loved to see a bit more of the caravalle.. to me that would have been the highlight!
Many thanks!
Should take Josh on a short flight on your pilot vlog channel it would be a very nice content
Hi Noel - great vid as usual. Interesting to see British Airtours 707 laid up in Uganda - used to fly on these from Gatwick to Rimini every year when I was a kid back in the 70's - could even be the very one I was on
Need to get Rebuild Rescue on to that 707
I flew on a BOAC-707 in 1970 - LHR to SYD (Australia) two seats an isle and two seats, and Royal Mail Bags stacked on the rear seats. Via Zurich, Rome, Karachi, Bangkok, Singapore, and Darwin. took two days.
Welcome to Uganda! The B707 at Aero Beach had been a British AIrtours aircraft before it was registered as 5X-CAU. Up in the northern town of Arua a few years back I met the co-pilot who crashed that particular aircraft in the same approximate position you found it! Believe it or not, he was getting married at the age of 82 - he'd been married for many years but only a "village' wedding not a 'church' wedding - don't ask, it gets complicated out here. Glad you made it to my adopted country.
How can you live in Uganda, what kind of Visa is needed?
Hi John,
We lived in Kampala for 3 years from 1970 to 1973. East African Airways were using VC10s Comets and Fokker Friendships for their operations. I think the MIGs are from the raid on old Entebbe airport in 1973?
We would still be there if Idi Amin hadn't stuffed things up.
Cheers
Chris Edwards
@@bardo0007 I have a work visa gained through an NGO (Non Governmental Organization) with an office based in Kampala.
The flight deck of the A220 is so beautiful.
Well done noel,...not forgetting josh...mate the cockpit view was brilliant,you lucky bugga!!!
The plane graveyard was very special...a bit like my trains..(as a train geek)👍🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed it
Watched the two of you guys together is a lot oh fun! Thanks for taking us along!!
Wow I had no idea the A220 was so technologically advanced. Everything is touch screen.
I was on a flight deck one time. it was PKU (Pekan Baru) to SIN when I was 16. It was really cool, and I didn't realize they taxied with their feet. FTR- I watch both videos, and both were very good- and different.
If you can- try to make a trip to Indonesia, and go to Sumatra (hopefully Riau)
Thanks for another great adventure! By the Way, those Fighter Jets were MIG-21s by the looks of it...
No- those were the Mig-15
You should just go to DRC you could fly all sorts of exotic planes that fly as freighters nowadays! Including the 707 last I heard!
Everything I've read and seen of Tanzania looks lovely
How amazing you got to sit in the cockpit. What an incredible view though
That flight deck footage was something special Noel. Set to the music, excellent.
Many thanks!
14:32 Brilliant 🤣 But jokes aside, it’s what puts Noel’s videos in an entirely different league to he who must not be named…!
I did discover that "other" channel first but left it when I discovered Josh & Noel.
I miss flying on the flight deck. Used to get to do it sometimes while my dad worked at the airline... Great video and loving the colab work with Josh!
Thanks for watching!
Noel - Josh duo is the best 🥰
I'm a HUGE AvGeek myself!!! I would LOVE to see Aero Beach now that you shared that with us! Thanks from the US!!!! I've ALWAYS wanted to be a Pilot!!!!!!!! Personal reasons are keeping me away from it, but someday!
Go for it Julia!
You might want to tone down the insanely excessive use of exclamation points on any future essay questions at flight school.
@@gavinvalentino6002 It's a comment on a UA-cam video, not an application to American Airlines. Calm down lad.
1974. 14 years old, flying alone from Montreal to Gatwick on a BOAC 707. Taken to the flight deck to watch the sunrise along with some other kids flying alone. Magical. Asked to go back after breakfast and spent an hour there. Sat in the pilot's seat and learned how they navigate. I honestly remember it like it was yesterday. Truly a seminal moment of my life. Rough windy landing in Gatwick had my neighbor kid lose his cookies. Connecting, I took a BAC 1-11 next to London. The Pilot made a max perf turn at one point, so I saw the opposite horizon through the window. Was sitting with the 707 crew at the time. They shook their heads at the stunt, with smiles on their faces. It was a different time for aviation.
Yes. You're a Professional Story Teller. In Japan (have watched NHK since way before the Great East Japan Earthquake ) you'd be designated A Living National Treasure. And therapy for this scrawny scarecrow.
The A220 is such a beautiful aircraft, thanks for sharing :)
Well it a fake airbus it still the c series
@@alangaming2003 what’s your point?
@@marcd6897 It's a rebagged Bombardier is the point.
Noel a great video and I love flying the A220s, Air Baltic is superb, give them a try! Now I love the Boeing 707 that was fantastic and ex British Airtours (which was the charter arm of BA based at Gatwick) but WHY did you and Josh ignore the other star airliner there, the SE.210 Caravelle no close ups of her??? Ummmm
Noel, you should check out the B-52 wreckage in Greenville, Maine. The B-52 crashed in the 60’s but most of the fuselage was left intact. Only 1/4 mile walk from a dirt road…
Wonderful 🔥 This is amazing flight journey. Love the background music and narration 👍
Thanks a lot!
really like the shot of the camera going thru the metal dectector
what a awsome brilliant video ever im so happy you got to ride on the flight deck
Glad you enjoyed it!
Super Flight! Im like Josh - haven't seen Kilimanjaro despite having spent 4 days beside it in Amboseli, Kenya 😥
Lovely to se you both on the Video. Noel why not do more together with other Avgeeks? Josh was nice in yours.
Great seeing this. I already saw first video of same trip by Josh. I love your surprise at the end. Anycase love watching both perspectives. Keep up collaborating. By way love you got to ride cockpit
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great vlog been binging on them since I found you a couple of weeks ago. When you were walking across the apron at Entebee was that a old BCC 111 in the back ground all the best Jim
Wow, what a beautiful flight deck !
- I have travelled extensively throughout Europe on the flight decks of various kinds of aircraft.
(My stepdad was a captain with Icelandair).
-They *really* look different from the "old days" when all the instruments were analog 😁
@@irenedavo3768
Yes 👍
The little compartment in the lavatories that you can't open is the LSU (Lavatory Service Unit) so there are 2 oxygen masks in there in case of decompression
I was waiting for this video! So glad it's out 😊
I'm so glad!
Immodium is always one of the first things I pack on my trips Noel, or in the case of Africa.....several packs of Immodium !, fantastic video and great to see you two guys together ( I was actually on one of Josh's video's of Air India's first A350 flight from Mumbai back in January....fleetingly ! ), thought you would have mentioned the Caravelle lurking in the background though, that is one rare bird !..
The "I have no idea" carcass is Fouga CM170 Magister of the Ugandan Air Force
The HF antenna on the starboard wingtip stamps this as a 707-420, of which only 37 were built. If I were a multi-millionaire I’d buy this beauty, have it restored (not to flying specs), shipped to America and convert it into a house.
If I flew in the planes you do as well as the food you eat in a variety of questionably hygienic restaurants I would be sure to put money in every prayer bucket I came across. Love your travels!!!
Live a little
I am so happy I found your channel always been afraid of flying never have but love watching your adventures and when Rachel gets to go i too suffer from fibromyalgia and hate that people can’t see it and look down on me for them not being able to see my pain like when I need an auto cart at the store or a wheel chair and just having to stay in bed some days love to see you have seems to be supportive husband who believes you and when go along or all of you 💕
Agreed on the 220. I flew back from Tallinn to Aberdeen with Air Baltic and loved it.
You and Josh are a fabulous team.. more please 👌🏼
Another great video but the highest praise goes for keeping composure after being served shrimp, and spicy food, for breakfast, when you have the runs from bad fish.
Lovely video sir, thanks for always being my Sunday sunday ginger tonic
Never thought I'd say this, but even loved the video advert. Much much better than the Square space type stuff.
I’d have liked to see the old Entebbe airport terminal
Great collab, you guys are two of the best ! Also loved the stunning views of the African landscape
“Randomly walking in front of 777”, needless to mention you are in a foreign country. Lucky dudes!
i watched Josh's entire video and still couldn't resist myself from coming back to see the same journey on your channel. good job both of you. :-)
Awesome! Thank you!
loving these videos especially when the flying music comes on in the background :)
Glad you enjoy it!
I saw a Caravelle in the background.. that is even more interesting than the 707 !
I always look forward to your videos, Noel! Good job!
I appreciate that!
14:33 “unlike Sam- Some other youtubers” the shade 💀
Thank you for showing more of the take off best part of flying is take off and landing
Waiting for Noel to tell everyone he meets he has the runs.
Love you mate, has now become the Sunday morning thing for the family, I'm just gonna have to press that subscribe button.
Take care in your journeys.
Awesome video, Great footage too. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for watching
Noel your content is great, and I am happy that I come across your channel :) Thank you!
Awesome, thank you!
We have a Boeing 707 Parked at Lusakas KKIA. It's used as an advert.
I think I spotted a Caravelle near the end. Such a chic shape.
Great video as always Noel! Keep it up!!!!
Thanks! Will do!
I love the a220! Would love to fly one one day…
In 1980 I flew from Luton UK in a Monarch 720B to St Lucia, it had to refuel at Gander and dropped a few people off at Antigua, G-AZNX, made is 64 now long scrapped, have slides taken outside and in, and loads in St Lucia, just no means of putting them on to digital.
FWIW the Mig-21's are probably the leftovers from an Israeli surprise party back in 1976.
I remember reading about a Boeing 707 that ditched in Lake Victoria, some years ago. The flight was carrying a cargo of fish, IIRC. The local authorities had some trouble finding a responsible party, as no one could find the owners or flight crew afterwards.
Dodgy fish anyone?☺
As a Tanzanian I find that family sized packet of crackers both hilarious and likely unintentional. Either something between the airline and distributor (probably Azam) was lost in translation with the SKU or it's a grift to push more units. That's proper bongo for them to give you that with not a soul wondering if that's correct. 3rd option is they ran out of normal crackers and they just took from Duty Free supply, and it's probably been that way for a while. That's the hapa kazi tu way.
Wow. The last time I was allowed to sit in a jumpseat was in a BAe 146 - things have come on a long way!
The BN Tri Islander is so cool. You should aggravated Jimmy (Jimmy's World) with the piper. Tell him he can take it if he can start it. Same on the 707. He'd want to start it.
Great video. I got a jump seat ride years ago thanks to a friend on Imperial Airllines from SNA to San Luis Obispo in a Dash 8. Was tricky to arrange, but it's something everyone should get to do who isn't working for the airlines.
In the toilet where you weren't sure what was in the compartment I can tell you its the drop down oxygen! Great video as always! Keep it up
I like your input so much more than that of your travel-companion. He is so over the top and full of himself. You on the other hand are more modest with realistic commentary and know lots more. Seen his vid before yours, and glad you uploaded, far better experience for me as a viewer. Keep up the good work, and enjoy your adventures!!!
Really enjoyed this one, will need to check out Josh's channel.
What on earth happened to the empenage of the British Airtours 707? and the engine cowls? Nice to see so many older aircraft in a 'museum' out there, keep up the good work you two 👍🏻
Great video Noel, I loved the fight deck views in particular. Hypothetically; if both pilots came down with fish poisoning and were unable to fly the plane, could you fly and land it?
They would use the Otto Pilot.
@@gridlore That wasn't the question.
@@DannyTP1888 If you didn't get that reference, go watch Airplane! (1980) right now.
@@gridlore 😂
Shirley you can’t be serious?
The last Boeing 707-400 left in the world, shame it's not more complete
Great video, be good to see you and Mr Cahill working together more 👏🏽
Around 20 years ago I flew Harare to Victoria Falls on a Boeing 707 320 of Air Zimbabwe, the only ever 707 I ever had, its condition was probably 50 % better than the one you are looking at, it was very old, loose and battered, but one of my best flying experiences!
The Air Zimbabwe 707s were ex-Lufthansa so they were certainly in very good condition when first acquired, but no doubt their service in Africa took its toll. They used to fly Harare to London-Gatwick direct.
Worked out in the end you landed at Arusha airport. Lived there in the 60s when climbing Kilimanjaro was just a long walk. Now over hyped to raise money for just causes. A better climb is the neighbouring Mt Meru which is a steep climb through volcanic ash. Great video looking forward to many more. Love Tanzania and its great people ...Safari Njema
You should review the new Norse Atlantic Airline!!