ABANDONED FLIGHT SCHOOL, Heathrow Airport
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2022
- Today we visit a very unique abandoned place. An abandoned flight training centre packed full of equipment and flight simulators. The site is huge and has been abandoned for some time.
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I trained in this facility and returned yearly for my annual check, it used to install a lot of fear with those awful scenarios played out in the sims. Although the 747 sim had all the mechanics to make it move it was only used as a stationary training facility. There was one simulator though that moved and filled with smoke replicating an emergency. The site is massive with hundreds of classrooms, an auditorium and the main SEP hall, also there was a fire training ground. It was called Cranebank but we called it Braincrank
How does the place look to you now after seeing it before and after?
@@geronimo5537 Its actually quite sad that it has been abandoned and allowed to end up in such a state. Although the memories of the annual exams were synonymous with this place and instilled fear there was a familiar niceness to the place. I can still remember my very first day in this place where I trained as Ground Staff, two years later retraining as World Wide Crew. Training for GS was far more difficult than the crew training but some of those trainers were very scary. Seeing the video I am also very surprised at just how much stuff has been left behind form electrical kit to aircraft manuals. If we ever mislaid an Aircraft manual we would get a severe telling off yet they are here for all to see. With BA's commitment to being greener its a pity they couldn't apply the same principles to this huge place. It a pity that the site couldn't be re-puposed as an aviation museum or even a Concorde exhibit as the Concorde at LHR just sits there totally unaccessible.
@@raspberrypiploy771 thank you for sharing your unique perspective! It is sad that places like this so often come to exist. I often find the hypocrisy of abandoned locations amusing. Both military and corporate locations once all strict in rules, safety, with harsh punishments. Abandoned to the world as the final statement of these once strict people. Leaving me to believe much of their beliefs are fluff in the end where money determines if they follow their own words. lol
It would be a very neat museum double so with a concord. Really a shame technology reverted in progress with it being taken away from the airways.
Being from Kansas in the US myself. Your building reminds me of my experience in wichita kansas. Where it was boeing's main headquarters until 2012. The city use to the air capital of the world starting in ww2. The heathrow airport buildings looks very similar to the architecture I have seen here as well. Some nostalgia of seeing these places during childhood left to rot is my perspective.
@@geronimo5537 I was lucky to have a behind the scenes tour of the Boeing factories in Seattle and that has to be seen to be believed its impossible to put into words the sheer scale of this place, The UK is the only country that hasn't got an exhibit from the 'working' concordes. The US Barbados France all have exhibits. You are so right hen you mention the hypocrisy with the rules. BA was a fine example of making you scared of your own shadow. Anyway thanks for messaging and also for sharing your very interesting perspective -)
@@raspberrypiploy771 a Concorde???
This is the late 90's early 2000's. I went to this site twice late 90's. The offices had no expense spared on them and it's criminal to see it like this. Gatwick had a fair more epic Cabin crew training facility with a Cathy Pacific 747 I think in the hangar, that really intimidated me.
From all of us in the aviation community, thanks for treating this place with respect and thanks for a great video :D
shut up
Yes it is from all of us
Thank you guys
@@Bingoboys113agreed
Same Thanks guys
Oh I trained here! Brings back a lot of fun and anxiety inducing memories. It’s very sad to see this place that was part of so many of our (BA crew’s) personal history for so long in this condition. Good old Cranebank.
I can imagine it's hard to see, when did it close? I was there about 12 years ago on a college trip to Hatton Cross for a tour of the training facilities it was such a busy and well kept building back then.
Spent a fair bit of time on that site during my BA engineering apprenticeship '89-'92. Absolutely criminal that BA have let it get to that state 🤯😳😫
Fascinating stuff, well done geezers. The video cassettes being broadcast quality means they were likely g-spool, the sub-broadcast ones U-matic, both formats long dead. The 5 1/4" discs and the cassette with the metal baseplate were both computer media a real trip to the museum... :)
Oh this video takes me back to doing evacuation tests in the late 80s, to confirm timings from the various fuselage types. I jumped out of the upper door of the 747 and down a big slide - it was scary but exhilarating :)
Yes indeed . I was with QF.
Really interesting video lads keep up the good work, I used to be a security guard at an abandoned property in Surrey and would occasionally look the other way for guys like you if they were sound because they weren't causing any harm also I knew the places to avoid because they weren't stable and nobody ever got injured or killed plus it made my job easier. Aslong as the exact location wasn't shared on video or my face it made no odds to me and it kept everyone happy and I would subscribe to their channels to watch their content, still keep in touch with a few of them 🤣🤣
Keep uploading amazing content like this lads i wish you all the best and hope you see this comment and it makes you all chuckle a bit 😀
Maybe one day we'll cross paths on one of my sites 😁 (yes I still work in security)
If they were all like you the world would be better place. God bless you
Wow I never expected to get a response thank you guys you have no idea how much that reply means to me. Absolutely love your videos and some of the places you visit. This has Absolutely made my day 😁👍
What an awesome explore chaps! When I left school I went to work as an electronics technician at a flight simulator manufacturer. Seeing all those abandoned simulators took me right back. Seeing one in action from the outside is something else, they really put the pilots through it. Such a shame to see them abandoned.
This was awesome to watch! As a Brit now living in the US, I flew BA over 20-30 times starting in 89', it's interesting AF to see where everything was taught and practiced etc. To think that compound was a busy place with hundreds of employees making their way from classroom to pilot with all that equipment is just nostalgia in a way. Amazing! Wonder if there's any vids on here of that place when it was functional?
The joy I felt when I saw how long this video is will probably be the highlight of my week
Good explore. Its very thoughtful of yous to take the hospital patients on days out like this.
22:38 By the looks of it this place was abandoned around 1991 whereas Airbus wouldn't become a giant in the industry until around the millennium. This would explain the lack of Airbus materials on site, the biggest western plane makers back in 1991 were Boeing, Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas.
Airbus was well established by 1991. However, British Airways was predominantly a Boeing operator in the 1990s & early 2000s. Only after 2002 did they start to shift more towards Airbus, so no doubt the Airbus stuff were transferred to their new training centre because it's more current than the Boeing stuff.
Someone replied he visit it 12 years ago in perfect condition.
Absolutely love your energy together, everything is funny on every explore, keep it up love you guys xx
Your a star Norton!!! Fair play with the crutches!!
The explore was amazing 🤩
Nice video! All those 'buttons' are actually circuit breakers! Too much current flow in a particular direction or if equipment is requesting too much current it will pop, like a fuse in your car. Except, with these, you can simply reset them by pushing them in. Not like traditional fuses. 😊👍
Great to see my workplace again it's so sad they closed this complex down and let it go to pot, It was good to see all the classrooms and Training SEp area with the old mockups left to rot
I also saw my old offices on the ground floor and the old Sim blocks now damp and cold. will keep my eye out for more on this as I enjoyed my 49 years with the company and to see my old home before moving to T5 to work but now retired Thank you.
Hey guys just wanted to say I love this long format hopefully you'll keep doing longer videos 📹 👍🏻✌🏻
This is Cranebank, every year Crew would attend what was called recurrent or SEP, as Crew, we would have mock drills on the aircraft. It was an intensive 3 days with exams at the end, if you didn’t pass, you didn’t fly ! All the training moved to what is called The Global Learning Acedemy , a short distance from where you were. You may wonder why everything was left as it was, the buildings are full of asbestos , the cost of refurbishment was simply too prohibitive and no doubt it will be levelled when someone looks to redevelop the site
Keep em long lads… almost an hour of you completes my Tuesday!
Seen a fair few people explore this place and this by far is the best one I’ve seen,brilliant video lads keep I up
Awesome explore lads!! I am enjoying the exploring with cripples series, it shows just how charitable you are to the less fortunate. You're doing a wonderful service for the community. Gawd bless you! 😁😁😁😁😜
They always let Al come along..
The tapes are Sony Highband U-Matics , they were broadcast spec. Used in the 80’s to early/mid nineties. Eventually, they were replaced by Sony Betacam. I spent many a day loading thousands of them into a large machine that wiped them, in a previous TV job.
Fun times with the bulk eraser. Pranks on the interns (erase packing and gaffing tape before use, etc.). Nosy management respected the sign I had on the maintenance shop door. Strong magnetic field, entering may damage credit cards. I do not miss repairing the VCRs.
If Al is going bald then he's hiding it exceptionally well. And fair play to Norton I haven't noticed him complain once about the crutches
Its all fake hes looking disability
I’m inventing the button I pad for adhd dudes ,
Nice to see your explore of this place! Probably the best abandoned site in the uk 👌
So many other UA-camrs have done this place but I really enjoyed your video way more !!👌👌
19:20 That tape is a quarter-inch computer backup tape (often called QIC for Quarter-Inch Cartridge). It's actually an open spool like a reel-to-reel tape but inside a plastic & metal package. My first job in the 1990s was designing drives that could use them: they ended up in computer backup systems and telephone exchanges.
I'm not sure, but the Sony video cassette is possibly Betacam - the professional version of Betamax
Thanks for the info! 👋 🐈
I thought it was Betacam at first but it's Sony U-Matic.
I was going to say U Matic tape. I used to use them when I first started in TV.
Thanks for the info on the 3M tape. The Sony tape format is known as U-Matic or as we in the us would simply say 3/4". Removing the red dot on the bottom prevented accidental recording (record tab on a vhs/beta). The player looked to be a VP-7000.
Congrats lads. New fav channel!
Outstanding video boys. A classic of the genre.
We need more feature length episodes to keep us entertained. This was mint!👍😹
that was a ripper of a video guys. loved it. think its up there with the best. take care Norton... see you guys in the next video... tks for sharing
Exploring with crutches!!! Love it!
I’ve been trying other channels but nothing tops the shit these lads get up to. Top vid as usual
Great Video.I was really surprised to see someone in mi old workplace good exploring as always!
Oh the days of floppy disc. Where if you held it wrong it would break and not work. And don't forget the blessed dial up Internet up all night just to see one rude picture 😂🤣😂
Lads, the Sony tapes aren't Betamax - they're Sony U-matic tapes that pre date Beta. It was used in professional TV production in the 70s. Beta was more 1980s and although Betamax failed as a consumer format - Beta was used in broadcast for a long time as Betacam and later DigiBeta and Betacam SX.
This is a CRAZY place!
This is the best video ever, thank you! Set the bar really high now though #exploringwithcrutches 😅💛
Boys and their toys, I have watched my sons and grandson with their fads and ventures for over 50 years. Enjoy lads stay safe.
The comment to the seats "So your balls can hang down" EFFEN PRICELESS
That’s there for one of the straps of the pilot safety harness. Yes, there is a strap that runs between the legs.
Someone buy the cripple some rolling skates, if not for added mobility at least our amusement 👍
That was definitely a good one boys!! Loved it!
Best video yet boys, the length of the video was spot on, so soo enjoyed it, has to be best one by miles,
Absolutely amazing video as usual, top draw!!!
Quality as always chaps. Norton's t-shirt is mint!
Really great work on this one! Looks like you could spend a week there and still miss stuff.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one lads
Lloyddy is a top chap for taking that strange hairy lady and a disabled karate kid on such an adventure.
Good job with this one!
Those planes at the end are amazing!
Definitely, one of your best explores!
I think those videotapes were a professional standard, call video 2000 or something, they are used by tv studios etc.
The upstairs section on the 747 was the first-class lounge and bar for the first-class passengers at the front of the plane.
I think that robot thing was a robot tape library which automatically selects and loads the right tape into the player/recorder under computer control.
U-Matic (3/4" in USA). TV news used them before BetaCam (which is different than betamax). The robo was also my first guess, but the ones I worked with in TV were large round contraptions with robo arm in the center. Parts retrieval seems correct.
Looks like the original lounge has been converted for seating..........possible "club class"........(I have been in the Jumbo cop pit for a landing at Hong Hong airport in the early 80s) would not be allowed today. Shame I was very young and cannot remember much.
Awesome 😎 thanks for the great video and really man, the whole thing on crutches? That's some dedication, get well 🤘
Great video lads. I visited Cranebank a few times in the 2000's for IT training courses. The canteen was literally full of cabin crew. Sad to see it in this state.
Best t-shirt you’ve done is that dinosaur one, more of that please 👌🏻
Cup of Yorkshire Red, large zoot of Chemdawg Guava, start of 5 days holiday, Hell on Earth 👍👍
Bacon,egg, a cup of Joe, and a glass of apple juice. Just regular retired day but still I here ya' lol. Its going to be a good day.
Ew jealous lol on the guava yum yum 😋 👍🤙🤘💯
Life is good!
Cuppa tea, spliff. Enjoy your time off, chum!
@@jodysales2362 Happy Tuesday, apple juice is nice too. 👍
Great video guys! 💪🏻 I liked so much! 👏🏻👏🏻 👋🏻 Greetings from 🇪🇸 Spain.
Absolutley Brucking Frilliant lads. You got into surely one of the most (at one time) technical urbexes, with next to no difficulty, with one of you on crutches. Then the obligatory 'Oh shit security are coming!' bits! Where you get that feeling like you are going to piss yourself!
You got to see it all, kinky bondage mags as well!
And got out!
Outstanding!
HOABL
Enjoyed this so much. 48 mins wasn’t long enough
Wild adventure, boys. Totally cool.
Hi HoE! 👋🐈 Seeing Al in pilot seat was like viewing a character of Hunter S. Thompson's. Toggle switches...now they are cool!!!
Great vid...was by far one of your best. So many flashbacks from 90's. I always used business when flying from States (Houston) to Schiphol/Heathrow and back. Never flew in a Concorde tho...scratch #9 from bucket list (Pamela Anderson was on list... a scratch off as well).
Thanks guys! Cyberhuggggs! 🤗🤗🤗🐈
Omg forgot it was Tuesday, 👏👏👏 best night of the week
Retro planes for your holiday, love it, great idea
As an explorer at heart your videos absobloodylutely fascinate me. And I'm yorkshire born n bred. Not biased much. Love you guys so funny you cheer me right up. ☺️🤣
The amount of money you could make from selling some of the things left behind in here is mad. Aviation enthusiasts like myself will pay alot for some of these things. Might have to go myself its only a few miles away
Nee subscriber, been binge watching. Loved this one. So want to see it for myself. Jx
Yes lads. Needed something to crywank to. Solid.
Best video yet boys
Whats Rab C Norton doing on crutches?
Good vid by the way. Enjoyed it.
Loved that episode
I went on a BMI Baby airline to Scotland when I was 11, they gave me a little model of the plane I was on with the logo on it and everything.
John is so beautiful , respect to him for doing this explore with crutches x
I hope somebody makes a backup of this video, things like this usually get taken down for legal reasons. You can't even film yourself crossing active rail lines, GeoWizard had the police and national rail come after him for terrorism for crossing train lines in one of his videos. I would imagine an active airport will also have similar consequences.
With geowizard when he films himself doing illegal stuff he makes sure to wait at least 6+ months before uploading the footage, I'm not sure if that's something you should consider doing when uploading videos where you're 100% breaking a law by tresspassing on an active airport, you could end up in trouble for terrorism as well.
I hope nothing bad happens but they usually come after people to take their videos down to not encourage others. I hope somebody can make a backup and upload it elsewhere because it's a very interesting video!
I don’t think it’s all that bad. They definitely didn’t get airside so I don’t think terrorism stuff applies.
nice one guys. love the shout out to tech moan.
Great works dudes!!
Awesome vid. Also Norton rocking that Dino shirt! Soo want that shirt. You guys getting these bk in ? Also more merch bk in ? . Nearly everything is sold out on upthehoe 😭😭
There’s so many funny one liners haha love it!
I enjoyed that interesting
Well all your vids I like so please keep going👍✌🤘
This was the nuts guys...... what a place... all that history... just think... over the years the training of thousands of pilots, air crew etc would of passed through there, and then gone on to fly all over the world for years.
That room you found with those electrical machines that looked a bit like TVs would of been where the Tech Staff were. Oscilascopes were used for testing Electrical components and Panels to make sure the correct voltage and currents were passing through them. TV Engineers used them to fix the old TVs you mentioned too.
Incredible explore.
thank you for explaining what the equipment did. I have seen them before but never knew their purpose beyond circuit testing.
Great video lads . Hope ya leg gets better soon Norton, I bet it took the piss getting round Abandoned buildings
Thanks for making me laugh 😃 every week.Love your stuff.
This place was in my dream very strange.great show bless up.
Epic. Time flew by. Reminded me of engine test facility.
Just discovering you channel... amazing stuff! 😀
Capitan Norton rides again. That place is just down the road from me. Great explore and the banter was off the scale. See how a wing and a pair in toe always works.
Brilliant!!
Fantastic video, well edited. Great entertainment, that good channel itv/4/5 would pay if they could. Good work fellas.
awesome video lads, at 23.10, they were oscilloscopes..took me back to my college days that ha ha!..excellent, the longer vids are much better lads 😊
What a place lads , you wouldn't believe that they leave it all behind 👍👍👍
great stuff guys
Top explore, the planes going over added atmosphere.
Fascinating to watch where my father who was a 747 pilot in the 70s and 80s was probably trained.
I absolutely love your videos! I look forward to Tuesday's because it means I can have a cuppa & feed my 12 week old baby whilst watching 👀☺
I thought you got busted for sure when the Security dude was around. Very interesting video. Thanks guys!
Good video, a whole two shots of the boys firmly gripping sticks.
Shout out to the dude I saw earlier today in Ashby Aldi in Scunthorpe who was wearing a Hell on Earth Hoodie. #UPTHEHOE
Having been here in the 90’s it’s absolutely disgusting BA have let it get into this state.
Great explore
18:50 - best moment in the entire channel's catalog: seeing an original floppy disk for the first time!
Good video guys ❤️
Just subscribed great content 👍 boys 👌
Great work guys those mags need to be put up for auction in Nortons general store. I would put a first offer on it for 5p.