LHR - London Heathrow International Airport - 1966 & 1972
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- Silent film (Audio dubbed by me) from the archives of Mr. Bill Morrow. Tridents, DC-8, VC-10s, 727, & 747s! Fantastic footage of London Heathrow in 1966 & 1972! Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos! / classicairli. .
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02:40.. LOVE the VC10. Elegant,sleek and one of the most beautiful aircraft ever flown.
the most beautiful a/c ever flown is Concorde and Tu-144
@@5012810 The VC10 was the best plane to fly in. Concorde was good to fly as well, I'll give the TU-144 a miss.
Oh the days when flying was truly fun. Tridents, VC-10’s, DC8 & 9’s, 707’s, 747’s... almost every flight had a party in the rear, drinks flowed, one could smoke on board, cabin crew were friendly...
Yes, and every one of those guys has lung cancer. I shudder when I think of how much second hand smoke I was exposed to on those flights. Otherwise great, but smoking in a plane is just stupid.
The dc9 isnt exactly luxurious
Don't forget about the boeing 727
And cost a fortune.
Because smoking on board was really safe wasn’t it!
That last BOAC livery was so elegant. It looked the best on the VC-10.
ALL the liveries look so much more modern, fresh and classy than anything out there today!
Damn, those Super VC-10s are absolutely gorgeous.
Another example of the British airline industry restricting its sales by developing for a niche market (the Empire routes). In fact the VC10 was very well engineered and it was more profitable than the 707 in spite of its higher running costs. This was because passengers preferred it and consequently it flew with a higher percentage of seats filled.
still holds the atlantic crossing record for a non supersonic aircraft i believe
Classic Airliners & Vintage Pop Culture Same with the trident
Correct, and record for beauty too :)
Totally agree with. My favourite all time plane.
Looks aggressive.
Takes me back to happy days spent watching the planes from the Queens Building at Heathrow Airport in the 1970s. Can still smell that aviation fuel and hear the roar of the jets now. BOAC Vickers VC-10 will always be my favourite - such a beautiful airliner and British made.
exactly the same memories for me too, the VC10 was the best looking.
Wow. That really took me back, I could smell the unburned Jet2. Helps memories of how exotic it was when BOAC and National Air Lines were both awarded the Miami to Heathrow non-stop in 1970. We rode our bikes all the way from South Miami to MIA just to watch the evening depatures. NAL served the route with a DC-8-50, but the highlight of the evening was the once-a-day BOAC 747 departure to London and Pan Am 747 to Rio and Buenos Aires. A special time, still seen watching the pm line-up of flag-carriers stacked up at the gates at JFK. Thanks for the awakening the whole memory cluster with this snippet. I'll be replaying it in my head the rest of the day.
Great to see and hear vickers v,s 1,11 737,200ds 707. Would urge people to make available memorabilia etc.
Plane spotting doesn't get much better than this.
God I love the VC-10. What a superb design,
the il 62 has a nicer look.
+TheModelFlightChannel It looks to industrial, the VC-10 is smooth.
*InfiniteMushroom*
BOAC were just starting to buy Boeing 747s in 1970 and were more economical compared to the Super VC10 and Boeing 707, these aircrafts were fazed out gradually to make way for the new generation of wide bodied aircrafts. And the reason why the Ilyushin Il-62 was in service longer than the Super VC10 is because Russia keep their old junk aircrafts well past their sell-by-date (hence, why they have more aircraft crashes).
Yes indeed. It’s design was optimised to serve the British “colonial” routes and this helped to give irs rival, the Boeing 707 a commercial advantage.
T tail came with the “deep stall” risk. There was no real need for T tails on civil airliners.
the VC10 was just an amazing airplane. thanks for this look back in time!
I love the VC-10, and in that BOAC livery -- just the best. A relative used to fly them; he brought one to Auckland on a world tour. I can still picture it flying over the house...
Came over all nostalgic there for a moment.
Love this! Tridents, VC-10s, everywhere. An odd 747-100 thrown in to! :D
When I was a kid I used to spot at LHR and the exotic rarities to look out for were the DC-8 and anything Russian, especially IL-62
Flew over many thousands of miles on the VC 10 and the supers. Absolutely beautiful planes. So powerful. Was allowed to sit in the jump seat for several hours on flights to Mauritius where I lived. East African and BOAC. Good days by far.
Fantastic to see all those 70's jets again. Thanks.
Fantastic aircraft activity! Awesome clip.. If only it was still like that today..
BA should bring back that Speedbird logo. It's one of the greatest logos of all times. So elegant, understand and recognized.
January 2023 and came across this wonderful video again. Takes me back to the fantastic era of early 1970s, stood on either the Queen’s Building or top floor of car park 2, aircraft spotting with my mates. The constant aroma of jet fuel filled the air, along with the unmistakable and unforgettable sound of the Rolls Royce Conway engines of the VC-10, some 707s and DC-8s. 50 years on and I’d love to step back in time, just for one day to sample those delights once more ❤️
All my favorite aircraft types: VC10 (I wish I had traveled in one), the 747 and the Trident.Look forward to more videos of these beauties
VC-10, so elegant.
Easpecially in that livery
I feel so lucky to have grown up under final to JFK. Actually, a few miles south, so we always saw the arrivals as they flew in over North Long Island Sound. Everything that flew into JFK 1962 - 1972 I saw. The TWA 747 was the most beautiful thing. I'll never forget seeing it for the first time. Seeing this on video is one thing, but seeing these aircraft actually flying, the grace of their design is lost in two dimensional celluloid.
Landed at LHR in a VC10 late November 1966 from Salisbury, SR. Later flew in Tridents between LHR & Edinburgh.
Love the VC10,Sweet looker,and so elegant.Great shots😎👍!
It's too bad these are only a few minutes long. I could watch these old vids for hours
Me too, are you a Captain Midnight fan?
Agreed 💯
@@mcdonnell220 The softest landing
Outstanding! Love the "exotic" British-made aircraft.
VC10 - has to be the most beautiful airliner ever!
Particularly the "Super-VC10" London-Rome-Entebbi-Nairobi = magic or the return. At dawn; with sunshine streaming through the windows and breakfast being served northbound over the Alps., Again "Magic" (57-years-ago = "Ouch ouch ouch - So long ago")
I’m in awe of these planes. Especially that BOAC 747-100 and of course the VC10s and the Tridents.
This is what jets are about!! Conways,Speys etc.More videos like this please.Does anyone remember the outside observation walkways with sleeping policemen across them at Gatwick,when the airlines of the day were BEA, BUA,British Caladonian,Laker,Lufthansa,BOAC,Pan Am.etcThe planes, 1-11,Trident,VC10,Vanguard,Viscount,Herald,DC8,DC9,DC10,747,707,727,Late Comets etc.We all live our childhood coz it was great and innocent!!
I'm only 19, but those Tridents are superb!
I flew on Tridents from 1966 to 1973, they were indeed an incredible aircraft; fully automatic takeoffs and landings (with of course the captains hands ghosting the control column; just in case) Also; Flying from LHR into cities just south of the Alps; Milan, Turin, Venice; the captain would (by arrangement and prior advice with the cabin crew) require the cabin was entirely cleared; and from cruising altitude; full dumps would be applied; together with reverse thrust, and yes; that very tough airframe shook energetically during what could only be described as a very exciting descent with the altimeter unwinding like a spring., That was flying :) not like the school bus type of flying we get today....
John Skiggs which of the trivets were you in? My favorite is the DC 10
@@lance3poo7932
DC10? the worst most dangerous aircraft, no way would i want to fly in one, just one flight 40 years ago in a rattly DC 10 was too many.
Trident had a hell of a push into ones seat on take off.
@@beachbum4691 Dad flew Tridents from 1965-1974. Loved flying it. RIP dad.
Wow! My friend you have hit another home run. Tridents, Super VC-10's, 747-100's (with auxiliary inlets), and an Alitalia DC-8 with turbojets. There actually was a time when air travel was fun, exciting, comfortable and the planes looked and sounded great too. Thanks again!
Very nice clips. Concise, not dragged out, and very well done. I loved to see the Hawker Siddeley Tridents, and the BOAC VC 10s. We had a few BOAC VC10s at Toronto International Airport (now named Pearson - YYZ), but not frequently it seems.
As a teenager in about 1972 I got to fly from London to Sydney on a Super VC10 with about six stops on the way. Such a beautiful looking plane and wonderfully loud as well. I remember thinking it was a shame that more airlines weren't using them.
That VC10 is so good looking w it’s flaps hung out for takeoff. A very elegant design.
Vintage 747-200, how you make my heart flutter like no other! 💙✈
Those were most likely 747-100s, the first series. There were still very few 747-200s flying in 1972.
+Goytá F. Villela Jr.
Appreciate the correction. I began to wonder if maybe I hadn't been erroneous based on the dates mentioned..100 series would have indeed been more likely.
Both series are beauty queens!
100's / 3 windows up top. 200's / 10
Also notice the open blow-in doors on the Pan Am 747 taking off.
All the 747s featured in the film are 100s.
I watched the video again and there is a parked Qantas 747-200 at 2:00. Ten windows on the upper deck. Can't be sure of the parked Air India one, but all the others are 747-100s.
The “gold speedbird logo on dark blue” was the best looking of the BOAC liveries and lasted up to the merger with BEA and subsequent rebranding.
I was working at Heathrow in those days, mainly VC10's, but we also went to service other airlines that did not have an engineering base there and getting into an Air India Jumbo, one day there were signs of someone had been cooking on a camping gas stove in the doorway area and there was still the pans and aluminum trays with remnants of food in them. One thing that is missing in this video is the Viscounts screaming around with just the outer engines running.
BA really need to do a retro jet in that old BOAC livery.
yeah, they could do a 747-436 in the BOAC livery and I dunno an A320 in the BEA livery. And then they could repaint the last BA 767 in the 'Landor' livery, similar to what they did to the last 757 where they painted it in the 'Negus' livery.
Wayne Jeffrey as soon as I saw the BOAC planes "Back In The USSR" started playing in my head.
Christopher White Landed to Miami Beach BOAC, didn’t get to bad last night
Always loved the gold speedbird on blue livery. This was the last livery change before the BEA merger and formation of BA
It will be perfect on their B777
Brilliant nostalgic piece of film, the VC10 and Trident deserved to do so much better than they did, love the row of parked BEA tridents, the taxing BOAC VC10 passing the 707, and the take off of early Pan Am and BOAC 747. Unfortunately most of the airlines have gone or merged now but great memories of my youth .
Oh I do enjoy all these old birds..... Tridents , VC-10's, B727 and the 747 I remember watching them all at SPL in my childhood days,. Now I can look back at 43 years working at SPL at a handlingcompany and I was able to go into several a/c types just because I was allowed to.... Now, because of security regulations I cannot do that anymore..... me sad old dude.
Superb footage! Thanks for uploading!
I remember when we used to ride our bikes into heathrow and have picnics literally right next to the runway apron watching all these amazing aircraft coming in to land..
I once remember when a Concorde pilot had to open his cockpit window to usher me out of his way so he could cross the road ( from maintenance to terminal ).. I will never forget how it towered over me.. with another 747 behind it.. ( all waiting for ME to move out of their way ).
Apart from Concorde, the Super VC 10 was the most beautiful aircraft to ever take to the skies. Flew the Super to New York in the early 70s & loved it. Very classy!
Great video...One forgets just how deafening the old Trident was.. Compared to todays jets it was frighteningly loud..
And where did that crackle come from? That was one of the recognition features for me!
Oh my! For the way we were. The days of quality: quality aircraft & airlines. When passengers knew how to behave, & of course, Heathrow long before they turned it into a shopping centre.
I flew Pan Am 747 flt. 100 from JFK to LHR in Oct.'75. I still remember film I watched on board. The Wind And The Lion with Sean Connery.
Who doesn't love watching clips from the early days of the jet age?!
The line up of tridents just how i remember them ....superb
The VC-10, without a doubt, the 'Queen of the skies' .........with that Speedbird gold logo on the dark blue. PLEASE bring it back !
That’s a great video!!! Totally awesome! Those BOAC colours look amazing! British Airways need to paint a large amount of their fleet in this livery - it would be a great commemorative occasion.
Loved the Vickers VC10 and the PAN AM 707s!!!
Lovely to see the VC 10, not just one but several.
Outstanding! The PanAm 747-100, followed by the VC10, are "must-see" birds. I miss the beautiful, highly evocative PanAm livery. Same goes for TWA.
Can I go back in time just to see and fly on these airplanes + Concorde
Great vid. My late Grandfather will have been supervising the loading of those BOAC long haul aircraft.
LOVIN THIS!!!! Never tire of this channel....
Brilliant takes me back to when I first started spotting
Brings back memories when I joined BEA as a steward on the trident.
Thank you so very much for sharing this video. Other videos ive seen from this time period are massively poorer quality. To have the sound aswell is brilliant. Thank you again! Hope you are all well and good :)
747-100 looks rather striking in those BOAC colors, is that just me?
You are Spot on.
The “gold speedbird” livery was much loved
It's back! 😉
when Britain was great
I think British airways would be better of with the boac or landor liveries rather than the tacky looking one they have now
They DO!!!! I remember in 1966 making a model of it. Airfix kit.
Wish I could still buy it but... of course not available..
Splendid stuff! Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks OP
Nice bunch of lovely old birds there!Excellent!
Tridents look so small now .
I remember seeing rows BEA ones lined up at Heathrow .
We need another Queens Building!!
In my spotting days at Heathrow I used to most look forward to seeing The Aeroflot Il-62 and Aerolineas Argentina DC-8
I think you mean Aerolineas Argentinas 707s as they never operated DC-8s
First class job with the audio dubbing. Thoroughly first class!
So very nice to see the VC10's and the classic 747's. Weren't those Tridents noisy!!! Great video. Brings alot of memories back
back when the world was a good place... what a golden era!
Excellent. Serves as a reminder just how many years the 747 has been around as well.
Wow proper planes and proper noise!
1:23 2:31 these 747s sound shivers down my spine
What a lovely neat lineup of Tridents!
Looking back, it now seems like a “golden era” for enthusiasts at LHR but at the time it just seemed like the norm. How lucky we were to have had this free andeasily-accessible entertainment and an educational hobby as well.
Just love the noise these jets made on take off and landing, it gave them character.
The 747 looks great in BOAC livery. Nice to see BA have recently painted one in that scheme
Jan 2019
BA is repainting a 747 in BOAC retro livery at Dublin airport paintshop.
The 747 is planned to fly to LHR on 18 F eb to re-enter service.
Great job with the audio dubbing and thanks for posting.
It's crazy how close you were allowed to film at the runways :O
Yeah in 1979 I joined BA and used to park my mini on the peritrack on the way home to plane spot. Used to wind the windows down and my whole car shook when Concorde took off. Those were the days?
Ooooh! Those dark blue tails and GOLD Speedbirds. Best logo ever on best planes ever...VC10 and 747.
BEA became BA! I miss tridents :P
Unfortunatley the Americans took the design and added better engines, trident was far to under powered.
Lucas Vander-Bartlett
You mean fortunately. :-)
BEA and BOAC merged to become BA.
Chicago 90278.
Actually, you need to get your facts straight, it was BOAC and BEA that merged together to form British Airways (BA).
The VC10s were so pretty and seemed to positively leap off the ground on takeoff...
Fantastic footage love seeing those old 747s
those HS-121 Tridents at the beginning are absolutely amazing.
Nice job 👍 wonderful memories
Sooooo many memories of my plane spotting days, but at EGCC Ringway, circa 1970
This is amazing, thanks for uploading
Halcyon days! Today's bland lookie-likey twin jets just don't even come close. Glad I got to witness these wonderful jets back then. Thanks for the great video!
Filming so close to the runway! Haven't seen that in a while!
A different era, when we did not sacrifice our freedoms and liberties out of fear.....A different era....
Telescoping lens?
True, but this was still filmed by someone who had special permission to be airside on the field.
When I first went to 'London Airport' in 1959, there was a public enclosure on the grass quite close to the northern runway. It had swings and stuff for kiddies too. Also did a coach tour around the airport, getting close up to a lot of parked airliners (I remember a lot of Connies) and the BOAC and BEA maintenance areas. Very different times!
Well, I am really getting old... Of the plane types shown here, I only never flew on a VC-10, but I did fly once each on a 747-100 (Air France, EZE-VCP-GIG), a Trident 3 (British Airways, STR-LHR), and a DC-8-62 (Braniff, GIG-VCP-LIM-PTY-MIA).
Well I did fly on a VC-10. London-Bagdad-Kuwait and return in 1976. At Kuwait on the return the Kuwati army with machine guns came on board and removed the young man sitting next to me. I was tasked with checking that he had not left any hand baggage behind.
Wow this video is sooo incredible, thank you so much for posting 👏👏
Watched it again, another st@nf out was the take off roll of the Lufthansa 727 - what a rocket!!
I flew on Tridents from 1966 to 1973, they were indeed an incredible aircraft; fully automatic takeoffs and landings (with of course the captains hands ghosting the control column; just in case) Also; Flying from LHR into cities just south of the Alps; Milan, Turin, Venice; the captain would (by arrangement and prior advice with the cabin crew) require the cabin was entirely cleared; and from cruising altitude; full dumps would be applied; together with reverse thrust, and yes; that very tough airframe shook energetically during what could only be described as a very exciting descent with the altimeter unwinding like a spring., That was flying :) not like the school bus type of flying we get today....
Man , I'm not a big aviation guy but those BAE Tridents are so cool - I think they had an analogue computer auto-land - love to know how that worked . Shame that CVRs were not mandatory around this time - we might know what exactly happened at Staines . [ A lot of workplace environments could do with CRM ]
First flew from Heathrow in 1968 on a SAA 707. Took 14 hours to reach Jo'burg.
Remember flying out to Zambia when I was a kid, 1972, and back with Alitalia on the DC8. Good times the BOAC junior jet club was brilliant for youngsters.
Just beautiful.. on a grand scale.
Big up the Bill Morrow massive for his bad ass 16mm cine camera.
...ah, the VC-10 a total work of art. Lover BOAC 747s in the old Speedbird livery one of the classiest liveries ever. The British Airways scheme just looked wrong on a VC-10 whereas the BOAC one accentuated the aircraft's lines. Too bad there never was a Concorde in that livery.
Good to see an Air India 747 at Heathrow with its famous livery.
You are a master in audio dubbing, congratulations! I'm always a fan of your videos
Jorge, thank you very, very much.
Back in the 70s I can remember going to Heathrow and that distinct smell of jet fuel filling the air . Plus the turbine whine and the sooty jet trails , I love the nostalgia but I'm sure the air quality now is a lot safer .
I spent 24 hrs on a VC 10 in the beginning of March 1972, On the way to melbourne, Australia from heathrow.. sitting right at the back, could hardly hear the engines
That BOAC livery puts British Airways current scene to shame. Those were the days of class and good taste. The BOAC 747-400 was the most stunning thing. Gorgeous.
The first two Tridents were taken at there manufacturers airfield at Hatfield. That Kuwait colour scheme was outstanding.
That 747 in BOAC Livery made my teeth sweat!