Classic AIRLINERS - VINTAGE Footage - Dan Air, Laker, Courtline, Monarch
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2020
- Look at these incredible VINTAGE Airliners from the 1970s.
I recently found some footage my grandfather took on Super 8mm film from the 1970s showing some CLASSIC AIRLINERS.
Filmed in Menorca, Spain the footage shows:
DAN AIR Comets and BAC 1-11s
MONARCH Boeing 720B
LAKER Boeing 707
COURTLINE Locheed 1011 Tristar
BRITANNIA Boeing 737-200
It's vintage footage so it's a little grainy but I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane with these classic 1970s airliners.
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What a grandfather! Those are very rare clips indeed. Also I remember people used to dress up in their sunday best to board Courtline. Happy early days of the British international travel world before it lost it's spirit and style.
Thanks! Courtline was definitely ahead of its time. I do have some more Super 8 footage from the mid-1970s with more Dan Air (including 727s) - but need to get it converted to digital! ☺️
@@RogEdwardsTV Look forward to it! I'm the same age as you and remember flying off in a yellow 1-11 to Palma from Luton. I remember the different coloured 1-lls lined up, the roar of the rear engines as you entered and the plane getting tossed around in a storm. Various ladies had 'fainting fits'. It was all new!
Great to see the beautiful Court Line TriStar. Way ahead of its time. Now part of a fascinating era in UK airline history.
Thanks David. Those Courtline planes were so colourful. I remember flying to Spain in a turquoise BAC 1-11 and back on a pink one.
Dan Dare Scareways as I recall it. They were and still are my favourite Airline, the only airline that has come close for me is Malèv, also sadly gone.
If you flew Dan Air, it stays with you forever! Funnily enough I was at Gatwick today and saw a check in desk for Dan Air! Yes it’s a Romanian airline! 😀✈️
I have flown on Comet 4's, Channel Airways, Dan Air and BEA Airtours/British Airtours. My least favourite jet aircraft. Too long ago to be sure exactly why but I think because of the high noise levels in the cabin due to the location of the engines.
The Boeing 720 was an impressive aircraft to be used on holiday charter fights. Despite the stigma of operating from Luton as opposed to Gatwick, Monarch was one of the better UK charter airlines of the time, which was helped by using this type of aircraft and the provision of above average standards of holiday charter in-flight service.
Laker did not fly to the med under the brand name of Skytrain. That was the brand name for the low cost transatlantic scheduled service. The confusion may have arisen due to the fact that all the DC10 aircraft carried the Skytrain branding and therefore if such an aircraft were to be operated on a holiday charter flight to the med (or even a transatlantic ABC charter flight) the the Skytrain name would be visible on the aircraft.
Court Line aircraft did look nice from the outside but they were the Ryanair of their time and not the nicest airline to fly with with horrors such as 'seat back catering' awaiting their passengers on board.
Wow - thanks for all those memories and great info. I have vague memories of the Court Line back seat sandwiches, but I was only 5 or 6 so maybe I’ve invented memories from reading about them. I do remember rock hard, ice cold scones on the Dan Air flights a few years later though! 😀
I wonder if that noisy Laker 707 was G-AVZZ? If so, I flew on it a couple times in 1974 when it was on loan to International Caribbean Airways of Barbados. It flew on scheduled flights to Barbados out of Gatwick and Luxembourg. And yes, it was noisy as heck, as was all the first generation jetliners. Beautiful memories!
Ach - pity the old footage is so grainy we can't be sure. Highly likely I'd say though - they didn't have many of those 707s as far as I know. Thanks for watching😀.
Courtline had a Tristan which was pink. I know because it was the first plane I ever flew on in the early 70’s. It was named halcyon breeze
YES! The Pink Tristar was Halcyon Breeze and the Orange Tristar was Halcyon Days! All the BAC 1-11s also had names with Halcyon something: Halcyon Sun, Halcyon Beach etc! 😀
My first flight Luton to Ibiza 1972 Court Line BAC1-11...had to turn back over the English Channel due to a hairline crack in the captains windscreen...6 hours later we take off again...great memories...flown on Dan Air 727 (and 1-11) Luton to Monastir, Monarch Boeing 720B Luton to Palma Britannia 737 200 Luton to several destinations Court Line 1-11's Luton to several destinations never did fly on the Tri Star...ah well or Monarchs Bristol Britannia's or Dan Air's Comet's
Wow thanks for that! Lots of great memories there! 😀✈️
Incredible footage! Takes me back to being a kid going to Majorca in 72 and 74 on the Mon 720b and Britannia 737 to Ibiza in 73. I recall seeing the two Courtline L1011 Pink and Yellow Tristars (Halcyon Days and Halcyon Breeze) parked up at Luton after Court went bust. They looked huge to a small lad like me too! I beleive those Tristars were eventually sold to Cathay Pacific. Gtreat memories.
+Vince G Thanks for sharing your memories! Great times. I do have more Super 8mm footage from around the same time, more Dan Air, maybe Orion. I just need to find it and get it converted to digital.
@Mark Hepworth wow you never know maybe she did!
@Mark Hepworth The 720 ignited my love of aviation. Glad your Mum enjoyed it. All the best!
So glad this old footage has brought back some happy memories! Thanks for watching guys! 😀
Roger, your channel is absolutely brilliant. I hope you continue to post on here. Kind regards Ian.
Thanks so much, Ian. Much appreciated. 😀
Excellent Roger thank you. I flew on a monarch 720b from Luton to ibiza in September 1978 so I'm privileged really as like you say they were pretty rare and it was my first time flying at 13 years old
+Michael pound Thanks - I never got to fly in one! I think it was 1987 I first flew Monarch - in a 757.
Courtline was the lainch customer in the UK for the Tristar
Indeed. I know BA had some Tristars - did any other UK airline have them? 🤔
@@RogEdwardsTV when BA acquired British Caledonian Airways they swapped used the new Caledonian name and used BA Tristars for holiday charter work whilst B Cals DC10's were absorbed into the British Airways fleet
@@stephenport4768 Thanks for that - very interesting.
Loved this Roger - very evocative. Thanks. My parents first took me to the Spanish mainland in 1968 - in my mother's womb! Nerja apparently. We used to go a lot in the early 1970s, when Franco ruled. A different time. Still miss the Peseta!
Thanks Nick - I have a box full of these Super 8mm films - but no idea what’s on them (apart from holding them up to the light and looking) and it’s quite expensive to get them converted to digital. This was the only one my grandfather had written on. One word. TRISTAR.
Flew om them all, including Bcal
I do have some BCal footage on Super 8mm - but get it digitised and do another vintage vlog. 😀
Just came across your channel as must say very enjoyable and a trip down memory lane . I’m 49 and remember Dan air well and even featured in an only fools and horses episode. Subscribed now and look forward to more . Cheers my friend
+Watford Fc Thanks 🙏🏻. Alas that’s all the vintage footage I have - though there is a Dan Air Comet at the East Fortune museum which is just along the road - so I might visit that sometime soon.
Hi Laker Airways only used 'Skytrain' on their schedeled North Atlantic services
Thanks for that! The brand was so strong at the time, I think we all assumed it referred to the whole network! 😀
My first flight when I was 11 in 1974 was on Courtline Lockheed TriStar from Luton to Alicante a few months before they went bust.
+Andrew Browning that’s really cool. I imagine it was quite densely seated - but must have been a great experience.
@@RogEdwardsTV I think it was orange but can't quite remember. I also have flown on a Dan Air Viscount to Guernsey from Bristol in the early 1980,s as the more unusual aircraft still flying that late
I once flew on a Monarch 720b
+Roger wild Fab! That was the only time I ever saw one! 😊
T'was many a year ago now.
I remember it as I originally thought it was a mini 707.
I also flew on one of the Dan Dare Comet 4c s Manchester to Girona
Gosh didn't even know Monarch had folded. Flew to Tunisia with them around 2000. Those trijets have a reputation for being very dangerous!
+Queen of Swords Monarch was a decent airline! Good memories! 🙏🏻
Laker didn’t fly to Med under “SkyTrain” that was USA!
Thanks - the Laker and Skytrain brand was so strong at the time we all thought it applied to the whole network! ☺️
DAN AIR WERE THE BEST
+Lee Simmons 👍🏻Lots of childhood memories of flying with them!
Good god man you are acting as if '73 was the time of Wiiliam the Conqurer and not PM Callahan. I visited Gatwick airport back in that period and there were many UK charter outfits which disappeared around that period. When I saw "Caledonian" even earlier in Amsterdam I wondered where in the world it was from?
Thanks for the info! 😀