College of Air Training Hamble - Old Footage from the mid 60s
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2024
- A film that we were shown at Hamble in 1979, commentary by Johnny Morris. We thought it was vintage then, but it made us chuckle! It shows the path that a new recruit would take to becoming an airline pilot. The College of Air Training Hamble to flying the big jets from Heathrow.
The commentary voice was that of the wonderful Johnny Morris, who many will recall from a popular TV programme of the period called Animal Magic. Life was such fun in those days, but, then again, we were all young then. Nice film.
Wonderful old video, brimgs back good memories.
My best friend at school went to Hamble, 65/67, I visited him a couple of times.
Tragically he was killed in the Trident midair ovre Zagreb, September 76.
Still sadly missed.
Was that Dennis Tann? I flew with his Son at British Midland.
No, my friend was the Trident co pilot.
@@SteveXFTE Ah ok, such a tragedy, so sad, I’m sorry.
Car and planes had so much character back then compared to the boring choices we have today.
Yes, they're all designed by computers that aren't programmed for style.
same with phones twenty years ago )))
Wow you can see in this film those old captains...not to be messed with.
You mean the sky-gods?- in my company these days, any such pretensions are quickly crushed or they are gone.
A time when we all knew where we stood…….the good old days……..or was it………..I am though waiting to see if Dotty the Ring Tailed Lemur may pop up…..seriously though, brilliant times with amazing jets, I was lucky to fly on Comets, VC 10, Super VC 10, Belfasts, Hercs and even an old Bristol Britannia…..it was fun flying to and from Cyprus to the UK, as a young boy….halcyon times……
Me too! Bristol Britannia to Hong Kong ( foetus) and back ( 3 year old ) and RAF VC-10s between Brize Norton and Akrotiri.
From memory, mostly 737s to Germany with Dan,Air and Britannia. Not quite sure about Dan Air.
An amazing archive of some pioneering days.
I was a small boy in the late 1960's and 1970's already obsessed with aviation. I grew up on the outskirts of Guildford and my father would sometimes take me to 'London Airport' to stand on that exact viewing area on that very building where 'Mike' stands to see his father. It was fantastic to be so close to everything with great views of the runways and all the sights and sounds of a busy airport. I realise we have moved on in giant steps these days, but I can't help feeling the architects and planners have somehow destroyed a very important and special part of aviation by designing terminal buildings that have no clear view of the airport they serve. Every time I go to Heathrow to drop or collect family and friends or fly out, I am so frustrated that you cannot see anything of the aircraft arriving and departing. All those young people who could be enthused and educated about airports and aviation are just processed cargo, deprived of feeling part of that world.
In an old fashioned way, it's good to once more, hear Johnny Morris doing his thing.
Thanks for posting this great old film.
That was me in the 60s and 70s as well! I witnessed 1st hand how the aviation industry has evolved over my 35 years of service!
@@bigglesvideo I have such happy memories if those days. I am so interested and excited by the amazing developments in aviation over my life time, and if you take the short span of years since the days of those first ever powered flights carrying intrepid aviators aloft, such as the Wright Brothers and Louis Bleriot, it is extraordinary to think, in that short time, we achieved....and have since retired and abandoned, supersonic passenger flight, and have travelled to space and put men on the moon and built and maintained a space station!.....it's really incredible. And yet....we don't seem to be able to build a terminal building that allows the magic of flying to be celebrated by those travelling! 🫤🤔
great video, I drove past what is left of Hamble today, not much.
Ah the VC-10! As a kid I used to fly the RAF Akrotiri / Brize Norton route on RAF troop transports in the very late 60s up to the mid-70s.
A beautiful aircraft. The first time I flew commercial I was completely stumped. The seats all faced the wrong way!
"Oh it's that gay young bachelor".
The camp and over the top narration from that era is unbelievable but at the time it just came across as the norm.
Nice bit of jet airline history 😊
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Priceless its Amazing how Life has Evolved In Aviation over the Years, Thanks for Sharing ❤
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4.20....beach ball...that was a neat bit of scene cutting... 7.36...I like that!..."well done; you're still airborne..." The narrator, Johnny Morris was unique. He had a way of telling you stuff factually but in an amusing way. His animal programmes were highly entertaining...here, he gives the Morris treatment to Hamble, imbuing a faint cheeriness.....highly entertaining!
I remember the apaches and later barons when I was a 7 or 8 years old. We used to climb through the fence and hide behind the runway marker boards when the barons were night flying, they used to be a few feet above your head when they took off. The hangar by the garages in Verdon Avenue housed the simulators and on a hot day the fire door would be open and you could see them…very primitive by today’s standards. Also, my mates mum worked as a cleaner at the college and knew the controllers, arranging for us lads to spend Saturdays in the control tower when only the RAF chippies were flying…. I remember that they would call up “Stone Point for rejoin” when coming back in from a sortie over the island. I ended up working for NATS and getting my pilots licence so I suppose, being a Hamble lad, it was in my blood!
A historic video, nice to see Aquila block and the guys marching to the canteen! Myself and most of my Hamble pilot course have just had our 50th reunion, another historic event 😉.
You guys must’ve been a decade ahead of us! We went through in 1979 and still meet up for the odd meal🙂
I did my commercial training at Southampton, and only found out about Hamble when we were holding for some bigger traffic to land. Shame it’s only a field now. Better times gents.
I trained at Hamble in 69/70 - course 692. Some of the pics of Hamble took me back. I was in Hydra block.
By the time it was shown in Hamble in 1979, the British Aircraft industry was dead, the trident and VC 10 were relics, Brit manufacturing itself was on its last grim steps towards oblivion, and the gay young pilot meant an entirely different thing. Just 13 years and a cultural and post-industrial revolution had occurred.
Nice video Malc (which I can't remember seeing at Hamble!!) "Up the sharp end, looking smooth" :-)
19:55 weren't the Tridents equipped w/Autoland?
Indeed they were, I guess that the producers of this film wanted to keep things simple?
so teddibly British, but can't help thinking compared to today, all this has been purposefully dismantled
I love watching vintage aviation, but the narration got a little too silly.
Is the narrator Johnny Morris? Certainly sounds like him.
Indeed it is! 🙂
What a fantastic video
I love a young Gay pilot 😂
We were all gay in the 1960’s, it meant happy then.
Nice boy!
iFlyTheWorld - i Fly The World Too !!
Gay means to be happy. I hate the way its been hijacked by homosexuals.
A very good mysoginistic video……well done old chap……toodle pip.
What’s mysoginistic about it?
Referring to the "Sweet young thing" perhaps?