London Airport - Heathrow in the 1960s & 70s
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Documentary (2003)
Starring:
Howard Asbridge (Narrator)
Remember where it all began? On the roof terrace at a major airport; noisy, exciting, full of variety and interest. You may have started a lifelong passion for aviation at that moment, but today’s airliners don’t really match up to those early days, do they?
Now we can take you back in time, with the help of some enthusiasts’ cine film, that has been digitally restored and matched to authentic sound. This production hasn’t been made by filming a flickering projection screen. With a specialist ‘Telecine’ conversion process, also used by the BBC and by ITV, we can digitally transfer pictures direct from the film on to digital video tape. These can then be enhanced and edited as necessary.
We start in the 1960s with Viscounts and 707s everywhere, alongside Caravelles, DC8s, Britannias, DC7s, Comets and TU104s. The earliest shot appears to be in 1963, with more from 1964.
Highlights include BEA Herald, Lufthansa C46, Ghana, Swissair and MEA CV990s, the crashed TCA DC8, Aer Lingus Carvair, CSA and CPA Britannias, British Eagle and UAA DC6s. Alitalia, Dan Air and BOAC DC7s, UAA Caravelle.
The 1970s begin with early 747s, DC10s and Tristars. We’ve still got some 707s and increasing numbers of DC8Fs, plus Concorde and the last days of the Tridents.
Highlights include Pan Am DC10 & 737, Northeast Trident, Merpati Vanguard, National 747, Libyan 727, SAA 747SP.
Overall the variety is amazing. Let’s just list the 707s: BOAC, PanAm, TWA, Air France, Lufthansa, TMA, MEA, Air Malta, El Al, PIA, Kuwait, Olympic, SAA, TAP, QANTAS, Montana [Austrian], Kenya, Air Mauritius, US Govt.
So, why not relive those memories today?
Also from this series:
Avion Video Series
The 1960s
Tupolev Tu-104A & Vickers 951 Vanguard
In the background at London Heathrow Airport in the early 60's.
Vickers 808 Viscount
Registration EI-ALG, c/n 312. First flew on February 1958 as 805 version, delivered to Eagle Airways Ltd as G-APDX on March 1958, exported to Bermuda's subsidiary of Eagle on February 1959 as VR-BAY. Sold to Aer Lingus on February 1960 and converted to 808 Standard. Wfu on October 1969. Scrapped in 1972.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
In the background is a Vickers 951 Vanguard from BEA.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Taxiing between EI-ALG already listed above and another Vanguard from BEA in the background.
Convair 990A-30 Coronado
On approach in the sky of Heathrow. Must be either HB-ICA, c/n 30-10-7 Bern or HB-ICE, c/n 30-10-14 Vaud of Swissair on lease to Ghana Airways in 1964. See the Ghanaese flag on the tail fin.
Handley Page HPR-7 Dart Herald 100
It seems we have two Alitalia's aircraft in the background, a Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N to the left beside a Douglas DC-8.
Douglas DC-6B
Boeing 707-436
Wearing the Blue Tail Twin Stripe livery of the era 1955-1966.
Douglas DC-6A
Vickers 951 Vanguard from BEA to the right.
Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas
BEA 's Vickers Vanguard to the right in foreground.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle IA
KLM's Vickers 803 Viscount in the foreground.
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See also
- Avion Video Series
- Airspeed Ambassador
- Airspeed Consul
- Armstrong Whitworth A.W.660 Argosy
- Avro York
- BAC One-Eleven
- Beechcraft Model 18
- Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
- Boeing 707
- Boeing 747
- Boeing 727
- Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter
- Bristol 170 Freighter
- Bristol 175 Britannia
- Convair 240/340/440
- Convair 880/990
- Convair C-131 Samaritan
- Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando
- De Havilland DH104 Dove
- De Havilland DH106 Comet
- De Havilland DH114 Heron
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Douglas C-54 Skymaster
- Douglas C-118 Liftmaster
- Douglas DC-3
- Douglas DC-4
- Douglas DC-6
- Douglas DC-7
- Douglas DC-8
- Fairchild C-82 Packet
- Fokker F27 Friendship
- Handley Page Dart Herald
- Handley Page Hermes
- Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident
- Hawker Siddeley HS.748
- Ilyushin Il-14
- Ilyushin Il-18
- Lockheed Constellation
- Lockheed L-188 Electra
- Martin 4-0-4
- McDonnell Douglas DC-9
- Percival Proctor
- Piper PA-22 Tri-Pacer
- Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle
- Tupolev Tu-104
- Vickers Vanguard
- Vickers Viking
- Vickers Viscount
- Westland Whirlwind (helicopter)
- Aer Lingus
- Aeroflot
- Aerolíneas Argentinas
- Air Canada
- Air Ceylon
- Air France
- Air India
- Alitalia
- American Airlines
- Austrian Airlines
- BKS Air Transport
- BOAC-Cunard
- British Eagle International Airlines
- British European Airways
- British Overseas Airways Corporation
- Capital Airlines
- Capitol Air
- ČSA Czech Airlines
- Cubana de Aviación
- Cunard Eagle Airways
- Dan-Air
- Derby Airways Cargo Service
- Eagle Airways Ltd
- El Al Israel Airlines
- Finnair
- Flying Tiger Line
- Ghana Airways
- Iberia
- Icelandair-Flugfélag Íslands
- Japan Airlines
- JAT Yugoslav Airlines
- KLM
- Kuwait Airways
- LOT Polish Airlines
- LTU International
- Lufthansa
- Malév Hungarian Airlines
- Middle East Airlines
- Misrair
- Modern Air
- Morton Air Services
- Nigeria Airways
- Olympic Airways
- Pakistan International Airlines
- Pan American World Airways
- Qantas
- SABENA
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- Scandinavian Airlines System
- South African Airways
- Spantax
- Starways
- Swissair
- Trans-Canada Air Lines
- Transcontinental SA
- Trans World Airlines
- Turkish Airlines
- United Arab Airlines
- VARIG