Pilots travalogue

[delticbob]

Just spent 10 happy minutes at YouTube. You'll love these, its a 2 part film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqcya8yI ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm-U4XMJ ... re=related

Al I was missing was the usherette with the Ice Creams.

The posters father was a pilot in the late 50's/early 60's & he ofter carried his 8mm camera with him, but the blurb at YouTube explains it all.

Spot the Vulcan & Valiant, the Britannia, the Carvair I think it is dropping off is Jaguar or is that the Bristol Freighter.

A nice pair of films from a bygone era

Bob

[DelP]

Nice find Bob

Love the soundtrack.....but I am old

Derek

[Garry Russell]

Wonderful Bob

Great films..proves something I was trying to convince someone about a while ago and that is how low they often flew

Some interesting things there.

The Supefreighter in formation seems to be G-AMSA which was painted in a slightly differnent version of that livery to all others.

The landing shot with the shadow seem to show he was flying their only 31 G-ANMF.

G-APAV in basic SABENA was new to me as I've only seen pics of the full livery.

Nice to see the Channel Vikings and the early V.700 VIscounts waiting for their next load.

Younger members may not realise that Lydd and Southend wew very busy then with what amounted to a virtual continuous shuttle with Car Ferry, coach air, or railair

Great stuff

Thanks for that.

Garry

[DispatchDragon]

Obviously he started on Vikings and graduated to the Brit -- cant imagine how mind numbing flying a viking from the UK to Entebee would have been Im assuming from what I saw that he must have flown for Airwork/BUA - the mountain shots look like they may have been at Perpignan


Leif

[Garry Russell]

Hi leif

I wondered if the mountains were from a Carvair on the Geneva or similar

A different World then

Garry

[airboatr]

6:16 (second video)
what was that ...long nose painted black .......intereseting

thats the first time I've seen the superfreigter in flight....

just ~ think Garry ....they had no clue the plane they were flying would be flyable in the virual world
fifty plus years later..
or that it would be up for the world to see..... things have changed

[Garry Russell]

Hi Joe

That long nose is a Varsity testbed with a modified nose

Nigel did a vid show a formation of Bristol 170's but I never imaginged i'd see real fiml of that

Garry

[Tomliner]

Classic pieces of aviation nostalgia.Wonder how many more gems are sitting in attics etc. EricT

[Garry Russell]

I wonder if there is more form that source

Truly remarkable stuff turns up..sometimes in loft clearances

Garry

[airboatr]

Truly remarkable stuff turns up..sometimes in loft clearances Garry

well that's cause it's lofty stuff Garry ,