Is this genuine Britannia sound?

[Chris558]

Sounds like a dub, but...? And a take off sound at 1.20 in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fto533pmrkg

[Garry Russell]

I don't think it's dubbed but sound didn't reproduce well then


On and aside on this clip at 2:20 is something I've asked about before but no one had and answer

Carrying radioactive isotopes in the wing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwMjk8eJ ... re=related

[emfrat]

Garry-
I expect you are familiar with this page, but just in case:
http://www.aviainform.org/industrynews/ ... tory-.html

"The introduction of new aeroplanes continued in 1952 with the De Havilland Comet, by B.O.A.C. The Comet was the first Jet Powered airliner to enter service across the Atlantic and to other destinations on the airline’s routes. This most graceful looking aeroplane did not have huge holds for the carriage of air cargo but it was capable of carrying a substantial tonnage quite a lot faster than most other aircraft in service at that time. On certain routes it also carried nuclear isotopes used in medical research, in special tubes in the wing tips...."
This article refers to the Comet, but the same reasoning would apply to the Britannia.
I have read elsewhere that in the early Cold War years, many UK civil aircraft carried particle filters to monitor atmospheric radiation levels; whether there is any connection to this I do not know.

ATB
MikeW

[Garry Russell]

HI Mike

Never seen that article...thanks

I have this vid and when I asked various people they didn't know about it so perhaps it was a BOAC thing and not generally put about at the time.

[emfrat]

HI Mike

Never seen that article...thanks

I have this vid and when I asked various people they didn't know about it so perhaps it was a BOAC thing and not generally put about at the time.

Cheers, Garry -
I suspect it was more MoD than BOAC, but then I am just a cynical oul' Granpa

[Garry Russell]

What I meant was perhaps only BOAC carried it...they wouldn't instigate it off they're own back as there was no commercial need as such...only Government contolled.

There is a special compartment and that doies not feature on any Britannia plans I've seen.

I wonder how safe it was

[DarrenL]

Sounds like a dub, but...? And a take off sound at 1.20 in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fto533pmrkg

Probably silent cinefilm with sound recorded separately (of different Britannia taxiing and taking off) and not matched to the images.

[cstorey]

:What I meant was perhaps only BOAC carried it...they wouldn't instigate it off they're own back as there was no commercial need as such

I think the radioisotope carried would usually be radium, which was widely used in cancer treatment for producing gamma rays, before the first radiotherapy machines were developed in the late 1950s

[Garry Russell]

I wonder if I should add glowing wingtips to my Britannia