London Airport - Heathrow 1940s to 1970s
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Documentary (2019)
Starring:
Howard Asbridge (Narrator)
This third ‘London Airport’ DVD goes back even further; to the 1940s, with BOAC Yorks, a BSAA Lancaster Freighter, Constellations and even an Air France Languedoc.
Then there’s a BEA Ambassador and a BOAC Stratocruiser plus KLM and Sabena DC4s. And do you remember Island Airways’ Dragon Rapides giving pleasure flights over London?
Outside the Queens Building in 1959, the ramp’s pretty quiet; just a few early Viscounts and the occasional DC6B. But, after a drive to Heathrow in 1961, on almost empty approach roads, the airport itself is now crowded with turboprops and early jetliners.
But, there are a still a few piston propliners; Air France Super Constellations, Sabena and Swissair CV440s, a Cambrian DC3 and we fly to Liverpool on a Starways DC4.
Tridents, Comets, 707s, DC8s, VC10s, 1-11s, DC9s; all the early jetliners are here and they feature in some great airside action or in those famous views from the spectator terraces.
On the cargo ramp, there’s close up action with a Singapore Airlines 707C, BEA Merchantman and a Fred Olsen Electra.
Singapore Airlines’ Concorde also features in this wonderful review of Heathrow in its heyday.
Also from this series:
Avion Video Series
Douglas DC-3C
London Airport at Heathrow in the early days after 1946.
Registration OO-AUY, c/n 43089. Built in 1943 as C-47 Skytrain four USAAF, retrofit post war as DC-3C. An interesting Consolidated LB-30 Liberator II of B.O.A.C in the background right.
Avro 685 York C.I
Registration G-AGJA, c/n 1207. Delivered to B.O.A.C in Januray 1944, then operated for a while by British South American Airways on May 1949 until September 1949. Went back to B.O.A.C until Mai 1951. Sold to Lancashire Aircraft Ltd then sold to Skyways of London Ltd in February 1955. Withdrawn frome use on May 1959.
Lockheed Constellation behind it.
Avro 685 York C.I
Registration G-AGNY, c/n 1226. Delivered to B.O.A.C in September 1945. Sold to Eagle Aviation Ltd on October 1949 to Skyways of London Ltd on April 1953.
Destroyed in an accident in August 1954.
SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc
Registration F-BCUN, c/n 61.
In the background, a Lockheed Constellation on the right and Douglas DC-3 on the left.
On the right backround, a Douglas DC-4 from an unidentified airline.
Unidentified airline Douglas DC-3 in the background left.
Better view of the Consolidated LB-30 Liberator II of B.O.A.C in the background right.
Avro 691 Lancastrian
Registration G-AGUJ, c/n PP689.
Douglas DC-4-1009
Registration PH-TLO. c/n not found yet.
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See also
- Avion Video Series
- Airspeed Ambassador
- Armstrong Whitworth A.W.660 Argosy
- Avro Lancastrian
- Avro York
- BAC One-Eleven
- Beechcraft Baron
- Boeing 707
- Boeing 737
- Bristol 175 Britannia
- Consolidated B-24 Liberator
- Convair 240/340/440
- Convair 540/580/600/640
- Convair 880/990
- De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide
- De Havilland DH106 Comet
- De Havilland DH114 Heron
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Douglas C-53 Skytrooper
- Douglas C-54 Skymaster
- Douglas DC-3
- Douglas DC-4
- Douglas DC-6
- Douglas DC-8
- Fokker F27 Friendship
- Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident
- Hawker Siddeley HS.748
- Lockheed Constellation
- Lockheed L-188 Electra
- Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
- McDonnell Douglas DC-9
- Piper PA-23
- Piper PA-32
- SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc
- Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle
- Vickers Vanguard
- Vickers VC10
- Vickers Viscount
- Aer Lingus
- Air Atlantique Ltd
- Air France
- BKS Air Transport
- British Airways
- British Eagle International Airlines
- British European Airways
- British Midland Airways
- British Overseas Airways Corporation
- British South American Airways
- Cambrian Airways
- Eagle Airways Ltd
- Fred. Olsen Airtransport
- JAT Yugoslav Airlines
- KLM
- Lufthansa
- Martinair
- Pan American World Airways
- SABENA
- Trans-Canada Air Lines