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Remember this as a child ! The airport. has changed so much over the years . Love seeing the Tridents ,Vanguard, viscounts and Caravelles etc .

The actual BEA livery of the 60’s is a surreal thing to see when you’ve done nothing but seen ‘G-EUPJ’ flying around LHR like I have been the last few years😄

Nothing beats this style of video for me… a window unto the world showing how times were decades ago, to a day I would never have seen with my own eyes if it wasn’t for this very video existing in the first place. Thank you for uploading this timeless masterpiece of times gone by😊

Great footage of the flying golden age. Thanks for posting this!

Brings back great memories thanks

Big thanks for posting :) I was on Everything from Viscounts to Comets from 1966 to 1973 working as cabin-crew while I learned to fly at minimum cost utilising the British Airways air-mindedness scheme based at a place called Booker. In those days. great numbers of flight navigators and flight engineers were retraining as pilots, as their airborne tasks were being automated, being familiar with the lifestyle they were good value from the airlines perspective: in that they knew the lifestyle and would likely stay having been trained. a time of very great change that continues to this day. (John, Perth Australia)

I remember it as if it was only yesterday. I use to take the 285 bus from Kingston to Heathrow and spend the day up in the Queens building on the rooftop. Those were the days. Sadly no chance of that happening nowadays.

Just shows - Ryanair not the first to tear around the apron at Mach 2!!!!! I would be worth slowing the film down to real-time

Interesting to see, behind the southern runway, the 3 hangars with HUNTING in big letters, where my late father worked at the time this was filmed. They were occupied by Field Aircraft Services Ltd, a Hunting group company. The lettering originally said HUNTING-CLAN, an airline previously based there.

The year my sister joined BOAC as cabin crew ❤

Well dressed, non obese people were common at airports then.

1:21 beautiful

Ah….the silent engine technology of 70s 😐

must have been very loud with those RR engines

Caravelles & Vanguards - heavenly!

1:27Some crazy traffic, but a fascinating variety of vehicles. Ford Zephyr Mk III straight out of Z-Cars

That TWA 707 0:37was taxiing a bit enthusiastically!

Some cool stuff there. 0:34Nice echelon formation with two VC-10s (BWIA, is one of them?) and a Triden

I would have liked the sound of the engines in those days... the raw howl of the turbo engines.... I miss it

Great stuff. Speeded up a bit from the original, I think. The Carvair in particular did not perform like a jet fighter!

Wish I could go back to them days. As a young boy Was always up there plane spotting. Dreaming of becoming a pilot, which I eventually achieved. Thank you for posting and bringing back long forgotten memories.😁👍

Fantastic!

extremely keen !

that kids telescope was also used for spying on his neighbour as she takes off her 'nylons'

What an amazing video… loved every second of this, a real shame that the glory days of aviation is behind us

all that work and concern and nation building. only for it all to be thrown away for a globalist coup. sad times. uk is over.

Wow imagine I wasn't born when this was taken, and I end up working here for 20 years. ❤ LHR

8mm film - luxus quality!

Probably totally wrong here but I’ve watched a few Heathrow videos from the 60s and I get the impression the planes taxi a lot faster. Or is that because the films speeded up?

This takes me back! At the time this film was shot I was 7 and living in a small town in Surrey. I recall school trips up to London and visits to museums such as the Natural History Museum and the long closed Commonwealth Institute. Our trips sometimes ended with a visit to London Airport. There was, I seem to remember, a public viewing platform from which we could watch the planes. Whether it was true or not, we were told that each time an aeroplane touched down the friction caused half a pound of rubber to burn off the tyres.

Look at them watching the 707 land! This was in the infancy of jet airliner travel.

The livery on that Air France Caravelle is pure class..❤

More likely 1958. The Viscount is Transair which was part of BUA from 1960 And the Ambassador is BEA. They stopped operating them in 1958

It is 1963. Departure board shows Monday 5th August which ties in

I wonder who the glamorous lady was?

rich people. 1965

The film's running a bit fast though😂😂😂😂

When being an aviation enthusiast didn’t equate with being a terrorist.

Flew from LHR to Singapore on a British Eagle Britannia in 1966

Looks like this was filmed from the old Roof Gardens, a much loved feature at Heathrow Airport. I spent many a happy Saturday or Sunday afternoon there during my childhood.

😊Concorde

Soooo many amazing types, never to be seen again. 😥

W😮W 👌 All those scenes and VC-10s 😊

The days off real planes not an airbus in sight

Caí de para quedas no seu canal. Gosto muito dessas imagens antigas. Sucesso

It is definitely Dublin. In some of the footage you can see the Iona Airways hanger in the background. I took flying lessons from there in the early 80s so know it very well.

LOVE the Iraqi Airways 727-200 at 2:01!!! Now that is a catch!

Great to see British designed and built aircraft here, the 1-11 and the Trident….and the VC-10 i think i saw?

Wow that plane at 0:06 took off at a million miles an hour! 😆

not shannon ?