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I find this such an incredibly valuable piece of information, especially considering that there is no publication available about this incredible feat. Is there a version of this video available on a more permanent repository, maybe with a DOI?

Brilliant video really enjoyed that

😆😆😆The Fokkers are everywhere!!!

The UK was the first to do everything looking back at history. 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍

Then came radar …

We should get back to basics. Fly by planes agai. Radial engines. To apreciate flight again. Damn it. Advanced world lost it do to technology. No longer exitment.

Thank Americans Britz learned how to fly. And learn how to make planes ? Now Britz are proud taking credits

Fascinating. The engineering of those days, the dress codes!

3:04. "expert wheel washing technician". actually, i suppose this is to wash off clumps of dried mud so as to keep it from detaching and damaging the wing tail during takeoff? checking for leaks? just washing to be spiffy?

Fascinating, thanks! That biplane was a beast.

Who remembers building the Airfix HP 42 as a lad, all those Z shaped struts , quite an achievement when you finished it .

Just imagine flying to Australia i one of those string bags, taking the best part of a week together with overnight stops in the stragest of places.

Never has any man, risked his life so many times, on so many aircraft, for as such as long as he had, and survived and thrived on such adversity and challenge as Eric "Winkle" Brown. I'm only sorry he didn't get to fly the X-15.

I live in Croydon.... And there's no airport where I live, but the view out the mountains is pretty damn good! Guess where?

Safety even in the early ages of aviation is just astounding. I would have liked to have known the turnaround time for when they got that plane into before it was ready for the engine rebuilds and all that.

📽️🎞️A very good perspective of everyday older commercial aircraft. A great viewpoint. Thanks. This was the kind of film that would be shown to kids in school, when the teacher called in sick, too late to get a substitute. Somewhere in the first two minutes. some kids would male fart noises.

Wow that is amazing film . That bird looks very nippy . I'm not a pilot or engineer but I noted those little aerofoils that were mounted on the main rotor 90 degrees to the 2 main blades - that could be pitched up and down - I wonder if that meant the main rotors were fixed . The hands-free stability seemed impressive . I presume that was an auto-rotation at 4:41 .

What a wonderful record of those pioneering times. Amazing to see the extreme difference in designs that were flying together at that moment in aviation history. The DC3 looked so advanced in comparrison....it was!! The fact that they are still in service around the world to this day is testement to their great design and usefulness. The narrator of course, the great Carlton Hobbs, was a big star in radio drama at the time and famously made his name as Sherlock Holmes. He can still be heard in the role on BBC Sounds.

How lovely to see my beautiful mono culture Britain before the world’s violent §hit started to arrive.

Such a shame that all of the interwar large airliners are gone; there's quite a few interesting ones here - the AW Atalanta, the Short Scylla, the HP42 (of course), the Fokker and Junkers trimotors and an early DC1? or DC3?? reconstructing one, even for ground display would be very expensive but it would be such a sight to see an HP 42 in the metal (and wire).

ATC watch logs , some from earlier times than shown here, were (maybe still are) displayed in the lobby of the College of ATC at Bournemouth Airport. Many of the entries reported pilots making that most heinous of actions, turning right after landing!

How close were the ground crew when that plane parked up and they ran forwards under the props! 😲

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The father of my late aunt was Frederick Stanley Mockford. He was the senior radio officer at Croydon Airport and devised the Mayday distress call in 1923.

~0:20 "…slightly shortened" ↑ I'd be fascinated to know what was cut… some obliging reference to that cheeky chappie Herr Hitler, perhaps?

"..first-ever film made film by the Shell Film Unit describing a day in the Croydon Airport". Think someone needs to work on the title of this video.

Incredible to think each plane had a coal fire and a smoking lounge where passengers could sip port and listen to a string quartet. Talk about travelling in style!

When people travelled in smart clothes. Unlike today where people don’t give a sh1t….

why theres only 1 video of it? and does clapping actually does anything or it go up anyways?

Brilliant thanks for shearing 👍🏻 🏆

♤♤♤♤ !!!

Should have had a Knighthood. ❤😢

here is explained problems in movie The right stuff

Thank you.

Chickens fly, not very well, but they do fly.

The workers used to live on Waddon housing estate, across the road from Croydon airport, built for it in the 1920's. Can spot them now, the dark red brick houses just off Purley Way. History, ey?

Off Purley Way - the art deco old terminal building is still there - Aerodrome House or something it is called

Nothing about the romanian aviation pioneers ...Traian Vuia, Aurel Vlaicu, Henri Coandă...??

Forerunner of the modern tilt-rotor. That test pilot had some courage!!!!

Rubber powered ornathopters work fine with jap tissue covering. Your wings look way too overdesigned.

If only everyone could be as humble as this man. RIP Eric.

Well, Ian, this YT lark has a tough and flighty crowd. To answer your emquiry,,,,,maybe they should have fished for flying fish??

How did they fail to give him a knighthood?

My Great uncle, Harry Goodyear worked alongside Robert Blackburn in the early days. I met him back in 72 on a trip to England. He gave me his gold retirement pocket watch. My middle name is Goodyear.

I could listen all day to this amazing man tell the stories of his life in aviation. He was such a great speaker and seemed like such a down to earth gentleman.

A riveting hour and three quarters. All this from a man of 95 who was still more sprightly and compos mentis than most 40 year olds having served his country, and the Western Allies, for over 30 years. Compare him to the 45th President of the USA who at almost 20 years younger can barely string 2 sentences together coherently and was too cowardly to serve his country for a couple of years. Bone spurs indeed! I guess they would serve as studs on his golf shoes.

95 years old, speaking coherently and still with a fairly sharp memory. 👍

This is so fascinating as I lived in Croydon and then went on to join the RAF as an aircraft engineer so aircraft are a great interest. Its such a shame they didnt make Croydon the site for the London airport! Heathrow is so far from London, Croydon is right THERE! I wish someone had the presence of mind to PRESERVE one of those Handley Page aircraft - sadly none survive so it is forgotten. I would have loved to see one of them.

no sound???