London To Sydney Boeing 707 On New Route (1967)
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2014
- No title - BOAC inaugurates new Pacific service flight from London to Sydney.
Technicolor.
Various shots of a BOAC jet in the air, interior shots of cockpit. M/S as steward and stewardess bring trolley of food. M/S steward carving chicken. M/S stewardess pouring drink. M/S of clouds below the plane. C/U plate of caviar and smoked salmon being eaten by passenger. M/S couple having coffee in New York skyscraper restaurant, pan down skyscraper. Various shots of the skyscrapers. M/S Fifth Avenue. M/S yellow cabs and shops. C/U Saks, C/U Tiffany & Co. M/S Broadway. C/U signpost in New York. M/S plane taxiing and taking off. C/U pilot. M/S of his hand on controls.
M/S tram driving down road followed by car in San Francisco. Various shots of the trams. L/S's Golden Gate bridge. High angle shot of San Francisco. C/U sign 'Fishermen's Grotto'. M/S people in the grotto looking at the fish. C/U sign 'Local live or cooked crabs'. pan down to them. C/U crabs. M/S street at dusk with signs lit up. C/U's sign for apartments, food etc. M/S jet in air, M/S radio operator in plane. M/S woman with garland of flowers, she puts it round man's neck and kisses him on arrival in Honolulu. M/S crew disembarking from plane. M/S palm tree, pan down to sandy beach and sea. Various shots of holidaymakers on beach. M/S street in Honolulu, various shots of buildings there. M/S airport. M/S passengers getting on plane, various shots plane including Union Jack on side. L/S plane taking off again. M/S as man gives woman her certificate to say she has passed over the equator. C/U of certificate. M/S man in Fiji banging on log with sticks to convey messages. M/S beautiful beach. M/S beach at dusk. M/S Fiji from plane. Archive footage of clipper ship in rough weather, water sweeps over deck. M/S's men pulling in sails. M/S plane flying along. M/S interior of plane showing passengers. M/S woman laughing, C/U man talking. M/S pilots in cockpit. Aerial views of Sydney Harbour bridge.
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In the final shot you can see an incomplete Opera House. It officially opened in 1973.
Give me British Pathe rather than Sky News any day
Or you can watch the BBC as they make every endeavour to denigrate Britain.
I flew out to Australia in November 1968, Zurich, Rome, Karachi, Calcutta, HongKong, Darwin and Sydney on a 707! Seemed like it took forever! fabulous trip though, landing in Hong Kong and Sydney were the highlights though!
33 hours back then, but only 15 hours now, that too, without any stops...still, being able to travel halfway around the world in just a little more than a day was such an achievement for those days.
I could be wrong here but there were Political problems in Singapore and Malaysia in those days so any plans to find an alternative routing to Australia was well thought of.(Of course there was Qantas as well through Bermuda,Mexico and Tahiti or PANAM via the US West Coast and what was then CP AIR through Vancouver)
16h 45m to Perth only, scheduled. 19h 19m to Sydney (experimental).
@@franzchong5889 Wrong about SE Asia. The Soviet bloc, shortest route, was closed until 1990s.
707 flies slightly faster than newer jets. How come there is a reduction in travel time? Cuz today they can use USSR and China airspace?
Concorde 🍷🗿
Fascinating to freeze-frame many of these images...and really examine the clothing, architecture, advertising, technology, etc.
Cavier and a shot of Smirnoff !! Classy
People looks happier back then
Because we were
@@RobertB56 Yes yes true story
One of my mums friends relatives was a steward on the BOAC 707 G Forrest greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
What a regal way to fly..could one make stopovers?? ..Air New Zeeland flies like this today..Auckland-Los Angeles-Heathrow with B777....
Air NZ also had LHR-HKG-AKL, so could go round the world. Alas both are no longer available 😠
@@thomasmoore9421 the reason this service existed plus Qantas through Tahiti and Mexico City and Bermuda in those days was mostly due to political problems in Singapore and Malaysia around this time so alternative routes needed to be found Australia to England and reverse.
it is sad but there are now less than 100 of these old 707 boeings still flying :-O
And now none
yeah..
@@ILoveQazaqstan actually 23 passenger and 40 cargo still flying :-)
@@marshalllucky that sounds like good news to me
Milk Run. Via middle east / Asia the trip was still around 24 hrs
Lovely, just lovely. As well as romantic and nostalgic... though with a mistake in it, I fear... isn't the cabin in the first interior shots that of a VC10 rather than a B707??... cue the hat-racks with no "podded" service units, as well as the rounded windows....
this feels so nostalgic
I've often thought that BOACs livery was the most attractive ever painted onto a 707. It reminded me of a Canada goose with gold letters.
Great film footage.
I miss this era so much, even being born at 90's. Best era of all times!
Me too. At that time China mainland was in a fierce age, everyone fight for contributing socialism. Though at that time only bureaucrats could travel by air for urgent working reason. But it indeed a time equal is widely spread there.
...How can you miss it if you didn't even experience it? 🤪🤪🤪🙄
G-APFH would go on to be connected to a hard landing incident in 1974. The captain elected to fly the aircraft back to LGW even though significant damage was noted around the #2 engine, and extreme protest was offered by the local Sr. Tech Engineer during inspection. The aircraft landed safely, but the accident report would later reveal grave issues of concern related to airworthiness.
Just to clarify that was when the aircraft was operated by BEA Airtours after BOAC had sold it to them.
Crazy how they were giving out certificates for crossing the equator.. something we think nothing of doing today. Makes me wonder what seems hard or impossible today, might be routine in 30-40 years.
3:45 look how much this landscape has changed in 57 years
It seems their maximum range for a single leg was about 8 hours.
Caviare and vodka in flight dreams.
Look at the food and leg room. Not to mention the width of the seats. Now it’s sardine class with cardboard food on offer.
I miss those days.
I was only a fetus when this was made.
Working class of yester year had a better chance of affording it...
The opposite is actually true. Only the upper middle class and wealthy could afford to fly before deregulation in the '70s.
Did they have pocket camera in those days?
Yes...but they had huge pockets
The year of my birth.
At 1:15 The man in mustang Playing real life Midtown Madness 2
Stopover?
Well I never knew that the BOAC's 707s had Rolls-Royce engines.
The -436 series did but the later -336 had Pratt and Witneys
How much would the ticket have been?
white man technology is amazing
Days of the white Australia policy and God will save the queen but nothing will save the guvna lol or was that the 70s. Anyways b4 my time was born in 82.