Exactly what I was going to comment as well, especially the Tristars. I love that aircraft. I was a kid then and loved flying them back and forth on BA.
So many planes & airlines in this clip that I have flown on back in the day. I loved the BA Tristars, really comfortable. Tu-154's were scary and the Concorde well what can I say, I am blessed that I was fortunate enough to cross the pond numerous times on this iconic 'bird'. Never got to fly Luxair though...
You can almost smell the Jet A1. Look at all those wonderful and easily recognisable types and liveries! I have many happy ‘rooftop deck’ memories from the 70s, 80s and early 90s. We had the best of it, no question. Great video.
Fantastic piece of aviation history from Heathrow. Such a popular location for so many people and not surprising. Great to see the historic aircraft and airlines too. Too many to list but TWA was a highlight and the TU154 and Concorde.
Concorde in Landor livery looked fantastic. The Queens Building was amazing, in the late 70's all of my paper-round wages were usually spent on the bus fare to get there. Binoculars and Ian Allen's "Civil Aircraft Markings" in hand of course! I remember space up on the little "bridge" like structure was always at a premium. We were so lucky to live in such an amazing period of aviation history.
Thanks for sharing. So many happy memories on top of the Queens Building. Looking back, the variety of aircraft types was brilliant. Seems to be only 777, 787, 330, 350, and the 320 family now.
Just like most of these aircraft types…. We’ll never get a view like this ever again. I was only lucky to visit Heathrow roof visitors area a few times as a lad but boy were those some great lasting memories. Blissful times. Thanks for sharing the memories
Happy that so many people are enjoying this. My dad who filmed it is no longer with us, but he'd be delighted too, especially as I remember he wasn't too happy I insisted he film the visit for me! Those big video cameras weren't too much fun to use back in the day 🤣
What an awesome time capsule of a film. Back when Lang Haul flights were almost guaranteed to be a 747. Back in the days of drop down CRT screens from the roof and everyone had to watch the same movie, or if lucky enough choose from a range of "radio" channels from the little control pad built into the seat arm rest. I was living in Germany at this time, Dad was in the Army. It's fascinating for me to see what normal goings on where in places I had at that point never visited.
Glad you enjoyed it bmused. My dad took this recording on a big shoulder camera, state-of-the-art back then I bet. It's bittersweet looking back as he has passed away now. He would be amazed at the amount of views and comments his video has got, though.
I love this video.... this is back when in-flight entertainment was one pull down screen in each cabin compartment. The only thing you could control was volume that went into twin air-tube (non electrical) headphones using big round dials. If you were lucky there might be a second dial giving you a few choices of music in addition to the sole film playing at any one time. When getting restless go to the back of the plane and hang out with the folks congregating together with a drink in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other. Always great conversation back there where hours would melt away.
Brilliant video, and thank for sharing! Many a happy day spent there, then I discovered the top floors of the car parks before they added the fencing. Great views of the rest of the old T2 and T3 as they were. Love the Ok Jet tail livery, proper old school 😎
Wow, blast from the past. The observation point looking down into the T2 ramp area was the Foxtrot stands. Worked on the ramp for Air France Service Ltd (AFSL) during the weekends (1998 - 2001) whilst at Uni.
The excuse to close it was the 9/11, but the reality is that they wanted the public to spend more time shopping rather than watching planes. Plane spotters market was too small to be taken into account.
@@gteixeira Yep, at Sydney they had an excellent viewing deck. I think it is closed now. There was a small shop selling drinks and snacks but it was never open - guess it was not viable.
At the back end of last year the Luxair F50 was written off in Africa: "The aircraft departed Mogadishu-Aden Abdulle Airport on a cargo flight to Beledweyne, carrying four crew members and various goods on behalf of the AMISOM, the African Union Mission in Somalia. After takeoff, the crew informed ATC about hydraulic problems and was cleared to return. After touchdown on runway 05, the aircraft went out of control, veered off runway to the right and collided with a concrete wall. Two crew members were slightly injured while both pilots were seriously injured after the cockpit was severely damaged on impact."
Those were the days. Many a happy hour spent roaming around the rooftop viewing area with it’s shops and cafes. That’s when the enthusiast was catered for, unlike today when you have to stand in a field and even then with a limited view. Terrorism security brought an end to all that unfortunately.
This is why I wanted to become a pilot. Noisy and smokey planes, no stupid yellow hi vis jacket and tons of different airplanes! Now we are just employees with a beautiful view outside the office.
This looks so weird to me as I barely see a 747 at Heathrow and I have never seen I trijet in person and the Concorde sneaking in 5 minutes into the video
Before 9/11, before twin-jets killed off everything else, old livery’s, old low-bypass smoggy engines, old airlines. I wish I could have seen it myself
Great video..... Pratt and Wittney engines everywhere..........I dont know why BRITISH AIRWAYS killed that elegant Royal Crown LOGO to a generic one, same for IBERIA and AA ..... Aeromexico has always keep its "caballero de aguila"
Hi mate, the viewing spot from the video is from Terminal 2. The airlines that served in Terminal 1 in the time period you asked was mainly British airways and British midlands (Short haul). There was also Air Lingus, Iceland air ,South African airways, EL AL, star alliance and a few others. Terminal 2 was Iberia, Alitalia, Swiss air, Lufthansa, TAP, Malta air, Air France, SAS, Finn air and Olympic (Pretty much all the European flights) There were many others airlines there, I think Aeroflot? but these are the only ones I am sure of, Hope that helps :-)
@@senabecool7232 Hi mate, Terminal 4 was all British airways/British airways Concords, KLM, Canadian and I think you had the odd Sri Lankan air or Jamaican airways but cant fully remember. Terminal 3 was United airlines, American airlines, Air Canada, Virgin Atlantic, Cathay pacific, ANA, JAL, Singapore airlines, Egypt Air, Iran Air, Emirates, Royal Jordanian, Air India, Biman Bangladesh, PIA, Saudi Arabian, Qantas, Varig, Air Mauritius, Royal brunei, Gulf Air, BWIA West indies, Ghana Airways, Kuwait airlines, Turkish Airlines and a few more I am sure :-)
The viewing deck at Heathrow was incredible. Guys running all over the place getting tail numbers and writing them down. Lots of fun watching the planes & people!
I miss the aviation book and hobby shop up there on the Heathrow obs deck in the 90s. And of course there were the local blokes who I think lived up there. Whenever I would be at Heathrow from Canada I’d see the same fellows. They were enthusiasts but I wondered if they were rough sleepers too. Some were like soccer hooligans, lots of swearing, f bombs etc.
Just how classy the Landor livery was. And TriStars and Tu-154s, how splendid.
Exactly what I was going to comment as well, especially the Tristars. I love that aircraft. I was a kid then and loved flying them back and forth on BA.
So many planes & airlines in this clip that I have flown on back in the day. I loved the BA Tristars, really comfortable. Tu-154's were scary and the Concorde well what can I say, I am blessed that I was fortunate enough to cross the pond numerous times on this iconic 'bird'. Never got to fly Luxair though...
You can almost smell the Jet A1. Look at all those wonderful and easily recognisable types and liveries! I have many happy ‘rooftop deck’ memories from the 70s, 80s and early 90s. We had the best of it, no question. Great video.
Very nice footage from the good old times with a wide variety of stunning aircraft types! Huge like!! 🤩✈️👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic piece of aviation history from Heathrow. Such a popular location for so many people and not surprising. Great to see the historic aircraft and airlines too. Too many to list but TWA was a highlight and the TU154 and Concorde.
This was the peak of aviation, so many different aircraft absolute bliss for a child !
Concorde in Landor livery looked fantastic. The Queens Building was amazing, in the late 70's all of my paper-round wages were usually spent on the bus fare to get there. Binoculars and Ian Allen's "Civil Aircraft Markings" in hand of course! I remember space up on the little "bridge" like structure was always at a premium. We were so lucky to live in such an amazing period of aviation history.
Thanks for the comment, and I agree. We don't realise what we miss until it's gone 😞
I could watch classic footage like this all day!..Thanks for sharing!
Watching this you can practically smell the Jet-A. Love it.
Wish i could sit in a time machine travelling back to the 80s + 90s.
Actually no; whilst I enjoy nostalgia trust me sitting in a long haul jet as a passenger (in the 80s and 90s )was a dire experience.
This video had everything! Thank you!
Lieber Lars
This has bought a smile to my face. So many trips to my grandparents who lived nearby were spent on that terrace in the 80's.
Glad you enjoyed it Daniel! Memories! Thanks for leaving a comment 👍🏻
an amazing job for shooting nearly 30 years ago and with such good quality! I hope you have more!
Thanks for sharing. So many happy memories on top of the Queens Building.
Looking back, the variety of aircraft types was brilliant. Seems to be only 777, 787, 330, 350, and the 320 family now.
What about the a380s
This surprised me... 31+ years of A320 at BA. Time flies...
Just like most of these aircraft types…. We’ll never get a view like this ever again. I was only lucky to visit Heathrow roof visitors area a few times as a lad but boy were those some great lasting memories.
Blissful times. Thanks for sharing the memories
Happy that so many people are enjoying this. My dad who filmed it is no longer with us, but he'd be delighted too, especially as I remember he wasn't too happy I insisted he film the visit for me! Those big video cameras weren't too much fun to use back in the day 🤣
The Concord looks way too futuristic, even for 2022. 5:38
Great footage and memories! Thank you so much!
Aviation was so much better back then, now you just have 777’s everywhere
and Airbus 320s
its basically just either a319, a320 or 777
Or bloody 737s. Even with the MAX grounded. I don't even know if I'd get into aviation if I was growing up now.
@@imonymous Nah mate, been to heathrow couple weeks ago for 8 hours and saw only one 737, now its all a319s and a320s
Lots of 787s out to Heathrow now, and a350s less regularly
Planes were so diverse back then, it’s all just a320s and 737s now
every major airline included good job and btw thanks for capturing PIA 747 TAKEOFF WHEN PIA WAS A GREAT AIRLINE AND REGULAR CUSTOMER TO LHR
Amazing, I was there at the time and these days were fantastic.
Brilliant footage, thank you for sharing it!
What an awesome time capsule of a film. Back when Lang Haul flights were almost guaranteed to be a 747. Back in the days of drop down CRT screens from the roof and everyone had to watch the same movie, or if lucky enough choose from a range of "radio" channels from the little control pad built into the seat arm rest.
I was living in Germany at this time, Dad was in the Army. It's fascinating for me to see what normal goings on where in places I had at that point never visited.
Glad you enjoyed it bmused. My dad took this recording on a big shoulder camera, state-of-the-art back then I bet. It's bittersweet looking back as he has passed away now. He would be amazed at the amount of views and comments his video has got, though.
@@alistair-01 His passion is allowing us to relive the past. Well done to him. And thank you for taking the time to digitise and upload it all
@@bmused55 thanks for your kind words
Brilliant
Superb. When aeroplanes had charm and character and one could stand a spot them from dedicated spotting platforms ……….
Goegeous finally some Tristar 500´s action thanks for a wonderful video.
I love this video.... this is back when in-flight entertainment was one pull down screen in each cabin compartment. The only thing you could control was volume that went into twin air-tube (non electrical) headphones using big round dials. If you were lucky there might be a second dial giving you a few choices of music in addition to the sole film playing at any one time. When getting restless go to the back of the plane and hang out with the folks congregating together with a drink in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other. Always great conversation back there where hours would melt away.
Brilliant video, and thank for sharing! Many a happy day spent there, then I discovered the top floors of the car parks before they added the fencing. Great views of the rest of the old T2 and T3 as they were. Love the Ok Jet tail livery, proper old school 😎
Tupelov 154’s 😍
Wow, blast from the past.
The observation point looking down into the T2 ramp area was the Foxtrot stands.
Worked on the ramp for Air France Service Ltd (AFSL) during the weekends (1998 - 2001) whilst at Uni.
What a brilliant video, remember the Queens building well and all the old type aircraft and liveries
Delighted at how much nostalgia this one is bringing out folks. Only wish I had some more footage :-(. Oh how to travel back in time...
Thank you for documenting
Why didn't they keep a viewing area,i recall going here as kid in the 80s.?
It was a proper day out!!
The excuse to close it was the 9/11, but the reality is that they wanted the public to spend more time shopping rather than watching planes. Plane spotters market was too small to be taken into account.
@@gteixeira Yep, at Sydney they had an excellent viewing deck. I think it is closed now. There was a small shop selling drinks and snacks but it was never open - guess it was not viable.
@@brentsummers7377 Yes, and passengers or companions would be distracted from shopping if they remained plane spotting.
I used to love going home after a day spotting on Queens Building smelling of JETA1 !!
The Olympic Airways A300 😍😍
Went back to Heathrow a few weeks ago. Looks like the inside of a fridge. Miss the variety.
Fantastic
Love the Jumbos 💙
Oldiest Goldiest...
At the back end of last year the Luxair F50 was written off in Africa:
"The aircraft departed Mogadishu-Aden Abdulle Airport on a cargo flight to Beledweyne, carrying four crew members and various goods on behalf of the AMISOM, the African Union Mission in Somalia. After takeoff, the crew informed ATC about hydraulic problems and was cleared to return. After touchdown on runway 05, the aircraft went out of control, veered off runway to the right and collided with a concrete wall. Two crew members were slightly injured while both pilots were seriously injured after the cockpit was severely damaged on impact."
Good old days. A lot of liveries and air frames we'll probably never see again in service.
So many happy times at the various viewing spots on the QB then heading off to the car parks when it was closing time
Great to see Concorde in her glory days. Worst mistake BA ever made, is ditching the Landor Livery for what they have now. :(
busy airport. the planes never sleep
The endless hours we spent up the Queens building as a kid ( and we never paid because we used to bunk in via the fire escape! )
Sneaky, but you had to do what you had to do I guess! Was definitely worth it I’m sure!
Those were the days. Many a happy hour spent roaming around the rooftop viewing area with it’s shops and cafes. That’s when the enthusiast was catered for, unlike today when you have to stand in a field and even then with a limited view. Terrorism security brought an end to all that unfortunately.
Some airports do still have these, but they are much rarer than 30+ years ago.
My left ear thanks you!
Um desfile de belas aeronaves.
Ah, the Nineties, when airliners were anything but boring! And, BA's Landor livery was the handsomest ever, especially on the Concorde!
Back when this was an airport to be proud of.
There are several European cities 1/10 of Londons size with airports as big as Heathrow back then. Tiny compared to today.
I like how the Concorde takeoff was saved for last!
The good old days at heathrow spent a good few hours on the roof terrace about this time have plenty of VHS video somewhere in the house !
Very nice Video.
My left ear enjoyed this.
There's always someone............
Is it me or am I right you had more much more exotic looking planes in the 90's compared today
This is why I wanted to become a pilot. Noisy and smokey planes, no stupid yellow hi vis jacket and tons of different airplanes!
Now we are just employees with a beautiful view outside the office.
This looks so weird to me as I barely see a 747 at Heathrow and I have never seen I trijet in person and the Concorde sneaking in 5 minutes into the video
Very enjoyable to watch. To see so many 747s makes me feel how backwards the world is going now with so few left
Before 9/11, before twin-jets killed off everything else, old livery’s, old low-bypass smoggy engines, old airlines. I wish I could have seen it myself
Great video..... Pratt and Wittney engines everywhere..........I dont know why BRITISH AIRWAYS killed that elegant Royal Crown LOGO to a generic one, same for IBERIA and AA ..... Aeromexico has always keep its "caballero de aguila"
0:20 from far distance British airways Boeing 767-300ER Rolls-Royce.
Not an A320 in sight we were so spoiled spotting back then . Great memories
OH I LOVE THE BRITISH AIRWAYS 757-200!! 😩😩😩 1:00
Bring back Cheatlines! They were so classy.
Alot has changed in 30yrs. You don't see alot these aircraft like the concodrde or the b747.
Some old British Airways livery colors!
Look at all those 747s. Now lucky if 1 freighter lands at Heathrow in a day
question: in the 90s and early 2000s what airlines served Terminal 1 and old terminal 2 and what terminal is in this video
Hi mate, the viewing spot from the video is from Terminal 2. The airlines that served in Terminal 1 in the time period you asked was mainly British airways and British midlands (Short haul). There was also Air Lingus, Iceland air ,South African airways, EL AL, star alliance and a few others. Terminal 2 was Iberia, Alitalia, Swiss air, Lufthansa, TAP, Malta air, Air France, SAS, Finn air and Olympic (Pretty much all the European flights) There were many others airlines there, I think Aeroflot? but these are the only ones I am sure of, Hope that helps :-)
@@Machine744 yes yess it does
@@Machine744 what was terminal 4 and terminal 3's airlines
@@senabecool7232 Hi mate, Terminal 4 was all British airways/British airways Concords, KLM, Canadian and I think you had the odd Sri Lankan air or Jamaican airways but cant fully remember. Terminal 3 was United airlines, American airlines, Air Canada, Virgin Atlantic, Cathay pacific, ANA, JAL, Singapore airlines, Egypt Air, Iran Air, Emirates, Royal Jordanian, Air India, Biman Bangladesh, PIA, Saudi Arabian, Qantas, Varig, Air Mauritius, Royal brunei, Gulf Air, BWIA West indies, Ghana Airways, Kuwait airlines, Turkish Airlines and a few more I am sure :-)
EVEN IN 1985,HEATHROW TEEMED WITH PLANES AND PASSENGERS FROM SWEDEN N SOUTH AFRICA,
THE WALKALATORS WERE POSITIONED AT SHORT INTERVALS. IT WAS A CULTURE SHOCK FOR US WITH NO MALLS MUCH FEWER CARS AND OLD TECHNOLOGIES IN INDIA.
Olympic Airways 🇬🇷
PIA WAS STILL OPERATING!!!
Those TU-154's were noisy birds!
Just the best BA livery, before they went all crazy tail!
Sehr interessant.
4:56 concorde :')
Classic Turkish Airlines
The world has turned over a few times since then....I do not know what that means butt it sounds appropriate....
The viewing deck at Heathrow was incredible. Guys running all over the place getting tail numbers and writing them down. Lots of fun watching the planes & people!
I miss the aviation book and hobby shop up there on the Heathrow obs deck in the 90s. And of course there were the local blokes who I think lived up there. Whenever I would be at Heathrow from Canada I’d see the same fellows. They were enthusiasts but I wondered if they were rough sleepers too. Some were like soccer hooligans, lots of swearing, f bombs etc.
I’ve definitely flown that Turkish Airlines A310 spent all summers in Turkey flying from Heathrow as a kid!
was the service good?
@@gaguy1967 I remember THY being hectic, as a kid the A310 felt so big. And everyone smoking, including the crew