Heathrow Airport - Video Thread

[Jerry]

Fine selection there, Jerry. I have a feeling this won't be the last time you will be videoing at LHR.

Thank you! No it won't be! I really enjoyed it!

 

[Jerry]

 

[Seasider]

You could have done with the tree cutting down.

 

[Jerry]

You could have done with the tree cutting down.

Yep it was in the way a bit!

 

[Jerry]

New Heathrow video! From the 12/9/19

 

[Jerry]

 

[Jerry]

 

[Jerry]

Last video from my visit in September!

 

[Jerry]

This is the full landing video from my flight with BA from Aberdeen last month. It also includes the full approach over the City of London which i thought was pretty spectacular.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Historical film of Heathrow produced in 1949. It looks at the rural area displaced in order to permit 'London's airport' and has plenty of shots of the aircraft of the day. It's a Crown Film Unit production so the quality is good.

The narrator tells us that runway number 1 is the finest in the world - two others were nearing completion when the film was made. Number 1's concrete surface looks a little bumpy to me but perhaps it's an illusion.

The latest year saw 400,000 passengers handled with many more expected in the future.

 

[Seasider]

I thought I had seen all the films of Heathrow in its early days. but not that one. Thank you TLY

 

[TheLocalYokel]

A five-minute series of shots at Heathrow in 1958 - 'London Airport' as it was usually known then.

The sequences appear to be discarded rough cuts from a Pathe News item about the airport, apparently concentrating on youngsters spotting. There is no sound.

The colour film shows a host of airlines from that period, and most seem to be turbo-props, although I think I spotted a piston-engined Douglas DC 3 in the background at one point. There might have been other piston-engined aircraft that I missed. This was the early days of the Boeing 707 but I saw no jets in any of the shots.

In those days airports were far more inclined to cater for spotters or simply those fascinated to observe airliners at close quarters - it has to be remembered that the majority of people had never flown then and to watch aircraft departing and arriving to and from 'foreign parts' was something of an adventure to many.

One sequence shows signposts to the Queen's Building where a commentary on the airside activity used to be provided, and to the Airport Tours Booking Office.

The first minute of the video is taken up with shots of youngsters in a rooftop playground at the airport. The main aircraft action begins after that.

 

[DarloPlaneBoy]

Video of Korean Air Airbus A380 F1 Charter From Nagoya to Heathrow captured at 26,000ft over Birmingham it is Heathrow related as it is landing at Heathrow

Courtsey: Airport Action