View Full Version : Aviation History and Nostalgia? Oh, yes indeed!
GrumpyOldFart
29th Sep 2007, 00:31
... no matter what the future of aircraft may be - Stratocruiser, Brabazon or Flying Wing ...
... this building may continue for about six years yet ...
This was Heathrow in 1949. (http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6635157371794629794)
pigboat
29th Sep 2007, 01:48
Fantastic! Thanks Jerry. :ok:
con-pilot
29th Sep 2007, 03:00
Great find Jerry, thank you very much. :ok:
Cubs2jets
29th Sep 2007, 13:58
"And surely the unkindest cut of all: a few of their pubs must go!":eek:
If they knew what a mess this place would be 60 years later, they would have left the pubs!
Cubs2jets
gruntie
29th Sep 2007, 14:24
There's a lot more of the same at the National Archives, here (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/). More early Heathrow, Berlin airlift, etc etc, plus a great one about travelling on a London Bus.
treadigraph
29th Sep 2007, 15:38
Thanks Jerry, passed that on to my colleagues who 60 years on are still building it! Great stuff.
I've recently had an 8mm film shot at London Airport around 1950 copied to DVD but sadly it proved very very poor.
And then then there's the future (http://www.baa.com/assets/B2CPortal/Static%20Files/LHReast_birdseye.jpg)...
merlinxx
29th Sep 2007, 16:37
Hounslow bus garage.
My father was transferred from Croydon to LHR in 1949, he first took me up when I was 5, I still remember the duck boards, tents & phone boxes in mud!
He took me up during all school hols 'til I was 12 or so. Later visited (work) aand had great fun getting through the wire fence to get to the Vanguard Club (BEA). Only been based for 3 months of my working life thank god. Our Little Airport in the Country (EGKK) is my home base, though anywhere else as an expat.
GrumpyOldFart
29th Sep 2007, 22:27
they would have left the pubs
They should have taken the Three Magpies, though.
:yuk:
Blacksheep
30th Sep 2007, 13:25
With not a single hard hat in sight, tens of thousands must have died or been maimed during the initial construction. :rolleyes:
That pair testing concrete samples without eye protection must make all the the H&S Commandos cringe.
brakedwell
30th Sep 2007, 15:46
But they survived - admittedly deaf and blind with severe headaches!
HAL-26
30th Sep 2007, 17:48
Superb Jerry. Thankyou. Check out "Wing to Wing" on the National Archives website too. Wonderful nostalgia, wonderful aeroplanes - and the RAF owned so many!!
....and did you notice too, not a hi-viz jacket in sight!! :bored: