Could You Imagine The Clowns at QF Doing This?

[Exit Strategy]

Imagine a campaign that values staff and history...most of their recent advertising you wouldn't even know what business they were in.

British Airways - Our advert 2011: To Fly. To Serve. - YouTube

British Airways - The making of our advert - YouTube

[Wally Mk2]

Thanks for the links 'Exit' lovely to watch, a thing of the past these days sadly. Still hopefully there is a bit of that pride feeling in every pilot even these days who steps aboard a plane to fly, a feeling like no other! It's just a shame it doesn't extend up the ladder to the top. At least we have a past that we where once proud of.
Aviation in it's infancy was exciting, had a main being, to foster good will,to move people far & wide that would ultimately bring us all closer, to make the world shrink. Oh it's done that alright brought us all a lot closer but has also created a division, a division of 'them & us', the workers the management.
The plane today is just a tool, a tool to be used for the gain of a few.

Aviation is just a money making business today nothing more.


Wmk2

[LeadSled]

Folks,
Actually, QF have made very successful advertising campaigns only these line over the years -- print and TV.

Anybody here remember when the Avro 504 last got airborne, where, why, and who was the pilot? ---- and the stink afterwards, because the aircraft was only supposed to taxi, but the temptation was too much, and the unscripted footage was used in the advertisements.

I must say, it seems unlikely under the present management ---- as it would run counter to running mainline international services down.

Tootle pip!!

[UPPERLOBE]

Don't know when the last Avro to get airborne was, but the one you are referring to was the War Memorial aircraft which was restored by QF apprentices in Hangar 11 at Mascot in the late sixties.

If my memory serves me correctly the pilot was supposed to have a taxi around in front of hangar 96 for the cameras, a gust of wind might have suddenly caused it become airborne momentarily, dunno, the pilot was some bloke named Sir Hudson Fysh apparently he'd had flown an Avro 504K previously. :ok:

[ad-astra]

Speedbird............just a great call sign.


Clipper ..............was the the only one that came close!

Exit thanks for the links great!

[Rollingthunder]

Canada Vignettes - Full Circle - YouTube

Our callsign was Empress. First service from Canada to Australia

You can figure out the airline and history from that.

[MELKBQF]

LeadSled, just found that commercial you were talking about...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UoSLavikZs&feature=related

[Captain Gidday]

Absolutely was not Hudson Fysh flying it though.

[UPPERLOBE]

G'day Capt Gidday,

Happy to be proven wrong, from dim dark memory the story goes that the lift off featured in that advertisement was chroma keyed from the original late sixties Huddy "flight" at Mascot.