1962

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....06b59eee89.jpg

Looks like a brick wall at the end.
https://i.imgur.com/DIVHzYd.jpg

This is a photo of the experimental hangar with a hint of nissan hut
https://i.imgur.com/RN39Y2p.jpg

First Monarch flight 5th April 1968. (Best to mute speakers due to horrible music)

Great video - cannot recall where OM/MON's London coach terminal was - Edgware Road or Tottenham Court Rd areas?
Court Line and Britannia both had London Terminals.

Summer 1968
LTN starts to go-jet!
First jets based at LTN arrive - Autair 1-11 400's and Britannia 737-204's
Dan Air opens their LTN 1-11 base a year later, in 1969.
OM/MON will have to wait a few years to get their hands on their first jet, the 720B in 1971

Channel AW also got their first Trident One E in 1968, and their first 1-11 the summer before, (STN based but LTN saw PMI and other charters)

To be pedantic: "Nissan" are cars. The huts are "Nissen".

Staff seem relaxed, even laid back. Couldn't be more different from today's mad house.

In the photo of post # 3541 there is a strange vehicle or contraption standing in the left, between the white overalled-man and the gentleman in the foreground. Could someone please explain what it is? Thanks.

At 0:28, the coach is turning left out of Percy St into Tottenham Court Rd.

Wash,probably a small motorised fuel `bowser` for refuelling away from the fuel pumps...Can`t remember the name/type,but later ones were larger drive-on..Someone will have a photo....

How odd to think that I was there, a 13 year old, at the crash gate all those years ago. I didn't know what this yellow aeroplane was until it taxied by and knew by the reg. it was a Brit.

Aha, thanks. I've never seen such a tiny browser. Never to old to learn, my grandmother would say.

Another view complete with fuel gauge
https://i.imgur.com/QcJmx3p.jpg

This one is their self powered version
https://i.imgur.com/DdLqizD.jpg

That Comet must have been going at a helluva speed.

A couple of scenes from the film. Sorry to say the rest didn't photograph too well

Percival Way behind what became Monarch's hangar
https://i.imgur.com/hxLpSvX.jpg

Luton's first control tower
https://i.imgur.com/kw1xsWu.jpg

Sporting...!!

LTNman:

I can see looking at the top photo, and comparing with the others, that the aircraft's name was changed. Can see that on the fuselage only pics it "Amu", but on the earlier picture, when it was operational, the name is much longer, though I can't read it.

When was it changed, and does anyone know why?

Yes, that is correct G-AOVS was named Christian after One of the companies Directors sons. The name was transferred to G-BRAC which was acquired during 1978.'OVS was renamed Amy after another other director's daughter. Amy was withdrawn from service in July 1979 and was used for Ground shots during the filming of "Buccaneer", for continuity purposes the name Christian was reapplied to her port side as G-BRAC had been used for the air to air shots in the title sequence.