707s at Southend - Part One

Boeing 707s at London Southend during the 1990s. Featured aircraft - 5N-JIL, 5N-AOQ and 9G-TWO / 5Y-SIM. March 1993 to March 1995.
Music;
Watch it Glow - Silent Partner
Stale Mate - Jingle Punks.
9G-TWO was the former BOAC and British Airways G-AYLT
5N-AOQ was previously Caledonian Airways G-AXRS
5N-JIL, first registered as Northwest Orient N362US
VHS recording.

[@MiturBinEsderty]

I spend 3 hours trying to find this channel finally I’m so glad I found it again !!!!!!

[@robinpinnock2678]

Welcome back !

[@jknox2]

I will never forget the whine and roar of the 707. Fantastic!

[@747heavyboeing3]

JT3D engines by Pratt and Whitney

[@mickboakes7023]

New subscriber. Really enjoying myself going back in time with your trips of nostalgia. Those were the days. Days when you could spend all day on the roof of Gatwick and Heathrow watching 707s Comets, VC10,s 111,s Viscounts, Vanguards, 748s, Ambassador’s, Heralds, DC4s and 7Cs, Britannia’s, Caravels,etc etc. All the best Mick🇬🇧

[@iloveboeing707]

707 Good girl. Beauty and powerful I never forget 7O7 707 was . is . and will be in My mind and my heart All of time. Thanks alot my dear friend Robin pinnock.

[@AirTrafficController.]

Good

[@mohsen703]

thanks dear rabin for this video I LOVE 7O7 7O7 is in my heart all of time

[@AirTrafficController.]

Me too

[@lelekoJumboJet]

Hello Mr. Robin! Just wanted to say these series of 707 videos are simply fantastic. Been watching them on the last few days and it's been a true joy for me. So many classic beauties, too bad they now belong in the past. Thank you so much for these great films! And great intro for this video too! Best regards from Fortaleza, Brazil.

[@robinpinnock2678]

Thank you Leonardo!

[@tectorama]

Great to see. Now it's mostly Sleazy Jet. Oh for the days of the 707s, DC-8s, 727s etc.

[@tijuanabrassman]

These are great videos in such a great setting!! Wow!!! I love them all!!!

[@arturwolffenbuttel3020]

These scenes and sounds are pure gold. Congratulations! Thanks for sharing. I live in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where we also had a maintenance base of 707`s (Varig) in the 90`s, including level D maintenance. I miss these sounds.

[@alistairscott137]

Now that's what I call an aircraft

[@keithburton9816]

Never get tired of watching these 707 videos and not the same at SEN now in many ways. Well done.

[@robinpinnock2678]

Keith Burton. Thanks Keith - we needed more patience to see some activity back then, but it was worth waiting for..!

[@christianbenn316]

I remember those days when the 707s dominated in the aviation industry.

[@flybyairplane3528]

Mr Pinnock, thanks so much for this series,brought a tear to my eyes, well done sir, I sat Rt seat on a B720, and the first stretched variant of DC8, those were the days.

[@bullwinklejmoos]

I was fortunate enough to sit right seat on the 707. Yes, those were the days.

[@Thelivewire64]

YEHEH! The JT3d3B Symphony!

[@Coppermiltac]

Great to see them again - thanks for recording for posterity. I never knew so many enthusiasts were viewing these departures - must have been about 20 outside Southend FC for the last dep on the video. Quite a few filming them as well!

[@Capt_SteveCranmer]

Well done Robin, thanks for the memories when pilots were pilots and not "systems controllers" & had to know their stuff

[@MrTitan225]

707 Jets by Boeing ......they ruled the skies in the late 50's and 60's !

[@SDK-im8sl]

The really amazing thing is that until 2012, Southend's runway was only about 5100 feet long! Absolutely the shortest runway in the world that 707s regularly flew from. Very lightened loads were the only way to make it work, but since they were mostly ferrying in and out for maintenance, that could usually be accomplished.

[@tomsamuelson8512]

They even had a L-1011 on that runway....

[@breathtakingblue]

Excellent video. You've caught some really good aircraft and a piece of history!

[@backpackerthrulife8497]

Incredible plane. I see no substantive difference from a 787 or A380!

[@michaelo1929]

True. Planes nowadays are garbage. Nothing aesthetically pleasing about 'em whatsoever.

[@SOUTHENDAVIATION]

That was a fantastic video Robin. Hope to see a lot more 707 videos from you soon!

[@minair99t]

Great work thanks for another Southend upload.Looking forward to pt2 .

[@dovidell]

Once the BAF Carvair's disappeared from Southend airport , I really thought that was it for big planes landing "on my door step" .A pity the airport can't be expanded further , but local citizens living near the airport are suffering enough as it is

[@cpocketts]

Thank you for posting this! Very interesting to watch

[@patthewoodboy]

I remember Heavy lift well , they used to run CL44 out of stansted

[@mikebracchi]

12:57 is that Chris Barrett-Jolly's 'Phoenix Aviation'? Crazy guy, worked with him a few times at Coventry when he brought a 707 to the airfield to save on parking charges at Southend ... smokey old thing took-off on 23 and clawed it's way into the air just clearing the farmhouse on 05's approach .... wonderful sight though.

[@robinpinnock2678]

Yes, the same person - search the name for his other Southend connection.!

[@mikebracchi]

Yes I had heard that him and Pete earned themselves some serious 'bird' - can't say I'm surprised, they behaved more like mercenaries than career pilots ...lol! Great videos Robin, bringing back memories of some fun times in aviation - thank you for posting.

[@armenio1947]

Great video, excellent work.

[@brianubal727]

More more more more !!!

[@letsseeif]

When noise retrictions were for the namby pambys.

[@willamisbezerra7655]

Amo Esse Veterano Jato Ótimo Vídeo Parabéns amigo

[@robinpinnock2678]

Obrigado!

[@maxtoledano9168]

Nice

[@dannymurphy1779]

God bless the KZbin algorithm! Haunting music on this awesome vid. That scene of the Simba escaping through the condemned planes was spine tingling. Robin do you know how the Simba story ended??? Hopefully she got home safely. I went down to Faro from Gatwick on a Tap 707 in around 1990 and even then it felt insanely dated. I had been on a Tristar in 1974 though so maybe I was biased :).

[@robinpinnock2678]

5Y-SIM had four more changes of registration, last seen as ST-AQW in 2011, apparently in storage at Khartoum.

[@PorcelainKilt]

I think thats the sound Aphex Twin was looking for in Come to Daddy.

[@dannymurphy1779]

You are right on the money the soundtrack is quality and giving me goosepumps. Reminds me a bit of 'when the morning comes', early 90's haunting choon.

[@patthewoodboy]

"Simba" means power :-)

[@hikakin_mania440]

68年前の旅客機

[@radio-su6lh]

Had no idea this gem of classics existed back in the 90's, ah if only... Get the maintenance bit, but who repaints cargo aircraft, did they only do that when they got new owners?

[@knightflightvideo]

Wonderful footage of the iconic 707! At 10:21 there is to see a Avro Vulcan. Was this bomber also for overhauling at Southend?

[@robinpinnock2678]

The Vulcan is XL426 - in the care of The Vulcan Restoration Trust. It can be seen in it's present home in my 'Spitfire Display' video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWXchq2joquIa6c

[@flybyairplane3528]

KNIGHT FLIGHT VIDEO the Vulcan was used for the Falklands Isles war.

[@thilosabin3868]

As an Aviation buff awesome! Wonder though what the locals had to say....??!

[@edepillim]

Simba is Swahili for lion.

[@colinprentice1672]

Fantastic memories, when's part 2?

[@robinpinnock2678]

Probably a couple of weeks before part two is ready.

[@Thelivewire64]

How many compressor stalls on first trim runs?

[@richardcline1337]

My very first flight on a jet aircraft was on board an Eastern Airlines 707. To me these will always be the queens of the air. They helped create the airline industry. Sadly, they are relegated to the scrapyards even though many are still perfectly capable of doing their job all because of the butt hurt, wimpy turds that keep screaming Mother Earth! But they have NO problem going out and using a fossil fueled vehicle to run around town in when they could, if they REALLY cared, use a bicycle like their ancestors!

[@SDK-im8sl]

Eastern had the 720, a lightened/simplified derivative of the 707, but never flew the actual 707. Beautiful planes, much missed.

[@backpackerthrulife8497]

Hear, hear!

[@flybyairplane3528]

SDK60638 I was fortunate to have flown Rt seat on a B720, most people thought it was a B707., wonderful plane, real old Smokey !

[@cupcakefairy87]

They still flew 707s in the 1990s?

[@edepillim]

So much pollution belting out!

[@robinpinnock2678]

More soot than a steam engine! :-D

[@eugeneoreilly9356]

The pollution you see isn't the danger,it's the stuff you don't see that is.That pollution is soot or partially burned carbon.Its bio degradable and caused by poor fuel combustion.The JT3 engines on these are first gen gas turbines and overall pressure ratio was low being in the region off 10 to 1. The RR Trent has a ratio off 40 to 1 as compressor designs have improved.The RR Conway which was the JT3 contemporary in that power bracket was almost as smokey.The 707 carried 50 gals off distilled water which was used for max load full power takeoffs,where it was injected upstream off the hot section to keep turbine operating temps within limits at max takeoff power setting.While water increased the efficiency off the compressor water does nothing for improving combustion hence full power ' wet' takeoffs produced enough smoke to obscure a battlefield.

[@tomsamuelson8512]

Well it wasn't like there was 40-50 flights a day out of here with 707's. more like 2-3 flights a day..some days none.

[@xenon9344]

I'm sad beacause these jets are one of the cause of the air pollution.....but i was happy beacause they changed the world..

[@leandro8266]

The first landing was really horrible.