707s at Southend - Part Three

Boeing 707 ST-AKW and 9XR-JA / P4-ESP at London Southend in the 1990s.
Southend's relatively short runway of 5266 feet imposed severe limits on the types and loadings of aircraft, particularly jets, using the airport.
707s came in for maintenance, storage, repainting or scrapping, and departure was usually lightly loaded for a short hop to a larger airport where it would fill up for it's onward journey.
The departure of ST-AKW with enough fuel to take it non-stop to Khartoum, Sudan was surprising, and unfortunately I was not in the best location to video the take off, which took the runway to it's limits.
ST-AKW is seen later in 1994 with it's new operators, Azza Air Transport. It continued in service until October 21 2009, when it crashed soon after take off from Shajah, United Arab Emirates, with the loss of all six lives on board.
9XR-JA of Air Rwana, later RwandAir, arrived at Southend during a time of terrible turmoil in it's home country, and was inactive for a long time. It later became P4-ESP of Espace Aviation Services.
The sudden left turn of P4-ESP after take off was another surprise!
Music:
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Jupiter by Silent Partner.
VHS-C recording.

[@philip4193]

The sound of those B707's as they roared down the runway climbed off into the distance actually brought a chill to my spine and revived many vivid memories from my childhood. We lived under a flight path growing up in the 70's & 80's and would frequently have DC-8's & B707's roar over our neighbourhood on their takeoff climb-out at 1500-odd thousand feet. The beautiful combination of that roaring buzz-saw growl on approach followed by the deafening compressor scream of the four thundering JT3D's as the aircraft passed directly overhead billowing a trail of black smoke behind it as the house window panes rattled in their frames is an experience like no other, and one I sorely miss to this day!

[@paulallen8777]

Stunning plane and amazing sound. I remember the Sudanese TAAT coming into Manchester in the 90s trailing black smoke and looking battered! Screaming engine noise as it turned when taxiing. Nice to see & hear the Air Rwanda 9XR-JA. It was always the last plane in the Civil Aircraft Markings but sadly I never got to see it.

[@davebellamy4867]

A mate of mine sent me here. He was reminiscing about the old 707s and their contemporaries. 2:30 Make those houses vibrate, baby!😂

[@Thelivewire64]

Neil Diamond had a song that is fitting here. What a beautiful noise!

[@williamcap2236]

The 707 is the most beautiful plane ever built remember them coming in for landings and take off in NYC as a kid. Miss that scream nothing like it.

[@davebellamy4867]

Are KC135 Stratotankers still operating? How similar are they to 707s?

[@williamcap2236]

@@davebellamy4867 yes the military still uses the kc135's but not the same jet engines. Same but slightly different

[@davidca96]

I love this, I love 707's, and I love JT3D's, thank you.

[@MGAviationNZAircraftVideos]

Loud ✅ smoky ✅ beautiful aircraft ✅ good old days of aviation.

[@juliecasey5196]

That’s how planes should sound

[@robertcharlessceats3647]

As usual Robin, top notch !

[@davebellamy4867]

Mean synthesizer at the beginning. Sounds like an old Prophet-5.

[@claudiaficicchia446]

The audio quality is great

[@charlesanzalone5846]

great footage

[@PACHANTIN]

At first i saw 707 was CAL Dynasty’s one. After that Cathay, Air Hong Kong, Air Manila, Korean air.... But the ones that impressed me the most were Indonesia and the Australian Air Force 707.

[@cameraman655]

707 Heaven!

[@747heavyboeing3]

9:38. No tug, I'll use a tractor. JT3Ds sounded AWESOME .

[@tilolenk5556]

Fein! Sehr fein! 👍👍👍😘

[@radio-su6lh]

All your videos are truly amazing Robin. For av geeks everywhere, can't thank you enough for all your videos!

[@popmusic6243]

O som dessa máquina é apaixonante ❤

[@danielkennedy7845]

Brilliant! taking those shots of a wonderful time in aviation! Well done!

[@mickboakes7023]

What a great film. Those were the days, plenty of noise plenty of smoke. Wonder what the present day anti noise and anti pollution snowflakes would make of it. Give them something really to moan about. All the best.Mick.🇬🇧

[@michaelgrey7854]

Thet would not be able to survive one day..

[@mohsen703]

i love7O7 7O7 was is and will be in my heart

[@r12004rewy]

Brilliant, what great Memories a tad more interesting than Easy

[@juliecasey5196]

Absolutely awesome

[@Coppermiltac]

Cracking video again Robin, thanks for sharing.

[@knightflightvideo]

Great video of the beautiful screaming 707s! Love it and sub it! :-)

[@9XRSC]

Many thanks Robin for the replying of my request.

[@Turboprop1974]

Love it!!!! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[@guillermoo5493]

el avion mas hermoso que me gusto Boeing 707seguido iba al aeropuerto a mirarlos, bogota Colombia

[@ChevyBM]

Beautiful! And sounds so much better without them huskits!

[@knightflightvideo]

At 8:42 beautiful, just beautiful. :)

[@curtiss1000]

More nice memories and ST-AKW flew direct to Khartoum when all white.

[@Lee-70ish]

First jet I flew on.

[@LaloPeloMundo]

Muito bom vídeo Great vídeo!

[@LudeauvieK]

Smoke,smoke engines ....on flight! :D

[@RayhanAhmed-qr3vz]

In august 1989 I was on a PAKISTAN PIA B707 320C FROM KARACHI TO LAHORE FLIGHT WENT INTO HEAVY TERRIAN RESULTING INCREASE BUFFET AND TURBULENCE FELT AIRCARFT WAS NOT IN CONTROL OF PILOT THIS RESULTED IN FEAR IN A PERSON LIKE ME WHO HAS ALWAYS CIVIL AVIATION MINEDED AND CAN YOU BELIEF HOW MY OWN MOTHER FELT AND TWO RELATIVES WHO WERE WITH US . FEAR WAS RUNNING INTO OTHER PASSENGERS

[@davidsheriff8989]

Flew on 707 to Cairo and back 3 times

[@backpackerthrulife8497]

c'mon, c'mon....c'mon! c'mon!!

[@trolling2701]

Pinnock Yo

[@missGraceJones]

my brother saw it crashing while i was watching air crash investigation korean air 801 episode :(

[@michaelgrey7854]

Wait what??

[@andrewquirey7364]

can't understand why why Airports/fields etc are in line with power lines and Electric railway cables. or maybe it was the way l was looking at it or something.

[@robinpinnock2678]

Andrew Quirey. Having an electrified railway at the end of the runway is not ideal planning, but it's the way the airport developed. A few aircraft have skidded onto the line in the past, fortunately without serious injury, but it does provide a very convenient station for today's airport.

[@tallslimguy]

The noise was dreadful - Would hate to have lived in Rochford - Thank goodness new aircraft are a lot quieter - Thanks for posting