Aircraft At Gatwick (1970-1975)

[@kennethrodmell9006]

Thanks for posting. Was at high school 1970 - 1975 and had my first flight (LGW - CDG) at Easter, 1974. It was in a B-Cal BAC 1-11 called Isle of Islay. Even the murky weather is spot on. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!

[@cheetajet320]

This would've been even more stunning with original audio.

[@tonycritcher3419]

I was living on a farm at Cowden, Kent and used to have them fly low over our house after leaving the Mayfield an Excaliber. I collected many registration numbers like that. Once a DanAir Comet had to circle for ages as only the nose wheel had lowered. It finally came over once the main gear had deployed . In this footage the Laker DC10 hadn't had the SkyTrain decal added. Western and Eastern Belle. In later years, I cycled there to watch the inaugural flight of the Sky Train to New York. The last time I was at Gatwick, I flew on an 'Excaliber' Airbus to Cairo, but landed at Luxor airport first. There we saw Princess Diana board her plane with the Royal Flight back to the UK. We were next to take off. Back to this video, when I saw the 707, my heart did a flip! I think that and the Tridents were my favourites of that era. We used to live at Egham, Surrey in the very early 70's just five miles from Heathrow and got really great views of them climbing out from there,

[@southcoaster4135]

Living in Crawley in the 70s, on a still night you could hear these noisey old jets thundering down the runway, loved it because Gatwick was the lifeblood of Crawley 💕

[@AndreiTupolev]

Awesome shot of the Caravelle on the takeoff roll - and then the camera cuts out!!

[@RoadCone411]

It was quiet at Gatwick back then

[@rubenplanes9599]

that aged well lol

[@casparthomas4775]

Gatwick is a ghost town now

[@chrisnizer5702]

Kinda cool seeing so many straight turbojets still in service. Loved the sound of those classic turbojet engines, especially during startup. They were not at all bashful about bringing the noise!

[@ayobami5774]

Left the UK thru Gatwick for the first time in my life,aged ten, flying British Caledonian ,a 707 plane early January 1975

[@garypoole1658]

Interesting to see how the nose of the 787 Dreamliner has an uncanny resemblance to that of the old Caravelle.

[@avtom_]

What goes round comes back round to speak!

[@pplpaul4747]

The French took the comet’s nose design for the Caravelle.

[@Cl4rendon]

Flying the Caravelle back then was something really special - Like flying the dreamy today. 😁

[@timlc]

Reminds me of the days when it was possible to sneak airside to get the best vantage points 😂

[@chrisnizer5702]

Doubt if anyone would believe that there was a time when going to the airport and taking a commercial flight was fun and exciting. Even the time spent waiting in the airport was fun back then. But it's true my friends, it used to actually be something we looked forward to.

[@rory693]

No sound but safe to say that every single one one those old birds were noisy that day.

[@harvey364]

Gotta love the big, straight, flaps on Caravelle!

[@pascoaiandreta9964]

Poor birds!

[@billybellend1155]

The DC10 and Tristar made the 707 obsolete over night. The wide body jets carried more people further and used less fuel and created less noise. Even by the mid seventies most were getting relegated to charter flights.

[@atomic32205489]

I flew the BCAL BAC many times from LGW to Paris and return. Pity there is no sound on this video. I most often sat on the last row and had an engine right outside my window.

[@chrisnizer5702]

There's precious little video of theses classic turbojet engines with sound. They sure sounded GREAT though, especially during startup!

[@sdry1688]

Brilliant

[@malcolmanderson6740]

Camera work spoils it

[@Venetian1960]

nice, nice caravelle of sam ( society aerea mediterranea ) owned by AZ Alitalia

[@ELPaso1990TX]

No sound or commentary

[@luisortega4991]

I appreciate a lot the caravelles and the 1-11s, but where are the tridents??? :)

[@martf8014]

Heathrow

[@luisortega4991]

Really? Is that so? How interesting!!!

[@gaguy1967]

@@luisortega4991 Yeah, no BEA or BA flights are LGW then

[@EricIrl]

@@gaguy1967 BEA Airtours (and later British Airtours) operated out of Gatwick. In fact, if you look at the aircraft parked in the background of some of these shots, you will see some BEA logos. These are BEA Airtours Boeing 707-436s which had been passed on to BEA Airtours by BOAC as they retired some of their early Boeing 707s in the early 1970s.

[@adventures385]

0.42 are they just standing by the runway edge as members of the public??😂😂

[@racecar06]

2:34 is a face

[@thezebrafromheaven7568]

Yes. Pareidolia.

[@tonycritcher3419]

Yes indeed, I noticed that too!

[@garymarshall-gleghorn]

not a HI-VIZ in sight

[@thezebrafromheaven7568]

You little drunk cameraman.

[@DeepakGupta-uo6uv]

😡😡😡