Imperial Airways : The Definitive Newsreel History 1924-1939 - Civil Aviation

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This is the definitive celebration of Britain s first national airline Imperial Airways. Imperial Airways were the forerunner of BOAC, BEA and the British Airways of today. In 1924, the British Government amalgamated many of the complicated array of pioneering small British airlines into one company, Imperial Airways.Original newsreels give us a fascinating and detailed insight into early operations from London s first airport in Croydon - At first, the passengers flew in comfort while the pilot still sat in an open cockpit! By 1926, there were whole fleets of airliners and new flying boats were commissioned. Amy Johnson arrived from Australia in 1929 and by 1930 the new Handley Page four-engined airliners became reality.Pioneering is dangerous - as the R-101 Airship crash proved to the airlines. Imperial Airways even experimented with a radio link between The Flying Scotsman and one of its aircraft. Imperial Airways flew the first car and even transmitted Jack Hylton and his band live from the air.Throughout the 1930s, Imperial Airways kept expanding throughout the Empire over to Australia. We spend 24 hours in Sharjah and witness a nasty crash at Croydon! 1936 saw the birth of the new giant Empire flying boats and in 1937, Imperial Airways became air partners with PanAmerican and trans-oceanic flying was born.The hazards of ice, early air-to-air refuelling and the Short Mayo Composite aircraft are also shown and explained.Aircraft included : Handley Page W8, W9, W10 and HP42. Armstrong Whitworth Argosy and Atalanta. De Havilland DH50, DH66, DH86, DH91 and Albatross. Short S.8 'Calcutta', S.23 & S.30 'Empire' Flying Boats and the Mayo Composite The R-101 Airship and the Lockheed Electra

[@douglaslett7504]

And people complain about flying today. Make them fly in one of these relics and maybe they would no longer complain !

[@lovelyone890]

But sir we are living in 2021 not in 1924.

[@abryg8655]

What a beautiful era for aviation.

[@sure523]

Old is gold 🥇🥇🥇

[@seltaeb3302]

Love that refueling, had no idea it started so early. It's like a mega petrol station in the sky & catch the handgrip.

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[@fm-nl3zd]

Glad they invented the camera first

[@emekaisuochi368]

Exactly

[@oldamericaniron5767]

Sometimes I think it is sad that some of those high points in history passed so quickly.

[@mlulovemyindialovemyindia1167]

Thanks for the excellent Video it's Amazing 👍 Wow those were the days.

[@jorgemarcelobana61]

Great HISTORIC vídeo showing The great sacrifice to bring confort and speed for passengers

[@evaluateanalysis7974]

2:15 The nose of the HP42 looks like a tortoise :) The introduction says "Pioneering is dangerous", but these aircraft flew 10 million miles during a nine year service life with Imperial Airways until withdrawn from civil service. They had recorded almost a decade without any major accidents or fatalities. One was lost in WWII but that may have been enemy action.

[@MasboyRC]

Nice video, this is so old and full of history. Thanks for sharing

[@DifferentSaturner]

Impressive! I'm not thinking about others but I wonder if our own people know these amazing things. I often ask people if they know anything about our first airport, 99% replied, Oh you want to know about Heathrow? No one knows that the world's first airdrome was built here! I still remember those olde three wheeler planes. Great video! Thanks. (Gr Britain Fri 10 Jan 2020 1955)

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Air to air refuling at that time amazing 🔥🔥🔥

[@ralflang5524]

yes indeed

[@sindhusudarshan7110]

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[@blackdiamond7089]

Wonderful vintage video ... great information...even reading 100 historical books can't give such comprehensive information...

[@josedelmarmattos182]

1924 foi o ano que meu pai nesceu. Ele também presenciou à passagem do Zeppelim no Brasil em 29 de Junho de 1934 vindo dá Alemãnha, passando no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.

[@sweetkitty2798]

How did they attach hoses to the plane while it was flying?

[@abhisheknagarjun4084]

Wonderful...... From- INDIA ......

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May India be perished

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Why you guys always wanted to write your nation's name on every comment? BTW NOBODY CARES!!!

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@Ashish Mishra mind less

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[@guerra963]

No words...Amazing... Wonderful!!

[@jojomarcelo781]

The days without computer, calculator, only slide rule to make an airplane. Wow.

[@shubhankardasgupta4777]

There were calculators, especially abacus, Leibnitz's calculating device and the first versions of the supermachine of that century, The Enigma.

[@hajiirshad6751]

Tttjj

[@kvenkateswarreddy9322]

Especially without mobiles:) make everything the best..

[@seltaeb3302]

And pilots flew uncovered unlike their passengers. Instrument panels were few so it was essential you could look around you for danger.

[@lankashama124]

Fantastic ...

[@BandaraRajapaksha917]

It

[@FarAndGo]

0:28.. I thought pilot eating burger 😀

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😀😀😀😀

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Haha haha haha haha haha haha

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I though he is drinking whiskey.

[@2paccr712]

and cntrol tower man taking hukka??

[@thehuman2861]

😂😂

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Very nice video

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Nice. Journy

[@hussainomer8568]

British always mastermind that old days also

[@wisdom_wellness365]

Very nice! I like it!

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Hello from ALGIERS ALGERIA

[@Education-Lover-9]

Golden era to develop aviation industry.

[@ahmedamin9843]

It was funny how the two guys take the car to the plane ✈️

[@NobleKnowledge]

Yes for now but not at that time just imagine how difficult was that time

[@jainjain7021]

😁😁😁😁

[@mohammedaamir8720]

Wow super ... Sir i want see world first passenger plane...

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Russian pilot

[@seltaeb3302]

Started just after WWI.

[@faltu7447]

Ye time ke sare log mar chuke hai par insan ghamand karta hai koi zinda nahi rahega har jeevit chiz ko maoat aani hai sambhal jao moat se pehle nek insan bano or apne rab ki ibadat

[@krishnamurthydshallykrisna3211]

Nice

[@SanjeevSingh-pl2op]

Literal pioneers who touched the skies!

[@Unboxcult]

If someone from imperial airlines and fr tht timeline actually manages to jump in year 2022 ,tht person would die of shock after seeing the evolution of Planes/jets and technology.

[@jeroenjansen2709]

Wow! An enclosed cockpit. So the pilots don't have to take 3 jerseys and 2 jackets with in winter and they stay dry during landing and takeoff?

[@rotofly9678]

old air craft in the world is top very nice 2022

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Waw amazing 👍

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Very smart

[@DL-kc8fc]

:-) 0:38 - Even then, the promotional shots with the rear projection - the wrong direction of flight - could not be avoided. :-)

[@arooaroo8370]

Great

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Good info

[@paulazemeckis7835]

Back when flying was not safe...💔

[@ritchienegrea5779]

Wow. Pilot open cockpit??? Tough guys. Real deal

[@maheshk4657]

I would like to know the make and manufacturers of these aircraft. Who used to make these type of aircraft? Who used to design them? What was their qualification etc... Thanks

[@OMGTubePro]

Amazing

[@JarnailSingh-yt4ts]

Good shot

[@topujss]

Im from British India (till 1945). Oh 😮 god all people dies and the history didn’t dies.

[@inderindia8690]

British India.....🤔🤔🤔

[@inventerbyaj506]

Great 🥰👍🥰👍

[@shahzadghumman6563]

Such a revolution

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Heróis fantásticos , e corajosos 👍

[@usmanmuhammed8897]

I have never flown. But I like it.

[@FarooqAzam086]

Very nice beautiful

[@stephennyambu3085]

i really miss to be among them

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أينكم ياعرب أصحاب كان وكنا وقال وقلنا لاغير أنها الامبراطوريه البريطانيه ياسدة

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first plane invented men in indian bapuji talpadde beafor right brother 🙏

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Fine

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R Absolutely great

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So nice

[@mrjanaab3998]

What was the fuel consumption of that airplanes... I think constant 100km/hr at lower altitudes will help poor countries

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Ma Sha Allha!

[@jeroenjansen2709]

The fuselage looks like a corrugated iron shack.

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Tempos bons

[@prasanthkk1661]

Exelend

[@lawrencelewis8105]

In the V & A museum in London, there is a picture of an Imperial biplane airliner similar to the one shown here refueling in Cairo. In the refueling crew is a guy with a toothbrush moustache. It wasn't Charlie Chaplin, so it must have been Hitler.

[@hardevsingh706]

Wow❤👌

[@KevTheImpaler]

Those open cockpits shout keep the pilots awake while they sober up.

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lo

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😀😃😄😂🤣😭😳🤯💀☠️

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Que Maravilha de imagens antigas 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@emekaisuochi368]

Wow

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India Lothian in Britain

[@freemarketjoe9869]

There will never be an era as amazing as this again . The modern world has devolved into a p c cancel culture control freak liberal big brother nightmare in comparison.

[@carvalho7575]

Santos Dumont foi pai da aviação

[@imransharif443]

Very nice good imperial airways old nice. imperial Leather Sop jarman Munifichering by UAE Beautiful

[@Arltratlo]

and the empire is gone...

[@riazhassan6570]

Thankfully, no empire lasts forever

[@JWKim-ux1yo]

공중급유를 저 시대에도 한 건 처음 알았네...

[@joelrafols1702]

It's an evolution of airplane

[@iqbalsingh1285]

Omg air to air fueling system . Today this technology is in Raffael fighter

[@mysteriousworld1759]

Long journey

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I love Habibie..

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Habibie belum lahir. Dia cuman murid

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[@terror105fightingarmy2]

This video include peoples died 😫😭

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Nine videos

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Isaka avishkarak kon he ✈️✈️

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英国の過去の栄光ですね

[@DifferentSaturner]

Thank you so much! (Gr Britain Fri 10 Jan 2020 1943)

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Hi

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Oi linda família 👪🙇🙆

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Hi my name is Ronaldo Souza Inácio I am fron Brasil I Love you USA

[@karimshaik805]

Hooo nice

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this is british

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Bueno ahora solo produce aviones de papel

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Rich people could afford anything at anytime...

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These machines are new born air flying machines

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Now this one is Children to A380 😂

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[@manishmishra5457]

First plane invention in India 1947 shivkar bapuji talpade in Maharashtra

[@Fizzbomb123]

Yes

[@deutschedog3259]

I believe there were aircraft before 1947, even in India!

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F

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Думаю самолёты тех времен понадежнее наших жигулей будут, хотя падали на каждом третьем полете

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Сравнил хер с пальцем. Совсем больной.

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Barang kuno..

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