Manchester Airport,1972.

[@javierjosechavezbenitez3707]

Caravelles, Viscounts, B707s, BAC 1-11s, and the original B737-100 too. What a wonderful, joyful, glorious, exciting time to be a spotter! Loved every second! Thanks for Sharing!

[@atilllathehun1212]

Ah the early 70s Used to go to Jacksons brickworks, a bottle of pop and some crisps, one plane an hour, what memories.........

[@Habu2]

Happy days mate.....

[@999billywhizz]

A nostalgic trip back in time. About 12 years old I lived on Portway, Woodhouse Park...every weekend and school holidays me and my mate would walk to Ringway and spend all day on the terraces with our airline registration books and highlight new planes we had not seen previously. We used to hang out with the older lads who had airband radios. I remember one evening we cheekily had a coke in the domestic departure area and started chatting to few guys about plain spotting. Turned out it was a band called Amen Corner! This would have been 1967 or thereabouts. Such happy days for sure.

[@Habu2]

Nice one billy.....yep spend all day there after walking from Crossacres

[@clintdavies491]

thank you, those wonderful erstwhile days of spotting are eternally etched in my memory. wonderful stuff, much appreciated.

[@mistofoles]

@0:19 - The red Transit van parked near the aircraft was probably used as a mini-bus for the cleaners. ( Note the windows ). When the plane you were allocated to came in, the cleaning supervisor drove everybody out to it, and you had to wait for a member of the airline crew to open the door and give you permission to board the aircraft.

[@brianellwood3080]

Thank you, I've just had a look. Did you work there?

[@brianellwood3080]

@@mistofoles I'm sure it would be. Interesting place to work though. I remember when it was just Ringway Airport when I was a teenager. Only flown from there once for a roundtrip with the ATC . Flying then was for the rich lol.

[@mistofoles]

Look closely at the red van - See the transmitter ariel on the roof so the crew could keep in touch with base via a radio com ? (No mobile phones tback then) It also would have had lights on the roof, all ground traffic had to have strobe lights for safety reasons (Such as not running over the goon we see here stood right in the van's path )

[@Jamlidd]

Superb clips! It truly was a different era, great to see the 707. Thanks for uploading.

[@brianellwood3080]

Glad you liked it!

[@SteveHigginsWriterBloggerPoet]

Brings back a lot of memories from when I was a school boy and was always visiting Ringway! Great aerial shots too!

[@brianellwood3080]

Thank you everyone. We all probably crossed paths plane watching on the piers! I joined the ATC at 14 and this started my interest in planes. My first flight was from Ringway in an RAF Anson.

[@robbflynn4325]

Hi, fantastic footage. Part of the flight was over Bowden, obvious from the huge houses and I think I saw Altrincham Golf course beside the dual carriageway.

[@Habu2]

Yes Robb did notice the houses myself....nice !

[@THESTIG-cc7fq]

I used to spend hours on them terraces watching the planes l remember all those planes and airlines no longer flying.It was a great up close and personal view from those terraces the smell of the fuel and aircraft fumes the noise and atmosphere there.

[@mistofoles]

SAS is one of the few airlines that still operate to this day. I work at the airport, and we regularly clean their planes.

[@brianellwood3080]

That's great, thanks for the info! Things have changed so much since '72

[@Quinnysings]

@@mistofoles and if I remember correctly the SAS call sign back then was Scandinavian 537 and I think Lufthansa was 074 …. Jeez my head is full of useless info 😂

[@JVChester]

Brought back fond memories as an aircraft spotter at "Ringway" during the 60's and early 70's, thanks for sharing.

[@brianellwood3080]

You are very welcome.Glad you enjoyed it.

[@toonmag508]

A saw a British aircraft with British engines, this became an endangered species later in the century.

[@EddieSalford]

Brilliant.... I remember doing that flight around the airport myself with my Dad around 1973ish. I got to sit in the Co-pilots seat also, i was around 9 or 10 years old. Great days when you could walk on the piers and watch the planes.

[@Habu2]

Think we are around the same age Eddie....did you live in that area ?

[@niallbrady8198]

A big thank you for this. Brought back great memories of the terraces as others have said.

[@mistofoles]

The public observation terrace closed years ago for safety reasons. TBH, I'm surprised even then you were allowed so close to the aircraft you could virtually sneeze on them.

[@davidhunt3808]

gee that brought back some memories ! used to love going on the roof top viewing areas !

[@johnb365]

smashing video..thanks. I was a regular visitor to Ringway in the late 60's, cycled from The Broomwood with flask and butties and reg book. Exciting times.. some lovely aircraft, nice to see the Caravelle and the 707, what a classic. thanks again. jB

[@brianellwood3080]

+john b You're very welcome.

[@SPTSuperSprinter156]

This is the kind of thing you would expect to see on British Pathe, nice work

[@SimonLoweAviation]

This is fantasic! Thanks so much for uploading. I'm sure Avionvideo would be interested in this footage.

[@bac1111967]

superb. thanks so much. If I look hard enough I will probably find me and my friends on the finger piers somewhere

[@Quinnysings]

Thanks 😊 I was 12 then, and I spent most of my waking days at MAN when not in school, but like many kids when there was diversions in I wasn’t well enough to go to school …. 😂

[@clintdavies491]

haha thats sooooo true about the 'divs' i lived in knutsford back then and there was a bunch of us who were plane crazy. still love to spot now tho dont collect regs anymore. we were lucky to have a plethora of different aircraft unlike the boring abundance of two engine jets nowadays.

[@kyoakland]

Damn this a 10 year old video of a old video

[@martf8014]

awesome video

[@brianellwood3080]

Thank you!

[@doveronefoxtrot4417]

What days ! What days ! It was so exciting to be flying on board those types ! Sadly it all seems lost now. For Long haul its invariably the 777, and short haul the ubiquitous A320 family, which in my opinion is a horrid claustrophobic and mundane example of how we have progressed.

[@Habu2]

Pretty naïve comment Dover.....it's all about the ££££ now surely.

[@styal5]

Hi Brian, That's great. Accompanying narrative would also be most welcome. I could do it in two ways. To place the video directly onto a new section I will create for the website with narrative, or again include the narrative in the new section but include the link to KZbin directly to the film. Do you think you could send the film to me anyway, then I can decide which route I will take. Kind regards, Mark Williams

[@brianellwood3080]

Hi Mark, I've had a look at your Ringway site,excellent! You are very welcome to use the video. If you want to simply paste a link from my channel, then that's fine. If you want to upload it or use it in other ways, I can send it via my dropbox account. Best regards.

[@kyoakland]

Thanks

[@styal5]

Great video. Would you be interested in making it available on our Manchester Airport website? You can find us under 'Ringway Publications'. We would love to show it..

[@tottui15]

1.53 is my girl

[@kyoakland]

Not that night she wasn't 😢

[@notrelevant2256]

Even from 2500ft Wythenshawe looks crap

[@Habu2]

Not then....?

[@kyoakland]

Awwww