London Heathrow Airport 1989

[DannyBoySmith1993]

nice take off from the Concorde at the end!

[mlinnie527]

WOW that Concorde away like a rocket ! A beautiful video though :)

[wajidiqbal84]

Rich bitches were riding the concorde in 1989, its 2012 and I barely afford economy...

[877kori]

concorde(L)

[ricardosoares2000]

Pan AM 727???

[breathtakingblue]

This is a FANTASTIC video. Like DidaDragan said, you would not really have given these aircraft a second glance back then. A brilliant video clip taking you back to yesteryear... fond memories. Thank you VERY much!

[DidaDragan]

Most of these aircraft would barely have warranted a second glance back in 1989, but seeing them now over 20 years on is really something.

Always used to enjoy seeing the silver JAT 737s. And this one actually looks like it had been cleaned for a change ;o)

[porcupinereef]

Thank you for upload this video!

[Eflightheli]

Wow, concorde in landoar colors

[joluqa]

Great clip,thanks for the upload.

[CWAvia]

Good to see Lufthansa haven't changed their livery for 22 years.

[deetjay1]

Rough go seeing the TWA and Pan Am flights...RIP...

[leberinth]

there is a A320 at13,37 in ba colours without shark tips

[adobekay]

@leberinth there sure is :)

[xytsdx2]

wheres the massive A380?

[deetjay1]

@xytsdx2

Didn't exist in 1989...

[43447]

Fantastic video,......very high quality Btw.

It gives a great view to the past.

Thanks for sharing!

[AlexS3800]

A blast from the past. What a great video! Just how it should be.

Straight aviation action,original sound and no music or other video-pollution.

Thanks for posting this!

[fawii]

lol there is no

777 318 319 320 321 330 340 380

But the A320 is lunched in 1988. where is it??

[tommyboomboom]

@fawii at 13:33

[fawii]

B737-300 is OLD ?!?!?!?!

But it's used now days

[Stenbrotsgatan]

What I love about this time is the fact that there was no "EasyJets" "RyanAir" etc...it's just Airlines from countries and that was so much cooler. You knew which countries they were from and where they were going/coming from.

[samulhim]

Pan American Airlines and the Trans World Airines (TWA) to the top airlines for International flight from/to USA are gone for ever. Pan American had set alot of standards for commerical airplanes. It is so sad to see that it has been gone for ever. Airplanes like the Tristar and Lockhead (D.C. 10 & D.C. 11) are almost gone out of service. The Lockhead has set alot of the standards for Instrument flighing, as far as I remember. The sadest moment was the retirement of the Supersonic Concorde.

[sin5k4]

Omg that is soo oldschool.Beautiful.

[tobiasf1]

intake looks weird on 1011 at 3.09

[hijyuchi]

戦闘機並みの迎え角の取り方、ロールスロイス・スネクマ５９３の­リヒート付きターボジェットの咆哮。

乗ってみたかった…。

しかし、かつては100年も戦争をした仲の英国とフランス。少し­は歩み寄ったのかな？

[jackd166]

Aer Lingus at 5:10 looks great!

[rapid650]

コンコルド排ガスやば！

[markoraice]

10:00 the most beautiful livery at the time! :)

[mrblujet]

Oh - I thought you were talking about the livery at 7:30 : )

[instruct2008]

Many memories on the Queens building as a growing lad in the eighties, thanks for the post.

[747LufthansaPilot]

hwen I was a small child I saw every day the same planes but in Berlin , wonderful the old traffic

[charlieiscool1000]

two years before i was born Heathrow looks good

[rachaelmatt]

This really is amazing!!! If only clocks could tick backwards

[aidaningham]

wow how heathrow has changed over the years, but heathrow does look good in this vid in the nice sun of the day. awesome vid 5*.

[rorymacve]

Wow, this really takes me back to the better days! Great vid! Priceless!

[barryboy06]

quality videos just wish there was more of past times like this 1

[clarus79]

Thank you very much for this historical video. Good to see airlines like TWA, PanAm.

[savilleian]

Alitalia, Air France and IBeria still the same Livery as today ZZZZZZZZ

[ammnaj]

yeah i can see, very great stuf... BBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRIII­IIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!!­!! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[bmused55]

No one forced you to watch it. So STFU

[mrblujet]

And you watched the whole thing !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chriemann99]

great stuff!

[f4cu777]

i guess that IB should change their plane's colours

[gabi140]

Intresting it looks as Alitalia is the only aircraft who still send the same aircraft with the same livery...

[pilotmanmax]

This is beautiful.

[dirkyffm]

Concorde was the Queen of the airways! Then it was the B752. Stylish! What will be the next?

I loved the B727 Trijet and -of course- the 1011.

Time goes by ....

[Locker10a]

I miss the Aer Lingus 737s !

[notuslimited]

Fab post..brings back lots of memories. Many thanks for sharing with us.

[HugoAndres]

Wow it looks like Maiquetia, Venezuela (SVMI) all those DC9, 727 and 737-200

[Billster8724]

what a beautiful sight it is to see that

L1011 and 742 of ACA. Something I never got to see unfortunately. The concorde was a great catch too

[afarr454]

and it's sunny too!

[FLIGHTCOMPANY]

I love this video. I think most of these babies are in the deserts by now. R.I.P. planes.

[AccessAir]

The Pan Am 727s were used for service from Heathrow into Continental Europe, and perhaps the Middle East.connecting from inbound flights from JFK like the 747or A310s......Just like TWA did with using 727s domestically out of Heathrow.... and no they did not become United Air Lines planes. This was a time when the ONLY US Airlines allowed into Heathrow were Pan Am and TWA....United and American followed a few years later......

[ricsydiva]

No, you are wrong. Back in 1991 United bought Pan Am's LHR routes, that included the intra Europe routes. I worked those flights when we had them.

[AccessAir]

No Im not......United may have purchased the Pan Am Hub AT Heathrow, but all the Pan Am Planes went elsewhere....Find a JP Airline Fleets book for 1992 after Pan Am went out of business...none of the Pan Am 727s were added to the UAL Fleet, United brought over their own 727s to fly in and out of Heathrow....ive been in the travel business for over 20 years....

[ricsydiva]

I will look it up. I too that is been in the travel business for over 20 years also. Just with United alone 21 years not including the other airlines I worked for. Also not including my parents, we are a airline family. But I will look it up. For the 727s that were used in LHR were reconfigured much different than the ones in the states. I was told by the ex Pan Am FAs based in LHR that these Airplanes in LHR that they were their old planes.

[AccessAir]

Whilst I understand your wanting to believe an F/A, the majority of former Pan Am 727s went to FedEx, or Braniff #3, or many other carriers...Never to United...Only the route wuthorities went to UAL.....TWA routes and authorities went to AA.....

United did indeed fly their own 727-222s over to do services in London at that time..I have friends that had spotted UAL 727-222s at LHR and they were all happy...At the time, we were inundated with them at OHare.

[ricsydiva]

i really liked working them... with 6 fa's and a full hot service.. i loved it..

[ricsydiva]

I forgot to add. That even though I do have many, many years in the airline industry. Dinosour.LOL Doesn't mean I know everything, I am always learning and have known to be wrong at timed. LOL Baut again I will look it up. Thank You

[MexicannMusic]

pan am 727?

[ricsydiva]

It then most likely became a United 727.

[dirkyffm]

Of course! FRA-TXL hundred times a day ...

[dgcoulson]

Used to stand there on the observation deck back in the 80s. Across the apron, there is a huge empty space. Is there where part of Terminal 4 now stands? I can see part of the BA terminal from certain angles.

[fbgd]

You can see Terminal 4 in the background as Concorde takes off. It has the yellow jetbridges. T4 was finished in the mid 1980s.

[mrblujet]

Interesting that they didn't use any wing-walkers back in those days.