Last Major Aircraft Movement to take place at Brooklands after 90 years of aviation

[Skygod12000]

As a baby I remember flying in a Vanguard for Leeds to London with my grandparents. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

[BMWM3GTRLOVER]

that little firetruck sounds funny

[abastin1]

Love to hear those Tynes once again! I flew some 800 hours on Cl 44s with those engines.Lovely video!!

[tom211t]

Aww, R.I.P Ron.

[andysvideo]

Nice Idea but sorry to say it is not on because the video would be too long for You Tube

You can however, select my playlist called 'Brooklands Videos - Older Clips', to run all the old Brooklands Clips, one after the other. You can the do the same with 'Brooklands Modern' and so on

Andy

[andysvideo]

Nice Idea but sorry to say it is not on because the video would be too long for You Tube

You can however, select my playlist called 'Brooklands Videos - Older Clips', to run all the old Brooklands Clips, one after the other. You can the do the same with 'Brooklands Modern' and so on

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Andy

[davybranson]

Andy - Is there anyway you can put all you of excellent Vickers Vanguard clips into one long Video Clip please?

Thanks Davy

[triphongz9]

dat old man ...is he still alive?

[andysvideo]

Sadly Ron passed away a few months after the video was produced. He had been a first rate guy and one of the Museums strongest allies in those early difficult years

[triphongz9]

@andysvideo R.I.P Ron

[edmonton67]

I never had the opportunity to fly in those nor hear them as this vid shows. As the name on this aircraft states..Superb.

[daviddibber]

Just to make you all jealous, I was a dual type rated engineer at Air Bridge Carriers/Hunting Cargo at EMA on both the Merchantman and Electra.  Very happy days, some of them extremely long and the second best job in the world. Pity they are all gone, and I've retired.

[andysvideo]

Well don't forget you can always come to Brooklands and visit the only surviving Merchantman / Vanguard.

[pulgabros]

Is this Vanguard flying still or is it a satic display?

[andysvideo]

Static display now with Engine Run Ups on special ocasions.

[Laxpowertoo]

The first plane I ever flew in was a BEA Vanguard from Heathrow to Glasgow. We came back in a brand spanking new Trident 3 which did the trip in half the time, but I still prefered the Vanguard.

[huvander]

Thankyou so much for posting !!! so much to see the lady !!

[MONZAAUT]

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[andysvideo]

Are you saying H&S is a menace then?

I expect there is no more than sixty million people in the UK who would agree with that!

[flytst]

Great video and sound of the ols Merchantman. Bloody Hi Vize jackes ruin it though.

[gsmcinnes]

I can't drive along the M8 motorway east of Glasgow airport without thinking of BEA Vanguards. On the straight stretch at Hillington the M8 use to be runway 08 at Renfrew airport. Aged 6 in 1965 I stood on the apron and witnessed my first ever close-up of an aeroplane. It's huge blackened nose coming towards me I stood terrified and holding my ears. The sight, the noise, the smell - then pilot waved to me, I was hooked! I still want to be that pilot - maybe it was Capt Brant? Thanks.

[awlcvl]

such a lovely sound of those Rolls Royce Tynes! Just a pity we will never hear them again or see the aircraft come alive and taxi!

[andysvideo]

It is not all bad. - From time to time The Brooklands Team that look after Suberb do fire the engines up. Look out for avaition days on the Brooklands website

[BillN6801]

Reminds me of the old Air Canada Vanguards. Haven't heard this sound in about 4 decades. I once flew on a Vanguard as a child - a Trans Canada Airlines courtesy flight around Toronto, early 60's.

[laguna3rob]

I remember seeing Vanguards flying with BEA from Heathrow.I must get down to the museum at Brooklands one day.I visited the BAC factory in 1975 when I was at school, and saw the Concordes being assembled. I flew a few times in the mid 1980s, with the pilot who landed the VC10,(Flt Lt King)

[jdrepiv]

Why did this come in?

[andysvideo]

Because it was the last one flying and it came home to its birthplace to be preserved as long as funds will allow.

[Gruntol5]

Dang, I thought we were going to see it take off. Brittania, Vanguard and Belfast - great turbobprop aircraft from the period, but absurdly small production runs. We had our school trip to Vickers, Weybridge in about 1956 and toured the wooden mock up of the Vanguard. I remember my surprise at wood & clay sinks in the toilets, accurate to the smallest detail. I strayed from the rest and got underneath the open bomb bay of a Valiant, but was quickly pulled away by Vickers staff!

[andysvideo]

No Brits or Belfasts, only Brooklands built or associated. I envy you the trip around the works and especially to see the last of the Brooklands Prop Liners being designed.

[fellowbear]

I remember Air Canada flying these in the 1960's and early 1970's. I flew many times on the Viscounts that were replaced by DC 9's in 1974.

[dasadler123]

Looks like the designers wanted to build a jet and then decided to slap those turboprops on as an after thought. VERY beautiful machine though. I agree, nothing sounds like a Rolls Turboprop.

[john289]

Very moving footage this, emotional even !

[andysvideo]

Dont know if you were there John, but of course I was and it was a very emotional day,

It become even more special when a little later we lost dear old Ron - the project leader and last pilot.

[battleaxe10]

WONDERFUL!! Just like Darts, you can't

beat the unique sound of RR Tynes.

Happy memories from when I was a Lad,

seeing them when new in BEA's red wing

colours, Happy days!

Keep up the good work!!!

[jackiejayetv]

...and what a mess Mercedes have made of the place, industrial vandalism

[FrederickDelarge]

There is something of majesty about this elegant and beautiful aircraft. The exquisite sound of those RR Tynes - so commonplace in the sixties skies were so taken for granted! Of course I am regretful that I didn't hire a Uher portable stereo recorder for a fruitful day's session at Heathrow then. Vanguards, Britannias, Electras - they all had their identifying characteristic sound.

[robbyis007]

A beauty indeed and that video must be watched in HQ (why wont You Tube default to it?)

[Proplinerman]

Thanks so much for posting this. What a beautiful aircraft the Vanguard was-and so underrated.

[andysvideo]

Indeed it was and it still sounds wonderful today, when the engines are run up.

[trainfan5]

I was going to ask if it was still possible to ground run her! That's good to heard

Jon

[Pullisto]

The Brit's answer to the L188 Electra, and an equal in performance. She looks like she was still operation here, nice and clean. I hear her engines still get a run up from time to time. In time to come hopefully, there will be a market enough to justify the cost of such a machine being overhauled and re-configured back to pax, for corporate charters, scenic flights, espesh now the DC-3 has been halted due to ridiculous beurocracy. And this beast can get there faster.

[PlaneTrainAmbulance]

Great vid! Shame it dint take off though. Good vid all the same!

[andysvideo]

Sorry to say even back then the runway was to short and now of course it is gone (Part of Mercs Test Track is now ontop of it).

So Surperb will spend the rest of its live at Brooklands.

[REI02021809]

At that time, it had retired.

[rrr3hdi]

I flew this particular aircraft both as a passenger aircraft and after it was converted to a merchantman freighter. Happy days. It was a big beast and a great leveller when landing! It also had beautifully comfortable seats on the flight deck.

[TheOwl]

Last time I ever saw one of these magnificent birds was about 1969 or '70. How could you not love the sound of those engines?

[steve007x]

I walked on the aircraft pan at Coventry airport in 1994,there was a post office Vicount,Hunting Vanguard, DHL Convair and my Lockeed Electra Channel Express and guess what I didnt have a camera!!!we never appreciate what we had!

[andysvideo]

That is so true and the sad thing is, when we have gone, people won't even know what a great time it was.

[avroken]

the temptation must have been great to pull the throttle levers to the stops and to send this wonderful aircraft back into the air where it belongs.

thanks for the film.

[metadyneman]

Oh how i was wishing that to happen in this film... I grew up watching these babys fly over my house when i was a kid.. they were and still are my favourite planes.

[Sterlingjob]

No doubt left to rot like the other aircraft

[cjdrange]

Nice video, i remember seeing this plane flying into coventry airport every week night, it made such a lovely sight.

Big gentle and refined, a bit like the Bristol Britania.

[Pullisto]

Great to see she' still run up from time to time. I've been there in '03 and '07. Hope she and the others can be kept undercover, though i know the cost of that is prohibitive.

[landroversrs1]

Had the pleasure of marshalling this aircraft on a number of occaisons at BRS also remember it doing a 3 engine ferry flight out for repair once although missed it departing!

aaahhh Tynes..

[REI02021809]

Wish I was there

[metadyneman]

I remember these flying over my house when i was a boy. I lived in Ealing at the time and when there was an Easterly wind blowing the take off path for Heathrow was directly above where I lived. Used to love the sound of these on full power. Heathrow used to hum to the sound of these and the Viscounts!

[Andrew279144]

Great to see this wonderful old aircraft move again under her own power. I flew on a BEA Vanguard in the early 1960's from London Heathrow to the Isle of Man - return journey by Viscount.

[jthqrules]

hi, im a volunteer at brooklands, dont go there much at the moment but i hope i can make it for the century of british aviation.

i was at brooklands for the last aircraft movement, i could'nt understand why it was the last... as i was quite young

Anyway Thanks for the vid

[smf333]

I only ever saw one Vanguard flying back in 1983 age 13! I was an avid plane spotter and saw it in the break of a cloud heading for Leeds/Bradford i think. I saw two of the old Air Bridge aircraft at Manchester in 86/87 parked up by the TLS hangers. Good days they were, never forget seeing the last BMA flight of the day into LBA (BM420) using the Viscount. I live in Sheffield and you saw & heard her every evening at 20:38 without fail. Long live the Vanguard & Viscount.

[D66DuCane]

44 Vanguards were built,and delivered to the only two airlines that ordered them,B.E.A and Trans Canada Airlines.

Last flight was in 1996, when the aircraft featured in this video flew into Brooklands. My Dad flew on this type several times in the 1960s when they operated many of B.E.A's domestic services from Heathrow to Manchester/Glasgow/Edinburgh and Belfast.He always said that although the cabin was spacious and comfortable,once in the air they rattled and shook like crazy!

[frankgee2000]

Lovely video, what a sad day that must have been. Do you know how many of this wonderful aircraft were built?

[andysvideo]

I am not 100% sure but I think around fourty.

Regards Andy