The Aircraft were noisey, not as insulated and not nearly as safe as today. There were no personal entertainment systems or flight status video in the back of seats. No GPS tracking and advance warning systems like today. Just old Radar and Radio communication.
Sure it looks like a 'nicer' world but if you were to go back there is a lot you would miss. I'm talking about long Haul here not Low Fare short haul with regards to creature comforts. Boac Comet or A340 or B777. No contest. Sorry.
I am seeing many videos from your channel before my subscription, and everything to be seen looks like gold nuggets! Thank you for opening our memories with your own.
I always have this music in my head, it has sort of been metaphysically transferred there from living in proximity to this era, but I have never done that much etymological/musicological work.
This music and the 60's images give me some kind of strange 'airy feeling' as if everything in the world is just fine. We need to get this feeling back to the world. The world needs to brush away some negative state of mind. A complete reform in arts, science, literature, politics and poetry is needed to bring happiness back.
In the 60s and 70s, any employee of BOAC got 2 free trips to anywhere every 5 years. Even the cleaners. You could go to more than one place on several planes. Counted as one trip. My father was an engine fitter, and we went all over the world 'cos flying was free.
My father worked for BOAC in the 60s and I so wish it was me! I work for BA now - there is no comparison! True jet set then - the origins of it all. Now just miserable business men and chav scum. If I only had a time machine...
Yes, but if you had one with mileage written in by the captain or pilot (couldn't be a stewardess), you were part of the junior jet set. Very 60s, like the Chelsea set. I'd rather have been in the mile high club though.
@razor71927 Oh, I see now, if it was written & signed by the captain "you" were part of the "Jet-Set". Yes, mine was written & signed by the captain - but only the once on my way to Italy in 1965.
Very Cool...
veiga44 5 months ago
I thought that plane was gonna crash
pointreyes6 6 months ago
Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC didn't get to bed last night..........back in the US back in the Us back in the USSR!
thecoolestdad 7 months ago
Nice vintage shots of Hong Kong =]
johnkollor 10 months ago
The Aircraft were noisey, not as insulated and not nearly as safe as today. There were no personal entertainment systems or flight status video in the back of seats. No GPS tracking and advance warning systems like today. Just old Radar and Radio communication.
Sure it looks like a 'nicer' world but if you were to go back there is a lot you would miss. I'm talking about long Haul here not Low Fare short haul with regards to creature comforts. Boac Comet or A340 or B777. No contest. Sorry.
wiltner 11 months ago
yeah working for the airlines is the pits these days. The cheaper the airline the worse it is...
birdie2219 1 year ago
There was something soothing about BOAC the same as there is a certain class that fly British Airways. Lovely Roy Budd`esque keyboards!
darrowby1972 1 year ago
Does anyone know if this is Harry Stoneham on the organ?
Thetermite2009 1 year ago
I am seeing many videos from your channel before my subscription, and everything to be seen looks like gold nuggets! Thank you for opening our memories with your own.
EduarquiRJ 1 year ago
Perfect.
I always have this music in my head, it has sort of been metaphysically transferred there from living in proximity to this era, but I have never done that much etymological/musicological work.
Great.
Love you.
sheatheman 1 year ago
This music and the 60's images give me some kind of strange 'airy feeling' as if everything in the world is just fine. We need to get this feeling back to the world. The world needs to brush away some negative state of mind. A complete reform in arts, science, literature, politics and poetry is needed to bring happiness back.
TullioWalker 1 year ago 5
Gone forever are the glory days of air travel. BOAC what a superb aircraft she was!
platrima 1 year ago
Music reminds me alot of what I used to hear from "The Persuaders" Tv show.
Gulfstream7 2 years ago 4
A time machine back to 1969 please.
One-way, of course.
Unhalfbricked 2 years ago
Those were the days to travel. Today everything is so strealined and non-stop..hate non-stop.
am1966ath 2 years ago 2
Excellent video!
BOAC707FUJI 2 years ago 3
Cool video. That sure looks like Hong Kong at 0:02-0:26.
timothylegg 2 years ago 3
Thanks man. It is HK... well spotted
jrrylpz 2 years ago
sounds like music from some clint eastwood dirty harry movie or somethin !
JetRanger0007 2 years ago
Great organ, nice tune
sgcim 2 years ago 6
gotta love that organ!
jrrylpz 2 years ago
In the 60s and 70s, any employee of BOAC got 2 free trips to anywhere every 5 years. Even the cleaners. You could go to more than one place on several planes. Counted as one trip. My father was an engine fitter, and we went all over the world 'cos flying was free.
drwinkle101 2 years ago 3
Any one still remembered what BOAC stands for??? I used to use BOAC travel bag to carry books back to school.
rhctam 2 years ago
British Overseas Airways Corporation... I used a BOAC flight bag as a briefcase for a while... till it fell apart.
ali123allie 2 years ago
haha, thanks for the replied. guess we are of the same generation. greetings!
rhctam 2 years ago 2
I used to have one of those in the 60's, a kind of blue vinyl shoulder holdall with white piping on the seams and of course the BOAC logo
alanstarkie2001 2 years ago 2
That's the one that I got. Very useful for a student and inexpensive too. The thing is that you need to go to the BOAC's booking office to get it.
rhctam 2 years ago 2
My father worked for BOAC in the 60s and I so wish it was me! I work for BA now - there is no comparison! True jet set then - the origins of it all. Now just miserable business men and chav scum. If I only had a time machine...
cherbnick 2 years ago 7
Just say thank god you don't work for EasyJet or Ryan Air...
jrrylpz 2 years ago 3
So did my father! Was it in a building called: "Internal Block A"? Wonder if it's still there?
hagvcutadfu 2 years ago
My father was a steward in the 60s. Don't know about Internal Block A, might still be there under another name. Was it over at West Base?
cherbnick 2 years ago
Not everyone was impressed with BOAC...i remember people saying the letters stood for "Better On A Camel!!!"
priapus56 2 years ago
Remember Dan Air? - folks used to call it Dan Dare!
alanstarkie2001 2 years ago
I was in the BOAC Junior Jet Set in the 1960s!
drwinkle101 3 years ago 3
Me too. I've still got the log-book. How many miles did you knock up?
priapus56 2 years ago
I use to have that little dark blue book, with blue pages inside. [1965]
But it was called: "Junior Jet-Club Book".
hagvcutadfu 2 years ago
Yes, but if you had one with mileage written in by the captain or pilot (couldn't be a stewardess), you were part of the junior jet set. Very 60s, like the Chelsea set. I'd rather have been in the mile high club though.
drwinkle101 2 years ago 2
@drwinkle101 I had one in the 60's. I remember it being called: "The Junior Jet-Club Book".
razor71927 1 month ago
@razor71927 Oh, I see now, if it was written & signed by the captain "you" were part of the "Jet-Set". Yes, mine was written & signed by the captain - but only the once on my way to Italy in 1965.
razor71927 1 month ago
Like the mix!!!
poltigianni 3 years ago 3
Nice music... the album is hard to find though.
marlo123obo 3 years ago 2