BOAC Presents: The VC10 - 1964 Promo Film (Part 1 of 2)

[hassan5497]

GOOD

[trident3b]

to think we used to produce this sort of thing,... and now we don't even have a car industry... except jag and land rover (who belong to India!)....

[amateurphilosopher]

Ah, 1964! - The zenith of western civilization!

[JulianAlpsSLO]

What a wonderful time capsule! The narrator sounds like the narrator of Zelig, Woody Allen's classic mockumentary (several clips of which are available on YouTube). I wonder if it's the same person?

[aldwynsdaughter]

My favourite ever plane. Not so sure about Better On A Camel ;)

[whitbyjet65]

From an era when airline travel was exotic.

[jbfrodsham]

Nice

[declaration963]

I wish i could fly like them, my last flight was terrible, staff are rude, food is horrible, and waiting on terminal is endurance.

[NinezeroPlayer]

@declaration963

U had food??

[declaration963]

@NinezeroPlayer I had it, but it's taste like shit ~_~

flights in 60's70's to 80's when there's no such "Low Cost Airlines" are just great, we even call it "Flying Restaurant"

[TomsFriendKake]

This is awesome, make flying today seem uncivilized!

[kirkconway]

cockpit in VC-10 is wayyyy more thought out than US planes really frindly design.

nice open window's too.

not one bit claustophobic in any way.

[kirkconway]

mannn, I wish flying was like that today,,,, good food nice stew;s and nice flying plane.

[itsmegp46]

@kirkconway All airliners treated their passengers better back then, not just with this plane. When the 747 was first introduced, the upstairs section was a first class cocktail lounge complete with a piano. The new A380 has beds and showers. I think I'll go with modern jets, thank you.

[leonedward50]

ah! The memories..Being 21, working for BOAC: Playing football: Being the trade union convenor for the regions..Having the Beatles;.It just never got better. And what a wonderful aircraft to fly on! Staff travel fare Manchester to New York was 12 pounds return. Never enjoyed a job so much but then worked on the committee that got rid of BOAC and BEA and formed the less than inspirational British Airways...must have been mad!

[grmey78]

What a difference between flying then and now.

[TheFunkadelicFan]

I flew to Canada on a RAF VC10 in the sixties. The future had arrived!

[IFLYWINGS]

I own 12 of these VC-10's, and still fly them to this day, I keep them in my Personel Hanger, all shiny & washed at all times looking new & Original , just the way they should be kept. Yup - 12 of em' I gots !!!

[bgdrewsif]

ugh, nasty smoking... how on earth could anyone ever breathe inside those planes??? (nice looking plane though!)

[Fishandchps55]

Something beutiful

[hibob418]

Safe, technologically ahead of its time, and arguably, the most beautiful airliner ever built. It was hampered by the fact that its wing design to accommodate hot & high airports, left it a bit less fuel efficient than the 707.

Depending on who you listen to, BOAC, who resented having to buy every British airliner that the country built, didn't want the plane originally and leaked less-than-flattering data about its operation that cost it some foreign sales, but then passengers & crews loved it

[RougeTraveller]

@chanctonbury63 British Empire 1964 cont'd: ...Rhodesia, Sarawak , St Helena, St Kitts, St Lucia, St Vincent, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tonga, Tristan Da Cunha, Trucial Oman, Turks and Caicos Islands.

[RougeTraveller]

@chanctonbury63 Erm?! Maybe you would care to induldge yourself in history. British Empire 1964: Aden, Ascension Island, Bermuda, Anguilla, Barbados, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, British Guyana, British Honduras, British Solomon Islands, Brunei, Cayman Islands,  Falkland Islands and dependencies, Fiji, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Grenada, Hong Kong, Malaya, Maldive Islands, Malta, Montserrat, New Hebrides, North Borneo, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Island, Qatar....

[RougeTraveller]

In the days when we had an Empire, and our own beautifully engineered machines. There's no doubt about it, British Aviation ruled the skies back then.... ah well happy memories! Maybe one day.....

[chanctonbury63]

@RougeTraveller We did not have an empire in 1964!

[aollerton]

Flew London to J'burg Sept 69 via Rome & Nairobi Single Fare £77 - £60 paid by S.African Government . In those days we were not in the Common Market and not allowed off the Aircraft at Rome.

[cybermarsactual]

One engine goes and your screwed!

[MrDiredemon]

@cybermarsactual they have four lol 2 in a pod either side of the rear fuselage :)

[RougeTraveller]

@cybermarsactual i don't think so, they are Rolls-Royce engines!

[bommmmmmmm]

@cybermarsactual You know many are still working hard today with the RAF nearly 50 years since their introduction? In all that time not one has been lost due to a design flaw or mechanical failures. In fact in 50 years only a couple have been lost. One was a bomb in 1970 (no fatalities) and the other was an Eastern African Airways in 1969 due to pilot error. Its reputation as a safe aircraft is endorsed by the record.

[hawker445]

600mph?? some airliners today cant even break 550! WTF

[Marineperson]

almost sounds like DC-10...scary

[lonefather]

Bacn in those days meals were srrved in china ware, steel cutlery, glass bottles and timblers. An elegance gone forever.

[RougeTraveller]

@lonefather Tell me about it, not to mention decent size portions!

[Gannett2011]

Great film. Love the shot of Heathrow at the start, every kerb painted black and white!

At 3:29: certainly don't miss smoking in the cabin. I remember as late as 1990 flying from Gatwick to Dusseldorf, sitting with people smoking either side of me, ugh! But then smoking was normal back in the 60s

I certainly would like to be able to fly back then.

[RougeTraveller]

@Gannett2011 I miss smoking on airlines and blowing it towards people like yourself

[Pattii99]

Lovely video! Thank you for sharing!:)

[neil2864]

Ahh, flew on these in the 60s and early 70s. Beautiful times and not a shellsuit in sight!

[bufferin]

Those glamour days are gone :(

[freddielaker2]

it used to be a romantic place but since 9-11 its like fort knox! sad.... love these films though.

[bgibb101]

@kosky - thanks for this gem!

[fordlandau]

great video..thanks..strange now to see people smoking on a plane !

[warminator]

Thanks so much.

[izaneerz]

Many thanks for uploading this great film.