"Aeronaves de Mexico Bristol Britannia"-1959

[jjaus]

Beautiful aircraft. Hilarious sound effects. Two turning and two pumping methinks.

[MrRonnieG]

Great to see these pilots with no seatbelt/harness, ah what the hell ~ this is the way we do it in Mexico. By the way, does anyone know what happened to the flight engineer's station AND the flight engineer? Must have been a low-rider Britannia; chopped, channeled and if I'm seeing correctly ~ tuck & roll too! Just missing the dice hanging on the center post and some graphics on the side of the nose reading, "La Bamba."

[dbarl64]

The start up sounds are sounding like radial Piston engines instead of Jet Turbines

There are some Brittania Turbine sounds when it starts moving.

[flygweilo]

Gotta love - as he Britannia's Proteus turbo-props start to spin up - how the movie's sound engineers add the sound of a piston-engine spluttering to life at 1:39 ... !

My father flew the Britannia for BOAC from 1957 to 1963.

[miguelmouta]

Shaking he pilots cabin was not funny. ( it disturbs ). Nevertheless a nice video. Thanks for sharing.

[NHR2020]

The Captain & F/O have obviously had a tiff, because they complete the startup sequence without talking to each other!!

[TheSecurdisc]

You were absolutely right. It was G-ANBH. I checked my loft among my other souveniers. My two brothers and uncle and my self worked for BKS Engineering at Southend airport and I have a few bits I collected along the way. I suppose the most stupid thing I kept was one of the passenger windows.

[peterjlrickinson]

The guy who scrapped a BKS Britannia at Southend in 1969...it was actually G-ANBH. The other BKS Britannias were all scrapped at Newcastle: G-APLL in Sept 1969, G-ANBD the following year, and G-ANBK, which was the first to join the BKS fleet in May1964, soldiered on in service until New Year's Eve 1971, and was scrapped the following spring.

Great plane!

[gordon225]

Just saw the movie in Singapore, apart from the sound errors, as the aircraft took off it changed briefly into a Boeing Stratocruiser. It also was a B707 briefly while landing.

Someone mentioned similarity to CL44 which was simply the Britannia built under licence by Canadair. used to see the CL44 lots in Prestwick for Loftleider - the predecessor to Icelandair. last flew on one to Spain with Monarch Airways

[kloakovalimonada]

Why the radial piston engines burping???

[TheSecurdisc]

Interesting film. Clearly not the engine sound of a Britannia though. Still, nice to see it in the air. The cockpit is accurate though. I scrapped a BKS Britannia in 1969 at Southend Airport. I still have the control column (yoke) and the Pilots log book and navigation maps and fuel log. Think it was G-APLL or NBK.

[PassatDoc]

This clip is from the 1959 film "Jet Over The Atlantic". The "jet" of the title was actually a Bristol Britannia, not a pure jet. In the film, the flight is from Madrid to New York. To reduce production costs, most likely an Aeronaves de Mexico Britannia was used, but this is not an Aeronaves documentary, it's a motion picture film about a fictional in-flight near-disaster

[smichael888]

i was a Britannia Flight Engineer officer with 2.500 hours on type including flying round the world in one. The Flight Engineer operated the engines including thrust on take off and landing and pretty much everything elses apart from the pilot flying panel and stick.. Yes I am still flying on the 747

[mcdonnell220]

@smichael888 Thanks! You don't hear from a Britannia crew member everyday!

[bgibb101]

@smichael888 - I flew on one as a kid when we moved to Aden (Dad was in the army). I remember the backward facing seats! During our evacuation from Aden in 1967, we flew out on a VC10. Memories!

[8002reverse]

Turboprop with piston noise on start up and jet noise for take off and cruise.

[xoio]

LOL ... what's with the 'piston' startup overdub, when these are Turboprop engines! :-)

[peterjlrickinson]

Also notice (ridiculously) that the in flight scenes substitute a BOAC Britannia 102, the Aeronaves de Mexico planes having a clearly different livery and were series 300 Britannias.

Cheap film....

[Proplinerman]

Also, I've just noticed that the plane shown initially is visibly XA-MED, but later it's changed to XA-MEC!

[hudson501]

Notice how the camera is shaken to help demonstrate the start up of the "piston" engines!

[dboard9]

I like how #1 has an inertial starter (sound)

[Proplinerman]

What a superbly awful film! We have (correct) turboprop start up noise from the engines; entirely incorrect piston engine start up noise in the cockpit; and "wrong" pure jet noise on take off and in flight! Thanks for posting this very interesting relic.

[tackle98]

Why are they wearing their hats in the cockpit? I've flown jets for 30 years including 15 at a major airline and never once wore a hat. My pet peeve - that and jackets, of course.

[alantew]

oh dont be stupid - effing idiot

[sortashaman]

@tackle98

There was also a pretty good hat at 2:48!

[AlfredoUToobe]

This plane crashed at the Tijuana airport on jul 09 1965 du to a landing gear problem no fatalities but the plane was damaged beyond repair 9 crew and 73 passengers survived.

[Proplinerman]

Great (and very rate) footage. What film/movie is it from?

[mcdonnell220]

"Jet Over The Atlantic"

[MexAero]

Wow!!! Great footage!!! Thanks a lot for share this!!!

[AccessAir]

The Britannia is actually powered by the Bristol Proteus turboprop....The RR Tyne powered the Vickers Vanguard and very similar looking Canadair CL-44. Looked almost identical to the Britannia.

[mcdonnell220]

Thanks! I'll mkae the correction! :-)

[mcdonnell220]

Been on the hunt for Tigers 44 footage for years; not too much joy yet. :-(