BOAC Presents: Top Flight - 1963 707 VC10 Promo Film (Part 2 of 3)

[brighthelmjacks]

air lingus had a 707 that ended up at lgw it was called spread legs its still flying i bet .

[Poyekali]

v1, v2 had to be manually announced....

[funnyminky]

A beautiful film! and people speaking the Queen's English too!

[fernando365493]

This video is one of the best 707 videos I've watched. It gives you a taste of the sixties as well. A bygone era.

[ford9572]

@benthejrporter That's because the cabins WERE more comfortable than the ones on modern airliners and the seats WERE MUCH wider!!! Modern airliners are nothing but flying sardine cans!!!

[MrSuniman]

@ford9572 The 707 has the same fuselage diameter as the 757 & 737, if the seats were "much wider" there would be no aisle !

There was however usually more pitch.

[benthejrporter]

The cabin looks more comfortable than ones on modern airliners. The seats look wider.

[TheSelectFew1]

Everything is just beautiful. The airhostesses in particular.

[EinkOLED]

The captain looks like lucas off little britain, and come fly with me.

[hootenzie]

Only my opinion, but the Boeing 707 is the ULTIMATE CLASSIC OF ALL TIME.

[Simona050]

I remember the 1960s and 70s were a wonderful era for air travel. This is what "SERVICE" once looked like. Airlines competed for business by how well they looked after you. Today it's about cost and profit. We'll never see the like of such days when flying was something special like this. It's a low-cost cattle shuttle industry now with all that gracious service thrown away. Club and Business Class are still not as good today. Very sad really.

[cdgh99]

love the shot of terminal 3 (i think) being built.... nothing changed there Heathrow is still a construction site. lol.

Would have loved to travel back then, travelling really was something special. 9/11 and Ryanair have ruined the flying experience.

[Psycho9263]

Now that was a way to run an airline!

[Mr2pint]

cattle class back then had as much seat room as business class on todays craft, i'm guessing the service was as good as well lol

[timber733]

As you might expect for that era a rather formal atmosphere in the cockpit I would say, you certainly know who is the boss on that flight deck, yes sir, no sir. Todays informal approach to crew resource management a good thing or not I wonder!

[baconsplace]

great whizzing dials

real posh accents of the era

a world away from todays democracy of travel

"100 knots Sir" " I have control" priceless

[B747jj]

@baconsplace I wish I was called Sir with V1 call :-)

[fordlandau]

great video...imagine being shown to your seat these dyas !!!

[82648947]

@fordlandau .. yes, boarding would take quite a time!

[Psycho9263]

John Travolta owns a 707

[blingwatch]

love this video golden days of the 707 love this gracious jet.

how the world of jet travel has changed since then

[donnyab]

@blingwatch

yep they don't crash every five minutes

[davidLw15]

The Boeing 707 was the best of that era. I was on several Pan American 707s in 1963.

[airbusmanic380]

During the 60's,smoking is allowed onboard.

[drav1dan]

Smoking in flight?!!! They are even willing to serve cigarettes.

[egreene27]

I like the sound of the engine starting

[uru86]

I love the BOAC styling on the cowlings!

[MartinIDavies]

Yes the thrill, anticipation of jet travel in the 60s difficult to explain liking anticipating a flight to the moon. class, sophistication, panache the impact on an impressionable 14 year old travelling alone. However a price to be paid. I would not now be travelling home by liner my 1st love. Liner I say not to be confused with the Orwellian prison ships that pass for them now. And as I stepped onto the open mobile stairway the world was never the same again

[MartinIDavies]

VC 10 Dec 1966 As a lad of 14 I flew an overnight flight on a VC10 Nairobi to London. Once dinner was over I was allowed up to the flight deck and sat in the co-pilots seat for hours gazing at the amazing stars and the pitch black of Africa below smoking and sipping whisky chatting with the pilot about the joys of international jet travel only relinquishing my seat was we approached Italy seeing the lights of Rome, Naples. My love affair with jet travel began that night.. a different world

[Learjetjock]

Don't I know that feeling oh too well. Mine happened to be a United DC-8 though. It pains me that I cannot share with the youth the way pilots shared with me in my young days today. It is a shame really. A totally diffrent world.

[473271]

Did you see that pretty flight attendant? I haven't seen one of those in 15 years!

[bules72]

Cocktails, lunch and afternoon tea. Cigarettes and drinks you may require. How wonderfull.

[gentil79]

now, we can't smoke, the drinks aren't even enough to drawn a mosquito, and we are served sandwiches that looked like that the air hostesses have been sat on them.

[vdsingh8]

did these aircraft have GPWS or TCAS? can anyone throw some light?

[AngloPatriot]

No i don't think so, those only came in when there were accidents due to these issues...i mean there is no issue if there is no accident so it was learning from accidents and making it so they are avoided in the future....sad but thats how the world works

I think the 707 did have a type of GPWS, but not like the ones of today

Airliners today compared to the 1960s...unrecognisable in terms of safety features.

[carl7ritchie]

nope.

[wmmurdoch]

Yes, both the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 engine start sequence was 3-4-2-1. Neither the 707 or DC-8 had APU's so #3 was started first so that a generator was put on line for electrical power. The ground power and air start could be pulled, and other ground equipment pulled while starting the remaining engines.

Thanks Krosky for posting this, It's a treat!

[DaveWBedford]

Thanks for this mate, brilliant video.

Observe the happy relaxed passengers with the extraordinary legroom and contrast with many of the hideously cramped aircraft today with stressed, hot, and cramped passengers. How far we've come.

[musico81986]

Wow...was that the engine starting sequence for the 707? 3-4-2-1?

Great vid!

[Spiv62]

Captain had a sun tan. Maybe just back from a layover in the sun. First officer sounds like he is from Manchester area. Probably did not get along with the skipper. Must have been a pain having the flight filmed for all the crew. Notice the construction at Heathrow. 1963 .Anyone know the crew ?

[ckyliu]

@Spiv62 The FO is the only person who doesn't sound like Mary Poppins, presumably because they couldn't replace him with an actor. Even then he doesn't exactly sound like working class!

[thibaulthalpern]

No way! They wouldn't be standing there at 0:25 as the wing passes overhead.

[LucMeilleur1993]

wow smoking on a plan lol

[willyboi708]

WOW!!! Great video!! I haven't seen such a detailed take off and flight video of a 707!! Gotta love these beautiful old birds. Thanks for posting!!!

[sniffypigster]

This is so cool, pure nostalgia!

[valleyman20]

these were the good old days wher they actually cared about u. now its how many people you can cram in for the biggest profit

[festusthefiend]

Did they really retract flaps at 400 ft? Somewhere in there I thought I heard "Flaps 20, 400 feet" A takeoff flap setting of more than 20 degrees and changing configuration seconds after takeoff - that cant be can it?

[reversethrustset]

Yes because the acceleration phase of an engine out situation is segment 3, - 400ft

[festusthefiend]

Honest? Thanks very much for the answer. Do you know the procedures they had to do for an engine fail just after V1 at such weights? Id be grateful if you post them!

[MerleOberon]

Where's the Comet 4???

[qwertdr]

The Comet 4 didn't exist at the time.

[MerleOberon]

BOAC flew Comet 4's from 1958 till 1965

[qwertdr]

Sorry, I kept thinking this was 1953! When it's actually '63.

[qwertdr]

No sorry, i got the years mixed up.

The comet probably wasn't featured as aircraft like the VC-10 and 707 were far more favored by the airlines. The Comet just wasn't what they wanted anymore, and thier operation of it was limited to the less important routes.

[virginbluedude]

they used the Comet 4 on long, thin routes to Africa and Australia. Australia definitely wasn't a less important route for BOAC. It was operated paralell to 707-436's

[xoio]

Yep, all the mystique & privilage of flying has gone now, & instead is now sanitised, generalised & about as bland as buying a fast food burger.

[am1966ath]

@xoio and cheaper, huge volumes of passangers..in the 1960 only a few had the money to travel by air. Mostly businessmen and wealthy people.

[lindenbeck]

A friend of mine who is an american would runaway if he would hear british english. Long life British English (better than AE)

[AmericanAirlinesRule]

Ummm, no. I like BE, but American english is better.

[qwertdr]

The US has destroyed the English language.

[sirvisto68]

I joine BOAC in 1969 and yes, it was just like this, and yes, air travel did have some class.

[virginbluedude]

is it true they didn't arm the aircrafts doors before flight in those days?

[mrblujet]

Back in the days when air travel had some class.

[fantasticministry]

7:21

Very close to a Bird Strike!

[52FestiveRoad]

God, it's amazing how things have changed in the modern crew environment...you'd NEVER find all that now lol (an obviously stern Captain whose addressed as 'sir' etc! The captain is a WWII vet - notice all his military bars below his wings? You've got to LOVE the formal register in which they spoke back then though lol, 'BTW Neirv, check the beacon cross at 31 tharrsand ft will yoou - jarst incase 35 tharrsand is an-available to arz...' (Mis-spelt for emphasis btw!) BRILLIANT stuff! ;-))

[52FestiveRoad]

Oh and BTW the F/O pilot (to the left of the captain) is also a WWII vet - he also has his bars below his wings...Nearly all the captains and F/Os were WWII vets in those days (F/Os to until the first graduates started getting churned out of the then new Hamble College of Air Training)...

[davidsan01]

I'd be worried if the Captain suddenly had a funny turn and then was imagining he was on a bombing mission over Germany.

Suitcases Away!

[henders01]

Gosh, golly, weren't the 'boys' in those days frafffly posh in their speech!!

[fafoair]

wonderful my favourite jet!

[maelcall]

Excellent! The VC10-my all time favourite aircraft....would love a copy of the original film