BOAC Presents: Top Flight - 1963 707 VC10 Promo Film (Part 1 of 3)

This promotional film was made for BOAC in 1963 and shows the preparation and flight of a BOAC Boeing 707. It also contains some great shots of the BOAC VC-10, together with Heathrow, Kai Tak, and New York airports in the early 1960s. Music by John Dankworth, who passed away in February 2010.

Also see http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=v7RMlluY0sA for a BEA promo film from 1968.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• BOAC
• Top
• Flight
• 1963
• Boeing
• 707
• VC10
• Heathrow
• Kai
• Tak
• New
• York
• British
• Airways
• BA
• John
• Dankworth

[lovemorembigi]

A very different, and more pleasant, world in those days!!

[quercous]

just wish we could go back to their slower way of life.

[Valizan]

All this and smooth jazz by Johnny Dankworth. Hot damn!

[pete5668]

looks like a tupolev

[death2pc]

@lovemorembigi

You said it!

[danielshon]

@RainfulPhenix ok  merci mon ami, salut !

[johneddy98033]

The VC-10, the best British jet since the Comet in my opinion.

[RainfulPhenix]

@danielshon

Nope.

The illyushin il-62 is what you are thinking about.

It has a very similar design with the engines.

[miguelmouta]

@lovemorembigi Despite Vietnan and other bad things, I agree 100% with you. Maybe it was because at those times we were less than 3 billions. Now we turned to be about 7 billions of robots, in the same scarce planet .

[aydansavaskan]

it wasn't very different from this back in the early 90's when i used to fly from u.k to turkey with my family most summers. so different now though of course.

[danielshon]

@slh950 ok merci mon ami