London Airport - Heathrow (1949)
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Uploaded by CharacterControl on Jan 17, 2009
London Airport (1949)
The story of a great engineering feat - the building, at Heathrow, of one of the largest airports in the world.April 1944 Great Western Aerodrome started its transformation from a privately owned small grass airfield to Heathrow. One of the worlds busiest airports. Londons main civil airport replacing Croydon Airport.
The airport opened fully for civilian use on 31 May 1946. London Heathrow International Airport's one terminal was in fact an army surplus tent situated a short walk from the aircraft.
Production Company: Crown Film Unit
Sponsor: Central Office of Information for Ministry of Civil Aviation
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: english
Keywords: Heathrow; ariport; London
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In those days london had 6 runways. Now it has 2, London is by far the busiest airport in the world with only 2 runways
cheesemaster1000 1 year ago
Interesting to see the beginnings of Heathrow.
bombsiteweed 2 years ago