"Aeronaves de Mexico Bristol Britannia"-1959

Some EXTREMELY RARE footage of an Aeronaves de Mexico Britannia!!

Gee, I think I'm hearing pistons chugging along with those Bristol Proteus turboprops at start-up, to say nothing of the "Pure jet" sound at cruise!!

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[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!

[Proplinerman]

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

[mcdonnell220]

"Jet Over The Atlantic"

[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]

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

[xoio]

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

[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!!

[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!

[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!

[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....