😅❤ Priceless its Amazing how Life has Evolved In Aviation over the Years, Thanks for Sharing ❤ Care, from South Africa 🌍

Wonderful old video, brimgs back good memories. My best friend at school went to Hamble, 65/67, I visited him a couple of times. Tragically he was killed in the Trident midair ovre Zagreb, September 76. Still sadly missed.

Car and planes had so much character back then compared to the boring choices we have today.

@tommyd5238

10 күн бұрын

Yes, they're all designed by computers that aren't programmed for style.

Ah the VC-10! As a kid I used to fly the RAF Akrotiri / Brize Norton route on RAF troop transports in the very late 60s up to the mid-70s. A beautiful aircraft. The first time I flew commercial I was completely stumped. The seats all faced the wrong way!

Nice bit of jet airline history 😊

4.20....beach ball...that was a neat bit of scene cutting... 7.36...I like that!..."well done; you're still airborne..." The narrator, Johnny Morris was unique. He had a way of telling you stuff factually but in an amusing way. His animal programmes were highly entertaining...here, he gives the Morris treatment to Hamble, imbuing a faint cheeriness.....highly entertaining!

An amazing archive of some pioneering days. I was a small boy in the late 1960's and 1970's already obsessed with aviation. I grew up on the outskirts of Guildford and my father would sometimes take me to 'London Airport' to stand on that exact viewing area on that very building where 'Mike' stands to see his father. It was fantastic to be so close to everything with great views of the runways and all the sights and sounds of a busy airport. I realise we have moved on in giant steps these days, but I can't help feeling the architects and planners have somehow destroyed a very important and special part of aviation by designing terminal buildings that have no clear view of the airport they serve. Every time I go to Heathrow to drop or collect family and friends or fly out, I am so frustrated that you cannot see anything of the aircraft arriving and departing. All those young people who could be enthused and educated about airports and aviation are just processed cargo, deprived of feeling part of that world. In an old fashioned way, it's good to once more, hear Johnny Morris doing his thing. Thanks for posting this great old film.

@bigglesvideo

3 күн бұрын

That was me in the 60s and 70s as well! I witnessed 1st hand how the aviation industry has evolved over my 35 years of service!

@lawrencemartin1113

3 күн бұрын

@@bigglesvideo I have such happy memories if those days. I am so interested and excited by the amazing developments in aviation over my life time, and if you take the short span of years since the days of those first ever powered flights carrying intrepid aviators aloft, such as the Wright Brothers and Louis Bleriot, it is extraordinary to think, in that short time, we achieved....and have since retired and abandoned, supersonic passenger flight, and have travelled to space and put men on the moon and built and maintained a space station!.....it's really incredible. And yet....we don't seem to be able to build a terminal building that allows the magic of flying to be celebrated by those travelling! 🫤🤔

A time when we all knew where we stood…….the good old days……..or was it………..I am though waiting to see if Dotty the Ring Tailed Lemur may pop up…..seriously though, brilliant times with amazing jets, I was lucky to fly on Comets, VC 10, Super VC 10, Belfasts, Hercs and even an old Bristol Britannia…..it was fun flying to and from Cyprus to the UK, as a young boy….halcyon times……

@thomasm1964

4 күн бұрын

Me too! Bristol Britannia to Hong Kong ( foetus) and back ( 3 year old ) and RAF VC-10s between Brize Norton and Akrotiri. From memory, mostly 737s to Germany with Dan,Air and Britannia. Not quite sure about Dan Air.

great video, I drove past what is left of Hamble today, not much.

A historic video, nice to see Aquila block and the guys marching to the canteen! Myself and most of my Hamble pilot course have just had our 50th reunion, another historic event 😉.

@bigglesvideo

13 күн бұрын

You guys must’ve been a decade ahead of us! We went through in 1979 and still meet up for the odd meal🙂

@tonkerdog1

13 күн бұрын

I did my commercial training at Southampton, and only found out about Hamble when we were holding for some bigger traffic to land. Shame it’s only a field now. Better times gents.

@fireflyrobert

8 күн бұрын

I trained at Hamble in 69/70 - course 692. Some of the pics of Hamble took me back. I was in Hydra block.

I remember the apaches and later barons when I was a 7 or 8 years old. We used to climb through the fence and hide behind the runway marker boards when the barons were night flying, they used to be a few feet above your head when they took off. The hangar by the garages in Verdon Avenue housed the simulators and on a hot day the fire door would be open and you could see them…very primitive by today’s standards. Also, my mates mum worked as a cleaner at the college and knew the controllers, arranging for us lads to spend Saturdays in the control tower when only the RAF chippies were flying…. I remember that they would call up “Stone Point for rejoin” when coming back in from a sortie over the island. I ended up working for NATS and getting my pilots licence so I suppose, being a Hamble lad, it was in my blood!

Nice video Malc (which I can't remember seeing at Hamble!!) "Up the sharp end, looking smooth" :-)

"Oh it's that gay young bachelor". The camp and over the top narration from that era is unbelievable but at the time it just came across as the norm.

19:55 weren't the Tridents equipped w/Autoland?

@bigglesvideo

4 ай бұрын

Indeed they were, I guess that the producers of this film wanted to keep things simple?

Is the narrator Johnny Morris? Certainly sounds like him.

@bigglesvideo

Ай бұрын

Indeed it is! 🙂

@markotango54

15 күн бұрын

What a fantastic video

so teddibly British, but can't help thinking compared to today, all this has been purposefully dismantled

By the time it was shown in Hamble in 1979, the British Aircraft industry was dead, the trident and VC 10 were relics, Brit manufacturing itself was on its last grim steps towards oblivion, and the gay young pilot meant an entirely different thing. Just 13 years and a cultural and post-industrial revolution had occurred.

I love a young Gay pilot 😂

@Hamster3582

13 күн бұрын

We were all gay in the 1960’s, it meant happy then.

@sirbarringtonwomblembe4098

13 күн бұрын

Nice boy!

@atpg5

9 күн бұрын

iFlyTheWorld - i Fly The World Too !!

I love watching vintage aviation, but the narration got a little too silly.

A very good mysoginistic video……well done old chap……toodle pip.

@tonkerdog1

13 күн бұрын

What’s mysoginistic about it?

@rayleslie4767

10 күн бұрын

Referring to the "Sweet young thing" perhaps?