I remember that time very well. My first summer job was working in catering in the main terminal. Those 4 chandeliers were simply stunning. Sad they’re gone now. Thanks for posting

@nickdavies8197

Ай бұрын

The chandeliers are mainly in the Glass Museum at St Helens Lancs. I've seen one on display there after they left Ringway Airport. Worth seeing.

I love going with my Dad to the viewing platform.

Excellent ! I work at the airport, it sure ain't like that now !!

Faaaabulous footage! Spent my childhood spotting at Manchester 1969-1971 before we migrated to Australia. Thanks so much for the upload. Have saved this for many future viewings!

In the days when the airport was run properley and without inference from management. A lesson that the present owners need to urgently learn!

@Embracing01

Жыл бұрын

Pity none of the pilots and airport staff are protesting against all the unlawful Covid passport where you have to have a 3rd booster to fly, which actually isn't a vaccine anyway. I think that should be more important. When an airport didn't feel like a prison with CCTV cameras everywhere and having to go through a body scanner because people think that Bin Laden carried out the 9/11 attacks, if only people realised he and his 19 alleged hijackers (whom by the way couldn't even fly a small plane let alone an airliner) he responsible then they wouldn't be so willing to accept these draconian rules.

Manchester wasn't as busy as nowadays but what a fantastic variety of aircraft we used to have. All we get now is (apart from the A380) twin engine tubes and boring eurowhite liveries.

Spantax CV-990, Aviogenex Tu-134, Dan -Air Comet! What awesomeness!

I remember Manchester airport of the late 1970s, no jetways and only stairways, mostly smaller planes (DC9s, 737s, 707s, VC10s) around the big U shaped terminal, and a strong smell of jetfuel when entering terminal

I mean, one thing is for sure. You had a much bigger variety of aircraft types!

5 years later we emigrated from Bolton via Manchester to south Africa on a bac 111 to Heathrow used to go to watch the planes with my dad

If those shots of the Jumbo jet were taken in August 1970 when the first one landed at Ringway, then I was there that day as a five year old boy. We lived a stone's throw from the airport and my parents took me to see it. We're among the crowd on top of the walkway at 8.35.

Bring those days back! What a refreshing change it would make to the present day rude and nasty staff and shameless scams and racketeering. That's to say nothing of the que's going outside of the terminal building to check in!

Manchester Airport - a diamond in the mud.

Far better then and what it’s like today totally horrendous

Absolutely Brilliant

I helped build the new level 5 car park back in 72 .

@keengro3740

4 жыл бұрын

i watched a woman commit suicide of the car park in 1980

@handsoffmycactus2958

Жыл бұрын

@@keengro3740that is awful bless her

When there was fog at Heathrow, the B747s landed in Manchester...

@carlmaster9690

5 жыл бұрын

And Birmingham

This video is all true. It’s great I like it.

Look at the exhaust fumes compared to today - air travel is much cleaner today

@Embracing01

Жыл бұрын

When they're not spreading trails in the sky which don't dissipate but instead form hazy skies which regular contrails don't produce lol. We still had clear blue skies back then though despite the fumes, so I wonder what's going on now.

Awesome!

good times

My word, look at the smoke from that 737 2:03.

@VB-0015

Жыл бұрын

thats the water injection system. the JT8D engine is not much more fuel efficient than the CFM 56 engine on todays airliners!

Good that this Airport offloaded the overcrowded and ageing Heathrow that couldnt cope with all these B747s...Why should everybody going to/from UK and domestic fly via Heathrow???

Do you have any shot,s of Donaldson airways flew on them from Toronto to Scotland long time ago

BOAC should have had more traffic from MAN....everything via LHR??

Interflug and Aviogenex. Glorious Russian metal on western soil.

@paulhargreaves1497

4 ай бұрын

I think it's Bulair (part of Balkan) at 6.55, not Interflug

@fs10inator

2 ай бұрын

@@paulhargreaves1497 Yep. It's Bulair.

Is the narrator Henry Kelly?

Ruined it now so much countryside taken away what about the Wilde life.