Interesting film here of the beginning of Heathrow, Avo Lancastrian and Yorks,DC 3 and 4’s,Constellation etc.
Interesting comment near the end, contruction could continue for another 6 years… and the rest !
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1945to1951/filmpage_la.htm
Bet they didn’t have a problem with lost bags then..!
Alan
By: DGH - 12th July 2007 at 19:59
I wonder whether you’d get away with this at Heathrow today……:D
No – more likely at Stanstead with easyjet! 😀
By: low'n'slow - 12th July 2007 at 16:35
I wonder whether you’d get away with this at Heathrow today……:D
Brian Allen “demonstrating” at Heathrow in 1937!!
By: Bob - 11th July 2007 at 15:06
Interesting.
Fast forward to 1956 and I flew from London (not sure which field – Lydd maybe?) to Wick in the far north of Scotland in a Silver City Airways DC-3.
My first flight, the 50th anniversary of which I ‘marked’ last year with a flight on one of Air Atlantiques DC3.
By: PaulR - 11th July 2007 at 14:19
From a more personal perspective, one on Nigeria gaining independance, seeing as I’m a former child resident of the former British West Africa.
By: PaulR - 11th July 2007 at 14:16
Great film! Imagine trying to get planning permission to wipe out all that greenfield land and homes, pubs etc., these days?
Here’s one of the first atomic bomb test, Operation Hurricane.
And Suez in Prespective.
Fascinating site, thanks, bookmarked now! 😀
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