The glory days of aviation at London Heathrow & Gatwick.
The days when wild boy pilots would show off their piloting skills in front of an assembled audience and we (and they) would love every minute! TWA, Pan Am and Air India were all regulars at performing for us and thanks to my aviation friend Ian Austin, who filmed all this magic, you too can now sit back and relive the excitement of the two icons that defined London Heathrow The Boeing 747 'Queen of the Skies' and the finest passenger plane ever built Concorde.
This is part 1 of a two part epic which captures the sights and sounds of Heathrow and Gatwick in the late 1980's and early 1990's, savour every last drop of this golden footage.
The Boeing 747 will soon be extinct from Heathrow, it will be a very sad day when this happens in just a handful of years. It is hard to believe there was a time when any airline that wanted to be taken seriously had to have the Jumbo Jet in it's fleet These days are presented to you in this video.
Sights, sounds and locations, when I think of what we used to have.. It makes me want to weep that it's now all gone. Thank you again Ian for having the foresight to film all this and for keeping the footage. Details and history
Here is a line up of the airlines in the video
TWA
Pan Am
British Airways
Air India
Kuwait Airways
Air Canada
SAA South African Airways
Virgin Atlantic
United Airlines
Qantas
Thai International
Oman Amiri Flight
American Airlines
Saudia
Iberia
EL AL
EL AL CARGO
Flying Tigers
Iran Air
Japan Airlines
MEA Middle East Airlines
United Arab Emirates 747SP
Singapore Airlines
Garuda Indonesia
Lan Chile
Iraqi Airways