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!
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
Ringway Airport as it was then in 1975 my first destination to arrive in and I did not have passport to travel then as it was not required between our countries
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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???
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!
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
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.
Ringway Airport as it was then in 1975 my first destination to arrive in and I did not have passport to travel then as it was not required between our countries
I love going with my Dad to the viewing platform.
Excellent ! I work at the airport, it sure ain't like that now !!
Far better then and what it’s like today totally horrendous
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
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.
Spantax CV-990, Aviogenex Tu-134, Dan -Air Comet! What awesomeness!
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
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.
I mean, one thing is for sure. You had a much bigger variety of aircraft types!
In the days when the airport was run properley and without inference from management. A lesson that the present owners need to urgently learn!
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.
Absolutely Brilliant
Manchester Airport - a diamond in the mud.
Do you have any shot,s of Donaldson airways flew on them from Toronto to Scotland long time ago
I helped build the new level 5 car park back in 72 .
i watched a woman commit suicide of the car park in 1980
@@keengro3740that is awful bless her
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!
When there was fog at Heathrow, the B747s landed in Manchester...
And Birmingham
Look at the exhaust fumes compared to today - air travel is much cleaner today
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.
My word, look at the smoke from that 737 2:03.
thats the water injection system. the JT8D engine is not much more fuel efficient than the CFM 56 engine on todays airliners!
This video is all true. It’s great I like it.
good times
Awesome!
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???
Is the narrator Henry Kelly?
BOAC should have had more traffic from MAN....everything via LHR??
Interflug and Aviogenex. Glorious Russian metal on western soil.
I think it's Bulair (part of Balkan) at 6.55, not Interflug
@@paulhargreaves1497 Yep. It's Bulair.
Ruined it now so much countryside taken away what about the Wilde life.