Oh the memories! Joined BEA at LHR as a pilot in 1972 straight onto the Trident 3B as a second officer, fresh from graduating from the College of Air Training, Hamble. Eventually retired off the B744 in 2006. Halcyon days. Thanks for posting the video. 😀
Lovely post! My favorite memory of the Trident was a flight from Heathrow to Stavanger, Norway--with a hefty tailwind, the pilot announced we had attained a groundspeed of 740 miles per hour, shaving almost half an hour off the scheduled flight time. The entire BEA branding was elegant and colorful, quite memorable. Thanks for sparking these good memories again!
Oh the BEA livery - as a kid in the 70's used to love watching the Trident shuttle flying out of Glasgow, and flying on the Viscount down the west coast of Scotland to Islay and Campbeltown.
Thanks for posting. Back in the '50's, the morning BEA Viscount from Elmdon (now BHX) to LHR used to be my final alarm-call as it passed overhead shortly after take-off.
The halcyon days of aviation. Only problem was that the average working class person could only dream of flying BEA to an exotic overseas destination. A great historical record though, thank you for posting it
May I point out that the mid-late 60's and early 70's were the period of cheap package holidays to the Med and those who took such holidays were certainly not rich. Not sure what you mean by 'exotic overseas destination' as BEA were an intra-European carrier. I accept that choosing to travel on a scheduled BEA flight would have been a bit more expensive than travelling on a holiday charter airline but even so this idea that by 1971 (the date of this video) flying BEA was so expensive that it was beyond the means of the average working class person is really a myth.
I remember reading that Hawker Siddley wanted to make the initial Trident longer and larger, but BEA fought them on this….. the Americans were shown the project and lo and behold, the Boeing 727 was born and was far more successful.
Great memories for me. I enjoyed a very happy time from 1968 to 1982 (then it was British Airways) and I was a management colleague of the featured Swiss Executive Chef
My mum was in the travel business & they had comic names for the airlines based on their initials. BEA was known as the Bacon & Egg Airline, BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) was Better On A Camel. It is surprising how the numbers have increased.
As a kid I could always tell if a trident was flying over my house because the under wing was painted red. I flew on a trident only once and boy was is noisy at the back on take off. Very sleek and exciting plane tho 👍
I feel even at the start of another decade life seemed more glamorous and flying was more enjoyable. Obviously the amount of passengers was of the time and now Heathrow caters for many millions more as the 🌎 has grown with the trials and tribulations of this. And security - know where were there high tech scanners There were no lap tops, mobile phones and you did not have to take your shoes off 🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧😭😢
when i moved to london i met a Norwegian girl and i later flew with ba on a boeing 757 to visit her in norway. i was 25. i got the travel bug and i haven't stopped travelling since. london was a great base for finding cheap flights. last week i flew on the airbus a 380 for the 1st time. i liked it but my favourite plane will always be the 747.
I remember the trident and the 1 -11 Of BA they noisy black smoke used rise out there engines over our house In southall 😂 it was like a air show Now I live near Heathrow with my family and 58 yrs old the only thing I hear now is the reverse thrust . I worked on the ramp at Heathrow since 2002 till present . The first jet I flew on was a B 707 Pakistan PIA from Heathrow to Karachi was 7 yrs old going along with my mother I presume the London flight to Karachi was the 340C coming back from Lahore to London Was I think 320B . As I was a child I think the Karachi To Lahore was the B720 . John Cunningham also flew the first PIA Trident delivery flight with PIA chief pilot shaket H khan Sometime in the 1960 s
They were to merge with BOAC shortly after. The tridents were also operating in China and a few other exotic places. They could land and take off in fog too.
When BOAC and BEA worked before it became BA which worked well through the 80's but now a shadow of its former self because the accountants messed up, AGAIN.
They must have knken, even when this was made, that British industry was in terminal decline, and that everything would shut up shop within a decade? The electronics industry, the ship building industry, the motor industry, the general manufacturing, cutlery, steel, Manchester/ fabrics just to name a few, and of course the aeronautical industry? .. This was the era of Leyland. Rationalisation. Union power. Progressive ideals like short working weeks. Japan was booming.
It was Captain King as stated, but I understand that he'd had a heated argument with other pilots in the crew room prior to his taking command of his flight. It was suggested after the crash that this left him flustered and agitated, and that he possibly suffered an heart attack during takeoff. I believe it was also the opinion of the enquiry experts that his co-pilots were too inexperienced and that more experienced co-pilots should have been seconded to the crew, but due to an ongoing strke action none were available...
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Oh the memories!
Joined BEA at LHR as a pilot in 1972 straight onto the Trident 3B as a second officer, fresh from graduating from the College of Air Training, Hamble. Eventually retired off the B744 in 2006. Halcyon days.
Thanks for posting the video. 😀
Glad that you enjoyed it!
Great to see these historic images of a different airline scenery with all those airlines and aircraft that are now a thing of the past.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Sweet advert! Loved BEA with my ❤ and especially the Trident
Glad you enjoyed it!
The Hawker Trident is so aesthetically pleasing to me anyway
I agree with you!
Lovely post! My favorite memory of the Trident was a flight from Heathrow to Stavanger, Norway--with a hefty tailwind, the pilot announced we had attained a groundspeed of 740 miles per hour, shaving almost half an hour off the scheduled flight time. The entire BEA branding was elegant and colorful, quite memorable. Thanks for sparking these good memories again!
Glad that you enjoyed it!
Oh the BEA livery - as a kid in the 70's used to love watching the Trident shuttle flying out of Glasgow, and flying on the Viscount down the west coast of Scotland to Islay and Campbeltown.
Very interesting. Had no idea that BEA was spun off from BOAC. Remember flying both, as well as British Caledonian, as a child.
When passengers were treated as valued customers, not potential criminals.
Or cattle.
Thanks for posting. Back in the '50's, the morning BEA Viscount from Elmdon (now BHX) to LHR used to be my final alarm-call as it passed overhead shortly after take-off.
The Trident was quite a unique trijet but it was so loud on takeoff.!
Yes it was loud .
super capable tho'
Anyone else thought it was named trident because it had three Engines?
The halcyon days of aviation. Only problem was that the average working class person could only dream of flying BEA to an exotic overseas destination. A great historical record though, thank you for posting it
May I point out that the mid-late 60's and early 70's were the period of cheap package holidays to the Med and those who took such holidays were certainly not rich. Not sure what you mean by 'exotic overseas destination' as BEA were an intra-European carrier. I accept that choosing to travel on a scheduled BEA flight would have been a bit more expensive than travelling on a holiday charter airline but even so this idea that by 1971 (the date of this video) flying BEA was so expensive that it was beyond the means of the average working class person is really a myth.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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@@Ben-xe8psand then Freddie Laker appeared……and the world changed
Not true I was a Geordie Miners daughter - I was on this film & reading the announcement.
good sharing 👌 thumb up 👍
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I remember reading that Hawker Siddley wanted to make the initial Trident longer and larger, but BEA fought them on this….. the Americans were shown the project and lo and behold, the Boeing 727 was born and was far more successful.
Great memories for me. I enjoyed a very happy time from 1968 to 1982 (then it was British Airways) and I was a management colleague of the featured Swiss Executive Chef
Glad you enjoyed it
The days when flying was “Klasse” and now it’s “Masse”……
The BEA buses are a reminder that there was no tube station serving Heathrow until several years later.
My mum was in the travel business & they had comic names for the airlines based on their initials. BEA was known as the Bacon & Egg Airline, BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) was Better On A Camel. It is surprising how the numbers have increased.
SABENA - Such A Bad Experience Never Again
SAS - Same As Sabena
@ TWA - Try Walking Across
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A great aircraft and part of British aviation history but one tends to believe that BEA would have been a lot better off financially with 737s.
As a kid I could always tell if a trident was flying over my house because the under wing was painted red. I flew on a trident only once and boy was is noisy at the back on take off. Very sleek and exciting plane tho 👍
BOAC Operations used to call BEA the 'Hounslow Flying Club'
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Incredible just 36 years ago it still resembled what this video from 1970s shows. Incredible memories, TWA, JAL, Qantas, 747s in the background
Put a Courtline Lockheed l1011 tristar next to a Trident and the Trident looks old and small.
@@matthewpayne42 that makes sense, since the TriStar is a large widebody, so it should look much bigger than the Trident
I feel even at the start of another decade life seemed more glamorous and flying was more enjoyable.
Obviously the amount of passengers was of the time and now Heathrow caters for many millions more as the 🌎 has grown with the trials and tribulations of this.
And security - know where were there high tech scanners
There were no lap tops, mobile phones and you did not have to take your shoes off
🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧😭😢
😅great video from a different age…
when i moved to london i met a Norwegian girl and i later flew with ba on a boeing 757 to visit her in norway. i was 25. i got the travel bug and i haven't stopped travelling since. london was a great base for finding cheap flights. last week i flew on the airbus a 380 for the 1st time. i liked it but my favourite plane will always be the 747.
I remember the trident and the 1 -11
Of BA they noisy black smoke used rise out there engines over our house
In southall 😂 it was like a air show
Now I live near Heathrow with my family and 58 yrs old the only thing
I hear now is the reverse thrust .
I worked on the ramp at Heathrow since 2002 till present .
The first jet I flew on was a B 707
Pakistan PIA from Heathrow to Karachi was 7 yrs old going along with my mother I presume the London flight to Karachi was the 340C coming back from Lahore to London
Was I think 320B .
As I was a child I think the Karachi
To Lahore was the B720 .
John Cunningham also flew the first PIA Trident delivery flight with PIA chief pilot shaket H khan
Sometime in the 1960 s
Any other Hamsters watching this in 2024?
@3:41 QANTAS 707 😍
They were to merge with BOAC shortly after. The tridents were also operating in China and a few other exotic places. They could land and take off in fog too.
When BOAC and BEA worked before it became BA which worked well through the 80's but now a shadow of its former self because the accountants messed up, AGAIN.
They must have knken, even when this was made, that British industry was in terminal decline, and that everything would shut up shop within a decade? The electronics industry, the ship building industry, the motor industry, the general manufacturing, cutlery, steel, Manchester/ fabrics just to name a few, and of course the aeronautical industry? .. This was the era of Leyland. Rationalisation. Union power. Progressive ideals like short working weeks. Japan was booming.
Nowadays who cares about chefs for economy passengers, throw them anything and they will eat without complaining
Third world was looking that time for the west as civilized community and their life style was elegant
They were to merge with BOAC to become British Airways
at 4.45 is that the captain that crashed the trident over staines ?
No it's Ron Gillman I believe. It was Captain Key on the fateful flight that crashed near Staines. RIP
It was Captain King as stated, but I understand that he'd had a heated argument with other pilots in the crew room prior to his taking command of his flight. It was suggested after the crash that this left him flustered and agitated, and that he possibly suffered an heart attack during takeoff. I believe it was also the opinion of the enquiry experts that his co-pilots were too inexperienced and that more experienced co-pilots should have been seconded to the crew, but due to an ongoing strke action none were available...
@@aubreydrinkwater3236 Captain Key (not King).
Miss those old whining RR Darts, and deafening dirty Speys... 😍
A pity cannot read either Pan Am or TWA 747s serial numbers...
People wore suits on trips