I remember regularly flying over Lasham when G-ANTK was stored there along with the Ambassador and a B707, I think the 707 was scrapped but the other two are at Duxford.
My first flight was in 1950 in a Skyways York from Blackbushe to Fyad in Egypt via Luqa in Malta. I think this started my aviation interest and subsequent career as a professional pilot. Those 4 Merlins on take off were an unforgetable sound.
Remember the yorks at heathrow, danair and skyways, spotting from the queens building, and taking off at night over our house in north west london, heading east, you could hear the Merlins for ages as it climbed out
and i was probably standing next to you! the sound of the merlin engines, straining for height, still remains with me to this day. Now, where did i put my plane registration notebook? :-)
@@buggertheusername that's a nice thought, note books and binocs in hand, on my first trip to heathrow we had to walk to the centre through the tunnel as it wasnt open to traffic and you watched from a type of compound, my mum went up in a dragon rapide flight over london, 10/6, got a picture of that
@@alltransman5033 Ah yes. My first flight in an Air Couriers Rapide was from RAF Hendon (10/-) at the last airshow in 1957. It was Dad's too, even though he had been a wartime LAC in the RAF.
My father after his service in the RAF joined British South American Airways ,where they flew Yorks. BSAA was later amalgamated with Imperial Airways and became part of BOAC.
I heard my father,also early BOAC aircrew, , comment that its use for civil operations was rather jeopardized by a high wing load factor,of particular significance for fully laden takeoffs. .Or it might have been another aircraft..
Never knew these existed, one to add to my list on the next trip back too Blighty. We have the flying Lancaster out of Hamilton here in Canada. Those four Merlin's get me moving when she fly's over.
Dan Air reserve a lot of credit for retaining examples of their past fleet, such as the York and Ambassador. York G-ANTK (lovingly referred to as 'Antique' after its registration) was loaned to the Air Scout centre at Lasham and was used as a bunkhouse by thousands of Scouts for many years.
Excellent video... immediately I saw the plane it reminded me of the Lancaster which I'd never seen in real life, but knew very well from all the WWII war comics from when I was a kid....I'm 50 now. 😀 Thanks for sharing.👍👍👍👏👏👏
In 1947 when I was 5 I flew with my parents from Montevideo to London in a BSAA York . it was my first flight. The noise was so unbearable when it was about to take off that I desperately wanted to get out! We had stops at Rio de Janeiro, Natal, Dakar, Lisbon and London. The whole trip took more than 30 hours , because at each stop refuelling took more than 1 hour.
It was the noise inside the fuselage, which was also unpressurised. More sophisticated airliners such as the DC-6, Constellation and Stratocruiser took over the longer routes, while the turboprop Viscount appeared on shorter routes. These aircraft could fly much higher above the weather. Curiously, Canadair built the Argonaut/North Star, which was a mish-mash of DC-4 and DC-6 parts (among others), powered by four Merlins but with a pressurised fuselage, and successfully and noisily served in the Canadian airlines and BOAC. One was built with radial engines and had a long life as Canada's premier VIP aircraft.
There are two airworthy Lancasters which fly frequently, one in Canada, the other in Britain (to be joined by yet another in the not distant future). The Canadian one flew to Britain and back a few years ago.
I often wondered if the Lancaster looked evil because of the job it did? It both impresses me and makes me feel uneasy. The York sort of says I was right. The designer has made it look softer. I met the people of the RAF who maintained the Shackletons. They had a love, hate, love understanding of the design. They loved their work.
My father who was in the RAF during the 2 World War in the Met office saw one of those coming in to land in. India in 1947 with Lord Mountbatten on board from Singapore who he later met
That comment about the noise of the merlins being too much made me laugh. I used to see the Lancaster based at Hamilton airport and for my money, only the mosquito sounds as sweet as the lanc. I could pick it out by sound alone.
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I remember clip in TV many years ago, showing a four-engined airplane cart wheeling into parked airplanes in a airport. The comment was something like: 'One of the wires that controlled the ailerons snapped causing the accident. It was a common problem with the Lancaster, which this airplane was based on.' ... /JD
It's a bit ironic that, according to this video, it was withdrawn from service because of noise levels, especially when you consider what followed, a few years later - two of the noisiest aircraft ever, the Trident and the BAC-1-11.
I worked on that aircraft when I first joined the DAS. She was in a bad way internally, as she had been used to transport elephants...and elephant urine and aircraft Aluminium did not go together very well..
I love the way some zealot has dubbed the voice over into kilometres - as if anyone in Britain had even heard of Napoleonic measurements in those days.
Very good looking aircraft. Excellent archive film well put together. The whole thing well done. I only wish the Duxford York was in RAF appearance. The Dan-Air scheme is interesting but a bit uninspiring. Time for a 'refresh', , Duxford??
Spent many nights sleeping in the bunks on NTK when it was used by the scouts at Lasham. A preservation society used to come and put preserving oil in the Merlins
The York was a more convenient design, in my opinion, its low-slung fuselage being easy to load. The York and DC-4 had similar capabilities, but the Constellation was a different sort of beast, bigger, pressurised, much faster and with much longer range.
I don't concur. The York had a very conveniently low load platform. Excellent for freight work and having excellent field of view when in passenger configuration. It was far from being a joke. It did a job of work during the Berlin Airlift and its turn-round time far outstripped that of the military equivalent of the DC4 due to the high floor on the latter.
@@awuma I have a soft spot for the Connie having flown across the pond in one , Boston to London via Gander with BOAC in June 1957 . In those days it was only first class , cattle was the preserve of DC3s.
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The first aeroplane I ever flew in, from Gatwick to Fayid in Egypt, via Malta in 1954.
I remember regularly flying over Lasham when G-ANTK was stored there along with the Ambassador and a B707, I think the 707 was scrapped but the other two are at Duxford.
Can vaguely remember watching one of the half a dozen or so Yorks of Dan-Air landing at Lasham in those days you could touch and smell them.
My first flight was in 1950 in a Skyways York from Blackbushe to Fyad in Egypt via Luqa in Malta. I think this started my aviation interest and subsequent career as a professional pilot. Those 4 Merlins on take off were an unforgetable sound.
Superb, thank you! The noise alone from the Merlin's is truly wonderful! Sorry for Kids growing-up in an electric peaceful cleaner World!
My uncle flew in the York’s on the Berlin Airlift.
Good man xx.
The York was carrying Lord Mount Baton. from. Singapore
Great video
Remember the yorks at heathrow, danair and skyways, spotting from the queens building, and taking off at night over our house in north west london, heading east, you could hear the Merlins for ages as it climbed out
and i was probably standing next to you! the sound of the merlin engines, straining for height, still remains with me to this day. Now, where did i put my plane registration notebook? :-)
@@buggertheusername that's a nice thought, note books and binocs in hand, on my first trip to heathrow we had to walk to the centre through the tunnel as it wasnt open to traffic and you watched from a type of compound, my mum went up in a dragon rapide flight over london, 10/6, got a picture of that
@@alltransman5033 Ah yes. My first flight in an Air Couriers Rapide was from RAF Hendon (10/-) at the last airshow in 1957. It was Dad's too, even though he had been a wartime LAC in the RAF.
Glorious sounds throughout this video.
I can still see in my mind's eye the last time I saw a Skyways York (from the Bath Road ) by the main runway at Heathrow.
My father after his service in the RAF joined British South American Airways ,where they flew Yorks.
BSAA was later amalgamated with Imperial Airways and became part of BOAC.
I heard my father,also early BOAC aircrew, , comment that its use for civil operations was rather jeopardized by a high wing load factor,of particular significance for fully laden takeoffs. .Or it might have been another aircraft..
Never knew these existed, one to add to my list on the next trip back too Blighty. We have the flying Lancaster out of Hamilton here in Canada. Those four Merlin's get me moving when she fly's over.
Dan Air reserve a lot of credit for retaining examples of their past fleet, such as the York and Ambassador. York G-ANTK (lovingly referred to as 'Antique' after its registration) was loaned to the Air Scout centre at Lasham and was used as a bunkhouse by thousands of Scouts for many years.
My old pals from 643 gliding scghool ATC lived in that!
How I wish there was one still flying
Excellent video... immediately I saw the plane it reminded me of the Lancaster which I'd never seen in real life, but knew very well from all the WWII war comics from when I was a kid....I'm 50 now. 😀 Thanks for sharing.👍👍👍👏👏👏
My father served in the RAF in India until independence in 1948. He was in the Guard of Honour for the Mountbattens when they left India in a York.
Another great English plane I had never heard of 👍👍
Never saw one in the flesh but I had a very nice Dinky model of it
In 1947 when I was 5 I flew with my parents from Montevideo to London in a BSAA York . it was my first flight. The noise was so unbearable when it was about to take off that I desperately wanted to get out! We had stops at Rio de Janeiro, Natal, Dakar, Lisbon and London. The whole trip took more than 30 hours , because at each stop refuelling took more than 1 hour.
The Yorks were louder than early jets? I don't think so.
It was the noise inside the fuselage, which was also unpressurised. More sophisticated airliners such as the DC-6, Constellation and Stratocruiser took over the longer routes, while the turboprop Viscount appeared on shorter routes. These aircraft could fly much higher above the weather. Curiously, Canadair built the Argonaut/North Star, which was a mish-mash of DC-4 and DC-6 parts (among others), powered by four Merlins but with a pressurised fuselage, and successfully and noisily served in the Canadian airlines and BOAC. One was built with radial engines and had a long life as Canada's premier VIP aircraft.
This is the first of your videos I've seen. It is excellent. Do you have one on the AS57 ???
There are two airworthy Lancasters which fly frequently, one in Canada, the other in Britain (to be joined by yet another in the not distant future). The Canadian one flew to Britain and back a few years ago.
Full circle. The York regains the Manchester third central tail fin
I often wondered if the Lancaster looked evil because of the job it did? It both impresses me and makes me feel uneasy. The York sort of says I was right. The designer has made it look softer. I met the people of the RAF who maintained the Shackletons. They had a love, hate, love understanding of the design. They loved their work.
My father who was in the RAF during the 2 World War in the Met office saw one of those coming in to land in. India in 1947 with Lord Mountbatten on board from Singapore who he later met
We all can't be polites and where would you be without a navigatior and weather officer,lost
That comment about the noise of the merlins being too much made me laugh. I used to see the Lancaster based at Hamilton airport and for my money, only the mosquito sounds as sweet as the lanc. I could pick it out by sound alone.
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Was it a York or a Lancastrian that crashed in an airport due to a snapped aileron cable?
You might be thinking of the Airspeed Ambassador which crashed at Heathrow due to a broken flap control rod.
Wasn't it carrying livestock if I remember correctly?
@@anglosaxon1622 Horses.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspeed_Ambassador
I remember clip in TV many years ago, showing a four-engined airplane cart wheeling into parked airplanes in a airport. The comment was something like:
'One of the wires that controlled the ailerons snapped causing the accident. It was a common problem with the Lancaster, which this airplane was based on.'
...
/JD
@@johndue2366 Looks like TV was just as ignorant about science and technology then as they are now....
Not to forget the Vickers Viking.
The Tin Wimpy, which soubriquet I transferred to the Varsity.
I flew in a Viking in the early 60s from Manton to Basle. We were going on holiday to Italy 🏖
It's a bit ironic that, according to this video, it was withdrawn from service because of noise levels, especially when you consider what followed, a few years later - two of the noisiest aircraft ever, the Trident and the BAC-1-11.
But those rear-engine jets were very quiet inside!
@@awuma No they were not.
I worked on that aircraft when I first joined the DAS. She was in a bad way internally, as she had been used to transport elephants...and elephant urine and aircraft Aluminium did not go together very well..
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I love the way some zealot has dubbed the voice over into kilometres - as if anyone in Britain had even heard of Napoleonic measurements in those days.
I laughed at that too, but the soundtrack seemed original ;-)
Very good looking aircraft. Excellent archive film well put together. The whole thing well done. I only wish the Duxford York was in RAF appearance. The Dan-Air scheme is interesting but a bit uninspiring. Time for a 'refresh', , Duxford??
It’s part of a British airliner collection if you want an RAF one go to Cosford
@@johnholt9399 OK, but it's a bit tenuous in that it wasn't originally an airliner. I'll have a look at Cosford - thanks for that.
@@kgs42 we flew a fleet of ex- military C47s out of Burnaston, all repurposed as civilian aircraft, so G-ANTK is quite okay in DanAir colours.
Private enterprise that time they can easily purchase this plane Surplus of WW2 spare parts/engines they cannibalize from mosquitoes&spitfires..
The Avro York was a joke! By contrast with the Douglas DC-4 and Lockheed Constellation, it was old fashioned and clumsy.
Spent many nights sleeping in the bunks on NTK when it was used by the scouts at Lasham. A preservation society used to come and put preserving oil in the Merlins
Suggest you look up the accident records of your two flying wonders . The Joke is on you.
The York was a more convenient design, in my opinion, its low-slung fuselage being easy to load. The York and DC-4 had similar capabilities, but the Constellation was a different sort of beast, bigger, pressurised, much faster and with much longer range.
I don't concur. The York had a very conveniently low load platform. Excellent for freight work and having excellent field of view when in passenger configuration. It was far from being a joke. It did a job of work during the Berlin Airlift and its turn-round time far outstripped that of the military equivalent of the DC4 due to the high floor on the latter.
@@awuma I have a soft spot for the Connie having flown across the pond in one , Boston to London via Gander with BOAC in June 1957 . In those days it was only first class , cattle was the preserve of DC3s.