Air Ferries (1970-1979)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2014
- Unissued / Unused material -
Southend on Sea, Essex.
VS of check in desk at airport for British Air Ferries. Passengers book in for a flight to Ostend. VS of shops around the airport and of the Information desk. Shots of airport cafe. VS of passports being checked by customs. VS of control tower and air traffic control workers. Shots of planes taking off taken from control tower. Many of the planes belong to BAF. Others include British Midland. Ext. of Southend Airport. Cargo is unloaded from plane. A Ford Capri car is loaded into a plane. VS of plane's crew boarding and of air stewardesses waiting at the top of the steps. Passengers walk out from the airport building to the plane. VS of plane, called 'Fat Gilbert' taxiing.
FILM ID:3360.04
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The guy driving the car lift is my Dad. I worked there during the school summer holidays as baggage boy.
I took this flight from Southend to Ostende in 1972. The Carvair was a DC-4 based combi, and as I recall it climbed rather slowly, quite unlike the Il-18 I flew on from Heathrow the following year. Hard to believe 50 years have gone by... Such films bring back wonderful memories (Ford Capri?). I love those mechanical scales at the check-in counter, and the simplicity of passport control, where the officer looks at both the photo and the real face ;-)
Thanks for uploading this, brings back great memories.
Brings back memories when I use to do aircraft spotting at Southend Airport
What great footage 👍 brings back happy memories thank you 😀
Great footage!
BAF was owned by Rupert Keegan's father, they sponsored his Formula 3 car in the mid seventies, think Rupert had a couple of Formula one outings as well.
Capri at 6:12 is still registered with dot gov.!
Sadly, it flagged out in Sept' 1987 - (at latest)
That means it sadly went to 'the scrapper' some 31-35 years ago
Shame, nice cars.@@hawnyfox3411
I guess to love seeing these Carvairs flying into Southend and shame they did not save one for a museum.
5:40 that scissor lift was invented at Southend Airport and is now used for aircraft loading all over the world.
what plane is that ? very unique airframe, love it. is the air ferries business bringing profit ? or is another business that ot subsidized from gov ?
That is an Aviation Traders Carvair a converted DC4/C54 converted at Southend. The nose end was thought to be the inspiration for the Boeing 747