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Thanks 😊 I was 12 then, and I spent most of my waking days at MAN when not in school, but like many kids when there was diversions in I wasn’t well enough to go to school …. 😂
That's frightening scary to watch happening right outside where your staying living. God its like the end of the world. How dark and dull the sky is. And those giant high waves not the kind you want to wave back at. Definitely not a Crimewave . 😅 well if it comes to it just sing out loud. The sun will come out tomorrow. Happiness is here again.😂😅 This is a very dull dark day with heavy weather. I guaranteed on a very nice clear blue sky beautiful lovely warm sunny sunshine day this beautiful place will look far much better than it does here.
Caravelles, Viscounts, B707s, BAC 1-11s, and the original B737-100 too. What a wonderful, joyful, glorious, exciting time to be a spotter! Loved every second! Thanks for Sharing!
When this film was shot I would be about 10. I went to St Werburg's middle school on Love Street and lived in Handbridge so my route to school was across the Suspension 'Spenny' Bridge every day. What innocent days they were, not a care in the world, across the bridge and through Grosvenor Park. Thank you for sharing Brian and bringing back so many happy memories.
I've climbed that granite rock face from the sea with Royal Marine Commandos - no hard hats, in our trainers. The adrenalin rush at the end was just amazing. Of course we did it in summer, in winter an area of granite the size of a tennis court vanished in the night. The sea is powerful.
Brilliant.... I remember doing that flight around the airport myself with my Dad around 1973ish. I got to sit in the Co-pilots seat also, i was around 9 or 10 years old. Great days when you could walk on the piers and watch the planes.
A nostalgic trip back in time. About 12 years old I lived on Portway, Woodhouse Park...every weekend and school holidays me and my mate would walk to Ringway and spend all day on the terraces with our airline registration books and highlight new planes we had not seen previously. We used to hang out with the older lads who had airband radios. I remember one evening we cheekily had a coke in the domestic departure area and started chatting to few guys about plain spotting. Turned out it was a band called Amen Corner! This would have been 1967 or thereabouts. Such happy days for sure.
Look closely at the red van - See the transmitter ariel on the roof so the crew could keep in touch with base via a radio com ? (No mobile phones tback then) It also would have had lights on the roof, all ground traffic had to have strobe lights for safety reasons (Such as not running over the goon we see here stood right in the van's path )
Hi, fantastic footage. Part of the flight was over Bowden, obvious from the huge houses and I think I saw Altrincham Golf course beside the dual carriageway.
@@mgomez5606 No, though there rip tides and sometimes freak waves. You do need local knowledge and there are places which are dangerous near to me. Most beaches are usually safe, best to swim where the lifeguards (RNLI) are.
@@suzymoroka297 It can happen anytime. We can get a storm come across the Atlantic, usually from the Gulf of Mexico, and we have big waves, Mostly though likely to be through the winter months.
@0:19 - The red Transit van parked near the aircraft was probably used as a mini-bus for the cleaners. ( Note the windows ). When the plane you were allocated to came in, the cleaning supervisor drove everybody out to it, and you had to wait for a member of the airline crew to open the door and give you permission to board the aircraft.
@@mistofoles I'm sure it would be. Interesting place to work though. I remember when it was just Ringway Airport when I was a teenager. Only flown from there once for a roundtrip with the ATC . Flying then was for the rich lol.
