Why were planes bigger then when less people flew? Also, one of my friends hated flying Fortuna because they shared their name with cheap fags!

A lot of old classics there. Thank you for sharing

My dad was stationed at Prestwick in the late in late 50s early 60s. Loved my time there as a child

I loved brittania flown on them few times.growing up liked caledonian also

Many don't realise that PIK was the transatlantic hub .My grandparents would come across from Toronto in the 60's and 70's and I remember just how busy it was.Even from this video, watching the HS748 , you get an idea how loud those Rolls Royce Darts were. I have tinnitus now, in part because of them.

The Northwest 747 was a really early bird. Number 27 made in 1969. The nose section is now in the Smithsonian. So cool.

Departed for Vancouver..YVR...June 01/78...CP AIR stretch DC8....Times have changed, but Prestwick Airport.. EGPK remains...The more the things change...the more they stay the same....Thankfully. Used to watch Gulf Air do touch and go's on that very air strip.

Wonderful ! Thank you for this Time Machine

Another great video of some of the older planes that used to fly but never see now, but apart from that I did enjoy this video greatly appreciated.

It's so mad, as that 1-11 (G-ATPK), is the same aircraft that I flew on back in 89, from Manchester to Monastir. It was operated through Dan-air then...but still...amazing to see it in the 60s here.

0:45 Britannia airlines then became Thomsonfly and air 2000 became first choice and they merged together to become Thomson And now tui is now the new plane operated after taking over Thomson franchise And as for first choice that airliner is gone

Rare Peach Air L-1011 in the background

It’s not 1986 .as Caledonian Tristars did not enter service until 1988 after the merger of British Airways and British Caledonian

Those little BAC 111s were incredibly noisy inside, they were usually the Ringway to Heathrow shuttle to catch a connecting flight.😬

Noisy, smokey Speys from the BAC-111s and F28. Beautiful!

British Airways, BEA.❤

Great Airport even today. I used to work for Northwest Airlines, they used to fuel up parked overnight B 747 to stop the wind from causing damage to a/c .

My memories of Prestwick is up in the viewing lounge watching the planes with my Dad and young brothers . I remember the German Starfighters parked up . Oh please bring them days back to me

Well done Jhon I was here on this day mate

I was here that day

Remember when Canada was a proud nation. Ruined by the traitor Trudeau. Canada will not recover for these treasonus cun.ts.

Great stuff Jhon

Love the three holers. Sure miss them.

Great to see the old pik airport I started there in 1976 and was with air canada cargo from 1978 until 1996 when we moved to Glasgow Met some great people and had some memorable times

Thomas Nationwide Transport later to become part of Peter Toll's empire...

0:09 Vulcan! Avro Vulcan!

Concord a 707 and a DC 8

Heh, it's nice to see that one mound of dirt has been used for planespotting since the mid 80s!

Kind of crazy to see the Air Canada jumbo at Glasgow when they now don't even fly there anymore. I recall seeing in one of these videos a Manchester to Ottawa flight on a Wardair 747 which would now be impossible. I guess those really were the effects of high amounts of immigration to Canada from the UK.

Tri jets rules

Glasgow good old days excellent fun Jhon

So many airlines that were well known at the time that are no longer in existence. Its also amazing how liveries change over time as well. Fantastic video thanks :)

Fantastic video! When was this filmed?

Jeebus Freddie Lakers DC-10's were steered by throttle & rudder Look how nose happy it is

Nostalgia rush to see the old firms like Caledonian and Britannia Thank you for posting this 👍

Love the horizontal stabilizer movement on the Air Canada L 1011.✈

My Mother was a air traffic controller there in the 60s

Didn’t know that had US commuter lines in Europe. Trans World Express. Foreign carrier are prohibited from providing domestic service in the US, assumed Europe would have the same rules regarding US carriers in Europe.

Cracking video, my Dad would have been 20 yo at the time, living in the Biggar area. He loved aviation and passed it on to me when I was a wee lad, he passed away 3 years ago at 81.

Flew wardair once going to Toronto.

I worked there for BA in 1970 and we had a daily Super VC10 service to JFK with feeder services with either a Viscount or Herald from both EDI and BFS. Had several European diversions when weather there precluded landings of trans Atlantic flights. Including Pan Am, TWA and Northwest etc. Prestwick always remained open protected from storms by the Aisle of Arran.

BCAL

Remember when it was NW Orient

Good old air2000

I remember the UASAF desk being right at the end of the check in desks.

Used to love going to preswick in the 70s & 80s picking up family who flew in from Toronto on holiday or us going on holiday to see them. I remember flying laker going to Toronto & the plane had a defect & we were bused to the hotel at Glasgow airport for the night.

Watching that Northwest DC-10 land, pretty sure I never saw #2 engine deploy TR.

I remember laker as a child and the DC 10 and then the drop of his Airline on the news I remember all His DC10s parked together for Sale

Air Canada did not fly out of Glasgow till may1990

Flew AirUK and British Midland many times from London to Edinburgh during this period, but never knew Loganair once flew 146s and BAC 1-11's. Anyone remember what routes they were used on?