New subscriber. Really enjoying myself going back in time with your trips of nostalgia. Those were the days. Days when you could spend all day on the roof of Gatwick and Heathrow watching 707s Comets, VC10,s 111,s Viscounts, Vanguards, 748s, Ambassador’s, Heralds, DC4s and 7Cs, Britannia’s, Caravels,etc etc. All the best Mick🇬🇧
707 Good girl. Beauty and powerful I never forget 7O7 707 was . is . and will be in My mind and my heart All of time. Thanks alot my dear friend Robin pinnock.
Hello Mr. Robin! Just wanted to say these series of 707 videos are simply fantastic. Been watching them on the last few days and it's been a true joy for me. So many classic beauties, too bad they now belong in the past. Thank you so much for these great films! And great intro for this video too! Best regards from Fortaleza, Brazil.
These scenes and sounds are pure gold. Congratulations! Thanks for sharing. I live in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where we also had a maintenance base of 707`s (Varig) in the 90`s, including level D maintenance. I miss these sounds.
Mr Pinnock, thanks so much for this series,brought a tear to my eyes, well done sir, I sat Rt seat on a B720, and the first stretched variant of DC8, those were the days.
Great to see them again - thanks for recording for posterity. I never knew so many enthusiasts were viewing these departures - must have been about 20 outside Southend FC for the last dep on the video. Quite a few filming them as well!
The really amazing thing is that until 2012, Southend's runway was only about 5100 feet long! Absolutely the shortest runway in the world that 707s regularly flew from. Very lightened loads were the only way to make it work, but since they were mostly ferrying in and out for maintenance, that could usually be accomplished.
Once the BAF Carvair's disappeared from Southend airport , I really thought that was it for big planes landing "on my door step" .A pity the airport can't be expanded further , but local citizens living near the airport are suffering enough as it is
12:57 is that Chris Barrett-Jolly's 'Phoenix Aviation'? Crazy guy, worked with him a few times at Coventry when he brought a 707 to the airfield to save on parking charges at Southend ... smokey old thing took-off on 23 and clawed it's way into the air just clearing the farmhouse on 05's approach .... wonderful sight though.
Yes I had heard that him and Pete earned themselves some serious 'bird' - can't say I'm surprised, they behaved more like mercenaries than career pilots ...lol! Great videos Robin, bringing back memories of some fun times in aviation - thank you for posting.
You are right on the money the soundtrack is quality and giving me goosepumps. Reminds me a bit of 'when the morning comes', early 90's haunting choon.
Had no idea this gem of classics existed back in the 90's, ah if only... Get the maintenance bit, but who repaints cargo aircraft, did they only do that when they got new owners?
God bless the RU-vid algorithm! Haunting music on this awesome vid. That scene of the Simba escaping through the condemned planes was spine tingling. Robin do you know how the Simba story ended??? Hopefully she got home safely. I went down to Faro from Gatwick on a Tap 707 in around 1990 and even then it felt insanely dated. I had been on a Tristar in 1974 though so maybe I was biased :).
The Vulcan is XL426 - in the care of The Vulcan Restoration Trust. It can be seen in it's present home in my 'Spitfire Display' video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k4yUzmmFU5E.html
My very first flight on a jet aircraft was on board an Eastern Airlines 707. To me these will always be the queens of the air. They helped create the airline industry. Sadly, they are relegated to the scrapyards even though many are still perfectly capable of doing their job all because of the butt hurt, wimpy turds that keep screaming Mother Earth! But they have NO problem going out and using a fossil fueled vehicle to run around town in when they could, if they REALLY cared, use a bicycle like their ancestors!
The pollution you see isn't the danger,it's the stuff you don't see that is.That pollution is soot or partially burned carbon.Its bio degradable and caused by poor fuel combustion.The JT3 engines on these are first gen gas turbines and overall pressure ratio was low being in the region off 10 to 1. The RR Trent has a ratio off 40 to 1 as compressor designs have improved.The RR Conway which was the JT3 contemporary in that power bracket was almost as smokey.The 707 carried 50 gals off distilled water which was used for max load full power takeoffs,where it was injected upstream off the hot section to keep turbine operating temps within limits at max takeoff power setting.While water increased the efficiency off the compressor water does nothing for improving combustion hence full power ' wet' takeoffs produced enough smoke to obscure a battlefield.
