i was 16 yrs age in 1970. never flown before. my mates got me to go with them to dusseldorf from Liverpool to watch Everton F.C. play moenchengladbach in European cup. (£20 return with match ticket and hotel for 1 night!!). never forgot that first flight Dan-Air BAC 1-11 Aircraft. wow it shot down the runway at speke airport (now John Lennon) and climbed so rapidly. i couldn't believe we were in Germany in an hour and a bit. flown many times since (Freddie Laker DC 10 Skytrain MAN-NYORK) but memories always with me of that first flight. love this Aircraft and love this video.
I'm so thankful that we have this footage. The master blaster ! The original Pocket Rocket ! Thanks Robin. she was such an elegant looking jet, little has been produced since that looks so graceful.
I worked on them in the states converting them to corporate airplanes back in the mid eighties and they were nice. If they were to be reborn with a modern engine, it would make a hell of a VIP airplane. So much room than a G5 and Callenger put together. I loved starting them for tha unique engine start howl. Great memories. Thanks for uploading.
Miss 1-11s more than any aircraft really because they were so common yet so wickedly loud. Birmingham airport was a fabulous place to see these. I live a few miles away and without fail every morning and evening rush hours it felt like there was earthquakes everytime one motored off down the runway. Miss it so much
Lived with my parents in tile cross in Birmingham in the late 70’s/ early 80’s close to Birmingham’s runway .These and to a slightly lesser extent viscounts used to shake the house regularly when taking off ! …..great times for me as a young plane spotter 🥰
Great video clips of this classic bird. I flew back from Malaga - Gatwick (Dan Air) in 1981. The Captain allowed my brother and I to visit the flight deck. We were up there for well over an hour. They had us changing bulbs, and even let us slightly turn the yolk..gosh you could never get that now. Great memories ❤ Outbound to Malaga was on a Dan Air B727.
Turned them around at Manchester my Dad worked on them at Dan air and BAE for 30 years Miss that start up with the CSDS whining . Great aircraft solid .
Flew in one to Pisa. Such a cosy and cofident aircraft. They were lovely planes surprised they didn't sell more But they were up against the Caravelle the 737 the trident the Comet and the 727 as well as the dc-9 so was a tough market. But by far the nicest plane to be a passenger in. Although it was an airliner It flew more like an executive jet very nifty and sliced through the air not much noise always felt solid and had plenty of power
in AEP in Buenos Aires Austral Lineas Aereas used the 1-11s, in the 80s and 90s, here they did not use hush kits, really miss that loud noise and smokey take offs
Very nice shots. Thank you very much for posting and sharing. In 2001 I flew in Egypt with a ROM-BAC 1-11 on a local flight. I got some video recordings out of the window. This aircraft was taken out of service the same year and scrapped in 2003 - a great pity. I can still remember them very well and am now happy to see the whole thing from a different perspective.
Used to fly on LACSA’s BAC-111 from Grand Cayman in the mid 70’s. Later Cayman Airways leased the plane. Always used the rear stairs in the Caribbean where they had few elevated gates. You could hear the rumble across the island when she took off. Nice plane, certainly wasn’t my favorite at the time (BWIA’s L1011 and Pan Am’s 707 were pretty impressive to this 9 year old). Used to fly all over the Caribbean, South America, Miami and London with my mum who owned a jewelry business. My mum was briefly involved with a Caymanian group flying a DC-3 between Caribbean islands with plans to expand as “Red Carpet Airlines”. I spent a summer flying along helping to load & unload pigs, water, food, all types of freight. It was a blast. We moved to the USA in 78 but I understand that airline is still flying but under a different name. The DC-3 can fly forever!
LOL 15:14 ''Heading for South Africa'' ............It will not have escaped anyones attention around London (and most likely far beyond) I have a huge collection of 1/500 aircraft scale models..........today around 530 units...(only jets) Of-course the BAC 1-11 is also present with multiple copies of 200, 400 and 500 series....... Great aircraft, and above all Fantastic video!!! Thnx!!!
Excellent video Robin. I've got several years of great memories of BCAL’s & Dan Air’s BAC 1-11s at Newcastle during the 70/80s. Even now on video the engine “start-ups” sound great.
These Bac 1 -11 jets spent another 10 yrs from the late 80’s to the 90’s in Nigeria as the work horse of the now defunct Okada airlines. (Google okada airlines). They appear to have been built like tanks as I flew them as a passenger regularly, in various phases of maintenance, sometimes with holes under their wings! You definitely knew there was one about with all that noise and smoke!!
I want them back! Thank you so so mucho for sharing this beauty, i never saw them live because their retirement was the same year where i born so... Austral Lineas Aereas has got a lot of them and they are just a dream for me, just think on that lovely smoky and loudy plane that will never go back. If i get lucky i still can see some Fokker F-28, they have almost the same sound, but they are only two here now and they will go soon, congrats for the video.
Fantastic video. Now they were real airplanes. Loud, smokey, a bit underpowered, but a good ole bird. I have a deep love for this aircraft as I flew one for a few years in the corporate configuration. Sad to say, it's long gone now.
Fantastic! Thanks for having presence of mond to capture these movements and for compiling/posting the video.Brings it all back, seems such a short time ago...
This is the type of aircraft that i'm assigned as a trainee of PAL way back 1979 we're taught how to change tire ,Oxygen Tank , cleaning wing tank. this is noisy jet.
Fantastic Videos Robin bringing back so many memories I can remember near enough every reg popping up on camera lol, I used to spend my life down the airport as a kid in 90's used to live in Eastwood and riding on down on my bike, superb videos thanks for putting them up !
The 475 launch customer was the Peruvian airline Faucett (on that time the 2nd oldest airline in the World after KLM, now out of service) Still remember those beautiful airplanes and the powerful noise.
Thanks for Part 1 and 2, and thanks for the warning about the noise! The BAC 1-11 lost out to the Boeing 737-200 in New Zealand so its nice to see and hear what it was like.
This aircraft resembles a DC-9. The port and starboard engines are mounted on the aft end of the fuselage. If you're seated in the last three rows of a DC-9 you get virtually the same noise and vibration that you get in most regional turboprop airliners, when the engines are fully revved up. .
Makes me sad to see them in the "grave yard" These were a childhood friend (used to fly over my house several times a day on approach to 24L CYYZ). Are there any left flying?
@@isaacbarrock8709 That makes me sad. I can still remember that iconic "throttling down" sound they made as they were on landing approach usually just around gear extension time. Nothing else sounded like them.
@@isaacbarrock8709 Maybe not louder, but I'd say at least as loud. I've only ever seen a few on taxi / take-off, but mostly on approach to CYYZ over my house... about 1500 feet up. But let me tell you, they made the most unique sound when they'd throttle back to slow down for gear extension. The sounds those engines made as they'd spool down to flight idle could only come from that plane. I always knew that it was a BAC 1-11 without even having to look. Another beauty was the Vickers VC-10. Loved that one too.
This is a Romanian aircraft, who is born under communism. It's sadly because it isn't produced on advanced type of this early model. I believe Romanians people must be governed with iron hand to be a productive country. Thank a lot because you appreciate ROMBAC 1-11!
It's a British aircraft. When they stopped production in the UK it was later continued in Romania adding on ROM before BAC. It's a pity the Romanian government doesn't produce it these days with modern cockpit and engines. It could sell very well and fill the gap for the Boeing 717 / MD-95 and Fokker 100.
This was a notoriously difficult aircraft to fly, according to pilots of the day. It was unstable and a poor glider for approaches. I was on one that hit a wing vortex from a 747 coming into O'Hare. We almost did a full 360 roll.
Mark Kortum not too sure about being difficult to fly. I flew one for a few years and it was a dream to fly. I loved it. Mine was in corporate config if that made any difference. Yes, your correct about not being great as a glider. Mine was N5034, VR-BHS, N333GB. Same ship.
"Notoriously difficult"?? I flew 1-11 400s and 500s for 15 years and thought they were lovely! The instrumentation and flight directors (Collins and Smiths) were basic by today's standards (no glass screens), so you had to do a bit of thinking and not just 'follow the magenta line'. You also had to keep the speed right on approach, but the Spey responded well. As for gliding, I never flew one with less than one engine working, but its drag was about normal for a jet so we assumed it would glide pretty well clean, at the right speed (about 250kts IAS I think).
