Gatwick Airport in the late 1960's 

The rooftop viewing area has been closed for quite a few years now. it's a shame as Gatwick has nowhere to view the aircraft movements for visitors.

6:22 Dan-Air Comet landing.

and 2 Kuzhnetzov TY-104

The TU124 was a TU104, the Swissair was Balair!

@@superconnieous ...yeah the Tupolev's are very similar looking to each other.

I agree I was a Flight Attendent for Saturn, loved that airplane! Stretch DC-8

noticed that aswell!

Most of this is random sequences spliced together by my late father. it is possible that there is more footage mixed in with the family stuff.

@Ben 8282 Caledonian Airways received their first 707 in late 1967. They had 5 by the time they merged with BUA to form BCAL.

Not that I know of

That was an RCAF Hercules.

Yep. U are right about the Romanian 1-11. Tarom were BAC clients. Fascinating insight to some long past Airlines.

Yes of course they did. In fact all of the Warsaw pact airlines flew to Western Europe and, with the sole exception of Interflug, all of them operated scheduled services to the UK. There was however a once weekly non-stop flight from LHR to Berlin SXF operated by LOT, the flight being routed LHR-SXF-WAW and operated by an IL-18. Concerning Aeroflot, their flights would have carried Soviet citizens travelling to the west for official/business purposes as well as foreign official/business travellers and tourists visiting the USSR. In addition Aeroflot also tried to attract longhaul transit passengers to travel with them via Moscow. In addition, as part of the agreement allowing Western airlines to operate flights to Japan over the trans-Siberian route, Aeroflot were granted traffic rights to operate through single flight number services from Western capitals to Tokyo via Moscow i.e. LHR-MOW-TYO using IL62 aircraft from the beginning of jet operation. This is the only example I can think of where a foreign carrier has ever been granted such traffic rights to operate a through flight (one flight coupon/same flight number throughout) from the UK to a destination beyond their home country via their home country.

@@Ben-xe8ps I remember in my childhood already being able to identify planes from our house in New Malden and recall one occasion in the late 60s when a Tu114 passed over.

Interflug DM-SCK was in LGW late 70

Try to understand: the Iron Curtain was propagated and organized by state "elites" of traditional colonial powers (announced by Churchill in Fulton).

Sounds seem to be added after the fact.

Probably Ace Freighters. G-ALAL springs to mind (among others).