Last Major Aircraft Movement to take place at Brooklands after 90 years of aviation

Andys Video - Aircraft & Vehicle Recovery

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PLEASE NOTE: Note there is a 'Playlist' of all my Vanguard footage at www.andysvideo... This was the last Major Aircraft movement to take place on the Brooklands Airfield since it opened in 1908 and it took place on the 29th May 2004. The last aircraft to move was interestingly the last surviving Vickers Vanguard / Merchantman call sign G-APEP left in the world.
The runway has now become part of Mercedes Benz World and after this event it would not see any major aircraft movements until 2009, when the Brooklands Vimey would land on the MBW site and have to be moved by road into the Museum site.
You can visit both of this aircraft and many others, at Brooklands Museum.

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@MiniOne82 12 лет назад

R.I.P ROn *salutes* and very nice vid

@Gruntol5 14 лет назад

Dang, I thought we were going to see it take off. Brittania, Vanguard and Belfast - great turbobprop aircraft from the period, but absurdly small production runs. We had our school trip to Vickers, Weybridge in about 1956 and toured the wooden mock up of the Vanguard. I remember my surprise at wood & clay sinks in the toilets, accurate to the smallest detail. I strayed from the rest and got underneath the open bomb bay of a Valiant, but was quickly pulled away by Vickers staff!

@josephlambe2796 3 года назад

Deep joy machine, it should have taken off agsin

@gsmcinnes 14 лет назад

I can't drive along the M8 motorway east of Glasgow airport without thinking of BEA Vanguards. On the straight stretch at Hillington the M8 use to be runway 08 at Renfrew airport. Aged 6 in 1965 I stood on the apron and witnessed my first ever close-up of an aeroplane. It's huge blackened nose coming towards me I stood terrified and holding my ears. The sight, the noise, the smell - then pilot waved to me, I was hooked! I still want to be that pilot - maybe it was Capt Brant? Thanks.

@josephlambe2796 2 года назад

I remember them as well growing up a plane spotter at Glasgow airport….the bloody merchantmen flew over my house low in Foxbar just after midnight each night woke the neighbours up…great days…

@gsmcinnes 2 года назад

@@josephlambe2796 I lived on Foxbar Road, I'd cycle to the airport at weekends around 1972-75....aaaaah how I loved the smell of kerosene in the morning!

@abastin1 13 лет назад

Love to hear those Tynes once again! I flew some 800 hours on Cl 44s with those engines.Lovely video!!

@AndysVideo 14 лет назад

Well don't forget you can always come to Brooklands and visit the only surviving Merchantman / Vanguard.

@AndysVideo 13 лет назад

Sadly Ron passed away a few months after the video was produced. He had been a first rate guy and one of the Museums strongest allies in those early difficult years

@parjacpar3077 6 лет назад

Thanks for shatring another great video Had a feeling there was not enough airfield for plane to take off

@awlcvl 11 лет назад

Nice video Andy; but I found the bloke driving the fire engine rather irritating getting in shot.

@AndysVideo 15 лет назад

Sorry to say even back then the runway was to short and now of course it is gone (Part of Mercs Test Track is now ontop of it). So Surperb will spend the rest of its live at Brooklands.

@billysmith8665 4 года назад

Andy hill is in the fuselage lol 😁 at beginning good job he wasn't at controls, definitely him see him standing umongst the others around 1.00 lol 😁

@martynlyndall3124 7 лет назад

I believe this aircraft was in the AIR BRIDGE CARRIERS fleet from East Midlands airport I used to load them, its in the same colours as the ones I loaded

@D66DuCane 16 лет назад

44 Vanguards were built,and delivered to the only two airlines that ordered them,B.E.A and Trans Canada Airlines. Last flight was in 1996, when the aircraft featured in this video flew into Brooklands. My Dad flew on this type several times in the 1960s when they operated many of B.E.A's domestic services from Heathrow to Manchester/Glasgow/Edinburgh and Belfast.He always said that although the cabin was spacious and comfortable,once in the air they rattled and shook like crazy!

@Pullisto 15 лет назад

The Brit's answer to the L188 Electra, and an equal in performance. She looks like she was still operation here, nice and clean. I hear her engines still get a run up from time to time. In time to come hopefully, there will be a market enough to justify the cost of such a machine being overhauled and re-configured back to pax, for corporate charters, scenic flights, espesh now the DC-3 has been halted due to ridiculous beurocracy. And this beast can get there faster.

@metadyneman 16 лет назад

Oh how i was wishing that to happen in this film... I grew up watching these babys fly over my house when i was a kid.. they were and still are my favourite planes.

@Jensbangmikkelsen 12 лет назад

Really lovely, powerful sound -)

@AndysVideo 14 лет назад

It is not all bad. - From time to time The Brooklands Team that look after Suberb do fire the engines up. Look out for avaition days on the Brooklands website

@Skoda130 8 лет назад

Then why isn't it taking off?

@Chicgeek2014 6 лет назад

Skoda130 it decommissioned in 1995 and was flown there n 1996 so it can’t fly cos government stuff

@metadyneman 16 лет назад

I remember these flying over my house when i was a boy. I lived in Ealing at the time and when there was an Easterly wind blowing the take off path for Heathrow was directly above where I lived. Used to love the sound of these on full power. Heathrow used to hum to the sound of these and the Viscounts!

@AndysVideo 14 лет назад

No Brits or Belfasts, only Brooklands built or associated. I envy you the trip around the works and especially to see the last of the Brooklands Prop Liners being designed.

@AndysVideo 14 лет назад

Because it was the last one flying and it came home to its birthplace to be preserved as long as funds will allow.

@FrederickDelarge 15 лет назад

There is something of majesty about this elegant and beautiful aircraft. The exquisite sound of those RR Tynes - so commonplace in the sixties skies were so taken for granted! Of course I am regretful that I didn't hire a Uher portable stereo recorder for a fruitful day's session at Heathrow then. Vanguards, Britannias, Electras - they all had their identifying characteristic sound.

@dasadler123 15 лет назад

Looks like the designers wanted to build a jet and then decided to slap those turboprops on as an after thought. VERY beautiful machine though. I agree, nothing sounds like a Rolls Turboprop.

@landroversrs1 16 лет назад

Had the pleasure of marshalling this aircraft on a number of occaisons at BRS also remember it doing a 3 engine ferry flight out for repair once although missed it departing! aaahhh Tynes..

@Pullisto 16 лет назад

Great to see she' still run up from time to time. I've been there in '03 and '07. Hope she and the others can be kept undercover, though i know the cost of that is prohibitive.

@Andrew279144 16 лет назад

Great to see this wonderful old aircraft move again under her own power. I flew on a BEA Vanguard in the early 1960's from London Heathrow to the Isle of Man - return journey by Viscount.

@BillN6801 14 лет назад

Reminds me of the old Air Canada Vanguards. Haven't heard this sound in about 4 decades. I once flew on a Vanguard as a child - a Trans Canada Airlines courtesy flight around Toronto, early 60's.

@jackiejayetv 15 лет назад

...and what a mess Mercedes have made of the place, industrial vandalism

@Laxpowertoo 14 лет назад

The first plane I ever flew in was a BEA Vanguard from Heathrow to Glasgow. We came back in a brand spanking new Trident 3 which did the trip in half the time, but I still prefered the Vanguard.

@still_guns 13 лет назад

that little firetruck sounds funny

@awlcvl 14 лет назад

such a lovely sound of those Rolls Royce Tynes! Just a pity we will never hear them again or see the aircraft come alive and taxi!

@shanebowden7114 6 лет назад

Brooklands is my local and go-to aviation site, to see an aviation movement such as this at a place with as much sentimental value to me almost brings a tear to my eye. Thanks for sharing!

@AndysVideo 6 лет назад

Believe me we all had a few tears on the day.

@Skygod12000 12 лет назад

As a baby I remember flying in a Vanguard for Leeds to London with my grandparents. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

@AUSTIN-1100 14 лет назад

Great video and sound of the ols Merchantman. Bloody Hi Vize jackes ruin it though.

@Sterlingjob 16 лет назад

No doubt left to rot like the other aircraft

@PlaneTrainAmbulance 15 лет назад

Great vid! Shame it dint take off though. Good vid all the same!

@pulgabros 14 лет назад

Is this Vanguard flying still or is it a satic display?

@AndysVideo 14 лет назад

Are you saying H&S is a menace then? I expect there is no more than sixty million people in the UK who would agree with that!

@22pcirish Год назад

No. health and safety legislation is the working person’s greatest weapon against poor management. It should be applauded for keeping people alive.

@TheOwl 16 лет назад

Last time I ever saw one of these magnificent birds was about 1969 or '70. How could you not love the sound of those engines?

@merrittashmore695 6 лет назад

TheOwl I flew in one in Nov., 1973 from Heathrow to Aberdeen. I believe it was BEA. Very exciting to walk out of the terminal and see that I’d get to fly on that big plane.

@REI02021809 15 лет назад

At that time, it had retired.

@john289 15 лет назад

Very moving footage this, emotional even !

@AndysVideo 14 лет назад

Static display now with Engine Run Ups on special ocasions.

@REI02021809 16 лет назад

Wish I was there

@bleyland629 12 лет назад

Beautiful :) Massive props

@MONZAAUT 14 лет назад

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@k3D4rsi554maq 3 года назад

Great video!

@k3D4rsi554maq 3 года назад

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@AndysVideo 15 лет назад

Dont know if you were there John, but of course I was and it was a very emotional day, It become even more special when a little later we lost dear old Ron - the project leader and last pilot.

@AndysVideo 13 лет назад

Nice Idea but sorry to say it is not on because the video would be too long for You Tube You can however, select my playlist called 'Brooklands Videos - Older Clips', to run all the old Brooklands Clips, one after the other. You can the do the same with 'Brooklands Modern' and so on Andy

@AndysVideo 13 лет назад

@yamahabradley 9 лет назад

Does anyone know if this was an Air Canada aircraft?

@mikeb5556 7 лет назад

It's a Vanguard

@yamahabradley 7 лет назад

It may have been as it was changed to a cargo "Merchantman" as you can see the large cargo door that was installed. I believe they also strengthened the floors as well. I did quite a few flights in these in me early working years for Nortel. Very robust aircraft and although they had cyclic vibration it always felt to me as it being reassuring. They would wind the turbo's up to top rpm and then feed in the props and they would accelerate like crazy. Accident free for all its time in Air Canada

@fortnitefond6816 7 лет назад

Robert Bradley it was a Hunting Cargo

@77Neville 7 лет назад

No BEA, I went on it a few years back and it still had the old BEA galley stuff and it was only the BEA/BA Vanguards that were converted to Merchantmen.

@AndysVideo 16 лет назад

I am not 100% sure but I think around fourty. Regards Andy