Home movie transferred from Super 8 on Kodachrome. A visit to Manchester Airport as it was in 1972. A little bit of plane spotting and then a short flight in a Cessna around the airport and over South Wythenshawe.
Caravelles, Viscounts, B707s, BAC 1-11s, and the original B737-100 too. What a wonderful, joyful, glorious, exciting time to be a spotter! Loved every second! Thanks for Sharing!
A nostalgic trip back in time. About 12 years old I lived on Portway, Woodhouse Park...every weekend and school holidays me and my mate would walk to Ringway and spend all day on the terraces with our airline registration books and highlight new planes we had not seen previously. We used to hang out with the older lads who had airband radios. I remember one evening we cheekily had a coke in the domestic departure area and started chatting to few guys about plain spotting. Turned out it was a band called Amen Corner! This would have been 1967 or thereabouts. Such happy days for sure.
I used to spend hours on them terraces watching the planes l remember all those planes and airlines no longer flying.It was a great up close and personal view from those terraces the smell of the fuel and aircraft fumes the noise and atmosphere there.
Thank you everyone. We all probably crossed paths plane watching on the piers! I joined the ATC at 14 and this started my interest in planes. My first flight was from Ringway in an RAF Anson.
Hi, fantastic footage. Part of the flight was over Bowden, obvious from the huge houses and I think I saw Altrincham Golf course beside the dual carriageway.
The public observation terrace closed years ago for safety reasons. TBH, I'm surprised even then you were allowed so close to the aircraft you could virtually sneeze on them.
@0:19 - The red Transit van parked near the aircraft was probably used as a mini-bus for the cleaners. ( Note the windows ). When the plane you were allocated to came in, the cleaning supervisor drove everybody out to it, and you had to wait for a member of the airline crew to open the door and give you permission to board the aircraft.
@@mistofoles I'm sure it would be. Interesting place to work though. I remember when it was just Ringway Airport when I was a teenager. Only flown from there once for a roundtrip with the ATC . Flying then was for the rich lol.
Look closely at the red van - See the transmitter ariel on the roof so the crew could keep in touch with base via a radio com ? (No mobile phones tback then) It also would have had lights on the roof, all ground traffic had to have strobe lights for safety reasons (Such as not running over the goon we see here stood right in the van's path )
smashing video..thanks. I was a regular visitor to Ringway in the late 60's, cycled from The Broomwood with flask and butties and reg book. Exciting times.. some lovely aircraft, nice to see the Caravelle and the 707, what a classic. thanks again. jB
Brilliant.... I remember doing that flight around the airport myself with my Dad around 1973ish. I got to sit in the Co-pilots seat also, i was around 9 or 10 years old. Great days when you could walk on the piers and watch the planes.
What days ! What days ! It was so exciting to be flying on board those types ! Sadly it all seems lost now. For Long haul its invariably the 777, and short haul the ubiquitous A320 family, which in my opinion is a horrid claustrophobic and mundane example of how we have progressed.
Hi Brian, That's great. Accompanying narrative would also be most welcome. I could do it in two ways. To place the video directly onto a new section I will create for the website with narrative, or again include the narrative in the new section but include the link to RU-vid directly to the film. Do you think you could send the film to me anyway, then I can decide which route I will take. Kind regards, Mark Williams
Hi Mark, I've had a look at your Ringway site,excellent! You are very welcome to use the video. If you want to simply paste a link from my channel, then that's fine. If you want to upload it or use it in other ways, I can send it via my dropbox account. Best regards.
Great video. Would you be interested in making it available on our Manchester Airport website? You can find us under 'Ringway Publications'. We would love to show it..
