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In 1946, London Airport (Heathrow) was opened and the then BOAC aircraft such as the Lancastrian, Liberator, Halton and the Avro York were all based on World War Two bombers! Later that year the pressurized cabin American Lockheed Constellation joined the fleet with the Boeing Stratocruiser which could fly non-stop to the USA. Between 1949 and 1950, the first modern British airliner, the Handley Page Hermes also entered service.
In 1952, BOAC was the first airline to introduce a passenger jet, the De Havilland Comet. We follow the world beating Comet with its test pilot, John Cunningham, in its disastrous second year when three Comets mysteriously crashed killing all on board.
We see the birth of the `Whispering Giant' - the turbo-prop Bristol Britannia and the Vickers VC-10 jet and witness the intricacies of Air Traffic Control.
In 1957, a Britannia crashed into a housing estate in Bristol. By 1958, BOAC were operating the new Comet 4 with the first jet service across the Atlantic and, in 1966, we join a simulated Concorde flight from Sydney to Heathrow.
Other aircraft include the Boeing 707 and 747, Concorde, Avro Tudor 1, Vickers Viscount, the Bristol Brabazon, C-4 Argonaut , the DH Frobisher, the BAC1-11 and many, many more.
So, from seaplanes to jet planes, this is the definitive and exciting overview of the much missed BOAC which was amalgamated with BEA in 1974 to form the British Airways of today.
Plus Bonus Features on the VC-10 and the BAC 1-11
Total Running Time - 166 Mins Region 0 Pal
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Therefore, I was quite excited when I saw this series on classic british airlines was being launched by Strike Entertainment and I was hoping they had uncovered some footage I had not seen before. Alas, in the case of this DVD about BOAC, it's description as 'the definitive Newsreel History 1939-1974' is not quite true. The 3 hours of footage covers some newsreel clips I hadn't seen before, interspersed with some of the BOAC films that were released as a series of VHS video tapes under the label 'British Airways' classics during the '80s. These include "Michael and the Flying Boats", "Tomorrow is Theirs" and "Introducing the VC10". If you missed out on the VHS tapes, then here is your chance, but I got the entire set of VHS tapes transferred to DVD, so for me the films are duplicated. If this was the 'definitive history', it would include all the BOAC films previously released including "Winged Cargo" and others that are missing. There are also lots of British Pathe news clips they could have included. A two-DVD set could have included the missing films to make this a true definitive set.
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