BOAC AIRLINE PILOT TRAINING DOCUMENTARY FILM 40790

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Airline Pilot was produced by BOAC in 1970. The training of airline pilot Stephen Radcliffe is painstakingly thorough and this film intercuts the story of the young man's first flight as third officer on a journey from London, via Bahrain, to Bombay, with earlier scenes of his training. It describes the role of the College of Air Training, the aptitude tests, the theories and practical knowledge taught, the first solo flight, the hours in the simulator and the controlled flights in a real airliner, all leading up to his first international flight as second officer. Stephen was the youngest pilot ever to join BOAC. The filming actually started during Steve's simulator training on the VC10 and followed him to Shannon where he did his base training. There are some lovely air to air shots of the VC10 which has to be one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built.
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com

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@minormajor1 6 жыл бұрын

Brings tears to my eyes! I was on 724c, 3 hours Chipmunk, spinning and basic aeros, 152 hours Cherokee, 45 hours link trainer (ever heard of those?), 58 on the Comet sim, 70 on the Baron (everyone loved the Baron). I recognise many of the flight, sim and ground instructors. Strange to know that you have played snooker and squash in these actual places, drank in the bar (club), flown these actual aircraft, links, sims, and so on. I did BEA (shorthaul aka daylight division), Vanguards and then Tridents. So similar to what you see in this film. I joined CX in 1984, and was told just before my B747 command course in mid 1987 that my "British Airways training will stand you in good stead". It did.

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@lynnedouglas5576 10 жыл бұрын

My father was the Hamble flying instructor in the first part of this film .... he passed away 10 years ago and seeing this now brought tears to my eyes ... so thank you, Big Sis, for finding this. Awesome.

@ameendfbudagher3228 6 жыл бұрын

Lynne Douglas , hi I was in Hamble from 1976 to 1977 . Greatest time of my life.

@ameendfbudagher3228 6 жыл бұрын

Best Regards Captain Ameen Budagher

@tenientef2 6 жыл бұрын

I salute you, Lynne Douglas. I'm into my process to become an airline pilot (how difference about our days and old days!) and everytime i feel lack of energy or i need extra motivation i just see this film and really fulls me of motivational energy. The part i liked the most is just when your father (RIP) teach him how to fly the chippie. I promissed myself i will go to Hamble the day right after i ger my studies done, just take a seat close to that place, and just let my mind bring me to those old days. Warm regards, Lynne Douglas.

@Kathikas1 4 жыл бұрын

Lynn, I remember your father well. We tended to address instructors as Sir or Captain so I don’t recall his first name - his initials were O.C I think?

@diananewson1248 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kathikas1 Hi Tony, yes O.C., but known to friends and family as Joe. Sadly his last years were not good as he had Parkinsons and first had to give up his beloved golf, then ended up in a nursing home. He died from pneumonia in 2007.

@andrewsmactips 6 жыл бұрын

The most beautiful airliner, and in that paint scheme!

@stevenwatt7561 9 жыл бұрын

My late father was a senior first officer on the BOAC VC10 so it was good to see this movie.

@xetalq 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this, I've been looking for this film for ages. I first saw it when I was a 15 year old at school, in England, and I determined to become an airline pilot myself (which I did). Sadly, I believe that the young Second Officer in this 1970 movie (Steve Radcliffe) died in a car accident in Spain only a year later in 1971. He was apparently the youngest cadet ever to join BOAC. All the other cadets in this movie retired from British Airways (the successor airline to BOAC) in about 2005.

@ianjohnson1920 4 жыл бұрын

One of the best little films I think I've ever seen. Beautifully superb VC10 as well.

@fordlandau 5 жыл бұрын

This is a magnificent piece of film. Brilliant! The music. The dialogue. The camerawork. You really feel what this young pilot must have felt. Thanks 🙏

@Paulw-bu2ji 8 жыл бұрын

This film brings back so many childhood memories growing up in Hamble during the late 60's and 70's. I remember the Cherokees and Barons continually flying the circuit over my home, sometimes well into the night with the runways illuminated with paraffin flares deposited by a yellow mini pick-up truck.

@johnpini3000 2 жыл бұрын

The BOAC training captain was Tony Butler Stoney OBE, DFC. He flew the first Comet commercial flight from Idlewild to London, delivered the first BOAC 707 to London and flew Princess Elizabeth back from Kenya in an Argonaut after the death of George VI. At Shannon airport when he introduced himself I thought he said 'my name's Tony' - it was 'my name's Stoney'. He died in 1992.

@fireflyrobert 11 жыл бұрын

I was at Hamble on course 692 during 1969/70 - really pleased to see this film has been uploaded

@ClivePattle 5 жыл бұрын

I was a pupil at Hamble County Secondary School from 66-70. That school was situated on the northeast side of the Hamble airfield, only separated by the B.R. Southern Region Southampton to Portsmouth railway line. Every day there was a constant stream of aircraft landing or taking off over the school. I took an interest and found out that they were Chipmunks, Apaches, Cherokees and later Barons. I remember the cherokees arriving, brand new. Nice and shiny, a vast contrast to the chippies, most of which were bore their former RAF colour schemes with added College of Air Training logos. Living locally I endured the frequent night flying by the Apaches and Barons doing endless circuits. It was a great time of my life and put me on course to become an aviation enthusiast for life. Thanks for posting.

@allancerf9038 11 жыл бұрын

one of the best things i've ever seen of any kind.

@lenkapenka6976 6 жыл бұрын

VC-10 instructor was a WWII hero...

@tenientef2 2 жыл бұрын

can you go further with it? thanks

@lenkapenka6976 2 жыл бұрын

@@tenientef2 Tom Stoney D.F.C. - ex RAF Bomber Command and BOAC Comet fleet.

@tenientef2 2 жыл бұрын

@@lenkapenka6976 wow. Thanks!!

@minormajor1 6 жыл бұрын

The star trainee pilot was Steve Radcliffe. Sadly, he died in an accident in Spain in 1971.

@arkansaswookie 4 жыл бұрын

In the mid 70's I sat next to a man and his wife on a flight from San Francisco to Chicago that was a 747 captain for British Airways that had flown Lancasters and a Mosquito. Two incredible aircraft of the RAF during WW2. As a then 12 year old I had models of both planes hanging from my ceiling in my bedroom and thought that it was the coolest thing in the world to actually meet a guy that had flown them both during WW2. He was surprised that I knew exactly what the planes were, which made me less of a nuisance to him during the flight as he patiently answered all of my questions.

@CarePeers 7 жыл бұрын

This is the good old day of aviation.

@urumqi1 6 жыл бұрын

I really thing the BTC (Base Training Captain) is awesome here. Totally cool and utter gentleman. Very different from my own base training 30 odd years later in a A330 with the usual narcissistic Australian BTC at Cathay Pacific.

@fordlandau 5 жыл бұрын

urumqi1 yes the BTC seems absolutely professional but gentlemanly as well.

@Kathikas1 4 жыл бұрын

You got off lightly, should have seen some of the ones who left before you arrived

@user-rc1ke1ef3t 3 жыл бұрын

My dad was on the team that made this film.

@haywardvermaak4183 3 жыл бұрын

This is a wonderful program. I currently hold a microlight pilot license and a Light Sport Aircraft fixed wing license (recreational aviation). soon I will be starting to do my Private Pilot License training, and later Commercial Pilot training. I find this very inspirational: Onwards and upwards. To quote Leonardo Da Vinci: "For once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards. For there you have been, and there you will long to return."

@JDAbelRN 6 жыл бұрын

Fascinating film.

@schlutorflyer 11 жыл бұрын

So much different about airline training back then, yet a lot similar as well. These kids were basically direct entry airline pilots, like they do now in Europe, and Asia. Teach an accelerated syllabus to CPL and IR, then do a type endorsement on a passenger jet and bang, you're an airline pilot. However I imagine those young men didn't end up with $150,000 debts following them around like today. Interesting as well having a VC-10 for a week of circuit training! Yep those were the days alright.

@747heavyboeing3 Жыл бұрын

Excellent instruction!

@skylongskylong1982 3 жыл бұрын

The good old days when you used to wear your smartest cloths when flying as a passenger. BOAC and BEA fondly remembered Today B.A. known by many as Best Avoided !

@angeltransportpjects 10 жыл бұрын

A bygone era caught on camera very well. Interesting to see what training & development was like compared with today's era of Full Motion Simulators, Crew Resource Management ... But still including your 'First Solo' and the landmark that it still is to every flying career. Thanks again for posting on here.

@davidwratten7728 5 жыл бұрын

Great plane,, flew to SA in the early 70s to Durban. Joined the Treevalor Hain Norse line, what a trio that was

@Shamrock100 10 жыл бұрын

The circuit training was conducted at Shannon in Ireland. BOAC and many other airlines used the airport for that purpose as it had a long runway and light traffic.

@clemalford9768 6 жыл бұрын

I remember the old BOAC logo. Certain charm about that period of airline history.

@ELPaso1990TX 10 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how aviation technology has changed.

@briancarno8837 6 жыл бұрын

I remeber as a teenager working in Prestwick for afew days and being amazed how busy it was with BOAC 707s passing over every few minutes;.. It took me days to realise it was actually the same plane doing touch and goes over and over again

@davidshrimpton1791 3 жыл бұрын

I think the term was actually 'Circuits and Bumps'

@briancarno8837 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidshrimpton1791 Thats funny I was listening to ATC at my local airport (Glasgow) which you can do on youtube and the raf C130 distinctly requeted a touch and go on runway 23 with a left hand turn out

@davidshrimpton1791 3 жыл бұрын

@@briancarno8837 Thanks for your response Brian. It may well be that ‘circuits and bumps’ is an old expression and was used by the RAF as well. But I’m talking about the 1950s, so I’m probably out of date!!

@briancarno8837 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidshrimpton1791 HA HA Im an old geezer also...I can remember watching Britanias and vanguards landing. Just missed the end of piston planes.. Would luv to have seen a constellation

@luisalvarofierroaguirre4060 2 жыл бұрын

Grandes recuerdos. Este video indujo a que estudiara Aviacion. VC10 un strato en Aeronautica.

@mapp47 10 жыл бұрын

hi, sorry to hear about the death of the young man in the film,but I did enjoy seeing the film.thanks

@mekydro 10 жыл бұрын

I well remember the COAT Barons, as they flew them from Hurn and they did endless circuits-and-bumps that used to fly over my school. They were noisy aircraft!

@theart8039 3 жыл бұрын

I found my Grandads BOAC Junior Jet Club log book in the attic..Flights, Dates, Captains signatures, destinations..he used to fly all over the World, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, S.A Aus N.Z and actually used to go on the flight deck to be given a tour by the Captain, Engineer etc. Fun fact..he said that he was on a VC10 going to Hong Kong to Heathrow and sat behind the Cpt, who pushed his seat back and his big toe got stuck in the runner..He tells me that no amount of pain stopped him from enjoying every moment. He said the Captains name was Nelson so he felt safe because Admiral Nelson was a hero of his as a boy..they sound like amazing days. Never to be repeated I guess

@peterw3359 3 жыл бұрын

Got the same book, but from QANTAS, and every flight since 1965 to the present have been entered and signed - hundreds of flights now.

@fireflyrobert 10 жыл бұрын

It was 150 hours on the Chippie and then onto the Baron. Later they replaced the Chippies with the PA28 - 180 (Cherokee) so during the changeover period some students flew both (me also!). Also before you went on the Baron you'd done 50 hours in D4 Link Trainers learning IFR procedures and when on the Baron we did circa 50 hours on a basic Comet simulator

@ProducerCliff 8 жыл бұрын

Brings back good memories (no, not 1970, I'm not that old). I did my commercial license on rotary wing (helicopters) but as part of the course we also did a PPL on fixed wing. I learnt on a Piper Archer and a Tobago. I liked the way they spent a week doing circuits in an actual VC10! I guess they don't do that nowadays with the advent of realistic simulators. I know a lot of experienced helicopter pilots often become airline pilots, the pay is better and only 2% of the stress!

@joebatters6508 8 жыл бұрын

I remember having to do touch and go' back in the 80s. After we finished with all the sims and prior to OE, we would do the "bounces" at an overnight station, usually at night. The fidelity and visuals of today's simulators is such that on my last time coming to a different airplane, once I was done with the sim sessions, I went straight to OE and the first time I flew the real plane was with real passengers. The bean counters want to get you out and be productive as quick as possible.

@rjclark2736 8 жыл бұрын

+sasha blaine Circuits and bumps are still alive and well! We did our base training on the A320 about a year ago, on a lovely calm day at Shannon. Interesting to see how little has changed with the structure of the training course. I chatted to a friend's dad about this, too, who had trained at Hamble, although he started with BEA rather than BOAC. The training later changed to schools at either Oxford or Prestwick. Nowadays, training for BA cadets is done in either Oxford, Southampton or Jerez (the Prestwick training college was relocated there in the early 00s). The new simulators are really very, very good, although if it's your first airliner rating you need to do base training in the aircraft. I think with most subsequent conversions it can be done as ZFT (zero flight time) in the simulator, but only if you've got relevant experience in aircraft over a certain size.

@briancarno8837 6 жыл бұрын

Great film... I suppose with BEA they could start on viscounts and work up from there... but BOAC.. your in at the deep end

@semsemeini7905 4 жыл бұрын

When BEA had the Viscounts BOAC had the Bristol Britania's. By the early 70s' BEA had Vickers Vanguards and Tridents mostly. Viscounts were more common in the 50s' and 60s'. Flew on many.

@Kathikas1 4 жыл бұрын

I started at the deep end in a BEA Trident - great times

@70CarStall 11 жыл бұрын

His first take off @ 30:58 he had the "ok dont mess up" dry mouth going on.

@oldmovieboomer 3 жыл бұрын

RIP to the young pilot who died so young.

@fireflyrobert 10 жыл бұрын

Hamble was set up to select and train future aircraft Captains so expense was not an issue - in fact when you look how well the graduates did in their careers it was very cost effective. Even now trainee pilots have to do a few circuits in the actual aircraft as part of the type rating. In those days simulators were not as good as they are now with full wrap around visual etc.

@BimmieJames Жыл бұрын

Is this the BOAC training film that contains a 3 second clip of the 8mm film on board Speedbird 911?

@pete5668 9 жыл бұрын

That's the funniest-looking DC-10 I ever did see. :) Oh, a VC-10. My bad...

@SimElectronics101 10 жыл бұрын

The pilot-cadet looks like Martin Crieff.

@paulmurphy42 10 жыл бұрын

Can you tell me - was the sequence just Chipmunk then Baron, or was there another aircraft inbetween the Chipmunk and Baron? And how many hours on each? Thanks.

@mysirena1 7 жыл бұрын

Piper Cherokees were used in between the Chipmunk and the Baron.

@tu134pilot 8 жыл бұрын

What a great video. It would sure be interesting to see where this fellow ended up...I guess he would just about be retired now...my guess as a senior BA A380 or 747 Captain.

@richardbuxton3546 8 жыл бұрын

+Scott Cooper From PPRuNe... _Steve was a very good friend and I shared a flat with him and two other pilots for a couple of years. Sadly he died in an accident in Spain in 1971 (not aviation related)._

@tu134pilot 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the update, Richard. I am sorry to learn of his passing. I am pleased that his memory lives on with this video to motivate and inspire the next generation of pilots.

@richardbuxton3546 8 жыл бұрын

***** No - I have no connection with BOAC or with aviation. I know of only two Nelsons - one in the Simpsons and the other the victor at Trafalgar.

@gabrielcox3167 7 жыл бұрын

What about Mandela?

@semsemeini7905 4 жыл бұрын

@@richardbuxton3546 How awful. Tragic. He seems like such a nice bloke. Life aint fair. Destiny.

@rogerjoram2341 3 жыл бұрын

Great to see CAT Hamble in its heydays, also when my Father Capt DJ Oram was Chief of Selection

@MiftahulJannah-zb4pd 4 жыл бұрын

This video make me want to be a pilot.. Jet fighter pilot

@Kathikas1 4 жыл бұрын

Shared a flat with Steve in Hurst Park - wet himself laughing when the china ducks fell off the wall ..... RIP

@christopherlewry7510 2 жыл бұрын

My Dad David Lewry was a flying instructor then CFI from 1965 until the college closed. Sadly he died this May 2021.

@Kathikas1 27 күн бұрын

Your father, Dave Lewry was my instructor on Chipmunk and Apache. I caught up with him on email shortly before he passed - quite strange two retirees, one the instructor who passed on so much to the other …

@Tridentman121 9 жыл бұрын

the word used quite often is T.P.I.(Tailplane Incidence),i have this film myself.

@semsemeini7905 4 жыл бұрын

Flew on a BOAC VC-10 from New York to London in the early 70s'.

@peterw3359 3 жыл бұрын

December, 71 for me.

@luckilj 10 жыл бұрын

Yikes! We had identical baggage tags up until just a year ago or so! ! !

@luckilj 10 жыл бұрын

I just have WW PSR now LOL! Or Silver Exec one ;)

@halisfansuri 10 жыл бұрын

today, they are captain or retired already i think

@af757 9 жыл бұрын

Awfully nice chaps those pilot chappies.....

@christoohunders5316 5 жыл бұрын

Nice film, would need to be restored and scanned in hd tho.

@PeriscopeFilm 5 жыл бұрын

We scanned it in 4k and 24p HD already.

@christoohunders5316 5 жыл бұрын

@@PeriscopeFilm It doesn't show !

@captaintimba 4 жыл бұрын

PeriscopeFilm There is an annoying background hum plus the elapsed time at the bottom of the screen is equally annoying.

@christoohunders5316 4 жыл бұрын

@@captaintimba It's done on purpose to avoid commercial copies on other media.

@graemewilliams1308 6 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh Captain Bristow I presume, damn fine machinery. "Applause from stewardess" ? Yes mostly, but sometimes they would come in with a jug of water & say: Now that you planted it, might as well water it. And, we were NOT allowed to take our uniform jackets off in the tropics, my airline was pedantic about that. And they say the most dangerous part of flying is the trip to the airport. Too true. One of our Flight Engineers was killed in a Hong Kong taxi accident. Another crew were hospitalized in Adelaide for the same reason.

@johnpini3000 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, Tom Butler Stoney!

@Apricotham 11 жыл бұрын

so much easier back then to get into airlines

@allancerf9038 11 жыл бұрын

BOAC is alive and well as BA. Hope that was a joke (good one!) that it was 'easier' to get into airlines then. not at this level!

@fordlandau 7 жыл бұрын

Magnificent film in all ways. Watch the young pilots face in his first VC 10 take off. He's terrified!

@MiftahulJannah-zb4pd 4 жыл бұрын

The pilot is like luftwaffe pilot

@MrAlwaysBlue 3 жыл бұрын

They have to pay for all that training themselves now.

@glennspeirs512 6 жыл бұрын

Also known as better on a camel

@ShakespeareCafe 3 жыл бұрын

So you want to be a jet jockey

@trevorsmith7753 Күн бұрын

Grow the regulation moustache ... and steer well clear of Mount Fuji ...

@Apricotham 11 жыл бұрын

he practically learned how to do circuits in a vc 10 ffs

@lucaviggiani2189 4 жыл бұрын

But fear not, in fifty years time, pilots like yourself will be treated like lepers by companies that no longer regard skill and professionalism as positive traits and only care about their bottom line.

@craigmorris299 4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the 21st Century...sucks doesn't it?

@markjennings2315 4 жыл бұрын

Ridiculous over controlling shots on that chipmunk, clearly instructor hamming it up as the camera crew requested. I never had a student ever over control like that! When I did my Base training it was a choice between Malta or Shannon, captain chose Shannon :-, Airspace was pretty empty most the time at least.

@diananewson1248 3 жыл бұрын

The instructor "hamming it up" was my father and he really was that meticulous. He even helped struggling students in his own time at our house!