Old Aer lingus 747 video

Qantas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E-iMDMz8HM

lord lucan

What an amazing video. Aside from the aviation end of things there's a huge air of nostalgia about it. It was an era when air travel was still relatively new,exciting and expensive. The hairs on my arms were on end watching that,great find and thanks for posting.:)

DOCARCH

That was great! Dublin AP looked so simple back then.

Tropheus

Incredible to think that was 35 years ago.

Dacian

There are a few of these old vids on youtube.

Great to see Irish aviation history like this. I downloaded any I saw.
Would love to see the very old (early 80s?) "Look up its Aer Lingus..." advert.

Anyone remember the name of the 1990's EI advert where the staff saw the passenger as some-one else, the mum as a jailor and the 2 kids as unruly prisoners?

rob88

runway 35?

mowhawk

Ah! The good old days when flying was a pleasure and everyone involved did their best to make it an enjoyable experience for the passenger.

Now we suffer the degradation of the Ryanair business model and post 9/11 paranoia security checks. We will never see the likes of these days again.

mowhawk

P.S. I spent a very memorable and most enjoyable ten minutes in the cockpit of her sister ship EI-BED at the invitation of her Captain in 1985.

Something else we have been robbed of by the brave heroes of Al Qaeda et al.

lord lucan

Great vid here looking around DUB in 1994,it's amazing to see how much it's changed since!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHoeXcRmqWs

Dacian

rob88 wrote: »

runway 35?

A new runway was built in 1989,I assume this is the 28/10 that we are all familiar with.

Maybe RWY 35 was the old designation for RWY34/16, renaming due to standard magnetic deviation and all that?

rob88

Dacian wrote: »

Maybe RWY 35 was the old designation for RWY34/16, renaming due to standard magnetic deviation and all that?

yea thats what i was thinking

owenc

mmm would love to have been on a plane back then.

tippilot

rob88 wrote: »

runway 35?

Maybe you mean the old Rwy 05/23? Decommissioned when 10/28 opened.

SNAKEDOC

there is a grea video of the popes visit in 79 an aer lingus 747 flew out to bring him to ireland and the feugas escorted them to dublin it looks great. a bit of history they should have held on to

owenc

lord lucan wrote: »

Great vid here looking around DUB in 1994,it's amazing to see how much it's changed since!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHoeXcRmqWs

LOl that looks like belfast airport is now, look at the ryanair planes they are pure small and the engines look crapy lol... i'm going to see what ryanair looked like inside then.

rob88

tippilot wrote: »

Maybe you mean the old Rwy 05/23? Decommissioned when 10/28 opened.

the atc said runway 35

drdeadlift

rob88 wrote: »

the atc said runway 35

The 747 took off from rnwy 28,to the right of the ac before it began its roll was rnwy 35 now rnwy 34.

EchoIndia

Dublin's original three-runway layout was:

06/24 (later redisgnated 05/23)
12/30 (later redesignated 11/29)
17/35 (later redegnated 16/34)

Of these, only 16/34 remains in use.

iPlop

What a shame:( EI-BED St Kieran





In the good ':)ol days

tippilot

drdeadlift wrote: »

The 747 took off from rnwy 28,to the right of the ac before it began its roll was rnwy 35 now rnwy 34.

28 didn't even exist when that video was produced.

Judging by the direction the 747 taxied from the stand it would have to be the old runway 24 it departed from. Also, I can tell you that 16 is a lot flatter than the runway in the video.

pclancy

Great thread. Still an air of magic to the whole thing in those days. I'd hate to experience all that time crossing the Atlantic with no in flight entertainment though! When did they first get in flight movies of any sort?

Tropheus

An Aer Lingus 747 and the silhouette of Ballymun flats in the background. Pure Dublin history!

pclancy

Oops just rewatched and seen the part with the cine screens

Its also hit home how glass modern cockpits have become, the 747-100 really looks ancient inside now.

EchoIndia

tippilot wrote: »

28 didn't even exist when that video was produced.

Judging by the direction the 747 taxied from the stand it would have to be the old runway 24 it departed from. Also, I can tell you that 16 is a lot flatter than the runway in the video.

The external video of the aircraft taxying and taking off may not have depicted the same flight that the flight-deck sequences showed. ATC said "call me turning left", which would make sense for a flight to SNN departing on 35, but not if it took off on 24.

Dacian

I managed to get in contact with a guy in the US who knew the guy chopping up EI-BED. He now has a desk made of fuselage sections and has managed to keep the 'EI-BED' and 'St.Kieran' skin sections.

He mailed me pics of them. Now thats Irish aviation history............

Plowman

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drdeadlift

tippilot wrote: »

28 didn't even exist when that video was produced.

Judging by the direction the 747 taxied from the stand it would have to be the old runway 24 it departed from. Also, I can tell you that 16 is a lot flatter than the runway in the video.

Did we see an a330 at the beginning of the video? Ballymun towers were also visible beyone the 747 taking off.
Runway 28 was opened in 1989.
This video was taken around the time they were phasing out the 747.

nag

Dacian wrote: »

He mailed me pics of them.

Upload!!!

rob88

drdeadlift wrote: »

Did we see an a330 at the beginning of the video? Ballymun towers were also visible beyone the 747 taking off.
Runway 28 was opened in 1989.
This video was taken around the time they were phasing out the 747.

video is from 1975.. 747's were from 71' till 95'

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Video has an A330 in it so probably around 1995. <-That is the second vid posted in this thread.:)

rob88

ah i think we're all getting what videos we are talking about mixed up lol

or prob just me

iPlop

Dacian wrote: »

I managed to get in contact with a guy in the US who knew the guy chopping up EI-BED. He now has a desk made of fuselage sections and has managed to keep the 'EI-BED' and 'St.Kieran' skin sections.

He mailed me pics of them. Now thats Irish aviation history............

Upload! upload! upload!:pac: