BBC Documentary "Jet Jockeys" on Youtube

[Andrew RC]

Originally Posted by Maikha Ly

Stumbled across this old documentary on Youtube. It's very captivating and felt others will be interested if they've yet to see it!

Lynn Barton, the relief BA female First Officer on this flight, made history about 18 years after this documentary as the captain of the first BA flight into Heathrow Terminal 5 - (BA26 flying HKG - LHR in 2008).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frRZy...eature=related

[Mark A]

Can't believe they made them walk down pat pong road, great doco but also a little weird.

Filmed before the internet when flying like that was still mysterious, good days.

[Maikha Ly]

Hi all

Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere, though I came across this other gem on YouTube, of the same BBC "Airline" program from the early 1990s, but featuring a very detailed look at the delivery of British Airways' first Boeing 747-400.

Included are some great scenes of shooting Air-to-Air with the aircraft, the politics behind airline markets and management between the UK and US, a test flight of the aircraft with a BA Test Pilot, and a rarely scene Delivery process, where money and aircraft keys get exchanged!

I really enjoyed this video, hope others do too.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWgvE...eature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mzqc...eature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW-Jf...eature=related
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zE7n...eature=related
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFy5P...eature=related


I love old well produced television documentaries about aviation such as this one, which do well to illustrate aviation to general audiences with great interest.