Visiting London Airport during the 1960s - Cine Film

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Visiting London Airport during the 1960s - Cine Film

This film was a 8mm Cine Films Digitised with a Winait Film Scanner.

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This short digitised film begins with a view of the Control Tower followed by traffic going to the Airport and several vehicles parked in front of No. 3 Building Oceanic. This was renamed Terminal 3 in 1968 and originally opened on 13 November 1961, as a permanent building for passengers to access long-haul flights. Then there are views of various aircraft on the airport apron. There is a good view of a BOAC Passenger Jet. A BEA jet is approaching the runway. A Pan American jet arrives and once in position - passengers eventually leave the plane, with various vehicles descend on the jet to unload baggage, refuel etc. The BEA Plane takes off as another BEA Jet arrives, and another BET takes off.
A Trans Canada Air Lines plane is taxiing and approaching the runway for take off.

Information about London Airport from the 1960s

1961:
Runway lengths: Runway 10L 9313 ft, 10R had been extended west to 11000 ft, 5L 6255 ft, 5R 7734 ft, 15R 7560 ft, 15L not in use.

13 November 1961:
Building 3, the Oceanic building (renamed as Terminal 3 in 1968) opened to handle long-haul flight departures. The roof gardens on the Queen's Building and the Europa Terminal remained popular.

Spring 1962:
Last scheduled airline flights from London Airport North (Pan Am, TWA and Pakistan International).

1964:
The documentary City of the Air is filmed at Heathrow.
The legal dispute between Fairey Aviation and the government over compensation, which started in early 1944, was finally settled in the sum of £1,600,000. Fairey's 1930 hangar, in legal limbo for 20 years, and used as the Heathrow Airport fire station and as backdrop for an advertising billboard for BOAC, was then finally demolished.

1965:
Ownership and control of the airport passes from the Ministry of Aviation to the new British Airports Authority (BAA).

September 1966:
BAA officially renamed the airport Heathrow, to avoid confusion with the other airports serving the city, Gatwick and Stansted.

8 June 1968:
James Earl Ray, an American criminal convicted of assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was captured while trying to fly out of the United Kingdom using a false Canadian passport. At check-in, the ticket agent noticed the name on the fake passport, Ramon George Sneyd, was on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police watchlist. The United Kingdom quickly extradited Ray to the United States where he was to have his trial in Tennessee, where Dr. King was assassinated.

6 November 1968:
Terminal 1 opened, completing the cluster of buildings at the centre of the airport site. By this time Heathrow was handling 14 million passengers annually. Then or later, Building 1 (Europa) and Building 2 (Britannic) were jointly renamed Terminal 2.

17 April 1969:
Queen Elizabeth II formally inaugurated Terminal 1.
The original terminals being in the centre of the site became a constraint on expansion. Built for easy access to all runways, it was assumed that passengers using the terminals would not need extensive car parking, as air travel was beyond all but the wealthy, who would be chauffeur-driven with the chauffeur leaving with the car once his passengers had departed, and coming back with the car to collect his returning passenger.

Late 1960s:
The cargo terminal was built to the south of the southern runway, connected to Terminals 1, 2 and 3 by the Heathrow Cargo Tunnel.