Heathrow Airport 50th Anniversary Flypast – 2nd June 1996 – BBC TV programme.

Heathrow Airport 50th Anniversary Flypast – 2nd June 1996 – BBC TV programme.

This is a TV programme about the flypast I recorded from BBC TV , I found it on a VHS tape and converted to digital as you see here.

On June 2, 1996, a week-long series of festivities began to celebrate the 50th anniversary of London Heathrow Airport. The festivities included a flypast of over 30 aircraft.

On the actual day I was working at LHR and went airside to watch the flypast from about the closest viewpoint possible, I was airside half way down runway 27R/9L and had an amazing view as the aircraft flew almost over my head.

Heathrow was closed for approx. 1hr to allow this flypast to happen, probably the only time that’s happened for something like this since the airport opened.

This programme is presented by Raymond Baxter, Juliette Morris and Julian Tutt.

The aircraft featured in the flypast included.

Avro Lancaster
Bristol Freighter
De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide
De Havilland DH.104 Dove
Douglas DC-3
Douglas DC-4
Douglas DC-6
Handley Page Dart Herald
Vickers Viscount
De Havilland Comet
Douglas DC-8
BAC One-Eleven
Boeing 727
Boeing 737
Boeing 747
Boeing 767
McDonnell Douglas MD-11
Airbus A340
Concorde / Red Arrows.

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