Airtour Aircraft

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2224

Date Released

17 Jan 1972

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Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Airtour Aircraft. DESCRIPTION: The first of BEAs ex BOACs, Boeing 707s lands at Gatwick, a range of 5,000 miles, BEA can now go to the Mediterranean, and is the first Government Airline to go into the Air Charter business. SHOTLIST: LS plane comes down into land at Gatwick Airport. LS plane waved in. MCU Captain Bailley Managing Director of Airtours. MS plane taxies in. GV people watching. MS side of plane BEA AIRTOURS. MS Charles Abell (Engineering Director of BOAC) and another man down plane steps and greeted by Philip Lawton Chairman of BEA Airtours. MS pan Abell hands log book to Lawton who shows it to Bailley and stewardess. CU log book. GV crowd of people around new plane.

Keywords

Aviation

Locations

Gatwick

Card file number

97780

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Reginald William Smith

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