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Mods feel free to move this to the appropriate forum if you want, I just wanted to post it here first so more people would see it. British Airways latest commercial is awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JdQi60an0

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LOVE IT!
Really well done!
Jerry

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It was mostly filmed at Duxford a few months back, right around the weekend of Flying Legends I think.

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Saw it on TV last night, was a great commercial. Good job "Speed Bird"

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I caught that on TV a few days ago. It was a very nice surprise.

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Wonderful!

We should do something like this at Air Canada -- heck we pretty much built trans-con IFR flying in Canada from scratch. Tons of heritage, all un-leveraged.

Dave

That is very well done! What did BOAC stand for before there was a British Airways?

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When the video is done, click onto "British Airways, making the most of visual effects" Quite interesting to see how much work goes into a short clip like this.

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I just saw it for the first time a few minutes ago. Well done!

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Good to see Duxford on TV....they seemingly used the VC-10 on the ramp.

Anyone know what the first plane is with the large 4-blade prop?

And I wonder if they used de Havilland Dragon Rapides that fly sightseeing flights out of there?
I flew on G-AIYR (ex-HG691) a couple of years ago, a great experience.

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Shuttleworth Collection's dH51 G-EBIR

Hastings or Brittania? I need to see it again.

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That was great but to bad there were no flying boats. Or is that a different British airline?

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You'll be thinking of Imperial Airways, who operated a fabulous array of flying boats from the 20s through the 40s; sadly, like the Zeppelins, the prewar airline boats are extinct today (the only large "prewar" flying boat airliner extant being the 1941 Vought-Sikorsky 44 in Connecticut--which isn't really prewar in a British context).

A few wartime/early-postwar boats do survive and sometimes one pops up on TV or in a movie, masquerading as an Imperial Airways or Pan Am ship...

Imperial Airways did operate landplanes on some routes, BTW, one of the resulting famous designs being the Avro 652A Anson, based on the Avro 652 Avalon built for Imperial...

As has been said on another forum, the historical ad is great, but it's a shame BA held their own actual retired aircraft in less regard, most of the BA collection having been scrapped on site at RAF Cosford, where they were on display, a couple years ago.

S.