Vintage Toronto YYZ

Take a visit to the vintage years of Toronto International Airport

[Captain Brent 🇬🇧 @Birdseed501]

G-ARVM - a legendary airframe…

(White Waltham, 1977)

[British Caledonian @BCalStewardess]

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[British Caledonian @BCalStewardess]

Friday!!!!

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

This was plane spotting at London Heathrow Airport in the 1960s.

[aircraftmaintenancengineer @airmainengineer]

Concorde's flight preparations for takeoff to New York from London Heathrow.
📸 concordelegacy

[aircraftmaintenancengineer @airmainengineer]

Pre-flight checks and procedures on British Airways Concorde Alpha Delta, preparing to take off from London Heathrow to New York.
📸 concordelegacy

[Captain Brent 🇬🇧 @Birdseed501]

Pan Am Boeing 747-100 departs LHR (1970).

Then still a rare sight - only PA & TWA operating schedules from there with the type. BOAC’s were parked up until 1971 due to a dispute with BALPA.

Early 747s had notably poor performance - tales of only FL100 by WAL on transatlantics…

[Captain Brent 🇬🇧 @Birdseed501]

Launch of the BA Shuttle LHR-GLA (1975).

Services to BFS followed (1976), EDI (1977) & MAN (1979). Pay on board, guaranteed seat, back-up a/c (usually a BAC 1-11) standing by.

Revolutionary then, but while the callsigns remain on the routes the concept disappeared long ago.

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

In 1967, BOAC inaugurated its legendary London–Sydney Pacific service aboard the sleek Boeing 707 — a 13,000-mile marathon that took 33 hours across five stops.

Passengers dined on caviar at 40,000 ft as the jet hopped from London ➝ New York ➝ San Francisco ➝ Honolulu ➝ Fiji ➝ Sydney.

An era when long-haul flying was pure glamour, and every journey felt like a global expedition.

[Vintage Toronto YYZ @YYZLounge]

BOAC 747 crew training at Prestwick 1971

[Vintage Toronto YYZ @YYZLounge]

A winter night from the 1970s at Toronto YYZ T1...DC-8s and DC-9 #ONStorm https://t.co/aykVXPjtC3

[Vintage Toronto YYZ @YYZLounge]

YYZ winter conditions 1971 https://t.co/aykVXPjtC3 #onstorm

[Tim Byatt @Tim_the_Pilot]

Last night I spent ages looking at “our moon”. It’s not often I fly towards the moon when it’s not rising, but instead at its highest inclination. After tonight’s sad news I post this as my small tribute to a real hero, Jim Lovell. RIP

[Vintage Toronto YYZ @YYZLounge]

@planesanity This was taken in 1979 for the movie Airport ‘79

[Vintage Toronto YYZ @YYZLounge]

@scottiebateman YYZ used to do a ground display after the Canadian National Exhibition airshow which had flyovers over Lake Ontario. This photo from the 90s

[Vintage Toronto YYZ @YYZLounge]

This regularly flew from Heathrow to YYZ, but im sure it didn’t come in this low 😂

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

A rare sight —Vickers VC10 very low flypast at White Waltham Airfield, United Kingdom, 22nd May 1977.

[Mark Beal @veryboeing]

Back on line now is #BCS3 #A220 -300 #CGNBN seen here in CYYZ

[Captain Brent 🇬🇧 @Birdseed501]

News item with an excellent demonstration of the flight deck actions which led to the stall & crash of BEA Trident G-ARPI at Staines, Middlesex on 18 June 1972.

This was broadcast after the release of the official AAIB report in May 1973.
#OTD #trident #disaster #staines

[Airways Magazine @airwaysmagazine]

Butter spotted at YYZ 🧈

#cathaypacific #airbus #avgeek

[Aeronews @AeronewsGlobal]

Comeback / Sir Richard Branson has touched down in Toronto to mark @VirginAtlantic's return to Canada, launching a brand-new direct service between London Heathrow and Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Schedule: https://t.co/pnD8WB5U6G