I am the last pilot alive to fly this particular Bristol Freighter for Lamb Air on May 30, 1974 (This Bristol Freighter crashed in Rankin Inlet NWT on May 31, 1974).  It was a fantastic aircraft to fly  - it turned back time to the 40's & 50's when you entered the aircraft, to climb up to the cockpit.

What an enjoyable video to watch!  Brought back memories.  I was an aeradio op in Papua/New Guinea in the 1960's.  Both Ansett-Mal, and TAA operated two each.  I'd see and hear them rumble by the control tower.  I also saw a swag of them on the ground a Blemheim in NZ when I lived there from 1971 to 1973.   Great old aircraft!

I was a Waterguard Officer at Southend Airport in 1960 and boarded many of these on their return from Calais. If there was a spare seat and you were off duty, you could sometimes get a trip to Calais and hope to get back in time for your next shift. One day being late to return, I had to dash off the plane, declare my 200 cigarettes and bottle of scotch, put on my uniform and clear the passengers I came over with to one or two odd looks. Aviation and security was far more relaxed then.

I lived near Southampton airport in the 60s as a child. Bristol freighters used to fly over. Loved the sound. Would love to see and hear one flying again

I remember them lumbering about the skies when I was a kid in the late 60's early 70's, especially one at low level above the Waikato parallel with Spa Road in Taupo, wonderful. Always a curiosity and remember them fondly.

I arrived in Auckland aboard an Air New Zealand DC10 on November 28th. 1979, a truely dreadful day in the history of New Zealand aviation. Throughout the following year I worked my way around the country, turning my hand to 'whatever' to fund my travels. These took me, with rucksack and tent, to the Chatham Islands on a Bristol Freighter, for a week. Quite unplanned/unexpectedly I found work there as the airport bus driver between Waitangi and Te Hapupu airfield. The bus drivers duties included unloading/loading the Bristol freighter using a modified Fordson tractor. No training....just learnt on the job ! The regulatory fire appliance was towed out of a shed ' to stand by' by a 1950s Vauxhall saloon.Four months of living/working on the Chatham Islands is a tiny speck of ones life. But this and the two actual flights I made on your Bristol Freighters are a huge and magnificent memory for me. Terrific ! Quentin Henderson, Isle of Nevis, (St Kitts & Nevis),West Indies.

I don't understand how someone can watch this and leave a down vote? It was really interesting and well narrated. Thanks for putting this up there...as many a pilot must have said to those hercules engines!

Late 1960's British Midlands,  flying horses from Castle Donnington to Jersey. What an Adventure for a kid!

NAC and SAFE AIR - both wonderful companies - great people and those days were fun

Christchurch air museum has 1 which ive had the pleasure to crawl about in a few years ago

Great video. Great music. I'm a yank and an aircraft mechanic and am always looking for planes from my era, 50s thru 70s. The Bristol reminds me of the C-119 although the Bristol seems to have more cargo space. Love the oldies but goodies. Lots of nostalgia.

I flew in a Bristol 170 from Gatwick Airport to Paris for the Air Show, but landed in a small airfield near Paris. I just asked the pilots for a free lift with a friend of mine. We were both trainee controllers.

I love this Vid , Takes me back to my childhood ,Thank you so very much,So graceful and also looking like a Bumble bee that to is graceful...

I can still hear the Bristol vibrator coming over the Aotea harbour in my early years. After she went over and the noise disappeared we knew we were close to around 3 to 4 hours to sunrise. Great memories. And regular as clockwork. Thanks for the memory.

Well I for one will never forget flying these docile monsters, may they rest in peace.

In the early fifties ANA (Australian National Airways) based at Essendon Melbourne VIC Australia, bought several early Freighters, all sans paint, and used as shiny riveted Freighters. Everyone called them "Big Bristols" seeing they looked like Mum's Breast.

They had a castoring tailwheel, which had to be locked before takeoff and unpinned after landing, to prevent the tail shimmying and travelling in a different direction to the rest of the aeroplane!

What a lovely old beast, it's amazing how much capacity is in the loading bay. This featured in the Goldfinger novel, where Bond followed Auric Goldfinger to France, in his Aston Martin DB3.

I enjoyed 2000 hours flying the Bristol Freighter to many European destinations out of RCAF 1 Fighter Wing Marville France. Comment heard flying into a USAF base in Germany " Did you build it yourself ".

Does anybody else in N. Z. know of the Bristol fuselage out on the Manukau Heads, Awhitu region??? Been there for a great number of years.....