From England to India by Air (1917)
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2017
- Part of India on Film: 1899 - 1947
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Imperial Airways to India - A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.
The arrival in Calcutta of a Handley Page biplane after the flight from England - quite a journey in 1917, hence, presumably, the sense of occasion here. On the runway to greet the arrivals are India's then Viceroy, Frerick Thesiger (Viscount Chelmsford) and his wife, as well as their young daughter, named here as Margarete, who later found fame as photographer Margaret Monck.
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My father was born in 1917, the year this film was shot. He is 102 years 3 months old, still lives on his own, cooks his own meals & writes letters on his computer. What incredible change he has witnessed! From gas lighting & cats whisker crystal radios to today’s hi-tech wonders. Modern technology amazes & often delights him. Alas, having been born during the Great War & having seen all the conflicts since, he despairs at man’s inability to progress on the human relations level. The more that things change, the more they stay the same, as the old saying goes!!
You need to interview him and ask him many questions from past.
@@sunny5113 I do my best to but unfortunately he is very deaf and it’s not easy to talk. Fortunately he has kept diaries most of his life. I expect they will make interesting reading.
If your father lives in India, all of us here are worship him and seek his blessing. Very exciting to know him, please send your father photo if possible to my id mahasub@gmail.com
Waaaw.All my respects for him.
My born 1983 😉get my interview
Very nostalgic - I flew on a Handly Page Hermes in 1958 from the UK to Singapore, my father serving in the British Army. We stopped at Rome, Brindisi, Ankara, Basra, Karachi, Delhi, Rangoon, and finally Singapore. we had 2 overnight stops in Rome and Karachi. We almost crashed into the Euphrates in Basra due to an undershot approach. We arrived in Singapore extremely tired but what a memorable journey. The real days of flying at around 12000 to 14000 feet seeing much of the land features beneath us. Nothing like a modern jet journey of today. Now precious memories to tell my grandchildren.
You are very lucky to have such memories.Thanks to share.
Wow how old are you now...?
Wowww
That is one super experience right there
You have lived an extradentary life that is out of reach to the people today. Good for you.
So within 14 years of the first flight of a few hundred feet by the Wright Brothers, they were flying from England on the far side of Europe to Calcutta on the far side of India? Mind blowing!
Gradiator and 50 years later to moon
That's why western world is richest and most prosperous land on earth. To this day everyone is trying to compete west but nobody could even come close lol.
@@bendover-bz4bc now its all about US, Europe has nothing to offer and is already beaten by many countries in terms of technological progress.
@@bendover-bz4bc china be like lol
@@subhamsonalpanigrahi6045 china is not even close. Are you dumb ? Average salary of person in US is $60k a year where in China it's about $14k a year. Average person in usa lives a happy life since he can criticize goverment and not get washed out into the unknown. Average person can use any apps, software, jokes, literally and anything to their liking. In China they banned fuckn youtube, facebook, google . Not only CCP is threatening basic human rights of chinese but they are also blocking all the competition from which are coming from outside china. Do you think it's a good marketplace where your not even allowed to launch your app ? China is a clowns country. Just because you got big population doesn't mean your powerful or good enough lol. Most of China's invention are literal copy of western products anyways but since most western companies are not allowed in China, they can't even sue these chinese companies for copyright infringement laws lol. Do you still think china is close to usa ? AjajajsjJ. Anyone closer to usa is UK And germany. China is just joke.
Watching 102 yrs old history now......
It's a nice feeling indeed !!
104*
This movie was shot in 1917 and IAM watching in 2018 all thanks to uploader and CZcams
Nitin Dangwal. It is incredible.
And yet is not on IMDB.So does it even excist?LOL
@user Cman haha lol
By that stage of World War 1 an army officer was probably very happy to be in India instead of France. Excellent job with the filming & use of captions in the film.
It's my precious opportunity, to have seen past, when I was not born on the Earth.
You were always there on earth in form of your ancestors
@@theyaduvanshiindian391 so true man
एक Indian परतंत्रता की मानसिकता के साथ!
May we were on earth that time ,but not as human🙄😂
@@LovepreetSingh-kj6bh scientifically speaking, no
I was checking for the sound 😅😂
When I see films like this it reminds me of what my Father saw throughout his lifetime as a pilot.
From propellors to jets and the sound barrier.
I even remember my own childhood after the war when my father got posting in the far east.
The plane had propellors and the fight took almost a week.
When I went back in 1976 it was on a Singapore Airways Jumbo 747 it tool less than a day.
This is one amazing film in its clarity and good resolution you can see the facial expressions quite well to get an impression of the people.
An amazing airplane, Britain had the most advanced long-distance air service in the world at the time. The pilots damaged the wing on a tree after landing. This is presumably why everyone is looking up at the right side of the plane right after it comes to a stop. You can see the damage starting at 7:18.
Have any of these survived?
unfortunately no complete example remains of Handley Page O type (V type came in 1918 which itself didn't survive). There are pieces of this fine plane in RAF Cosford museum.
Only British strategic bomber from that era surviving to this day is Vickers Vimy on display in science museum London. It's the same plane that crossed Atlantic. There are couple of replicas of that plane too, one even flies to this day.
But unfortunately, no Handley Page WW1 plane (O type and V type) survive today
Wow.gr8 video.i watched in dismay...thank you for the upload.expecting more of this sort.
The pilots of this historic flight were Sir Ross Smith and Brig General Amyas (Biffy) Borton. And the engineers were Shiers and Bennett, according to Michael Molkentin in his book Anzac & Aviator. Pity that the video doesn't carry more footage of these four !
Now no one of these people are left on earth ⛳
I'd like to think that if I died suddenly, my CZcams channel would live on forever, giving me a type of immortality so a hundred years from now someone will say the same thing you did.
@@hardyboy1959
We also don't know tht after hundred what's new technology of next generation face how much updates will be made in CZcams or any new app it's bit exciting but fear able.
Thanks to CZcams now we archieved inmortality! !
Yes. Watching such footage is so humbling experience.
Yes all dead now
Amazing video ❤
Thanks to British, showing past memories.
Yes and they made the worst past for us.. Thanks
@@comradeleppi2000 The British left India over 70 years ago, time to forgive and move on.
@@avishayil3863 time to forgive???why??what about the money they looted???if someone steals almost all your money,youll forgive him after 30 years???
400 yrs prior to this video the English had landed in Surat, the moghul emperor Jehangir was given tons of gifts upon arrival to trade spices in India, the king was blown away by their generosity, therefore gave them all access to the ports and free trade. That was British India Tea Company, later on it became the British Raj. The king and queen of England became the emperor and empress of India. They took all our precious lock stock and barrel and left us divided for ever. I despise to see this video even though it hurts very immensely to what the British had done to us for 400 yrs. It was total arrogance and anarchy that was shoved down every Indian of that era. Shame on all the bastard maharajas and nawabs who eventually became the puppets of England. Divide and rule was employed successfully at a great cost that can never be paid back to us. I just came back on this thread after 4yrs I posted about the Angrez Maa Ke Laode. I am surprised how many of the present Indian generation are still in favor of the British . Man, I would love to take you fellow's on a head to head debate in person and hang you guy's the next sunrise. Even though my name is infamous I am still a 100 percent Hindustani, my roots are from the Telugu speaking Lingayat caste even though I speak Persian as well because of my maternal side. I despise anyone who thinks India has progressed to this day because of the English system we have adopted in every aspect. Arz hai, woh waqth gaya woh daur gaya jab do qaumon kaa naara thaa, vo loge gaye iss dharthii se jinkaa maqsad batwaara thaa.
We already had good education prior to their arrival.
East India company was the biggest scam on earth.
They (the British) did not do a fraction of the harm the Moguls and the Afghans did to India - not even a fraction. In fact they united India.
They were all son's of bitches, one worse than the other. They left us holding the bag in the end.
The Brits was and still is a ruthless lot . Nothing more than republicans wigs .
Amazing... It's 102 years old film
Ya
@taladuga picpwaspwat TRUE
A magnificent rare film to be cherished forever to understand the situation, atmosphere, culture, fashion etc of the yesteryears of British Empire in India. Indeed, Old is Gold, always.
RAHMATHULLAH RAHMATHULLAH , I posed at every moment to study the people, the way they stood, the lady's clothes, the soldiers uniforms, the Indians among the British, to get the feel of the time
The real fashion of those, ‘the sons and daughters of the land’ not shown here, my friend
@@claudiosaltara8847 me too
Well said Sir.
The film is sharp and clear. A look back over a century. The pith (plant based fiber) helmet was truly a fashion statement.
If you had a white pith helmet you were above the hoi poloi, the military types had a brownish pith. The ladies dressed well for the occasion.
Wonderful, I am watching this in 2020
काश यह क्रेश हो जाता और 2-4 अंग्रेज निपट जाते 😁
😂😂😂😂
This is during WWI. I wonder how they avoided being shot down by the Kaiser's defenses.
Dennis Doddridge:
it's called being rich.
Jon Snow:
it stands to reason this was not during WWI, despite the caption.
in answer to your question, no.
if it had occurred during the war, often there are different rules for the rich, though.
@@trents3515 If it had been in 1917 the german anti aircrfat guns etc wouldnt have been anywhere near India. what a stupid question,
अंग्रेज अभी भी वैशे के वैशे है पर दुनिया ने बहुत तरक्की कर ली।
Sab ne
I. Love the old days.
The 747 of the time with the most powerful engines. non-pressurised
Would you please tell How you found these confidential Records
I dont think these are confidential video
It was nice watching a film nonstop 12 minutes & 18 seconds where everyone in the film has a brain & knows earth is a globe.
And there is no mad bgn
Plane must have been felt like Vodoo UFO technological achievement back then....
Wow great to see this movie & thanks
What was the navigation tool that time?
very nice video.
Wow. Very historic film. Thank you very much for posting and sharing. I wonder where in Calcutta did they land? Also is this where the present airport is located?
Dum dum only i guess . The airfiled was grass as we see..
This does not look like Dum Dum. I believe it may be the race course.
Yeah this is race course
maybe red road
On the Calcutta Maidan(green fields). Still there today.
Wonderful...
Wow..Great filming of major n great event..I think that time there was no.commercial flights to.india..
It seems so many people had
the habit of SMOKING...
Awesome film..
Rip to all of u
Though given when you die, you are not 'resting', peacefully or otherwise - you are dead! Only the corrupt religious con-men push the idea of life after death, and only the fools believe it!
@@thetessellater9163 mind your shit better
hahahaha......
@@thetessellater9163 lol..how do you know???have you died before
Witch Air Filed In Kolkata , Bridge Parard Ground Or Kolkata Reccorce ?
The pilots were out in the open air cockpit. Imagined how cold the pilots sustained that long flight.
how long it took ??days??
Somtime i prefer a silent film With synchronized scores...
Do you have any video of 670 Squadron RAF - formed at #Fatehjang on 14 December 1944, disbanded 1 July 1946.
Unbelievable. Only 14 years after the first aircraft created by the Wright brothers this aircraft was built to travel across continents
Spektakuler moment
👍👍👍👍👍🙏
This history
Unfortunately in Britain, the true history of British colonization is not taught, it is not taught the how poor Britain was, before invading India, and how rich India was than, and how much money Brits looted from there, British children are taught that it was industrial revolution which made Britain rich, it is so pathetic.
How long will you fool yourself? now knowing about something does not mean it never happened, watch this, and tell me had this been what said in this program wrong, would this Indian man have been spared? watch: czcams.com/video/O-VK2sDZCQw/video.html and now watch what you used to be and what we made you: czcams.com/video/z9AVPt7geJw/video.html unfortunaltely I dont have time now to search and let you know, which I would have, it I had time that Europe learnt how to bath from us, how to clean from us.
@@Michael-yl4ch so the East India company was for fun.
You cannot deny that it is impressive how a tiny country was able to invade half the earth. Of course we know about divide and Rule etc.
Can any one say where is the location in Calcutta the airplane landed ...??
After 100 years, AIRUS A380 lands in india
@@javedsultan4830 It's better than ten years before. Awareness required.
@@narasimhap5880
it is a reality.. no toilets in india
65% public ki gaand nangi in street..
Every one wearing hat ..what a synch for each of them...
Looks like a Handley Page Type O... but I could be wrong
The military still used a sword.
Os militares ainda usavam espada.
excellent
Amazing
during the years 1900 to 1930 .....18000 Europeans used to live in Calcutta city ...90% of which was pure British.
How Amazing it's..
Even My Grandpa Not Born At That Time, and today I have Seen It Here
Thank
You
B
F
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Wow...this opens with a trillion birds circling around the craft ....we will be shitting bricks if this happens today
no refueling in between??
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri wrote - "A Constellation aircraft took off from Mumbai on June 8 & landed in London via Cairo & Geneva on June 10, 1948 with 35 passengers on board on the first ever.
The vedio seems to be a film.
The plane in the film is not a Constellation. The plane in the film is much older, would've been in a museum by 1948.
This must have utterly blown these peoples minds that someone had landed in India after just a few days or a week in the air. That one week earlier they'd been in England.
Century old documentary awesome.
Time travelling experience 👍👍
Soft background music dena chahiye tha ....video aur bhi sajeev lagata
How is it that nobody seems to have noticed that the unfortunate pilot hit the tree on taxi-ing at 1.08. This must have spoiled the occasion for him considerably. The damage can be seen clearly later in the film.
Great film. Wondered why the upper wing was damaged later in the film?... the aircraft hits that tree after landing!
Was it the S... or F... word in 1917?
Wow amaxing
love the vid
Those who witnessed the Indian mutiny of 1857 were 82 when this was filmed. Many who witnessed the civil war of America were also alive when this was filmed
How many halts in between?
The right wingtip either narrowly missed or brushed with the tree 1:06
It did not miss! You can see the damage occurring as it happened.
Thanks to engineer of that time and hero pilots who made aviation to this point!!!!
To the point of damaging the planet, you mean.
Nice
Don't know why the pilots are so happy it looks like they damaged the wing tip when they taxied into a tree.
The only tree in sight and they managed to hit it. It's probably not their plane!
brilliant idea of aviation
Shame it has f****ed the planet though.
Hell we wont suffer though, our grandchildren will.
How many days it took to reach india?
Feel nostalgic on seeing this vid
Past we had been slaves to England anymore we will make them as our slaves all it's required strong indian army with modernised weapons with huge in size and bieng an indian that's my dream
Historic! watching after 101 years! Good that its free from bollywood loud music!!
Old. Is realy gold
And how many stopovers for refuelling and maintenance ??
probably many, since the technology wasn't developed enough for a nonstop flight from UK to India in 1917
But video me voice q Nhi h
Is it just me or one of the plane wing is kinda broken?
How much timeit would take to arrive india frm england
I am in 1817 because I haven't even seen airplane in front of my eyes..let alone sitting in it
Such a small airplane it can travel only a few kilometers from one round of fuel.
More than "a few kilometres" I think. Fuel range of up to two hundred miles (c. 320 kilometres) was possible in those days. Less with cargo.
Can someone tell me why Indians are against the mughals so much when they happened centuries ago where as most Indians don't hate the British as much ...even though British only left 70 something years ago and what they did to the people of the Indian subcontinent was brutal?
Bcoz Indians are being brainwashed by right wing extremists.
Because Britain Is Densly Layed Egg By Indians Nows. Chicken Also Been Hatched And Liked To Called Themselves British Indians And Settled There.
Love you brother
Why is there no sound??
😳
I wonder what is flight duration of such distance in those days?
Wonderful history - our history!!
Very very Beautiful movie
Old time memories are my properties
I very much doubt that this happened in 1917. The crowd and atmosphere is wrong; but more telling is the fact the aircraft (a Handley Page Type 0 bomber, almost certainly a 0/400) would have been simply too valuable to send off to Delhi for seemingly no reason during the war. One was based in Palestine, but why on earth would it be sent off for a jolly, over enemy territory? 1918 after the the defeat of the Ottoman Empire is possible; but any time between 1919 and 1921 (Frederic Thesiger's last year as Viceroy of India) is much more likely. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_Type_O
nice
I saw many birds flying around but !! 2021 today there's very rarely to see them with groups
All the way from England! I find the voyage tiring in 2020. Takes nearly 10 hours in a luxury jet.
These planes flew at 70 to 80 mph, and carried only enough fuel for around two hours flying. They would have to land and refuel around 20 times!
But with the British Empire being so extensive then, that was entirely possible.
Look at the plane landed without run away and there was no ATC. It's just the beginning and today the air routes are congested like our roads.
as others have already pointed out, this video is probably from 1925 (not 1917). hence, this is also not during WWI.
Time seems to have stood still in this remarkable film, a bygone era for us to see today.
102 year old video. Waoo
This should be that ,flight from England to Egypt,then flight from Egypt to Iran ,then flight from Iran to India. How can this little plane carried enough oil for one flight such a long line from England to India.
yes..wing was damaged
Older people in this movie were born in late or middle of 1800s like me in 1900s