From England to India by Air (1917)

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  • Part of India on Film: 1899 - 1947
    This collection of newly digitised films is part of the BFI's contribution to the UK-India Year of Culture 2017, in partnership with the British Council. View more films on BFI Player player.bfi.org.uk/collections/... (UK only)
    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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  • @iancanty9875
    @iancanty9875 Před 4 lety +529

    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!!

    • @sunny5113
      @sunny5113 Před 4 lety +28

      You need to interview him and ask him many questions from past.

    • @iancanty9875
      @iancanty9875 Před 4 lety +35

      @@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.

    • @subramaniammahadevan7235
      @subramaniammahadevan7235 Před 4 lety +12

      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

    • @pentershayden936
      @pentershayden936 Před 4 lety +11

      Waaaw.All my respects for him.

    • @krishstar6256
      @krishstar6256 Před 4 lety +2

      My born 1983 😉get my interview

  • @planeman1995
    @planeman1995 Před 4 lety +117

    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.

  • @snellatlums
    @snellatlums Před 4 lety +63

    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!

    • @blackboxbs8642
      @blackboxbs8642 Před 3 lety +9

      Gradiator and 50 years later to moon

    • @bendover-bz4bc
      @bendover-bz4bc Před 3 lety +12

      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.

    • @bigmc9597
      @bigmc9597 Před 3 lety +8

      @@bendover-bz4bc now its all about US, Europe has nothing to offer and is already beaten by many countries in terms of technological progress.

    • @subhamsonalpanigrahi6045
      @subhamsonalpanigrahi6045 Před 3 lety +5

      @@bendover-bz4bc china be like lol

    • @bendover-bz4bc
      @bendover-bz4bc Před 3 lety

      @@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.

  • @nastynxt
    @nastynxt Před 6 lety +187

    This movie was shot in 1917 and IAM watching in 2018 all thanks to uploader and CZcams

  • @satyajitganguly3135
    @satyajitganguly3135 Před 3 lety +15

    Watching 102 yrs old history now......
    It's a nice feeling indeed !!

  • @brentsummers7377
    @brentsummers7377 Před 3 lety +10

    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.

  • @ranjitbasfor420
    @ranjitbasfor420 Před 3 lety +102

    It's my precious opportunity, to have seen past, when I was not born on the Earth.

    • @theyaduvanshiindian391
      @theyaduvanshiindian391 Před 3 lety +4

      You were always there on earth in form of your ancestors

    • @frame_ae
      @frame_ae Před 3 lety +1

      @@theyaduvanshiindian391 so true man

    • @saakshigaur8381
      @saakshigaur8381 Před 3 lety +2

      एक Indian परतंत्रता की मानसिकता के साथ!

    • @LovepreetSingh-kj6bh
      @LovepreetSingh-kj6bh Před 3 lety +1

      May we were on earth that time ,but not as human🙄😂

    • @THUMBJUMB
      @THUMBJUMB Před 3 lety +1

      @@LovepreetSingh-kj6bh scientifically speaking, no

  • @marcinna8553
    @marcinna8553 Před 2 lety +12

    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?

    • @aprendoespanol6833
      @aprendoespanol6833 Před 2 lety

      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

  • @ericastier1646
    @ericastier1646 Před 2 lety +4

    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.

  • @fajarmangadan2476
    @fajarmangadan2476 Před 5 lety +2

    Wow.gr8 video.i watched in dismay...thank you for the upload.expecting more of this sort.

  • @jeremytravis360
    @jeremytravis360 Před 3 lety +9

    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.

  • @OmParkash-wi3xz
    @OmParkash-wi3xz Před 3 lety +16

    Thanks to British, showing past memories.

    • @comradeleppi2000
      @comradeleppi2000 Před 3 lety +3

      Yes and they made the worst past for us.. Thanks

    • @avishayil3863
      @avishayil3863 Před 3 lety +4

      @@comradeleppi2000 The British left India over 70 years ago, time to forgive and move on.

    • @capteagle9
      @capteagle9 Před 2 lety +3

      @@avishayil3863 time to forgive???why??what about the money they looted???if someone steals almost all your money,youll forgive him after 30 years???

  • @dawoodk103
    @dawoodk103 Před 6 lety +179

    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.

    • @jeyavathyfrancis4827
      @jeyavathyfrancis4827 Před 3 lety +11

      We already had good education prior to their arrival.

    • @Hero007ization
      @Hero007ization Před 3 lety +10

      East India company was the biggest scam on earth.

    • @MrCMVikram
      @MrCMVikram Před 3 lety +23

      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.

    • @dawoodk103
      @dawoodk103 Před 3 lety +8

      They were all son's of bitches, one worse than the other. They left us holding the bag in the end.

    • @jeffmullinix7916
      @jeffmullinix7916 Před 3 lety +4

      The Brits was and still is a ruthless lot . Nothing more than republicans wigs .

  • @surendransankaran2010
    @surendransankaran2010 Před rokem +3

    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 !

  • @Jay-is3of
    @Jay-is3of Před 5 lety +50

    I was checking for the sound 😅😂

  • @KANPURRIDER
    @KANPURRIDER Před 5 lety +3

    Amazing video ❤

  • @sachinsingh-rh6fq
    @sachinsingh-rh6fq Před 5 lety +35

    Amazing... It's 102 years old film

  • @yogeshbangaru6062
    @yogeshbangaru6062 Před 6 lety +59

    Now no one of these people are left on earth ⛳

    • @hardyboy1959
      @hardyboy1959 Před 5 lety +5

      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.

    • @MYASHIYAN
      @MYASHIYAN Před 5 lety +5

      @@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.

    • @joseborjas9011
      @joseborjas9011 Před 5 lety +2

      Thanks to CZcams now we archieved inmortality! !

    • @PankajSharma-ir7fb
      @PankajSharma-ir7fb Před 5 lety +2

      Yes. Watching such footage is so humbling experience.

    • @SKumar-mj6gf
      @SKumar-mj6gf Před 5 lety +1

      Yes all dead now

  • @sisternivedita2825
    @sisternivedita2825 Před 4 lety +1

    Wonderful, I am watching this in 2020

  • @helios1912
    @helios1912 Před 6 lety +4

    The film is sharp and clear. A look back over a century. The pith (plant based fiber) helmet was truly a fashion statement.

    • @bazza945
      @bazza945 Před 8 měsíci

      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.

  • @rahmathullahrahmathullah7279

    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.

    • @claudiosaltara8847
      @claudiosaltara8847 Před 6 lety +4

      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

    • @harbinger3659
      @harbinger3659 Před 5 lety +2

      The real fashion of those, ‘the sons and daughters of the land’ not shown here, my friend

    • @Echo1Charlie03
      @Echo1Charlie03 Před 4 lety

      @@claudiosaltara8847 me too

    • @adrianjackson2696
      @adrianjackson2696 Před rokem +1

      Well said Sir.

  • @theultimatereductionist7592

    It was nice watching a film nonstop 12 minutes & 18 seconds where everyone in the film has a brain & knows earth is a globe.

  • @dddoda
    @dddoda Před 5 lety +39

    This is during WWI. I wonder how they avoided being shot down by the Kaiser's defenses.

    • @trents3515
      @trents3515 Před 4 lety +4

      Dennis Doddridge:
      it's called being rich.

    • @trents3515
      @trents3515 Před 4 lety +3

      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.

    • @terrygibbs1147
      @terrygibbs1147 Před rokem

      @@trents3515 If it had been in 1917 the german anti aircrfat guns etc wouldnt have been anywhere near India. what a stupid question,

  • @opdrvr
    @opdrvr Před 6 lety +6

    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?

  • @user-jg5iu2zi8d
    @user-jg5iu2zi8d Před 5 lety +4

    अंग्रेज अभी भी वैशे के वैशे है पर दुनिया ने बहुत तरक्की कर ली।

  • @manjurangra56469
    @manjurangra56469 Před 3 lety

    Wow great to see this movie & thanks

  • @sirohiboom
    @sirohiboom Před 5 lety +11

    Would you please tell How you found these confidential Records

    • @yashbingo2283
      @yashbingo2283 Před 3 lety

      I dont think these are confidential video

  • @sudhakarmallavarapu6402
    @sudhakarmallavarapu6402 Před 3 lety +1

    Wow..Great filming of major n great event..I think that time there was no.commercial flights to.india..

  • @OasisEmirates
    @OasisEmirates Před 4 lety

    Do you have any video of 670 Squadron RAF - formed at #Fatehjang on 14 December 1944, disbanded 1 July 1946.

  • @pawantiwari3738
    @pawantiwari3738 Před 3 lety +5

    काश यह क्रेश हो जाता और 2-4 अंग्रेज निपट जाते 😁

  • @SHARPGFX-dc9gj
    @SHARPGFX-dc9gj Před 4 lety +4

    I. Love the old days.

  • @ratnampeddipaga8530
    @ratnampeddipaga8530 Před 3 lety

    It seems so many people had
    the habit of SMOKING...
    Awesome film..

  • @abdulamran2656
    @abdulamran2656 Před 3 lety

    very nice video.

  • @up92enjoy77
    @up92enjoy77 Před 4 lety

    Wonderful...

  • @mikezinn7212
    @mikezinn7212 Před 6 lety +3

    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?

  • @travelwithnil.6634
    @travelwithnil.6634 Před 3 lety +1

    Witch Air Filed In Kolkata , Bridge Parard Ground Or Kolkata Reccorce ?

  • @faizan.mz.2164
    @faizan.mz.2164 Před 3 lety +1

    How Amazing it's..
    Even My Grandpa Not Born At That Time, and today I have Seen It Here
    Thank
    You
    B
    F
    I

  • @suratsutikbanyuwangi267
    @suratsutikbanyuwangi267 Před 3 lety +1

    Spektakuler moment
    👍👍👍👍👍🙏
    This history

  • @nassermj7671
    @nassermj7671 Před 3 lety +5

    The 747 of the time with the most powerful engines. non-pressurised

  • @Dylandog24
    @Dylandog24 Před 5 lety +2

    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.

  • @mohdfaizanbeg5110
    @mohdfaizanbeg5110 Před 3 lety +2

    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.

    • @boggy7665
      @boggy7665 Před 3 lety +1

      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.

  • @subratasarkar9571
    @subratasarkar9571 Před 4 lety

    Can any one say where is the location in Calcutta the airplane landed ...??

  • @fidelcatsro6948
    @fidelcatsro6948 Před 5 lety +3

    Plane must have been felt like Vodoo UFO technological achievement back then....

  • @glynwelshkarelian3489
    @glynwelshkarelian3489 Před 5 lety +3

    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

  • @Funny_Gammers_11
    @Funny_Gammers_11 Před 4 lety

    excellent

  • @nagacharv6784
    @nagacharv6784 Před 3 lety

    Century old documentary awesome.

  • @parvezakhtar6882
    @parvezakhtar6882 Před 5 lety

    Amazing

  • @bekindandmerciful5145
    @bekindandmerciful5145 Před 3 lety +2

    Unbelievable. Only 14 years after the first aircraft created by the Wright brothers this aircraft was built to travel across continents

  • @anseralim62
    @anseralim62 Před 5 lety +5

    Historic! watching after 101 years! Good that its free from bollywood loud music!!

  • @amitsonwane1287
    @amitsonwane1287 Před 3 lety

    What was the navigation tool that time?

  • @pnsherpa5242
    @pnsherpa5242 Před 3 lety +2

    Time travelling experience 👍👍

  • @ghanibhai2347
    @ghanibhai2347 Před 5 lety +61

    Rip to all of u

    • @thetessellater9163
      @thetessellater9163 Před 4 lety +5

      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!

    • @igormarinkovic1531
      @igormarinkovic1531 Před 3 lety +5

      @@thetessellater9163 mind your shit better

    • @abhijitguha494
      @abhijitguha494 Před 3 lety

      hahahaha......

    • @capteagle9
      @capteagle9 Před 2 lety

      @@thetessellater9163 lol..how do you know???have you died before

  • @AtulSinghbowfinger
    @AtulSinghbowfinger Před 5 lety +1

    Wow...this opens with a trillion birds circling around the craft ....we will be shitting bricks if this happens today

  • @hansemist
    @hansemist Před 6 lety +5

    Somtime i prefer a silent film With synchronized scores...

  • @nickmad887
    @nickmad887 Před 6 lety

    love the vid

  • @armandopentium
    @armandopentium Před 4 lety +4

    The military still used a sword.
    Os militares ainda usavam espada.

  • @zainimohamad9865
    @zainimohamad9865 Před 5 lety +1

    how long it took ??days??

  • @abuyalatip7590
    @abuyalatip7590 Před 27 dny

    The pilots were out in the open air cockpit. Imagined how cold the pilots sustained that long flight.

  • @sjnmhn
    @sjnmhn Před 6 lety +42

    After 100 years, AIRUS A380 lands in india

    • @mcg03
      @mcg03 Před 5 lety +1

      @@javedsultan4830 It's better than ten years before. Awareness required.

    • @javedsultan4830
      @javedsultan4830 Před 5 lety

      @@narasimhap5880
      it is a reality.. no toilets in india
      65% public ki gaand nangi in street..

  • @mabatkhanmbt5761
    @mabatkhanmbt5761 Před 4 lety +1

    Wow amaxing

  • @killerdove123
    @killerdove123 Před 6 lety

    Looks like a Handley Page Type O... but I could be wrong

  • @wsnsadmin
    @wsnsadmin Před 5 lety +2

    The right wingtip either narrowly missed or brushed with the tree 1:06

    • @thetessellater9163
      @thetessellater9163 Před 4 lety

      It did not miss! You can see the damage occurring as it happened.

  • @vish2ual
    @vish2ual Před 5 lety +1

    Feel nostalgic on seeing this vid

    • @joylanfernandes3025
      @joylanfernandes3025 Před 4 lety

      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

  • @itzthebeebrothers7848
    @itzthebeebrothers7848 Před 4 lety +1

    Every one wearing hat ..what a synch for each of them...

  • @hayalgeta6024
    @hayalgeta6024 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks to engineer of that time and hero pilots who made aviation to this point!!!!

  • @vinitranjanjha1156
    @vinitranjanjha1156 Před 6 lety +22

    As I know the first Overseas flight had taken place in 1927 (the name of the plane was "spirit of Saint Louis").Then how has this plane come to Calcutta from England in 1917?

    • @edgypilot
      @edgypilot Před 6 lety +5

      That was a Trans-Atlantic flight.

    • @desiguy55
      @desiguy55 Před 6 lety +17

      this was not an overseas flight. they had many stops along the way from the UK.

    • @tapangupta7969
      @tapangupta7969 Před 6 lety +5

      Remember first flight Orville & Wilber Wright 1911? World War I (WW1) had aerial spotting of guns behind enemy lines, aerial bombing, dog fights in the years 1914-18; the famous German Airman Boron von Richtofen highly decorated. This clip is of 1917.

    • @mmitra4669
      @mmitra4669 Před 6 lety +1

      Vinit ranjan Jha that was transatlantic flight between US and Europe.

    • @antman5474
      @antman5474 Před 6 lety +5

      The first non stop Trans Atlantic flight was by Alcock and Brown in 1919, the spirit of Saint Louis flight was the first successful non stop solo attempt.

  • @travelwithdiwas4912
    @travelwithdiwas4912 Před 3 lety

    I saw many birds flying around but !! 2021 today there's very rarely to see them with groups

  • @bkcricket9246
    @bkcricket9246 Před 5 lety

    brilliant idea of aviation

    • @thetessellater9163
      @thetessellater9163 Před 4 lety

      Shame it has f****ed the planet though.
      Hell we wont suffer though, our grandchildren will.

  • @clivet3846
    @clivet3846 Před 5 lety +1

    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.

  • @mikewilson7833
    @mikewilson7833 Před rokem +1

    Wonderful history - our history!!

  • @vickypatilchannel7160
    @vickypatilchannel7160 Před 4 lety +1

    Soft background music dena chahiye tha ....video aur bhi sajeev lagata

  • @MySpace662
    @MySpace662 Před 6 lety +24

    Time seems to have stood still in this remarkable film, a bygone era for us to see today.

  • @blackbuck1000
    @blackbuck1000 Před 3 lety +1

    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

  • @Tormund_Giantsbrain
    @Tormund_Giantsbrain Před rokem +7

    I miss the Empire so much. It was the greatest time in human history!

  • @victordemelofernandes1815

    All the way from England! I find the voyage tiring in 2020. Takes nearly 10 hours in a luxury jet.

    • @thetessellater9163
      @thetessellater9163 Před 4 lety +1

      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.

  • @mohsinabdulgani7190
    @mohsinabdulgani7190 Před 4 lety +1

    Love you brother

  • @kureshifayaz4124
    @kureshifayaz4124 Před 4 lety +1

    Old. Is realy gold

  • @_DhananjayKumar
    @_DhananjayKumar Před 5 lety

    Nice

  • @miker252
    @miker252 Před 5 lety +6

    Don't know why the pilots are so happy it looks like they damaged the wing tip when they taxied into a tree.

    • @thetessellater9163
      @thetessellater9163 Před 4 lety +1

      The only tree in sight and they managed to hit it. It's probably not their plane!

  • @user-xr4oj1pc6v
    @user-xr4oj1pc6v Před 4 lety +3

    And how many stopovers for refuelling and maintenance ??

  • @subharunbanerjee6771
    @subharunbanerjee6771 Před rokem +1

    during the years 1900 to 1930 .....18000 Europeans used to live in Calcutta city ...90% of which was pure British.

  • @miss42310
    @miss42310 Před 5 lety +5

    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?

    • @sudipkumarroy3198
      @sudipkumarroy3198 Před 3 lety

      Bcoz Indians are being brainwashed by right wing extremists.

    • @shivshah7759
      @shivshah7759 Před 3 lety

      Because Britain Is Densly Layed Egg By Indians Nows. Chicken Also Been Hatched And Liked To Called Themselves British Indians And Settled There.

  • @flamencoguitarist2024
    @flamencoguitarist2024 Před 4 lety +2

    no refueling in between??

  • @zakigadi6209
    @zakigadi6209 Před 3 lety

    Very very Beautiful movie

  • @trents3515
    @trents3515 Před 4 lety

    as others have already pointed out, this video is probably from 1925 (not 1917). hence, this is also not during WWI.

  • @vikrambanerjee2098
    @vikrambanerjee2098 Před 3 lety

    How many halts in between?

  • @OmprakashSingh-gs5wt
    @OmprakashSingh-gs5wt Před 4 lety

    Old time memories are my properties

  • @abspot375
    @abspot375 Před 3 lety

    How much timeit would take to arrive india frm england

  • @IKAUTOMOBILES
    @IKAUTOMOBILES Před 3 lety +1

    Even they people were not old but still holding stick in one hand... haha i think that was a fashion 😃😃😃

  • @HeyGuysHave121
    @HeyGuysHave121 Před 5 lety +7

    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.

    • @HeyGuysHave121
      @HeyGuysHave121 Před 5 lety +1

      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.

    • @PV-wu1vb
      @PV-wu1vb Před 3 lety +1

      @@Michael-yl4ch so the East India company was for fun.

    • @semsemeini7905
      @semsemeini7905 Před 3 lety

      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.

  • @CMan-rt9in
    @CMan-rt9in Před 6 lety +29

    They made this long flight, just to run into a tree. LOL. Only the Brits.

    • @Peter-lm3ic
      @Peter-lm3ic Před 4 lety

      Thanks for the sneer, but no doubt the pilot(s) were very tired and lost concentration on an landing strip not built fir such a large aircraft.

    • @thetessellater9163
      @thetessellater9163 Před 4 lety +3

      @@Peter-lm3ic - did you know them? They damaged their plane by hitting the only tree in sight - that is some lack of concentration!

    • @boggy7665
      @boggy7665 Před 3 lety

      I can believe they were tired. In those days, it was thought that pilots had to be out in the open to understand the plane's orientation. It was around 1930 that enclosed cockpits were designed. That was about the time when it was recognized that the pilot needed to see the horizon at all times, and the attitude indicator instrument was also invented around that time.

  • @andykoyu9958
    @andykoyu9958 Před 3 lety

    Rahul sir and Sonia madam will Happy. Jai Hind

  • @NeelamSharma-bv1rk
    @NeelamSharma-bv1rk Před 3 lety

    How many days it took to reach india?

  • @CH1NOify
    @CH1NOify Před 5 lety +1

    Wow.. BACK TO THE FUTURE. Fascinating.

  • @farhanr4635
    @farhanr4635 Před 3 lety +1

    Is it just me or one of the plane wing is kinda broken?

  • @ashishrathore8192
    @ashishrathore8192 Před rokem

    I wonder what is flight duration of such distance in those days?

  • @miker252
    @miker252 Před 3 lety +1

    Aircrew seems verry happy considering they just clipped a tree. The wing tip looks pretty bad to me.

  • @jamalapurrao935
    @jamalapurrao935 Před 4 lety +4

    Such a small airplane it can travel only a few kilometers from one round of fuel.

    • @thetessellater9163
      @thetessellater9163 Před 4 lety

      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.

  • @jayd4ever
    @jayd4ever Před 4 lety

    nice

  • @jimmychandigarhia629
    @jimmychandigarhia629 Před 3 lety

    I am in 1817 because I haven't even seen airplane in front of my eyes..let alone sitting in it