Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 21675 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| FLYING HIGH | 1982 | 1982-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: Super 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Mute Duration: 5 mins 50 secs Credits: Organisation: Cleveland Cine Club Genre: Amateur Subject: Transport |
| Summary An amateur film made by members of Cleveland Cine Club showing the supersonic airliner Concorde's visit to Teesside Airport, Middleton St George, now Durham Tees Valley Airport, on the 11th December 1982. Concorde's appearance was paid for by former footballer and airport station manager for British Midland Eddie Kyle to mark the launch of his travel agency and get publicity for the airport. |
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Description
An amateur film made by members of Cleveland Cine Club showing the supersonic airliner Concorde's visit to Teesside Airport, Middleton St George, now Durham Tees Valley Airport, on the 11th December 1982. Concorde's appearance was paid for by former footballer and airport station manager for British Midland Eddie Kyle to mark the launch of his travel agency and get publicity for the airport.
Title: Flying High
The film opens with a British Midlands passenger aircraft coming in to...
An amateur film made by members of Cleveland Cine Club showing the supersonic airliner Concorde's visit to Teesside Airport, Middleton St George, now Durham Tees Valley Airport, on the 11th December 1982. Concorde's appearance was paid for by former footballer and airport station manager for British Midland Eddie Kyle to mark the launch of his travel agency and get publicity for the airport.
Title: Flying High
The film opens with a British Midlands passenger aircraft coming in to land at Teesside Airport. The plane taxis towards the terminal. A door is opened and the passenger disembark.
A crowd watch as British Airway’s Concorde comes in to land and taxis along the runway. A set of steps is wheeled to the aircraft and passengers on board disembark. A large crowd gather at the bottom of the steps. On the steps two men stand together shaking hands. One of the men, in a grey suit, is Eddie Kyle of Kyle Travel who brought Concorde to Teesside Airport as a promotion for the launch of his travel agency.
A light aircraft taxis along the runway. The film cuts to a view from the backseat of the aeroplane and of the pilot at the controls. The aircraft taxis along the runway past Concorde and takes off, cutting to a view of Concorde seen from the aircraft as it takes off.
General views from the aircraft flying through the sky of both the surrounding landscape and of those on board. The film ends with the airplane landing back at Teesside Airport and passing Concorde.
Title: The end.
Context
A fallen angel of aeronautics on Teesside
Admire a supersonic Anglo-French aristocrat of the air as Concorde glides into Teesside Airport.
On a crisp December morning in 1982, the dauntingly beautiful time machine that was Concorde edged onto the tarmac at Teesside Airport. The gent in the grey suit that emerges from the stylised, supersonic airliner like a celebrity is Eddie Kyle, a former professional footballer, who chartered the iconic plane as an audacious promotion for the launch of...
A fallen angel of aeronautics on Teesside
Admire a supersonic Anglo-French aristocrat of the air as Concorde glides into Teesside Airport. On a crisp December morning in 1982, the dauntingly beautiful time machine that was Concorde edged onto the tarmac at Teesside Airport. The gent in the grey suit that emerges from the stylised, supersonic airliner like a celebrity is Eddie Kyle, a former professional footballer, who chartered the iconic plane as an audacious promotion for the launch of his travel agency. He almost went bankrupt that day but triumphed in the end. This amateur record of the occasion was filmed by members of the Cleveland Cine Club, one of whom takes a chartered pleasure trip on a small Corsair commuter plane, surveying the Tees river valley around the airport, including the gridlocked roads. The plane returns for a last glimpse of Concorde on the runway, a technological marvel from a now vanished era of civil supersonic flight. Eddie Kyle took out a bank loan and a second mortgage on his home to afford Concorde’s £51,000 appearance fee. According to the Evening Gazette, a local business executive who spent £4,000 on 20 seats for his client saved the venture from making a loss. Those who bought tickets at a hundred pounds a trip 'tore through the sound barrier on a round trip to the Arctic circle'. Kyle became station manager at Teesside Airport for British Midland and founded an air charter business. His spin-off travel agency was still operating from Yarm in 2017. Teesside Airport began life in 1941 as the Royal Air Force Station Middleton St George, unofficially known to locals as RAF Goosepool. It was home to many Canadian squadrons during World War Two. Bombing missions from the station included those to Berlin, Hanover, Kassel, Mannheim and Munich. After the war, it was home to Javelin Squadrons and the English Electric Lightning conversion unit, designing, developing and manufacturing a supersonic fighter aircraft of the Cold War era. The RAF station was closed in 1963 and the airfield put up for sale. It was then developed into a civil airport by Tees Valley and North Yorkshire councils, the first flight in April 1964 with a Mercury Airlines service to Manchester. The airport was developed in time for the World Cup games that were played at Middlesbrough's Ayresome Park in July 1966, when the North Korean football team surprisingly beat Italy 1-0. The airport was officially opened by Princess Margarethe of Sweden on 2 November 1966. |
