For over 75 years, London Airport (Heathrow) has been Britain’s No.1 international airport. For the first 30 years of its life, most of the movements were made using propliners. Author and photographer Tom Singfield first visited the airport as a plane spotter in the mid 1960s, before securing a dream job as an Air Traffic Control assistant in 1969. Watching the aircraft coming and going as well as all the hustle and bustle of life on the apron was a memorable experience and these images reflect on those happy days when airliners didn’t all look the same. This nostalgic book, following on from the author’s successful books on Classic Gatwick Propliners and Jetliners, celebrates the huge variety of airlines and propliners seen and photographed by dedicated aviation photographers who flocked to admire Heathrow’s visiting aircraft, a gentler time when visitors were still welcome

Gatwick's very first jetliner touched down on 16 November 1958, and over the next fifty years the airport grew to become Britain's second busiest airport, as well as the busiest single-runway airport in the world. Classic Gatwick Jetliners is the much-awaited follow-up to Classic Gatwick Propliners, with over 200 colour images alongside comprehensive captions that describe the early jetliner visits through to the bustling years of the late 1980s. Featuring such iconic liners as the de Havilland Comet, the Boeing 707 and the 747 'Jumbo Jet', this is an enthusiastic and fond tribute to the most colourful period of Gatwick's aviation history.

When Ronald Waters bought 90 acres of farmland adjacent to the Gatwick racecourse in 1930 in order to set up a private airfield, little did he know how that airfield would evolve over the next eighty-nine years to become the world's busiest single-runway airport. Back in the 1960s and '70s it became a hub for aircraft enthusiasts and photographers who, thanks to the viewing decks, could get up close to the aircraft and enjoy the eclectic mix of new jetliners and old propeller airliners. Tom Singfield, ex-Gatwick Air Traffic Controller and a fan of all classic airliners, has long dreamt of a book showcasing the glory days of Gatwick's classic airliners. After thirty years of searching out the very best colour images of that time, he is now able to publish the results of his searches in this book. These stunning pictures celebrate those wonderful times and the amazing and much missed 'propliners' that operated from Gatwick for the first twenty years after its reopening in 1958.