anyone remember those glorious days standing at the old airport hotel at the end of the runway at Manchester airport in the 70s,
the ear splitting noise of the fabulous 707s/ dc8 /VC 10s not to mention the nosiest 1.11s/ tu 154s / tu 134 and tridents
all the smoke blasting out of those spey /conway /RR/ pratt and whitney,turbojet engines coating you with a film of unburnt kerosene
fabulous memories, not very nice for the surrounding tenants but boy for us it was heaven
it's all rather tame nowadays http://s4.images.proboards.com/sad.gif

70s?? Get yer knees brown! Farnborough 1958.... Heathrow '59 onwards. Real aeroplanes with fans on the front!

Might be better to post this in Spectators Forum?

DEGGERS316.
How dare you come on here and upset us all by reminding us of the good old days!!!! After reading your post, I nearly came over all faint with pleasure. STOP THIS AT ONCE. No, Heathrow Director. It shouldn't be posted ANYWHERE, and if he does do it, it should carry a health warning!!!
Loud, smoky, pretty aircraft of all varieties, gosh, I even remember four radials and propellors and Avro Yorks and Constellations and, and.......I'm going to need to lie down now.!!

deggers316

In the 60's, before the runway was extended, a footpath used to lead from the Airport Hotel and passed within a few yards of the runway. I spent many hours standing on that footpath.

My favourites were the Dan Air Yorks and the Derby Airways Argonauts. "Sigh for four Merlins"

Dave

<< I even remember four radials and propellors and Avro Yorks and Constellations>>

NURSE... the screens, quickly.....

Where I went to school I could watch the Morton Air Services traffic going into Croydon.... along with Burmese Air Force Provosts, Iranian AF Daks and the odd Catalina or two.........

The pub and is garden were still there when I saw them from the window of a landing A320 a few days ago. Probably a bit quieter these days ...


In the 60's, before the runway was extended, a footpath used to lead from the Airport Hotel and passed within a few yards of the runway. I spent many hours standing on that footpath.



I never used that footpath, but do remember several times, around 1969, waiting at the traffic lights where the Wilmlsow-Altrincham road crossed the other end of the runway for Viscounts and Vanguards to land and watching the Vanguards release their braking parachute.

<<watching the Vanguards release their braking parachute>>

I never heard that before and I worked with Vanguards for a good few years at Heathrow. Any more info anyone please??

Now I could be wrong...( i believe you are right HD)......its been a long time since i flew in either a Viscount or Vanguard,...but i do'nt ever recall seeing a parachute deploy from a Vanguard. they surely had reverse thrust...but perhapse not..but in any event surely never a parachute.....would you be thinking about the French Caravelle...???

at any rate...thank you 'deggers' for bringing back the memories....standing at the fence at Stanwell...in those hot summer days with the heat haze shimmering in the direction of Heathrow....and the wail of Viscounts in the distance...or playing golf at Datchet ... peering through the haze to locate the sound....:sad:

'Ahhhhhhh yes....i remember it well...'....:ok:

Can anyone name ANY airliner that used a braking parachute, I certainly can't, and I've been around a fair bit.

the only one i can recall was the Sud Aviation CARAVELLE....if you google it you will find reference to the parachute....there may have been others but none that i can recall....

Can anyone name ANY airliner that used a braking parachute, I certainly can't, and I've been around a fair bit.

Tu104 for a start...........................................

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Like Heathrow Director, I too worked on the Vanguard /Merchantman between 1963 to 89 and can assure everyone that all that was in the tail bay apart from the control rods and cables was the Flight Data Recorder Cassette and the tailplane de-icing Cyclic timer [oh the bitter memories of on what seemed like 100s electrical connections changing the thing on night shift ] but no chute.and in spite of all that space nowhere to sit in comfort all sharp edges to do any work.