Originally Posted by
rog747
re range i am puzzled how Channel Airways (CW) did STN - Las Palmas in 3hr 15 mins - apparently a record still held today?
Channel never got any mainstream IT series from the UK with their Tridents, and just picked up oddball individual flights and subcharters. So quite possibly it was an empty positioning flight for a return load.
The only major series from the UK they ever landed for jets was with Lyons Holidays, and that was the contract the old Olympic Airways Comet 4B fleet was bought for. They got a major contract for one Trident out of West Berlin for a couple of the Trident's years with them, but while this was in progress the second Trident spent one whole summer season AOG at Stansted being robbed for parts to support it due to some issue with their Hawker Siddeley account.
Did the 1E-140 have water injection ?