Originally Posted by
Lance Shippey
Hi Brakewell.
Thanks for the interesting news. I think some LOT pax flts were able to use the
3 Western corridors along with British , French, and U.S. registered a/c. ? Was
the Britannia British registered ? IAS brings back fond memories. I knew
Andrew Niemeyer, Norman, and the very lovely Janet, who ran the Sydney
office, in North Sydney. I remember the DC8 flew frozen Lamb from PER to
SJH. The licence for the Australian flights was LGW/via/via/PER, but if the
a/c had a tech problem. (Especially if carrying a heavy load for SYD) would
divert to SYD due tech. I spent some time on the flight deck of one of the
DC8's whilst at SYD. From the tie with KK, to form BCA, things appeared to
go down the drain. I think Alan Stocks was Resurrected with with the DC8's
to serve Africa under a new venture.
Lance Shippey
The Britannia reg was GAOVS. My dates were wrong, the Cairo/Warsaw flight was on 23/01/1976, WAR/Manston on the 24th Jan. I remember the chilled lamb flights from Perth to several Middle East airports very well when we used to route via Singapore and Colombo.