RAF Bovingdon - 1960s

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

Momento from a leisured period (early 1950s) of Air Travel - currently offered for sale on a well known auction site.........

Much later: I was looking at some photographs of Hunting's African Safari Service to Nairobi and noticed that they were taken by John Stroud. I'm assuming here that they relate to Hunting's inaugural service which departed Bovingdon as HT101 on June 14th 1952 arriving at Nairobi June 16th - the return service HT102 departing Nairobi on June 18th (as per tag above). Initially it was a once weekly service flown in partnership with Airwork on alternate weeks. However both operators participated in the Inaugural Service. It was upgraded to a twice weekly service in February 1953.







Photo credit as per image.



Pax disembarking for Nightstop. Photo credit as per image.

Thought to be disembarking at Nairobi from Viking G-AHPJ . Photo credit John Stroud.



Assuming this is the inaugural service - the crew were Capt G. Clift. F/O C. Kirkland. F/E O. Mitchell, R/O D.Parsey. Stewardess Miss J. Jeffries. (ref Merton Jones).
Photo credit as per image.