Originally Posted by
treadigraph
Final Deux Ponts service from Heathrow 31st March 1971 - another five years and I would have enjoyed hearing them overflying my school on the way back to Paris - another two years and I'd have heard them inbound assuming they routed via Biggin. Damn!
Used to hear the weekly Northolt Noratlas overfly the school on Tuesday afternoons on its way back to somewhere, Evreux?
During the 70s (at least) until they phased them out, the 'regular' French AF Noratlas was on the 'third Tuesday' of every month. It was an embassy supply flight. It was sometimes a day late, probably due to serviceability issues? It was also sometimes a day or two later in July if the 14th was anywhere near the 'third Tuesday'.