Originally Posted by
Jn14:6
Dan's did operate holiday charters with the 707-321s, SL and TG.
I Flew on "Spread Legs" MAN-GRO in about 1971 on a package holiday, returning on 727 G-BAFZ.
I described above how old 707 G-AYSL, Sierra Lima, became universally Spread Legs with its various UK operators, and it even gets a mention as such in Alexander Frater's book "Beyond the Blue Horizon", which all good followers of this thread should have. Flying eastwards from Bangladesh, in 1985, he chances to sit next to a positioning BA Tristar flight engineer, who mentions the aircraft by soubriquet as it having been his first mainstream assignment.