Comet and Trident memories
OK, we've done Viscount memories, and the VC10 has a website all of its own. So how about the Comet and Trident?
My main memory of the Comet at SVO was how small it was compared with its Soviet counterparts. The latter were mostly converted long-range bombers (I think the bombs travelled in greater comfort, however) and dwarved the Capitalist machine on the apron. The Comet was noisy, but not so noisy you couldn't shout at each other and be heard, and vibrated much less than a piston-engined aircraft. IIRC, the seats were half forward-facing and half rear-facing (the Trident definitely had this configuration) and there was a table in the middle which, as a family of two adults and three children, we often got.
The Trident I remember as being the puddle-jumper, flying Ankara - Istanbul - Athens - Rome - London, a journey I used to dread as it meant I was going back to school in England with compulsory Latin and cold baths. I used to count the days to the return journey. I have few memories of the actually flight itself, it was the anticipation which was the thing, but I still have the BEA bag that was my faithful companion on those journeys.