Originally Posted by WHBM
Don't think Dan-Air used Ambassadors on this route - too large. But they did use them on a Liverpool - Amsterdam daily schedule for some years. They certainly picked up an extraordinary selection of routes.
When the Ambassador fired up its engines at Liverpool in the morning the exhaust smoke was probably visible from Manchester tower !
Hopefully not with the pax on board
They were certainly used on this route. I have flown on that aircraft type Newcastle to liverpool many times via Teeside, it must have been early sixties and sometimes it was a DC3. On many occasions there was only 2 or 3 pax on board, outnumbering the crew. So yes they were much to big. The smoke on start up was quite alarming for some people as it almost engulfed the whole aircraft, but it soon cleared after the initial warm up. I think the Nord 262 was brought in when the Elizabethans retired.