Originally Posted by Groundloop
Maybe a slight misunderstanding somewhere.
22/04s reference was HIS first flight was with BY in 1968. Euravia became Britannia in 1964.
Absolutely no problem with Euravia in August 1964 ! . A young lad knee high to a grasshopper was standing waiting in a fenced off area of the apron at NCL for a night flight on a BKS Britannia to Rimini (they operated LHR schedules during day time), it was very dark no apron lights in those days. Then it happened!! an almighty roar of this connie taxiing in, 10 yards away, spitting long plumes of flames out of all four engines. A dragon I thought! never to be forgotten was that arrival of my first connie.
You NEVER foget an experience such as that in a lifetime !