Originally Posted by
Mooncrest
Northeast for the lovely bright yellow Viscounts. I think they kept three at LBA.
Dan-Air for the lonely 748 G-ARAY. Never seemed to move when I visited LBA, like it was stuck in a timewarp.
BIA for the orangey-red Heralds. I think they did seasonal routes to Jersey and the Isle of Man.
It's not the same any more. Nothing but ruddy Jet2 in our back yard now.
Hear hear Mooncrest
I used to cycle up the back road to LBA as a kid back in the 70's and see all of the above...sigh
I remember looking over the fence behind the old black hangar once and seeing a poor Viscount in BEA colours sitting on it's belly being scrapped
