And my last post is meant to have read five hours and thrity minutes - 5 Hr 30mins not 5 hours and 3 mins!
Apologies. The record, I am now anecdotally told was indeed on a December 9th - 1972 or 1975 - can anyone substantiate this?
Oh and G-ARTA proving flights from LHR to LOS and straight back in day must have poured on the power too... Out at 5am and back just before midnight!
An Easy Jet VC10 then...
I must go other wise I shall recount childhood stories of rides on BOAC, Nigeria, Ghana and EAA VC10s and SVC10s around Africa. Oh what wonderful trips you old timers must have had actually flying them...
Kano, thrust reverse, rocks hitting the fuselage, the airport garden, chap on a camel blowing horn to announce BOACs imperial arrival: BOAC girls in startched bras and ex Atlantic Barons slumming it in the heat- pure nostalgia..