Baptism by Brit
I first encountered the Brit while flying models at Juhu airfield, just an errant model's flip from Santa Cruz, Bombay's airport. Saw the thing on approach (to Santa Cruz, not Juhu, though several airlines had attempted this!) and marvelled at it.
Transpired it was operated by an airline called Air Faisal flown by some moonlighting or ex-RAF crews, whom I later met. They took me to DXB and KWI on a few freighting flights (15 or 16 wearing a uniform and looked a right berk!) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I also accompanied their maintenance engineers to the airport several times (thanks, Bob and Bob).
I was later employed at Luton as a trainee engineer - or gopher! - by Jet Age Aero Services in '77 (Air Faisal's AMO). My personal experiences were less than happy there and I moved on to Airline Engineering as an apprentice the same week Air Faisal went bust.
'496 and '660 stick in the head for some reason.