I remember flying with BEA to Dublin as a child in several of their Vanguards, again at night and seemingly always getting caught in a lot of turbulence over the Irish Sea, it seemed to go on forever...Were they unable to climb above the weather, limited by the powerplants ? I seem to recall flying in a Merepati Nusarantha (sp ?) Vanguard in the 70's from Heathrow. Am I hallucinating ?
As an aside is that a Vanguard to be heard in the background of the Beatle's song "Back in the USSR" ? I always held it to be such, but then again maybe it was a Viscount
Regards
SHJ