Death Cruiser Flight Crew
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I'm looking at my BOAC Staff/Confidential letter confirming my three-month posting to Sheremetievo, commencing September 24 1970, to do the Trans-Siberian flight-planning. The flight numbers were in fact BA860 eastbound and BA861 westbound.
As I've posted before, somewhere, the only aircraft on the route while I was in SVO, was the 'oddball' ex-Saturn -379C G-AWHU. The specially ordered -336Bs were delivered in 1971.
SVO - TYO was generally full-tanks, and it most certainly was, westbound! By the time I left, the S.G. of the fuel had increased such that we were getting an extra 1,000 kg in tanks, something like 71,000 kg.