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Old 16th Sep 2009, 19:42
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Flitefone
 
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Surely someone has to mention...

1. Skyways - for their Fairchild Hiller FH227 (Fokker F27 lookalikes..G-SKYA, G-SKYB)

Not many airliners that fly down wind with the main gear lowered and the nose wheel still retracted - as a standard mechanism of decaying airspeed. It always looked strange! But I miss it!

2. And of course Channel Airways, for their motley bunch of aircraft, cunning use of Continental's colour scheme, two 748 overruns on the same day - landing on the wet grass at Portsmouth... and I think the highest seat density Tridents ever flown! Oh and the Stansted Comets too!

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