amos omg i recognize you from your 1960's pic !
i used to be there too always every school hols or weekends...about 1964 onwards, i am abit younger than you.
did you work later at LHR?
i then went onto work at LAP (well LHR i suppose) from 1974 for BA-northeast
on the trident 1e holiday charters (ex BKS stuff)
then eventually BMA ops and traffic/pax 1977 onwards...
my BMA traffic office eventually was in the old queens building.
this is a great thread,
my first flight ever was on a british eagle britannia trojan to barcelona for
our summer hols july 1964.
eagle had its own air terminal off high st kensington i think,
we used to get on the coach there.
why did they want 3 parallel runways when LAP was first built from the nw/se direction? 14/32?
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...ml#post4299247
weird...
was that to launch lots of bombers against mr stalin should the need
have arisen?
marvellous reading all this,
lots of happy memories, thanks
just remembered being on the jump seat on flight deck of midland baby dc9 from teeside into LHR on rwy 23 (mega windy day)
that was over the big tower... the whole approach was like a roller coaster
captain was tony belcher, hehe
wot fun
