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Old 15th Jul 2010, 10:08
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Don't remember much about the flight out to Singapore, I was 6 at the time, but my dad said we left in a Britannia from London Airport ,as it was known then, in 1959 and touched down in Singapore in 1960.

We returned home in a Brittania in 1962 and refueled at Bombay and I remember the locals at the top of the air stairs spraying us with aerosols as we stepped out of the plane. In the terminal a comotion at the womens toilets as they were just holes in the floor and nothing to sit on.

Also stopped at Ankara, and there was nearly a riot as there was no milk in the terminal for the tea. Watered down tinned condensed milk from the plane calmed the situation. Strange the things you can remember from that age.

Arrived back at London Airport and had to circle for a while as the nose gear had to be wound down.

Brian
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