The early Trident ones spawned the name "Ground Gripper" as it couldn't take off from Heathrow on a hot summer's day at Max take off weight - it was eventually re engined.
It did go into the old Edinburgh but one ran off the end.
SOP stated that engine 2 had to be left at 10800 even with engines 1 and 2 in reverse in descent although we had a character "batman" who would throttle engine 2 back until the cabin surged during descent into Gib.
He forgot to increase eng 2 rpm when he cancelled the reverse - voila another cabin surge.
He also managed to catch the cabin up with the result at around 3 grand, the dump valve opened and the cabin descended at 1500 fpm - guess the pax loved us!
Manual throttle was not permitted on 3 engines on approach but was compulsory with an engine out!
The most frightening aspect was the short field landing technique, 50 ft throttles off and select white knuckle reverse.
A mate came to a stop with the cockpit hanging over the sea wall in GIB - he was comatose and the skipper pealed his hands off the throttles and cancelled the reverse.
It was the most difficult kite that I flew (six different jets)- min drag was around 225 knots and we approached at approx 135 knots - faster than a lot of other ships which gave problems for ATC with spacing on approach.
I think the NHP operating the throttles came about as a few of the ex bomber command boys found it very difficult to hand fly.
The had all arrived via straight wing piston propellor aircraft.
We did has some excellent older guys but there were a few who thought that the a/p was minimum equipment.
It is probably how the monitored approach system came about.
It changed after with the ex meatbox/hunter and hamble guys arrived in the LHS.
The worst part was dead heading into Glasgow during the winter - scottish ATC wouldn't/couldn't talk to the southern ATC so it was always a dirty dive with reverse/airbrakes and ant icing whilst pointing an mountainous terrain.
The T2 also had a trick where you could drop the main undercarriage (gear in american) at VNE but someone forgot to reset the switch and ex LHR the crew returned as they couldn't raise it.
It was extremely fast and the best fun was racing the Swiss Coronados into heathrow - beat them a couple of times although never managed it into ZRH.
Happy memories!