growing up v close to Heathrow in the fifities and sixties I had never seen a C46 and rather hopped to as they looked cool in pictures. Then one morning a strange piston sound ade me turn my head and there was the said C46 Commando dragging itself into the air.
It was marked upas Capital airlines and I was thrilled-of course it reappeared at much the same time for the next several years and was indeed on charter to Lufti so I guessed it was one that I had seen all those years ago when someone refered to the LH Crane on the nose. I never saw one in LH colour s though and it does look good in them.
If I remember correctly Capital (Capitol) also operated a C124 Globemaster into LHR around that time. Another non climbing aicraft and quite monster even before the put the second deck on and called it a C124 B which resembled a piston A 380
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