..Only just picking up on this thread.
Filled in some of the (many) blanks but not all, flew October '63 on a British Eagle Brit(it would seem from London).
Having just spent 2 years at Lyneham on aircraft prep, I was a bit sniffy about the state of the civilian Britannia aircraft we were being made to travel in.
Main memories were landing at Istanbul airport and seeing all the abandoned aircraft across the airfield and trees growing out of the wrecks, the other memory was sharing the terminal building with a plane load of refugees heading off to Australia, so I was told, oh and the Turkish coffee, wonderful
Then onto Columbo and the big black birds all over the airfield, no idea how long we were there, but then straight onto a night landing at Changi and the first wiff of Singapore air, but then after two and a half years at Tengah you sort of got used to it
Thanks for the other snapshots people