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Old 24th Nov 2015, 09:49
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Chris Scott
 
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Hello bean,
That's nice to know, but we must have had a hiccup of some kind at Entebbe, because the turnround was 2-45 before departing for Nairobi.

We certainly carried freight, and I think the Africargo brand-name persisted from its DC-6A (Hunting Clan?) origins. G-ARTA, in its Type 1109 configuration, still didn't have a main-deck cargo door, but the 3 Type 1103s did. The standard VC10 was, however, a poor load-carrier (about 17 tonnes) compared to the B707-320C (39 tonnes), and the latter fleet was being expanded rapidly.
(But the 707's range out of hot-high airfields was poor with a full payload. RTOW ex NBO was WAT-limited to about 128T until we introduced optimised (increased) V2 in 1975/6, to take advantage of Embakasi's 13000 ft runway. That got it up to about 135T.)
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