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Old 8th Mar 2016, 10:53
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suninmyeyes
 
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All BOAC 707 pilots who retired were given a photo of that particular aircraft in flight with other pilots signatures underneath it. Not the happiest photo for a retirement present! BOAC got another aircraft to replace FE registration G-AWHU known to pilots as "The Saturn". It was very different to the other 707s and the other 707 pilots were not allowed to fly it, one of the differences was the switches went up for on and down for off unlike the other 707s or vice versa. So they just trained 9 crews to fly it and they flew nothing else for a while until it was converted.
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