One of my amusing recollections of "The white lady" on 14 th November 1976 Manchester was graced for the first time when G-BOAA was diverted due to fog at Heathrow to Manchester. She arrived in the late evening ( ex Washington I suspect?). She was parked across the end of B pier as we had no tow bar at that time.
One of the local radio stations erroneously reported she would be departing back to London at 1 am. Clearly this was not accurate for two reasons, crew hours and Heathrow's night jet ban.
However at 1am Ringway's switchboard lit up with complaints about the noise. Unperturbed sleeping beauty dozed peacefully on stand 11.
Oddly the next departure was just after 0200 when the Aer Lingus freighter 9213 set forth for Dublin. Ironically operated by an Aer Turas Brittania as the Aer Lingus 737QCs were scattered across Europe in passenger configuration due to weather.
Two of Bristols finest together, one of the quietest and certainly the loudest.
Thank you to all our contributors, finest thread on pprune of the millennium, without a doubt.
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