I often play a game, perhaps to help me sleep or to assist while away some of the 11hrs I regularly spend winding my way south or north along the LHR-CPT line, which is to try and recall the various operators and/or various aircraft types on a typical mid 70's "spotters" day at LHR (complete with salmon paste sandwiches).
Here goes DC-8...Iberia, Air Jamaica, KLM, Swissair, Lofleidir, VIASA, Seaboard World, JAL, Thai, Alitalia, Air Ceylon, Finnair, Air Canada.....
The 707 is the king of this game.
The smell of kerosene, squeal of Darts, roar of Conways and crackle of my air ground radio, atop the high Queens building terrace, on balmy June care-free days, will stay with me for ever.
Yes, such fond memories of the old Queens Building terrace. Spotter heaven, as was the perimeter road until they put up black plastic sheeting 3/6 feet of the ground on the wire fences around the best viewing sections to stop all the parking to view. We had to fight our way into work!