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Old 21st Sep 2017, 18:51
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southside bobby
 
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One more quickly before these are banished to nostalgia corner..Yes flew as pax on `YAG & `YRZ..in one believe it or not on a crew training detail & in the "back" of the cockpit watching a senior Britannia captain in the right hand seat converting to the "seven 0"..(never had seen a person sweat so much as when he was setting up & flying his first approaches)..well we survived along with go rounds & full stops..One time flew ZSD (as STN was in those days) to GVA to celebrate Lloyd`s 10th Anniversary at the Chairman`s (Ortiz-Patino) villa on Lake Geneva...Never rode in the 321C,it was engaged for a while on the affinity group charters mainly to LAX as it had the legs,but a major usage for it before Lloyd`s demise was flying for EL AL..a Britannia had been engaged on fruit (avocado) cargo flights out of TLV before..When one of these aircraft arrived back at STN it was one of my duties to change all the a/c`s paperwork (tech logs) etc as when it went back to Lloyd flights & if it happened to land in any other Middle East country there was no evidence it had been flying for El AL....Ray Hanna (Red Arrows fame) joined Lloyd to great publicity as a "seven 0" pilot but with all due respect I seem to recall it took quite a lot to covert him & get a rating...but perhaps that was all a bit of back biting by the established crews...Yes Channel were thought to be acquiring Boeing`s but their source was said to be Continental....Woah enough already & all pulled right out the v back of the memory..that was a long time ago...
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