View Full Version : BA pioneer to land first T5 plane!!
rebellion
26th Mar 2008, 17:20
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7313093.stm
British Airways' first female pilot has been selected to fly the first plane to land at Heathrow's new Terminal 5.
Capt Lynn Barton, 51, became BA's first woman pilot in 1987. She will be the flight commander on BA026 from Hong Kong, landing at 0450 GMT on Thursday. "I was incredibly proud to have been British Airways' first ever woman pilot and now I have another first to my name," Capt Barton said.
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I wonder what the selection process was to be the first onto T5?
:ok:
Mark in CA
26th Mar 2008, 17:30
>I wonder what the selection process was to be the first onto T5?
Public relations, no doubt.
Dream Land
26th Mar 2008, 17:51
And now I have another first to my name? :} Right.
javelin
26th Mar 2008, 18:38
Wonder if she will be fingerprinted on arrival :E
Max Angle
26th Mar 2008, 19:22
Apparently not:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7315415.stm
Bit of a mess with 24 hours to go.
Conan The Barber
26th Mar 2008, 19:26
How equal we are, that the difference must be pointed out.
747-436
26th Mar 2008, 19:59
I wonder what the selection process was to be the first onto T5?
Public relations, no doubt.
Apprently not, she bid for it as per a normal trip and won it on the basis of her seniority.
DtyCln
26th Mar 2008, 21:23
Is this the resolution to the LHR runway capacity problems?
The aircraft land directly at T5 and don't land on the runways?
Fantastic, NO 3rd runway and the Green Lobby are happy!:D
ormonde
26th Mar 2008, 21:50
Breathtaking news
reverserunlocked
26th Mar 2008, 23:38
I seem to recall a then First Officer Barton featuring in the excellent BBC TV series 'Airline', sometime around 1989. One programme showed the progress of a BA 742 from LHR to SYD, and she was the relief pilot. The skipper was a Ted Deacon. A later programme focussed on the delivery of BA's first -400 series 747. Ah, the memories....
BusyB
26th Mar 2008, 23:48
Would this be the person who, in the 80's, was so vocally abusive about BA pilots that the wife of a BA pilot had to ask her to leave the room?:}
E. MORSE
27th Mar 2008, 00:45
Is it an Open Skies flight or a BA flight ?
MarlboroLite
27th Mar 2008, 03:23
Im only an SLF....
But i assume it is the Normal Scheduled BA Flight from Hong Kong
anartificialhorizon
27th Mar 2008, 04:48
Expect Sky News will provide gripping minute by minute coverage starting at least an hour before, leading up to the "great" moment......:rolleyes:
I can just see it.
Is this it Jonathan (A320 lands) .....I think so....no
This is it Kate....(QF 744 lands)....errr no
This is definitely it ( BA 744 takes off ).....
:ugh:
Newforest2
27th Mar 2008, 08:02
Lynn Barton is a 100% aviation person and I cannot imagine her being 'abusive' to or about other pilots. When I learnt to fly with her, she was the consumate instructor.
d71146
27th Mar 2008, 08:46
Yes, I remember the very excellent series well looking back it showed us all in a very different light unlike nowadays all and sundry seems to be having a pop at us from journos to Flight Sim captains.
Is Ted still flying or retired by now does anyone know ?
PENKO
27th Mar 2008, 08:55
It does amaze me that untill 21 years ago there were no female pilots in BA. With all respect and maybe even admiration to the lady who broke this tradition, is this really a fact to be proud of? If we were talking early 1970's I would understand, but 1987? How did it take so long?
Down Three Greens
27th Mar 2008, 08:58
blantant sexism :rolleyes: ;)
BusyB
27th Mar 2008, 10:46
newforest
Working for another company may have flavoured her opinion at that time!!:ooh:
I think you mean Airport. Airline was the ITV series that focused on easyJet and Britannia.
Gar,
armchair spotter :}
Skipness One Echo
27th Mar 2008, 12:09
No I think it was called Airline, just no relation to the current easyJet program. Taped it off the telly at the time.
Suzeman
27th Mar 2008, 12:13
BA pioneer to land first T5 plane!!
And here's me thinking the post was referring to a Dakota....:)
Suzeman
Think it was a little before your time Gar as it was aired around 1990!
It was called 'Airline' and the first episode titled 'Jet Jockeys' focused on the job of the pilot, life away from home and the delivery of the first 744 and automation issues regarding replacement of the Flight Engineer, as well as a rather bitter Australian Air Traffic Controller!
I believe Ted Deacon has long since retired from BA, but I did hear he was instructing at Oxford for a time. . . not sure if he is now tho.
overstress
27th Mar 2008, 15:35
And there's me thinking it was a T5 aircraft:
http://www.lightning.org.uk/aircraft/lg07.jpg
Allow me to offer my apologies to all! I must not have been in my armchair back then, still my hi-chair! I think i'm going to have to try and get my hands on this show