AirQuake
25th Sep 2000, 16:36
I wonder if any flight/cabin crew who worked on Comets, Tridents, VC10's etc., could help me with photo's, anectodes/history for a website I am trying to get 'off the ground'?
Please e-mail me at
[email protected] for further details. Many thanks!
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Beam me up & just call me JimmyT bonny lad!
enginefailure
25th Sep 2000, 18:06
Hi! There is an execellent website:
try http://www.airlines.freeuk.com !!!
Have fun !
cheers
ef
Vmike
29th Sep 2000, 04:33
Dunno if it's any help to you, but I fly the ONLY American Turbo-Prop ever to fly in the era you refer to. The L-188 Electra was, sadly for Lockheed, built at the same time as the B-707 and therefore, sadly, mostly suffered the same fate as the Viscounts, Vanguards, Argosys etc etc. However, as a proud Brit, I do find it irksome, much as I love the Electra, that ALL the wide British variety of turboprops are history, and yet the Electra, the ONLY American turbo-prop, continues to fly all over the place.
Mycroft
29th Sep 2000, 15:44
Lockheed also had big sales of the military version; the P3 Orion which is so closely based on the Electra that allegedly the coffee urn has a fitting for heating a baby bottle
The Hooded Claw
29th Sep 2000, 18:23
Hey - not all British turbo props are dead.
I fly the HS748 (origonally Avro 748) including an origonal series one. And I bet they'll still be going after the L-188 is dead!!