Airlines you wish still existed
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A little late on the thread-
Herons-McDonald Aviation- Dundee, grass only; was involved when we started it from scratch with an Aztec and G-ANNO. Fixed gear as opposed to the retracting version we flew in 781, but a fun machine! Compared to a Global 5000 ......................not quite the same performance!
Herons-McDonald Aviation- Dundee, grass only; was involved when we started it from scratch with an Aztec and G-ANNO. Fixed gear as opposed to the retracting version we flew in 781, but a fun machine! Compared to a Global 5000 ......................not quite the same performance!
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Debonair.................. Great little airline, wonderful people but a uniform that made me look like a doorman at an Italian house of ill repute !.
Can some one beter at this computing machine thing post a Debonair BAe146 photo.
Can some one beter at this computing machine thing post a Debonair BAe146 photo.
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A & C,
As requested,
try this link http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1015452/L/
or this
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0894309/L/
or this
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0812093/L/
or a rarety
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0822374/L/
or perhaps
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0742829/L/
another rare bird
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0402867/L/
Hope it helps
Be lucky
David
P.S. Sorry don't know how to post pictures direct only links.
As requested,
try this link http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1015452/L/
or this
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0894309/L/
or this
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0812093/L/
or a rarety
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0822374/L/
or perhaps
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0742829/L/
another rare bird
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0402867/L/
Hope it helps
Be lucky
David
P.S. Sorry don't know how to post pictures direct only links.
Northeast for the lovely bright yellow Viscounts. I think they kept three at LBA.
Dan-Air for the lonely 748 G-ARAY. Never seemed to move when I visited LBA, like it was stuck in a timewarp.
BIA for the orangey-red Heralds. I think they did seasonal routes to Jersey and the Isle of Man.
It's not the same any more. Nothing but ruddy Jet2 in our back yard now.
Dan-Air for the lonely 748 G-ARAY. Never seemed to move when I visited LBA, like it was stuck in a timewarp.
BIA for the orangey-red Heralds. I think they did seasonal routes to Jersey and the Isle of Man.
It's not the same any more. Nothing but ruddy Jet2 in our back yard now.
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Ozark in the latter part of the 1950s. They were strictly DC-3 and SUPER DC-3, with doors which covered the main landing gear in flight.
Stewardesses who looked like they milked the cows before coming to work - well-fed farm girls.
Ramp workers at Midway who looked as though they carried switch-blade knives.
At Peoria the same person checked you in and pushed the cart containing the baggage out to the plane.
They later got modern with F-27s and DC-9s and expanded to cover from Denver to NYC. Their sales motto at the time was "Two-thirds transcontinental". Then TWA took them over.
Stewardesses who looked like they milked the cows before coming to work - well-fed farm girls.
Ramp workers at Midway who looked as though they carried switch-blade knives.
At Peoria the same person checked you in and pushed the cart containing the baggage out to the plane.
They later got modern with F-27s and DC-9s and expanded to cover from Denver to NYC. Their sales motto at the time was "Two-thirds transcontinental". Then TWA took them over.
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Favourite Airline
British Island Airways at Blackpool, first civvie job after leaving the mob, in June 1979, became a type rated engineer on the Dart Herald, over the next 19 years worked on Heralds operated by BIA, Air UK, Skyguard, Brymon, Janes, EuroAir, Channel Express and some outfit in Luton whose name escapes me, missed BAF though.
Not the most glamorous aeroplane, but did the job, so BIA Blackpool was a bit special for me.
Regards,
om15.
Not the most glamorous aeroplane, but did the job, so BIA Blackpool was a bit special for me.
Regards,
om15.
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Northeast for the lovely bright yellow Viscounts. I think they kept three at LBA.
Dan-Air for the lonely 748 G-ARAY. Never seemed to move when I visited LBA, like it was stuck in a timewarp.
BIA for the orangey-red Heralds. I think they did seasonal routes to Jersey and the Isle of Man.
It's not the same any more. Nothing but ruddy Jet2 in our back yard now.
Dan-Air for the lonely 748 G-ARAY. Never seemed to move when I visited LBA, like it was stuck in a timewarp.
BIA for the orangey-red Heralds. I think they did seasonal routes to Jersey and the Isle of Man.
It's not the same any more. Nothing but ruddy Jet2 in our back yard now.
Hear hear Mooncrest
I used to cycle up the back road to LBA as a kid back in the 70's and see all of the above...sigh
I remember looking over the fence behind the old black hangar once and seeing a poor Viscount in BEA colours sitting on it's belly being scrapped
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Did most of my early flying on BKS, between Heathrow and Newcastle on Britannias, Viscounts and Tridents. The Britannia trips were purgatory, they might have been known as the 'Whispering Giant' but in the cabin there was a piercing vibration that went right through your skull. The Viscounts weren't much better but at least the flight was shorter.
Panair do Brasil (DC-8s), who gave me an ID 100% firm LHR-RIO-LHR in 1964.
The flight stopped in Recife on the way back, and I was offloaded due to weight problems - the aircraft, not me! - and caught malaria! Still a great trip though. In those days the Rio-Sao Paulo airbridge was operated by C-46s - magic!
Lineas Aereas Paraguayas Once flew first class with them Asuncion-Buenos Aires in a 707. The cutlery consisted of an Aerolineas Argentinas fork, a LAN Chile knife, and a LAP teaspoon, (which I still have!).
It was known locally as Lineas Aereas Peligrosas. (peligrosas = dangerous).
Eastern (US) Was once flying Cali-Miami, when we made what was decscribed as a 'technical diversion' into Panama. Apparently several of the crew (who were Panamanian) were later arrested for drug smuggling.
TABSO of Bulgaria, with their smelly (inside & outside!) TU-154s.
BEA The Trident (aah, de Havilland) run from Moscow back to LHR, in the mid 70's, when the captain would announce "We have now left Soviet airspace." A cheer would go up, and champagne would appear throughout the cabin. All economy in those days!
Braniff Taking off from La Paz one night with a fullish load, (DC-8) bound for DFW. The captain warned us that the aircraft would just lift off at the end of the runway after T/O, and then drop a bit - and it did!
Slightly off thread, but on the subject of La Paz - Shorts took a 330 there one time for trials. It flew in OK, but despite numerous attempts, could never get airborne. It was eventually dismantled and taken away in a CL-44.
British Caledonian Enough said already - but they get my vote as one of the best airlines - ever!
The flight stopped in Recife on the way back, and I was offloaded due to weight problems - the aircraft, not me! - and caught malaria! Still a great trip though. In those days the Rio-Sao Paulo airbridge was operated by C-46s - magic!
Lineas Aereas Paraguayas Once flew first class with them Asuncion-Buenos Aires in a 707. The cutlery consisted of an Aerolineas Argentinas fork, a LAN Chile knife, and a LAP teaspoon, (which I still have!).
It was known locally as Lineas Aereas Peligrosas. (peligrosas = dangerous).
Eastern (US) Was once flying Cali-Miami, when we made what was decscribed as a 'technical diversion' into Panama. Apparently several of the crew (who were Panamanian) were later arrested for drug smuggling.
TABSO of Bulgaria, with their smelly (inside & outside!) TU-154s.
BEA The Trident (aah, de Havilland) run from Moscow back to LHR, in the mid 70's, when the captain would announce "We have now left Soviet airspace." A cheer would go up, and champagne would appear throughout the cabin. All economy in those days!
Braniff Taking off from La Paz one night with a fullish load, (DC-8) bound for DFW. The captain warned us that the aircraft would just lift off at the end of the runway after T/O, and then drop a bit - and it did!
Slightly off thread, but on the subject of La Paz - Shorts took a 330 there one time for trials. It flew in OK, but despite numerous attempts, could never get airborne. It was eventually dismantled and taken away in a CL-44.
British Caledonian Enough said already - but they get my vote as one of the best airlines - ever!
DH106.
I don't remember any Viscounts getting the chop at LBA but I was only born in '71 so that could be why. Still old enough to remember the aforementioned airlines and aircraft though. H appy times..
I don't remember any Viscounts getting the chop at LBA but I was only born in '71 so that could be why. Still old enough to remember the aforementioned airlines and aircraft though. H
appy times..
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The good old days
How about the likes of good old Jersey Airlines at least an aircraft which flew for them is still alive the DH114 Heron G-AORG.
The days before the Jersey European came about Intra Airways.
Rousseau Aviation on of the operators of the Nord 262 aircraft.
The early days of Delta Air Transport with there redish DC6s or the Convair before that.
The dodgey Lockheed Constellations that transited Jersey for i believe a chap called Mr D Baker.
One could go on and on
If only the clock could go back thirty or forty years wouldn.t it be fantastic??
The days before the Jersey European came about Intra Airways.
Rousseau Aviation on of the operators of the Nord 262 aircraft.
The early days of Delta Air Transport with there redish DC6s or the Convair before that.
The dodgey Lockheed Constellations that transited Jersey for i believe a chap called Mr D Baker.
One could go on and on
If only the clock could go back thirty or forty years wouldn.t it be fantastic??
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I believe Duncan Baker (Lanzair) still has a Howard 500 down at Exeter - anyone confirm? And the Connie at Wroughton was one of his... The rest were scattered around the Mid East, Africa and Southern Europe as far as I remember - as their flying days ceased for various reasons!
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Bumped from a DC-8 because of weight problems? Simply an exercise in paperwork: show a greater taxi or trip burn and hey presto, everyone rides.
I'm afraid the crew didn't try too hard to help you out on that one Barry, but on the bright side the mosquitoes probably appreciated the fresh meat. This was 1964 though, the swinging sixties were at full throttle. It might have helped if you'd been female and wearing a miniskirt. Captains usually make exceptions under such circumstances.
Disclaimer. I'm not in the market for a performance lecture from any lurking pedants, we're just squeezing in a solitary non-rev here.
I'm afraid the crew didn't try too hard to help you out on that one Barry, but on the bright side the mosquitoes probably appreciated the fresh meat. This was 1964 though, the swinging sixties were at full throttle. It might have helped if you'd been female and wearing a miniskirt. Captains usually make exceptions under such circumstances.
Disclaimer. I'm not in the market for a performance lecture from any lurking pedants, we're just squeezing in a solitary non-rev here.