Cambrian Airways

[magpienja]

I remember as a kid of around 14 living in Liverpool under airway red 3 as it was then armed with my VHF skymaster airband radio listening to vanguards on the London Belfast route coming more or less over my home at between 18.000ft and 24.000ft, I could recognise a vanguard miles away from the distinctive sound of the engines,

I saw one once with con trails at around fl240 never seen it before or since,

I think I had the whole fleet that were flying for my log book coping them on red 3 on my radio, in those days the aircraft reg was the callsign "BEELINE golf echo charlie estimate wal 19 fl180 Spanish head next"

They were the days.

Nick (feeling old)

[Arik]

Have vague memories of Cambrian growing up as a child, Dad was a F/O on 1-11's out of Taff's Cafe originally then moved to LHR, before being shipped off to Bahrain for a stint there. Have fond memories of Bill Passmore who I got to know again as an adult as we moved near him. Just editing as thought of two others, Dave Phillips & Pete .. surname will come to me (both went onto BA)

Any other Cambrian/Gulf Air kids on here?

Arik

[GJHillard]

Cambrian

I would welcome any Cambrian Scans for use on the Cambrian Website at Welcome To www.cambrianairways.org.uk Garry

[tristar 500]

Vanguard Airstairs

ATNotts asked a long time ago Did BEA have the airstairs removed at some stage?

All the BEA Vanguards had front & rear airstairs fitted right from the start.

They stayed fitted until the first airbridges started to appear at LHR. We then removed the front one`s but the rear stayed fitted until the aircraft were removed from service.

tristar 500

[ATNotts]

Tristar 500:-

Thanks very much, I reckon my "spotting days" at BHX probably about coincided with the arrival of the airbridges on T1 at LHR!!

[India Four Two]

I have just read this thread for the first time and noted the 2008 post by merlinxx

One of the finest airline posters ever:

TAKE OFF CAMBRIAN, with the tee shirted girl just about to reveal

and the follow up plea from llanfairpg

Lets have a look then!

All is revealed, so to speak, on the last image on this page:

cambrian airways

They certainly don't make ads like that any more.

[Planemike]

and the planes aren't bad either.....!!!!

Planemike

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Anyone recall Pete Steely? He was training at Kidlington when I was there in 1970. I believe I exchanged greetings with him once or twice at Heathrow..

[SevernTMA]

Cambrian Obituary

21st May 2011

On Saturday Ted Parker sadly passed away.

R.I.P

[thrubwell]

cambrian memories

hi all

i can remember regularly flying on Cambrian Viscounts from IOM-LPL and on their 1-11s from LHR-IOM ( terminal 1 if i recall correctly)
This would have been in the early to mid 70s.
i also think the colour scheme/ logos changed somewhere in this time.

bye

[bairnsdale]

Cambrian B R S

I dont know who you are but I met that aircraft GAMOA and phoned opps in RHOOSE. Geof Perrot didnt believe me . but he changed his mind when he arrived in B R S. Had the aircraft not rolled back on the BRS apron nothing looked amiss. it was only then that the tail dropped the fusalage crumpled. it had broken at the main spare I often wonder what would have happend if the roll back didnt happen?? [email protected]

[bairnsdale]

speechless two

Please read my report on G A M O A Richard Wilks ex duty officer traffic Brs 1960 s

[Proplinerman]

I remember Cambrian very well in their latter stages-I was a planespotter from 1971-6. Here's a somewhat distant shot of one of their V800s at M/C in 1971:

Cambrian Viscount 800 at Manchester, Autumn 1971 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

And a shot of one of their 1-11s in their dayglo final colour scheme at Liverpool in August 1974, though following their final absorption into BA on its formation on 1-4-74, the aircraft by then sports BA titles. I've got other photos of their Viscounts taken in 1974 in full BA colours, but with very small Cambrian titling:

Liverpool Aug 1974 Cambrian 1-11e | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[bcgallacher]

Back in the days when I was a mechanic at Glasgow I turned a Cambrian DC3 around - about 30 min later it returned with I think the right propeller missing - it had shed it over Glasgow and it was some hours before an elderly lady returned from shopping and found one of Hamilton Standards products in her living room. There was a really good photograph of it being lifted out through the hole in her roof. She must have received very generous compensation as she made absolutely no complaint or statement to anybody.