LUTON History and Nostalgia
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Superb Caravelle photos... it was the ex Air Inter livery I remember.
Re the Fred Olsen Electra, were they regulars? I vaguely remember a brown/beige/white Electra with an N reg too, probably operating for ABC or Channex, anyone remember that?
Re the Fred Olsen Electra, were they regulars? I vaguely remember a brown/beige/white Electra with an N reg too, probably operating for ABC or Channex, anyone remember that?
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It was actually returning from Tel Aviv from where it had just had it annual maintenance check!! a long way from home! - it had been on major overhaul by Israel Aircraft Industries and was returning to Aeropostal (previously it had routed Reykjavik-Shannon-Nice-Tel Aviv 1st-2nd February 1992).
I vaguely remember a brown/beige/white Electra with an N reg too, probably operating for ABC or Channex, anyone remember that?
Sounds like N356Q which Air Bridge operated in the early 1990's
Sounds like N356Q which Air Bridge operated in the early 1990's
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1/3/90 (737-200 behind is F-GFVI of Air Charter)
ABC leased N356Q and N360Q from TPI which were reregistered N355WS and N360WS respectively. EMS N669F was another regular operating for ABC.
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They also leased this Electra from S.T.A.F. late 1990-1992:-
(Servicios de Transportes Aereos Fueginos - Argentinian)
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Another football invasion was perhaps May '71, lots of Transavia Caravelles, Pomair DC8 OO-TCP and a couple of German short fuselage 707s- D-ADAQ was of them.
Ajax vs Pananthenikos (Greek spelling may be wrong)
CJ will dust off his logs again and set us right.
Ajax vs Pananthenikos (Greek spelling may be wrong)
CJ will dust off his logs again and set us right.
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2nd June 1971
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They carried a variety of colour schemes:-
G-APES 10/11/79
G-APEP 26/11/82
G-APEP 12/1/93
G-APEM 19/10/90
G-APES 17/11/93
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I remember in 82 comming home from Ibiza on an early morning flight while waiting for coach back to kings cross beleive company was seemarks regular coach services I walked up to the old spectators area before reaching this there was a loud roar of props and blinding of lights it was the merchantman of air bridge fantastic sight just taxing in there was rumours they did some work during the Falklands war moving parts around also remember the falcon Electra was based at Luton and last seen in the old terminal side at stanstead nice colour scheme
I remember watching the first Euravia Connies doing consolidation circuits in the very early 60's.
Even out at Stopsley their unsuppressed electrics played hell with our (B&W) tellies!
Even out at Stopsley their unsuppressed electrics played hell with our (B&W) tellies!
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Great picture was that omega airs old 707 in the back ground was used a number of times by both monarch and Britannia had the EL registration last time saw this was at manston with a number of mystery 707s great pictures keep posting
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TF-IUC leased by Club Air from Omega for a few months in 1987. Ex Air Mauritius 3B-NAF hence the colour scheme.
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The great thing about this thread is that while the common theme will always be about Luton the daily subject matter seems to cover so many different subjects. A couple of weeks ago all the posts were about Proctors, today we are talking about Italian airline Caravelles.
Hard to say when Luton had its most interesting period, as it will always be down to when people here first started wearing their rose tinted glasses.
I do remember my first visits to Luton when if I got my timings wrong there were next to no movements. Then the excitement would start to stir when I could hear a sole aircraft breaking the silence as it started its engines.
I got into the habit of timing my Sunday visits to a 3 hour time period when Luton used to get a bunch of movements over a short period before the famine started again.
Never forgot the piercing sound a BM Viscount used to make as it taxied past. It was fingers in the ears time.
Hard to say when Luton had its most interesting period, as it will always be down to when people here first started wearing their rose tinted glasses.
I do remember my first visits to Luton when if I got my timings wrong there were next to no movements. Then the excitement would start to stir when I could hear a sole aircraft breaking the silence as it started its engines.
I got into the habit of timing my Sunday visits to a 3 hour time period when Luton used to get a bunch of movements over a short period before the famine started again.
Never forgot the piercing sound a BM Viscount used to make as it taxied past. It was fingers in the ears time.
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Regarding rog747s excellent post of holiday companies/airlines, Owners Abroad used Aviaco Caravelles and DC-9s in the late 60s and early 1970s. Pegasus Holidays used Monarch B720s to the Caribbean and 1-11s on short haul, but an Austrian DC-9 was utilised on the Sunday evening flight f/t Vienna.
Anybody remember Tjaereborg Holidays (one of the first direct sell companies) in the 1980s? Of course it was connected to the Danish organisation of the same name and Sterling Airways was part of the group which was started in the early 1960s by Solid Krogager in the village of Tjaereberg in Denmark.
There a Royal Air Maroc B727 in the early 1980s for one season anybody know which tour company it was operating for.
Great pictures of the Electras and Vanguards.
Anybody remember Tjaereborg Holidays (one of the first direct sell companies) in the 1980s? Of course it was connected to the Danish organisation of the same name and Sterling Airways was part of the group which was started in the early 1960s by Solid Krogager in the village of Tjaereberg in Denmark.
There a Royal Air Maroc B727 in the early 1980s for one season anybody know which tour company it was operating for.
Great pictures of the Electras and Vanguards.
indeed Tjaereborg Holidays had their own brochure in the UK in the 80's and were subsequently bought out by Portland Holidays - the direct sell arm of Thomson's
Panorama was another big player - forget who they usually flew with
Vista jet Holidays tied up with Air Spain when it got its DC-8's and they were a regularity at LTN often with horrendous tech delays -
my first job was with them in 1972 lol
Panorama was another big player - forget who they usually flew with
Vista jet Holidays tied up with Air Spain when it got its DC-8's and they were a regularity at LTN often with horrendous tech delays -
my first job was with them in 1972 lol
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8/6/79
Was the Condor 727 a regular visitor back then ? I don't know if it's just 'rose tinted glasses syndrome' or not, but those old colour schemes were marvellous.