British Airways Aircraft Names
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The Super VC10 G-ASGD carried the name "RMA CANOPUS" and had a plate just inside the forward passenger door stating this although the name was not applied externally. RMA - Royal Mail Aircraft.
I already gave you the Viscount 701 names in post #13.
The missing Vanguard names are:
G-APEA Vanguard
G-APEB Bellerephon
G-APEC Sirius
G-APED Defiance
G-APEE Euryalus
G-APEF Victory
G-APEH Audacious
G-APEN Valient
Ambassador and Dakota names also available if you want to go back that far.
The missing Vanguard names are:
G-APEA Vanguard
G-APEB Bellerephon
G-APEC Sirius
G-APED Defiance
G-APEE Euryalus
G-APEF Victory
G-APEH Audacious
G-APEN Valient
Ambassador and Dakota names also available if you want to go back that far.
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This thread is calling me to get on board an old hobby horse.
When G-BNWW – CITY OF MARSEILLES eventually arrived in Paris, the local engineer claimed that the spelling was wrong and painted over the final S.
However Marseilles is one of those French cities like Dunkirk which has a separate English spelling and thus Marseilles, is the correct spelling in English as opposed to French. If the intention had been to have native language spellings of these cities, we would have had "City of Roma" and City of Athina" or indeed we could have alternatively had "Ville de Marseille".
Needless to say my protestations at the time fell on ears totally free of pedantry.
When G-BNWW – CITY OF MARSEILLES eventually arrived in Paris, the local engineer claimed that the spelling was wrong and painted over the final S.
However Marseilles is one of those French cities like Dunkirk which has a separate English spelling and thus Marseilles, is the correct spelling in English as opposed to French. If the intention had been to have native language spellings of these cities, we would have had "City of Roma" and City of Athina" or indeed we could have alternatively had "Ville de Marseille".
Needless to say my protestations at the time fell on ears totally free of pedantry.
I can understand having a class theme to the names applied, but I do wonder what is the point of making a wholesale change of all of a type from one set of names to a completely different set. The Tristars seem to have had this happen twice.
On the Virgin Atlantic side I remember Diana Rigg being named after a 747.
Trouble was with flying long haul to exotic places, you can pick up a few bugs.
Hearing 'Diana Rigg's got termites' over the phone in the office was a hoot...
Trouble was with flying long haul to exotic places, you can pick up a few bugs.
Hearing 'Diana Rigg's got termites' over the phone in the office was a hoot...
As the OP pointed out, the change from roses to bays coincided with the replacement of the Negus & Negus livery with the Landor scheme. Later, as with the 757s that also went to Caledonian, they became lochs.
I believe the campaign isn't in respect of the latest 787, but relates to one of the existing B788 fleet - the appropriately-registered G-ZBJH.
It's always difficult commemorating accident victims on the current live operation, as it can be unnerving to certain passengers, however well meaning. The WW2 stairway accident at Bethnal Green, London, which is regularly portrayed as an Underground railway accident, but took place years before the stairway in question was incorporated into a railway station, has caused all sorts of differences between those remembering the incident and the current rail operators.
None of us would be unnerved here, and the aircraft is indeed appropriate, but the comments from the commercial team would be relevant as well. Can the George Cross, now in possession of BA's museum, be mounted in the flight deck ?
None of us would be unnerved here, and the aircraft is indeed appropriate, but the comments from the commercial team would be relevant as well. Can the George Cross, now in possession of BA's museum, be mounted in the flight deck ?
Did I see the name "Christopher Marlowe" on a BEA Ambassador ("Elizabethan") I flew in in 1959? Perhaps I just answered my own question...
Duxford Aviation Society - Airspeed Ambassador 2 G-ALZO
which suggests that BEA only flew RMA Christopher Marlowe until June 1958.
G-BFCE – UNKNOWN - is Gay Gordons Rose
The Vanguards had the best names in BEA
British Eagle had some nice names - all the Superjet 1-11's started with 'S'
Spur Stalwart Serene Superb Supreme Salute Swift
and I flew on Cale 707 Flagship Bonnie Scotland G-AVKA coming home from Palma summer 1969
The Vanguards had the best names in BEA
British Eagle had some nice names - all the Superjet 1-11's started with 'S'
Spur Stalwart Serene Superb Supreme Salute Swift
and I flew on Cale 707 Flagship Bonnie Scotland G-AVKA coming home from Palma summer 1969
Hi Dave and WHBM,
You're absolutely right. It was Summer 1957, LHR/CIA - possibly August. There was a heatwave in Italy at the time.
EDIT
In fact it was July 1957...
Does the reference to Malta local time imply that the service would be continuing from Ciampino to Luqa, WHBM?
You're absolutely right. It was Summer 1957, LHR/CIA - possibly August. There was a heatwave in Italy at the time.
EDIT
In fact it was July 1957...
Does the reference to Malta local time imply that the service would be continuing from Ciampino to Luqa, WHBM?
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All of the Trident Ones, and many of the Twos, were delivered in the Red Square livery, and the remainder in the "Speedjack" scheme, neither of which had provision for aircraft names. By the time the Negus livery came along that did, it was probably considered too late to dream up a fleet's worth of names.
Thanks for the image of the Flight Bulletin Chris..loved the "please pass on quickly" note......but most of all the fact that the Steward and Stewardess were titled Mr Mason and Miss Ford .
These days it's a case it's more likely to be Gavin and Stacey.....
These days it's a case it's more likely to be Gavin and Stacey.....