British Airways TriStar 500.

[Asturias56]

Originally Posted by DaveReidUK

That must have been one of Onyerbike's last activities at BALPA, before he first became an MP in June 1970.

there was reputedly a picture of Mr Tebbit on a picket line

One of the 1980's union leaders (?Whining Clive Jenkins?) offered £10 k for a copy but , like the later Bullingdon Club picture, it seemed it was "disappeared" by a tory backer

[Bergerie1]

He was and I was with him. Something he rather liked to forget!!

[bean]

Originally Posted by Jhieminga

That's an interesting thought. Wasn't the 747's introduction delayed by industrial action, partially because of a demand from the F/E side? I cannot find the details right now.

You are correct

[MAC 40612]

Coming into this conversation very late, I worked on the TriStar early on as both an apprentice and as an Avionic Engineer during my time at BA. The BA aircraft were fine to work on but the later leased in ex Air Lanka aircraft [G-BLUS and BLUT] were a bit of a nightmare as they were not the 'standard BA' aircraft [BA had the habit until very recently of putting new aircraft straight into the hangars so they could be modified to 'BA standard'] so spares were hard to get for these two. Plus from memory they didn't seem to have been well looked after in their previous life...In fact G-BLUT seemed to spend such a lot of time on the ground [a combination of not being serviceable or spares robberies for G-BLUS] it got the nickname 'BLUT on the landscape'

[NutLoose]

Originally Posted by sandringham1

The Tristar damaged by a heavy landing had to be repaired on site at Brize as it was un-flyable in its damaged state, in fact it was close to being written off. The work was carried out by the BA crash crew using a repair scheme devised up by Lockheed.

You could hear it groan when they started to move it.