Treffield Aviation
 

Just to add... this short-lived operator was a joint venture between Lord Trefgarne and Charles Masefield [son of Sir Peter], who went on to become a BAC/BAe test pilot. On a more general note...I discovered this site by accident, and I'm very glad I did. Thank you, gentlemen, for the many happy memories which your postings have brought me. They were the days when, just like cars and ships, the many different aircraft had real character. Nowadays they all look alike. As Roger Bacon used to say in "Flight" magazine....."Ah, nostalgia!"

What about this outfit?
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ames/GAOVS.jpg

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gur...AKBGVIKING.jpg

Remember this outfit ?
Sorry about the poor quality pic. Taken at Hurn in 1962


C.

wow brakedwell, magnificent airplane!!!!

Memories as a whipper snapper and spotty youth growing up next to EMA... as opposed to NEMA, but that is another subject :}

British Midland AIRWAYS: DC3, C4, Herald, Viscount, B707 etc.
Alidair: Viscount
Sagittair, later Air Bridge Carriers: Argosy, Merchantman
Spantax: when they operated DC7s!
Delta Air Transport: DC3 - Belgian, any connection with DAT/SN Brussels of today?
Air Spain:Britannias now and again
Skyways: HS748
Orion: B737
And others I have no doubt forgotten....

Ah well, I was young honest. It's just shame all aeroplanes and airlines look the same nowadays...


Foxile
:8

Essentially the same outfit. I occasionally flew their DC3s, Cv440s and F27s between Antwerp and Amsterdam (op for KLM) and between Brussels and Eindhoven (op for Sabena). Also a couple of times between Brussels and Antwerp - about 35km, 7min in an F27, 12min in a Dak! They also had a DC6.

Wish they all could be Caledonian Girls.
 

This was the 'BCAL Advert' it defined the Airline's image both in the UK and US Markets. It was also the subject on a long conversation yesterday about transferring the 'Official VHS Tape' to CD/DVD whether this will happen is still a mute point. My VHS Copy was stupidly loaned out years ago and is the way of the world never returned.
One abiding memory of the theme tune is at Comms 84 (The premior UK Telecoms Show at the time) and whenever walking the across the Hall to/from our part of the BT Stand with three uniformed BCAL staff, one in a kilt and having various Remote Control Man High Robots, mostly variations on a Dalek theme (every stand seemed to have them) singing the 'BCAL Song' with 'electronic voices'. They kept it up for the entire show. By the end, it was very wearing and I seemed to remember we stopped running the 'official version' on the stand, because some of those Robots nearest would 'join in'.
DIH

Flitestar
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7...itestar1vz.jpg
and USAfrica Airways
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/200/usafr9pz.jpg
:ok:

Piedmont Airlines-Winston-Salem, North Carolina
 

A Southern airline, owned by Southerners, manned by Southerners, and full of Southern charm, graciousness, and dedicated to customer satisfaction. Gobbled up by US Air and a bunch of Damn Yankees who don't give a damn about the customer or employees.

A very interesting web site about Piedmont.

http://flyaow.com/viewer.cgi?www.jetpiedmont.com/

OK, another one from across the water : Pacific Southwest Airlines. I was recently in San Diego, and the aerospace museum there (which is very good, in general, by the way) has a fascinating section on this airline. I did not know they were once called the Poor Sailor's Airline, because they carried so many returning servicemen after WW2. The excellent detailed historical summaries and exhibits, including various memorabilia and flight attendant uniforms from the 1950s to the 1980s, also do not shirk their two serious accidents.

brakedwell, that is a nice picture...

Temps

IAS ... I'd forgotten them. All Britannias had a unique, musky, smell in the cabin (and no, I'm not referring to the British Eagle Far-East trooper flights!) :}

Temps, it was taken at Manston in 1975.
Georgeablelovehowindia
They did pong at times! A high percentage of IAS flights from Manston carried livestock to Malpensa.
I had a nasty fright when a fully grown boar broke into the flight deck and managed to wedge itself between the throttle pedestal and the F/O's seat. We were passing a thousand feet on finals to Rwy 30 at MXP at the time. During the G/A, the Flt Eng grabbed it's left ear, the F/O it's right and the Loadmaster it's tail. After a struggle they manage to drag it back to the cabin while I circled over Novara.
I developed an unhealthy taste for bacon after that! :E

brakedwell,
Thanks for the response. I can almost hear the 'pop' sound as the Superfine switches are selected.

Temps

BWA
 

...Because this is where my career as Cabin Crew started on the BAC1-11 at British World Airlines! Hard work, great fun, great crew, and great VIP flights-oh those were the days! I am pleased to say I am still flying.
Happy memories and mixed emotions :rolleyes: :{ :D
Hi to any ex BWA people!


http://photos.airliners.net/photos/m.../2/0281273.jpg

Remember it well Clint. I spent many happy days at Hurn in the early 60s redesigning the rear Galley on Air Safaris Hermes when I was working for Air Couriers based at Gatwick.Trying to remember the Chief Engineers name. I think it was Dave Hasllum. Once travelled from Gatwick to Hurn with him in a record time, quite an exciting journey
Mel

Go-Fly
Go on Babs, Let's Go Again :{
http://photos.airliners.net/photos/m.../8/0238891.jpg

Caledonian Girls
 

Many thanks mcgoo. I remember them well. That was a company to fly with.
Does anybody have anymore or, or access to these adverts? I recall some showing more of the girls with their tartans.

Flying Tigers was my favourite (having been one of them), it was a family than an airline. Probably helped with their demise, as was proved when the asset strippers moved in.

Airlines you wish still existed
 

Gill Airways at Newcastle, working with great people..........nuff said.