I wasn't doubting your motives and, where I know the photographer's ID, I wouldn't post it on the 'net without permission either. Thanks for this great thread, which I regularly check for the latest interesting and well-informed postings.

When the Heralds were withdrawn, they all returned to Luton one Saturday morning and carried out a "display", calling up "Herald Formation". I wonder if there are any photos of that.

Here it is taken tonight

http://i.imgur.com/r1CekdM.jpg?1

Photo taken at Kemble as it was being broken up in 2010:

http://www.airport-data.com/images/a...471/471518.jpg

Begs the question what the diggers are doing there?

Taxiway Bravo extension which is just out of shot

ex-Bavaria D-BEBE which sat there from late March to late October 1970

A moment in time. The reason I really like this photo is the man in the trilby walking across the shot. No doubt from the snappers point of view the man ruined his picture.
http://i.imgur.com/plpt9p8.jpg?1
(edit name correction) Mark Harper

I have my doubts about the snapper ruining the picture; personally I think it is a well constructed photo what with the fuel bowser and baggage truck conveniently situated. Note the airline bag as well.

He's probably an aircraft salesman. :O

More likely he was hoping to impound an Ace Freighter Connie but was not up to scratch on his identification skills.

Not quite the right name credit LTNman for the Ambassador. Mike Harper not Mark Haroer! Taken on the 28th April 1968 boarding for a flight to Copenhagen. We all got on, then all taken off as there wasn't enough fuel on board! It was a charter taken a plane load of Danes back to Denmark. Then flew back empty, where I spent most of the flight in the Captains seat while the Capt, don't know his first name but was commonly known as 'Speedy Williams' apparantly, sat down the back!

Ah - Speedy Williams - A Second War Veteran who was originally based in Berlin with Autair's Vikings. Unflappable - when experiencing an engine failure on The Pig in The Berlin Corridor he took out his pipe and filled the cockpit with smoke whilst telling his young Jewish First Officer Joe 'Foreskins' Foster to "Sort it all out!"

I used to own a very old copy of Aircraft Illustrated that had a photo of a couple of Ace Freighter Connie's abandoned at Coventry. Oh to see them now!

Thanks for that pic of the Herald Formation, LTNman. Marvellous!

Not Luton but Liverpool, however........The Story of the Ace Freighters Lockheed Constellation That Tipped - AirlineReporter : AirlineReporter

Mike Williams, I think. Did a fam flight on a BAC1-11 with him.

I think OUAQUKGF Ops can confirm, but I think Speedy Williams retired with the Ambassador. I don't know how true it was, but my dad told me he was seen pacing the distance between the lighting gantries to see if there was enough room to fly an Ambassador between them!

Yes there were two Captain Williams in Autair and 'Speedy' retired on the demise of the Ambassadors. Mike also flew the Ambassadors and was universally known as 'MGW' or,in the days of his piston flying with the company, less charitably as 'Serviceability Charlie'. This latter nick-name came about from his habit, when making his inbound call on the Company Frequency, of almost without fail declaring with relish that the status of his aircraft's serviceability was 'Charlie'.

I.E. Alpha = Fully Serviceable. Bravo = Just about Serviceable (Replace or tighten up a few bolts) and Charlie = Well and truly knackered.

I hope his son David won't mind this mention of his late Dad who went on to fly the One Eleven and Tristar.