The apron was curved anyway and out of shot at the bottom was the 18/36 grass runway, at least the terminal building was parallel to that! I suspect it was the flow of the road system in from the then Airport Approach Road that determined the layout. This was designed by Council engineers!

The Dak is G-APPO outside the McAlpine hangar. The grass was eventually concreted over.

McAlpine still had a single hangar rather than the double hangar it has today. Also it looks like the north west corner (to the right of the hangar) is still under construction. No stands 16-17 either.

The yet to be built second McAlpine hangar but what are the aircraft types seen in the photo?

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A Jetstream, an Aztec, A 707 and a Brittania way in the background, perhaps a Mooney and the two tailed beast behind the fuelling trucks some kind of post WW2 British passenger steed whose name escapes me ?


SHJ

Ahh ! but look closer there are the twin rudders of B-25 N7614C parked behind the fuel trucks. This is now hanging from the American War Museum at Duxford.

That's a B720B in the background......

The two tails, I think, belong to a Scotish Aviation Twin Pioneer.

Darn it! Noyade has me beat (see below). I never even considered that - well done sir!

I hope this is no more than 850 pixels....

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Lovely photo thanks for posting. Arrived Luton 12.7.70 to Dublin 7.7.73. Jeff Hawke machine.

Having enlarged the picture, is that not a Sagiitair Argosy on Stand 17. There is also A PA39 twin Comanche on the same stand as well, which could be GAZBW, which I flew in once as the owner had dealings with my Dad when he worked for Court Line. The owner was in the cold meat business!

And wasn't the Mitchell used as the camera ship for the Battle of Britain film?

There's also a PA-31 Navajo and an HS-125.

Yes it is, very well spotted!

The Mitchell isn't the Battle of Britain "Psychedelic Monster" which returned to the USA, but it was also owned by Jeff Hawke and is now on display at Duxford.

Cessna 310 behind the Jetstream?

I am sure the Cessna 310 behind the Jetstream is G-ASVV private owner previously had Apache G-ASDI

Love threads like this, times when proper aeroplanes abounded! :ok:

Sagittair
 

This is an airline that I almost forgot about. Can't remember seeing it at Luton that often either. This is one of the better photos of one of their Argosy's seen at Tempelhof. Didn't the Argosy have the same engines as the Viscount? I seem to remember that the aircraft used to scream like a Viscount.

Photos: Armstrong Whitworth AW-650 Argosy 102 Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net

Yep, four Darts. The wing was based on the Shackleton I think.

This is the BoB B-25 taken in 1968 (Kodachrome 25 slide scanned)

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I had a very small hand in the making of the film, organising the clearances for the He-2111s to fly up the Thames estuary. All done by a phone call, no paperwork! :)