Thanks for the responses....I think you'll find the DC-8 was around 16 years old when it was scrapped....A couple of friends helped strip it out!

BTW...Boeing's of that era didn't need to be very old at all to corrode!

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I was part of the crew that stripped it, outside and inside the Brit hanger, also helped move it to its last resting place before it was cut up for saucepans!

Why would Britannia want to strip out a DC8?

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At the time Britannia were looking after IAS Cargo, who operated Brits, they started to operate the DC8, only one I think, and they bought the Charlotte Ranger aircraft for spares, (no cargo door).

A nice little photo montage of Monarch's past that include a few of people/places that some might have known...


Cabin crew fashion: the best and worst from Monarch's archive - Telegraph


SHJ

Thanks SpringHeeledJack, the first 737 I flew was G-BMON and I remember some of the cabin crew!
Happy days! :)

Picture 14, stocking tops and a hint of a suspender belt. Happy memories of a misspent youth. Those were the days:ok:

Aghhhhh, even the passengers looked smartly dressed, not a shell suit or onesie in sight

And the check-in at LTN was just a hop and a skip from the kerb outside, seen in the photo of the beaming kid helping to check-in his parent's suitcase.

Btw, try as i may, the under-arrangements of the hostesses is beyond my eyesight :8 ;) Kudos to those that can! According to the comments Bill Hodgson is in the cockpit photo (No.7) on the right.


SHJ

When Luton had a 4ft fence to keep the spectators out. This spot is now being turned into a multistory car park.

Well I can identify an Austin 1100 in the top photo plus a Renault something or other and a Morris Marina and Austin A40 in the bottom photo but I am not sure about the other cars.

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Renault 16.

Vanden Plas Princess 4 litre R and a Singer Gazelle?

The Austin 1100 might be a Vanden Plas too - a friend had one and was a regular visitor.

There's also an Austin A40 and Morris Marina or is it a Hillman Avenger in there.

Probably will get moved to (car) spotters forum for this.

G-AOVS, the first aircraft I ever worked overtime on as an apprentice circa Christmas 1973...........those were the Days!

Wot no Vauxhall Cresta!...a mate had one in the mid 70's and I always remember he parked it in the Spectators car park, got out and and slammed the door hard leaving pile of rust on the ground!:}:}

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An Iraqi Air Force Jet Provost T.52 at Luton, one of a batch of 20 that were delivered between Aug 1964 and Apr 1965.

Credit: BAE Systems Heritage Centre Warton-Percival Hunting Arhive

Every once in a while I see a photo here where the background is as interesting as the subject and this is one of those rare photos.

I have never see a ground photo of those 2 wooden buildings before with the long grass fronting them. I guess they were war time buildings but who used them when this photo was taken?

The site of the wooden buildings is now the location of Monarch's hangar but the hangar to the right of the wooden huts still stands.

I also saw a photo last week that I was hoping would make its way here of a Jet Provost on the old compass bay outside Percival's. I had never seen that compass bay before so it was another fascinating photo of Luton's history.

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From History of Luton Airport blog.

October 1967?

What is the History of Luton Airport blog?

Gong back to the photo, the "new" terminal shown here was known as the intermediate terminal as it was only meant to be temporary yet it is still in use today buried in the middle of other buildings that have been added over the years.

The grass spectators area is now the location of Easyjet's orange HQ and hangar. The car park became part of the bus station and link building to the 1999 terminal and even that is changing now as building work on the terminal extension is taking place.

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This one, LTNman? I wasn't aware there was a compass base here. Pic around 1959. The fence of the old spectators enclosure in the background.

c/n PAC/84/013 a T.2 and was allocated G-APVF but NTU. G-23-1 was exhib at Farnborough 9.56 and was converted to a T.3 and fitted with an ASV.9 engine by 8.58. It was airfreighted in a Beverley with Gnat XN122 to Khormaksar 5.7.58 and became XN117 to cover live firing trials. It did a demo tour in India and Pakistan 8.58 and airfreighted to the UK 7.10.58. Shipped to Australia 1959 for evaluation by RAAF as A99-002 and assembled at Bankstown by DHA. Believed scrapped in Australia.

Credit: BAE Systems Heritage Centre Warton-Percival/Hunting Photo Archive

Yes that's the one. I didn't know there was a compass bay here and have never seen it in any aerial shots but the clue for me was the NE marking on the concrete together with the lines radiating out from the centre.:p