vintage ATCO.


Had a brainwave...I think the guy might be Fred Pinchins brother, can not remember his name though. I seem to recall seeing him around and have a vague recollection of Fred having a brother, or that might be my memory cells lapsing ?
I certainly remember Freds son John and his daughter Samanther.

vintage ATCO:

Bernie Pinchin, Fred's brother was in charge of all the Britannia Airways Apprentices in the early 1970s. I was one of them, I think that's him in the picture.

Yes, that must be it, looks like Fred! Well done.

empanage;


Your absolutely right. Bernie was Freds brother name and I,m fairly sure that is him in the picture. It,s all coming flooding back now :bored:

hatters - I think we're talking different eras here. When I was at Sywell in 73/74 Sloanes had bought up a number of ex-RN Hiller 12E's and were involved in crop spraying. I think Peter Boitel-Gill was Chief Pilot. David Dixon came along much later - the R22 wasn't in production until until 1979.

I'm aware I'm guilty of perpetuating thead drift so my apologies. Thoroughly enjoying the Luton thread - my only involvement there was with McAlpines when I used to fly in with Mohamed Al-Fayed in the late 70's so he could jet off somewhere.

Agreed, they did my civvy conversion and I think I was there with the two you mentioned, I came to BCal a year later as a refugee from the mighty Chinook and loved it.

Can anyone remember when the bar moved to across the road from the tower?

You are just adding to the quality of this fascinating thread as it continues to twist and turn, thanks for your input.:ok:

Democritus.
You are talking about Sloane Aviation. They were the pre runner to Sloane Aviation. David George I believe also owned Sloane Aviation, but sold out and set up Sloane Helicopters several years latter.
Sloane aviation then became March Helicopters, Mike Smith and Archie Mc Kenzie.
I am afraid that I,m getting a bit long in the tooth for putting which years on these events.
Also sorry for the thread drift.

100% Bernie Pinchin in that image. I knew Mike Strangeways at Trent, when I went thru pilot training at Cranfield.

EGGW.

EGGW

I take it then, that you were a British Airways Helicopters student through Hamble ?

Nope. Britannia Airways. We had 4 x BiH guys on my course at Cranfield.

EGGW.

Hi
Have just found this site through Pete Meeham who works still at LTN.
I'm Jonathan Pinchin would like to hear from you.
Regards
jon

Britannia's 1st 707
 

Bit of a long shot but I don't suppose anyone has a photo of G-AYSI in the part-World Airways livery in which it was delivered on 28/2/71 ? i.e. 45 years ago yesterday. I can remember myself and a school friend a few days later hanging around outside the small door at the side of hangar 89 hoping for a glimpse of it. Someone duly opened the door - we were half expecting to get told to clear off - only to get invited in for a tour by a friendly engineer who seemed just as excited about the new arrival as we were. (707's were practically unheard of at LTN prior to Britannia getting theirs - G-AYEX was their other one which arrived in British Caledonian colours on or before 1/10/71).

Sorry I don't have a photo of G-AYSI, but I did fly in it from Luton via Keflavik to Oakland (California) on 27.9.1972. On our way to spend a year at Berkeley.

Laurence

Brit 707s
 

Talking of Berni Pinchin, he was a Flight Engineer with Britannia, and I believe he was on the Brit 707, AYSI, before he became a Technical Instructor, he was the instructor for my 737 airframe and my JT8 courses. Very nice man.

This is the only pic I could find of it in its World Airways guise.

The Aviation Photo Company | Boeing 707 | World Airways Boeing 707 N375WA at Prestwick (1966)

AYSI
 

There are pictures of AYSI on Airiners.net in both BCAL and Britannia livery,
Sorry don,t know how to up load.

Photos: Boeing 707-373C Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net but the photo is not in the part World Airways livery though.

The aircraft crashed a few years later.http://aviation-safety.net/database/...1214-0&lang=es

sorry never seen a photo of YSI in part WA part BY colours -
i flew in her on a Air Spain sub in 1972 to BCN. she was in full BY colours of course.