Behind Britannia's old hangar. The track is now a busy road.
http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8ff9724b.jpg photographer unknown |
was the connie scrapped there or sold ?
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Scrapped most likely. Not sure if this is the same one but it is just over the road from the previous pic.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...cs/connie2.jpg http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...cs/connie3.jpg |
Invicta also picked up some ex Court line work after their demise in 1974 - for the remainder of that summer season. Can't remember if it was Jetway or Wallace Arnold- both were independent customers of Court Line. Any pax who expected a TriStar or One Eleven ended up with Vanguard plodding down to say Alicante, a bit of a come down
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We were booked on a Pontinental holiday using Courltline just before they went bust and ended up on a Dan Air Comet.
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If anyone thinks the airport is too congested now then they should have a look at 1968! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgdupI0CKvU
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Also poetic license has allowed you to use a taxiway that didn't exist in 1968:)
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After seeing those photos of the airports aircraft dump does anyone know the last aircraft to actually be scrapped at Luton? I have got a feeling it might have been a 707 maybe 15 years ago but the memory is vague.
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Originally Posted by LTNman
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Also poetic license has allowed you to use a taxiway that didn't exist in 1968:)
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Originally Posted by LTNman
(Post 9609887)
After seeing those photos of the airports aircraft dump does anyone know the last aircraft to actually be scrapped at Luton? I have got a feeling it might have been a 707 maybe 15 years ago but the memory is vague.
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They all take-off without flaps!!
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Originally Posted by Groundloop
(Post 9610266)
They all take-off without flaps!!
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Regarding invictas 707s in the book invicta airlines a Kent airline there is a part when one of the 707s was stuck in Cyprus during the civil war of 74 Turkish troops where living in it and it substained a few hits of gun fire I beleive it was patched up and flow back to Luton for repairs by monarch also thomsons use to sublease the 707 and the 720 also Iraq airways leased these as well
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The last one i remember being scrapped or dismantled was the BAC 1-11, that was being overhauled by Mc Alpine for Mediterranean Express. It was dismantled and the fuselage trucked away. That would be about 1987.
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I remember that one now. A photo appeared here of that very aircraft. I can't think of anything after that date.
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Does anyone have any photos of Cessna 182 G-ATTD which was a regular in the McAlpine hangar circa 1967/8? Colour if possible (have a B&W photo already) or if anyone can remember the colour scheme that would help (green?).
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Plenty if you Goggle but I guess you mean the original scheme as it appears to have been re-painted. I must have seen it but I don't remember it.
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Originally Posted by vintage ATCO
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Plenty if you Goggle but I guess you mean the original scheme as it appears to have been re-painted. I must have seen it but I don't remember it.
You'll probably remember these parked outside McAlpine's, though... http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5nnigpse.jpg |
I can still hear those Piaggio's today!.....what a noise they made!;)
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They were banned from Elstree because of the noise they made I seem to remember.
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