My next guess is CSA.
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Iraqi airways Baghdad / SXF / LHR day 6
possibly using a HS Trident ? LOT also flew WAW/SXF/LHR but may have made stop in AMS Using IL18 I used the flt in late 60's from AMS/LHR. Lance Shippey |
Flight SXF / Ulaanbataar was IF580. started
I believe Summer 1971. not sure of routing... Thanks for your info on the IF600 via MOW. Lance Shippey |
I remember Mongolian Airlines serving Mongolia-Schönefeld with their 727 later in the eighties. Their pilots had pretty impressive long winter uniform overcoats.
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LS has got it; the other flight was indeed once-weekly on an Iraqi Airways Trident, operating Baghdad-Istanbul-Prague-Berlin SXF-London LHR. Iraqi had been a somewhat unusual purchaser of some of the few Trident 1s that were built for export, they carried on from their earlier Viscounts. Bit of an extraordinary flight though. I wonder how many actually boarded it at Schonefeld to go to London. The scheduled time was much faster than LOT posted on their IL-18 turboprop.
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The Lot IL18 I recall on the AMS/LHR sector had
around 14 pax on board. It was as smoky inside as it was outside, with a thick exhaust from the Ivchenko engines. The guy sitting behind me was American, and amazed that free drinks were being offered. I flew in recent years with Eurolot on an ATR (not my favourite a.c.) and found LOT very acceptable, and cabin staff very polite and professional. L.S. |
LOT was permitted to use the center corridor on the way west from Schönefeld but Iraqi? They must have gone north via Trent VOR, Rügen island via the Baltic Sea, North Sea to the UK and down south towards EGLL.
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Dear WHBM.
Did you find any information about Interflug IF580 SXF/ULN Summer 1971, which the CIA reported not showing in the ABC or AOG world guides ? Was it showing in their DDR Timetable ? I found the CIA Library reports on Interflug DDR Aviation, and SXF very accurate apart from the report on the crash of Baade 152 DM-ZYA on 4th March 1959 at 13.55hrs 5 miles from Dresden. There were around 20 a/c in production ordered by Deutsche Lufthansa Ost, which became Interflug when the production was cancelled, and IF having no option but buy the TU134. The Aviation Safety Network page reports problem with fuel flow. This appears to me, to have been a problem that could have been rectified after the loss of DM-DYA, and drastic action to stop the production of this beautiful aircraft. Re. The Lot IL18 SXF/LHR. Do you have the routing of this flight and the times of Dep from SXF and arr. in LHR ? Lance Shippey |
WHBM
I found flt no's SXF/LHR LO245 12.00 14.10 IL18 Days 2&5 SXF/LHR LO255 09.30 13.00 IL18 Flt via AMS. I found no record of IF580 SXF/ULN. Lance Shippey |
As nothing heard re. Burgermeister return to Wildenrath 10th Nov.1989
I presume they went by road, as CGN/Wildenrath only 1hr10min drive. I imagine they were grateful to the RAF for flying them to CGN in an Andover during the morning. Lance Shippey |
The timetable for the SXF to London flights in 1970 is here :
if70-08.jpg (1909×1338) (timetableimages.com) The Interflug timetable actually included every flight into the GDR by foreign airlines. This was not uncommon in those times, not just in the eastern bloc but elsewhere as well - the Finnair timetable, so example, did the same for everything which went to Finland, whether officially in pool or not. I suspect the ABC was not allowed in the GDR. Regarding flights not in the timetable, Interflug did of course do whatever the GDR government required for "special" flights, which could be all sorts. As elsewhere. At the time one would regularly find Pan Am 707s in Mildenhall. Which was never in the Pan Am timetable either ... |
WHBM.
Thanks for the info. The possible involvement by the GDR government is exactly my point. The IF600 SXF/MOS with connection MOS/ULN was shown in guides and their t/t. the IF580 as stated by the CIA was not. Pan Am Mildenhall flights were charters, and can't really be compared to the IF580 schedule flight. Charter flights would not have appeared in PA's scheduled timetable. Less Hair. Iraqi HST took 1hr. 55min SXF/LHR without the Corridor. LOT IL18 took 3hr. 00min SXF/LHR much slower a/c and difficult to compare with similar a/c such as Vanguard. as BE operated Viscount on the svc, and it operated via HAJ, and would have used the Corridor. Lance Shippey |
Three hours? That's a long flight. What speed did they cruise at? Flaps down all the way - and film rolling? Fulda gap in 3D?
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Hi Less Hair.
IL18 388 mph Vanguard 400 mph Viscount 357 mph (810 srs.) Trident 610 mph Lance Shippey |
Was Sarkozy really in Berlin on Nov. 9th 1989 ?
Sarkozy, then 34 years old and deputy leader of the Conservative party "RPR" said that he had received "Interesting news from Berlin, apparently heralding change in the divided capital" He set off to Berlin with political ally Alain Juppe, His visit culminated with him hacking at the wall with his pickaxe. http://www.dw.com/en/memory-loss-sar...nder/a-4878717 Lance Shippey |
30th,Nov.2020 Berlin Brandenburg Airport unveiled
the Willy Brandt Wall in terminal 1 of the new airport which carries Willy Brandt's name. The impressive tribute to Herr Brandt. carries his words. "If I were asked to say what apart from peace, was the most important to me, Then my answer would be freedom". The buildings from SXF now a ten minutes drive from the new airport now become BER terminal 5. I hope that the Brandenburg authorities consider naming the old SXF building after Chris Gueffroy, the young waiter who served his apprenticeship at the SXF restaurant. He was the last person to be Shot and killed trying to escape to West Berlin in 1989. All he wanted, was the same as Willy Brandt. "Freedom" Chris however paid with his life. Lance Shippey |
MUC named after Franz Josef Strauss
HAM named from Nov 2016 after Helmut Schmidt BER named after Willy Brandt. Opened after delays of 10 years FRA perhaps could be re-named "Mutti Merkel, when she stands down. After all FRA is the "Mother of all German airports" Lance Shippey |
Info if possible please.
Berlin SXF had a Postamt (post office) during DDR years with 1189 Postcode, including a telegram department. The U.K discontinued telegrams in 1982. How was it possible for telegrams sent from the SXF postamt in 1987 delivered by the GPO (British Post Office) to a British address ? Lance Shippey |
Originally Posted by Lance Shippey
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Info if possible please.
Berlin SXF had a Postamt (post office) during DDR years with 1189 Postcode, including a telegram department. The U.K discontinued telegrams in 1982. How was it possible for telegrams sent from the SXF postamt in 1987 delivered by the GPO (British Post Office) to a British address ? Lance Shippey I must have got one of the last telegrams at Easter 1982 (they stopped a few months later), sent by my office one Friday afternoon to my house in London to await me returning from holiday on a Sunday evening, telling me I was Ticket on Departure on the 8am Shuttle from Heathrow to Edinburgh on the Monday morning ... ! |
Dear WHBM
Thanks or the info. Makes sense now. I received a couple of telegrams in 1987 which were delivered to me by mail. The telegram were on "Telecom" paper, and looked like a type of telex transmission. One was sent by a friend working at SXF regarding an arranged meeting we had on the exit of East Berlin's Friedrichstrasse U-Bahn station. I would imagine that all GDR sent telegrams would be handled by some office of the Stasi. I was stopped after getting my visa at the border, and asked for whom the bottle of whisky I had bought at the Friedrichstrasse duty free stand was for, The guard also wanted to know the name of the person I was meeting. I refused and advise that it was none of his business. I was allowed to exit, and met my friend. The second telegram was from an East Berlin postal number advising me that my friend was in Hohenschoenhausen prison and interrogation centre, and being "Well treated". My friend did not send this, but would appear that it was the work of the Stasi. He was "Bought out" by the West German government through "Freikauf" and the office of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Vogel. He now lives in West Berlin. He met his interrogator by chance in the KaDeWe cigar shop in West Berlin, which resulted in him having a nervous breakdown. Lance Shippey |
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