Valetta Shuttle to Gan

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Handley Page looked for names beginning with H

Not just Handley Page: the Air Ministry had for many years favoured alliteration (such as the Avro Aldershot and the Blackburn Blackburn - so ugly they named it twice) but by the 1950s the rules were honoured more in the breach than in the observance. The decision on a name for the Blackburn freighter went as far as the Air Council; names suggested by the Air Staff included the Bahama, Boscombe, Brisbane, and Bulawayo, with C-in-C Transport Command offering Bicester, Bison, Bullock, Boxcar and Holdall(!) but they eventually agreed on Blackburn's own suggestion.

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Originally Posted by brakedwell

Armstrong Whitworth Argosy sounds good to me.

In the mid to late 60's we could get our dinghy drill ticked off when slipping with the Britannias in Gan. Far better than the swimming pool in Swindon!

Now that is what I call a dinghy drill. Happy days and never to be forgotten.