Some Websites you might enjoy

[S.o.S.]

From Justapax1
In no particular order:

https://theluxurytravelexpert.com/flight-reviews/
If you can't afford to fly first class in an A380, you can share in the experience vicariously. Make sure you have a pot of fake caviar (£ 4.80, not £100 for the real thing) to slip down your tongue and a bottle of cheap bubbly while you are watching about him being served champagne and caviar.

https://www.greenergrass.com/menus
I'd say the best and most expensive food in London is served to passengers in first class on flights departing LHR. Some of the menus are listed here.

https://www.timetableimages.com/ttim...e/complete.htm
Just nostalgia about flights you might remember (or to dig memories of them out of the depths of your mind).

https://annas-archive.org/md5/e700d0...6f63fd78759e28
A guy who flew the Imperial route from London to Australia in the 1980s using modern scheduled flights. Can be very slow to load and often breaks.

https://vc10.net/
A little VC10derness

http://shears.rf.gd/?i=1
A website I started but never finished, about civil aviation.

[justapax]

Cut and pasted from the luxury thread:

Hi Justapax1

Noting that the thread title was Some websites you might enjoy I thought it would be appropriate to add a link to my website featuring various aviation topics. But then I wondered whether perhaps I was guilty of thread drift as the posts mainly concerned pax comments about airline culinary experiences. Hence the delete. Now reinstated here:

https://www.steemrok.com/documentary.html

[justapax]

Cut and pasted from the luxury thread:

Here's another website that might tickle your ribs: https://aviationhumor.net/pilots-vs-...nce-engineers/

[S.o.S.]

Justapax1 Are you trying your luck? Send me a bottle of Champagne right away.

[justapax]

Just restoring the thread the way it was.

[PAXboy]

Movies. there are so many sites who like to 'list' but here are some.

IMDB: 21 movies that take place on an airplane {USA spelling}

A site called 'Ranker' The Best Movies To watch Blah Blah

A site called 'The Cut' The 12 Best Blah Blah

A site called 'Cinema Blend' 32 Movies you should NEVER Blah Blah

[justapax]

One I did (and got paid for!) for the commercial site listverse.com. It does contain some errors, because I was in a hurry and needed the money, but you might enjoy despite its faults: https://listverse.com/2020/05/11/top...age-of-flying/ .

It was, as always, subedited, which introduced a few more errors, so it's not all my own work. Well, when you sell your article for money, you lose all control over it. Much as a prostitute does when she sells her body. That's journalism for you.

[justapax]

Another one - ah nostalgia. the days when Heathrow wasn't a nightmare.

You Tube

[artee]

And, digressing, one of the best ads of all time:

You Tube

[PAXboy]

I wonder if some of the BA advert was computer? Given that it was 1989, probably not much. Nowadays??

The old Heathrow film is great. So redolent of that era. My first visit to the viewing terrace was (I think) summer 1963. My first flight from there December 1965

[Bergerie1]

Try BrooklandsMembers tv. This a channel showing many aviation, motor racing and old car videos. And, if you have the chance, go round the museum and see their collection:-
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCJ...ioDVOnNNvsS9Qw

[justapax]

Thanks for the comments about the Heathrow one. Here's another from the 1960s which is even more nostalgic:

This is a place in the Cloud that I have posted from a free account, and as such it won't remain there long, you only get so many views before it hits the download limit. If you can put the film somewhere permanent, I and I'm sure other PPruners will thank you.

https://c.gmx.co.uk/@931091305428163...Qie8eQYfqJfqxg

Disclaimer: I can't find any evidence that the copyright on this short film was renewed. If you are the owner of the copyright on this film, please contact me and I will remove the content immediately.

I was born at the nearest maternity hospital to Heathrow, the Royal Canadian Memorial Hospital in Taplow (now demolished) after my parents were expelled from Syria due to the Suez crisis. My mother was at the time nine months pregnant. I was very nearly born aloft. People subsequently have been (e.g., evacuation flights from Afghanistan), they form a rare coterie.

I've spent altogether too much of my life there ever since. I had a long and passionate relationship with a Swissair air hostess (as flight attendants were called in those days) when I was flying out of LHR most weeks and only returning to the UK to mow the lawn, wash and iron five shirts, and head back to the aeroport. So Terminal 2 was like a second home to me for much of the 1980s. Here it is as it was in the 1960s - physically unchanged over the 20 intervening years, but a lot more crowded in the 1980s.

Remember when people used to dress up to go on a 'plane as if they were going to the opera? They do on this film.

[justapax]

Two golden oldies that may not be familiar to younger followers of this forum:

You Tube

and

You Tube

[artee]

British Airways cabin crew

Here are Nicola Keen & Jan Hartley doing a British Airways cabin crew impersonation (with Lakmé):

You Tube

[S.o.S.]

This thread might be interesting to newer members or just for the northern winter nights.

Feel free to add any more but please be careful about links to competing websites.

[justapax]

I've added a full-length feature film to the Cloud, https://c.gmx.co.uk/@931091305428163...SrORo1zzcjck_A , which has lots of nostalgic stuff about Viscounts, Stratocruisers and Connies. To make room for it, I've had to remove the other Heathrow film (not the youtube, that's still up there) but I guess anyone who wanted to see it has seen it.

Usual disclaimer: I can't find any evidence that the copyright on this film was renewed. If you are the owner of the copyright on this film, please contact me and I will remove the content immediately.

[justapax]

The website Airline Acronyms that I mentioned in 'Horror Stories' gives me an excuse to bring this thread back to the top of the page again. If you've joined recently; some of these sites listed are very informative, while others are just really funny. Please feel free to add suggestions of your own.

[togsdragracing]

Originally Posted by S.o.S.

From Justapax1

https://www.greenergrass.com/menus
I'd say the best and most expensive food in London is served to passengers in first class on flights departing LHR. Some of the menus are listed here.

Thanks Justapax1 I am travelling on the Amtrak Texas Eagle in a few weeks, will compare menus and report back.

[justapax]

Originally Posted by togsdragracing

Thanks Justapax1 I am travelling on the Amtrak Texas Eagle in a few weeks, will compare menus and report back.

Well that would be to greenergrass.com then, he does the menus. I don't believe he's a contributor to this forum - I only mentioned him as website I enjoy visiting.

Some of the other links I have mentioned also invite people to add to their websites, or to comment in their comments forums. This isn't the only Pax&SLF website on the web, some of them are hosted by amateurs just for the fun of it, usually about one specific aspect of being a pax, e.g., the early days, or the food.

[togsdragracing]

Originally Posted by Justapax1

Well that would be to greenergrass.com then, he does the menus

Ah yes but thanks are due to you for alerting us to the page