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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th May 2020, 15:22
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Jul 2019, 18:36
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Napier re-engined a Convairliner and that would...

Napier re-engined a Convairliner and that would have flown from Luton - I think this may be it and there
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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Sep 2018, 17:31
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

OT a bit, but I was a passenger on a flight from...

OT a bit, but I was a passenger on a flight from Pisa to Stansted where the safety briefing was only conducted in heavily Irish-accented English by a member of the CC. Not surprisingly about half the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Sep 2018, 10:38
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Pre-War there was already a large Italian...

Pre-War there was already a large Italian workforce in the Bedfordshire brickfields I believe. They'd have helped POWs to decide if staying on was worthwhile.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Aug 2018, 21:22
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Knowledgable though N.S.Norway was, his guessing...

Knowledgable though N.S.Norway was, his guessing what would be normal thirty years later is hardly evidence. However by the real 1980s we successors to de Havilland did have "jet transports" with LCN...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Mar 2018, 08:07
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Old English place names are a bit of a minefield:...

Old English place names are a bit of a minefield: Stansted Mountfitchet after which the airport is named is not too far from Stanstead Abbotts, so perhaps your "Stanstead Avenue" example is not an...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Aug 2017, 15:09
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Argonaut was BOAC's name for the Canadair North...

Argonaut was BOAC's name for the Canadair North Star.which, although referred to as DC-4M in some cases, was more than just a RR Merlin-engined DC-4 as a significant proportion was DC-6 and there...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Jul 2017, 07:47
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

One of my colleagues used that Britannia 767...

One of my colleagues used that Britannia 767 sevice to and/or from Oz and what he and his family endured left them pretty well done for. The key point, as described to me at the time, was that the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th Jun 2017, 07:49
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

It's your account with "photobucket" which, like...

It's your account with "photobucket" which, like me, you probably have not got. The trouble with remotely hosted photos is that when the remote host changes its rules everything goes wrong.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
12th Mar 2017, 14:54
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

I don't remember the car being weighed, but then...

I don't remember the car being weighed, but then I don't remember any reference list of standard weights being available.
The shipping companies did have a list of overall lengths to stop you...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Mar 2017, 22:51
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Yes, staff as the clearances could be a bit tight...

Yes, staff as the clearances could be a bit tight and it was a job for the trained professional. They did like the sporty exhaust note of my Lea-Francis even for the few score yards to the ramp!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Mar 2017, 07:43
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Silver City loaded cars driving forwards and...

Silver City loaded cars driving forwards and backed out when I used 'em.
As this shows, their ramp was rather smaller:...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Oct 2016, 23:16
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Sorry about this thread drift, but I think the...

Sorry about this thread drift, but I think the Farnborough cases you cite were not insensitivity but were deliberately done as a way to keep the crowd there, as otherwise their mass exodus would have...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Sep 2016, 16:05
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Since all the work was done on Trident 1...

Since all the work was done on Trident 1 aeroplanes and it was certificated before the other variants entered service it is fair to say that all Trident marks could have been fitted with autoland....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Jun 2016, 13:35
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

I'd guess that any aeroplanes still flying that...

I'd guess that any aeroplanes still flying that originally had cartridge-start RR Avons would have been converted to use the electric start that civil RA29 Avons (and perhaps some military ones) had....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Apr 2016, 17:33
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

One of the passengers was HS Hatfield Sales...

One of the passengers was HS Hatfield Sales Manager Chris Putler who said it was such a good landing that they only realised something was wrong when they saw how tall the people outside were!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Dec 2015, 22:00
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

I have to say that the door wasn't all that much...

I have to say that the door wasn't all that much better placed in the airliner version, but I think the stairs in this photo were normal for the time.
http://aviadejavu.ru/Images6/MY/MY76-3/19-8.jpg
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Dec 2015, 08:02
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Not sure what crew(s) you can mean. We had a...

Not sure what crew(s) you can mean.
We had a Jockstream as an inter-factory shuttle aeroplane between Hatfield and Woodford but it wouldn't have needed to use Luton. We did sometimes use Luton as a...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Jan 2015, 16:44
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Yes I agree it's an Albatross. I feel I should...

Yes I agree it's an Albatross.
I feel I should be able to put some names to the people but can't for the moment.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Aug 2014, 08:24
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Quote At some point a Bandeirante was used, but...

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At some point a Bandeirante was used, but due to failing memory I can't remember what year!

Yes I flew to Brussels and back in the Bandit and, as stated, it had come from (and was returning...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Mar 2014, 16:52
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,345
Posted By Allan Lupton

Quote So who did the building by the entrance...

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So who did the building by the entrance marked 'British Aircraft Corporation' originally belong to? I think it's still there.
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I think that the "BAC" building was originally ...
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