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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Sep 2017, 12:28
Replies: 104
Views: 40,375
Posted By blind pew

Think it was Caledonian at Heraklion..remember...

Think it was Caledonian at Heraklion..remember there were two wrecks there in the early 70s..
The airtours was a heavy landing which broke the aircraft..it was flown back with one engine hanging off...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Sep 2017, 07:10
Replies: 104
Views: 40,375
Posted By blind pew

Gib and Heraklion were the dodgiest of places... ...

Gib and Heraklion were the dodgiest of places...
With the former the pax would ask whether we would go to Tangier for them to get a ferry across.
The later had a 707? parked in the lagoon...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Apr 2016, 13:14
Replies: 104
Views: 40,375
Posted By blind pew

Bill I see that you ignore the facts of the...

Bill I see that you ignore the facts of the appalling accident rate in BEA during the 60s and 70s until BOAC effectively took over the training and revert to judgement (chip!) and talking down by...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Apr 2016, 13:32
Replies: 104
Views: 40,375
Posted By blind pew

Minimum was apparently important - one on each...

Minimum was apparently important - one on each extremity....rest is just dressing.

Considering we were once dispatched from base with one of the only two artificial horizons that I could see U/S...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Apr 2016, 12:33
Replies: 104
Views: 40,375
Posted By blind pew

Bill these RAF pilots ex Vanguards and Comets who...

Bill these RAF pilots ex Vanguards and Comets who were such wonderful trainers...would they be the same ones whose genesis was a peacetime airforce that lost 200+ airframes in one year in the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Apr 2016, 13:45
Replies: 104
Views: 40,375
Posted By blind pew

WHBM Never flew the three as for a long time it...

WHBM
Never flew the three as for a long time it was deemed too difficult to fly three marks but when more competent management arrived all four types were flown by the same crew.
I had migrated to...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Apr 2016, 17:20
Replies: 104
Views: 40,375
Posted By blind pew

Ahh the good old uncle Charlie's landing...

Ahh the good old uncle Charlie's landing technique - when asked about cross wind landings and which one he recommended allegedly said "fly it onto the runway - the undercarriage is strong enough"......
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Apr 2016, 09:33
Replies: 104
Views: 40,375
Posted By blind pew

I first flew Moscow on the T2 in 1972. There was...

I first flew Moscow on the T2 in 1972. There was what you might call a non cooperation pact between the corporations in the BEA management created an open hostile atmosphere towards BOAC; probably...
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