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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Jul 2017, 17:02
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,384
Posted By Mr Oleo Strut

Yes. I remember disembarking from an Alitalia 747...

Yes. I remember disembarking from an Alitalia 747 at Kingsford-Smith just before Christmas 1995. We'd been very lucky and had been given given a first-class upgrade from Bangkok so we were feeling...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
17th Jan 2016, 12:51
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,384
Posted By Mr Oleo Strut

Recent posts a wonderful trip down memory lane...

Recent posts a wonderful trip down memory lane for me. I was an HP Woodley apprentice and worked on those series 100s and some of the 200s, also G-ARTC and -AODF. One of them was specially fitted out...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Oct 2014, 21:10
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,384
Posted By Mr Oleo Strut

JENKINS

Yes, indeed, it was all about politics, as this extract from Hansard in 1962 reveals:
MILITARY TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT (Hansard, 4 April 1962)...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Oct 2014, 22:47
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,384
Posted By Mr Oleo Strut

DaveReidUK...

Thats it, it was a much smaller wooden model of which we apprentice lads burnt. What an amazing craft that was, though I wouldn't have wanted to be the pilot. After the war my father-in-law to be...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Oct 2014, 02:11
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,384
Posted By Mr Oleo Strut

Proplinerman...

Yes, sadly the Herald was not a commercial success. At grass roots level at Woodley in my apprentice days we were all very optimistic. Sales prospects were said to be good for both civil and military...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Oct 2014, 01:26
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,384
Posted By Mr Oleo Strut

OUAQUKGF.

Many thanks for your comments. They reminded me that WA was the Herald that took the Duke of Edinburgh down to South America in 62 on a big sales tour, and I think WC was earmarked as back-up. I...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Oct 2014, 22:11
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,384
Posted By Mr Oleo Strut

LTNman...

Yes, we used to take our young son down to watch the Court Line Tristars (wasn't one called Halycon Days?) from that spot and listen to the eerie wail as they taxied by with their wing tips just...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Oct 2014, 22:00
Replies: 3,898
Views: 1,708,384
Posted By Mr Oleo Strut

OUAQUKGFops....

How pleasant to see your print of Dart Herald G-APWC in Autair colours. I remember it in BEA regalia when I worked on it at Woodley as a Handley Page apprentice, particularly the fun and games...
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