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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

10th Mar 2024, 21:20

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BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971

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Posted By WHBM

Fine old Leningrad/St Petersburg terminal in the...

Fine old Leningrad/St Petersburg terminal in the background there, still in use by BA until about 10 years ago when the new midfield terminal opened. I've been a regular in there for the last 20...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

13th Sep 2017, 08:12

Replies: 104

BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971

Views: 40,374

Posted By WHBM

Only one Trident 2 (FC) had been delivered anyway...

Only one Trident 2 (FC) had been delivered anyway by April 1968; I doubt they had come into mainstream service by then. The rest of the fleet arrived over the next 15 months.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

11th Sep 2017, 14:05

Replies: 104

BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971

Views: 40,374

Posted By WHBM

Tridents had taken over the...

Tridents had taken over the LHR-Rome-Athens-Istanbul-Ankara "stopper" by 1968, along with LHR-Rome-Athens-Beirut. A short range Trident 1C could have managed all those stops.

Here's a 1968...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

20th Jul 2016, 16:18

Replies: 104

BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971

Views: 40,374

Posted By WHBM

I doubt the T3 operated into Edinburgh before the...

I doubt the T3 operated into Edinburgh before the new runway was built (always open to correction of course). I was in Edinburgh in the 1970s, and the justification for the new runway was very much...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

13th Jul 2016, 17:58

Replies: 104

BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971

Views: 40,374

Posted By WHBM

Removing an engine, even one mounted on the...

Removing an engine, even one mounted on the centreline, would surely have given a weight and balance, not to mention certification, issue.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

13th Jul 2016, 16:20

Replies: 104

BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971

Views: 40,374

Posted By WHBM

Just two years after that Trident visit the new...

Just two years after that Trident visit the new domestic "Terminal 1" opened between the runways at Leningrad, separating domestic and international operations, the former had long predominated, and...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

12th Jul 2016, 14:10

Replies: 104

BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971

Views: 40,374

Posted By WHBM

Being one of the regulars on the BA St Petersburg...

Being one of the regulars on the BA St Petersburg daily flight, that Kruschev-era terminal building in the background was still in use by BA and other international flights until about 3 years ago,...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

11th Apr 2016, 13:16

Replies: 104

BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971

Views: 40,374

Posted By WHBM

The 7-across Trident 1E was an order for five...

The 7-across Trident 1E was an order for five aircraft for Channel Airways, a real bottom-feeder carrier of the time where Sqn Ldr Jack Jones, who ran it, packed as many seats as he could into their...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

6th Apr 2016, 18:19

Replies: 104

BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971

Views: 40,374

Posted By WHBM

In all truth the larger capacity Trident 3s were...

In all truth the larger capacity Trident 3s were most suited for the densest but quite short routes from Heathrow, to Paris (when not Tristar operated), Amsterdam, and the UK Shuttle trunks. These...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

6th Apr 2016, 15:35

Replies: 104

BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971

Views: 40,374

Posted By WHBM

Trident 3 G-AWZT was on Heathrow to Istanbul when...

Trident 3 G-AWZT was on Heathrow to Istanbul when it was in the midair over Yugoslavia in 1976.

Pretty unbelievable ... except by Mathias Rust !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

5th Apr 2016, 23:01

Replies: 104

BEA Trident London - Moscow 1971

Views: 40,374

Posted By WHBM

Tridents, and indeed Comets before them, went to...

Tridents, and indeed Comets before them, went to all the eastern Med points, most commonly through Nicosia in Cyprus, also served nonstop by both types (Tel Aviv is actually visible on the horizon...

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