Here's how G-BISU ended up, at Enstone
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0209840/L/

What a sad picture....:sad:

Yes it did. There was a (for once) very competently done BBC programme about the flypast which featured it extensively, including an interview with the skipper. I still have it on video (broadcast 1996 I presume). Must have been the only time, ever, that a Bristol Freighter flew formation with a Boeing 777 :)

Did you talk them through, HD ?

The one which led the flypast is the one which pranged at Enstone, see my post above

He might well have done! (I was Tower Sup at the time)

The last (presumably) commercial operation of a Bristol I ever saw was, I am guessing, in about 1988. I was walking south down Regent Street in the centre of London one weekday afternoon and one passed in front in the distance on the normal track like the jets over the South Bank inbound for 27 at Heathrow. Even from afar it looked extraordinarily slow !

.. the film was "The Man in the Sky"