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AirQuake

25th Sep 2000 16:36

Post -war British airliners

I wonder if any flight/cabin crew who worked on Comets, Tridents, VC10's etc., could help me with photo's, anectodes/history for a website I am trying to get 'off the ground'?

Please e-mail me at [email protected] for further details. Many thanks!

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enginefailure

25th Sep 2000 18:06

Hi! There is an execellent website:

try http://www.airlines.freeuk.com !!!

Have fun !

cheers
ef

Vmike

29th Sep 2000 04:33

Dunno if it's any help to you, but I fly the ONLY American Turbo-Prop ever to fly in the era you refer to. The L-188 Electra was, sadly for Lockheed, built at the same time as the B-707 and therefore, sadly, mostly suffered the same fate as the Viscounts, Vanguards, Argosys etc etc. However, as a proud Brit, I do find it irksome, much as I love the Electra, that ALL the wide British variety of turboprops are history, and yet the Electra, the ONLY American turbo-prop, continues to fly all over the place.

Mycroft

29th Sep 2000 15:44

Lockheed also had big sales of the military version; the P3 Orion which is so closely based on the Electra that allegedly the coffee urn has a fitting for heating a baby bottle

The Hooded Claw

29th Sep 2000 18:23

Hey - not all British turbo props are dead.

I fly the HS748 (origonally Avro 748) including an origonal series one. And I bet they'll still be going after the L-188 is dead!!

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