WelshD , Lovely , thank you for these . A lot of familiar shots , but my camera and posting skills not on a par with yours . I'll mail our 'Boi and alert him , as he did a year on the ANZ Dashs . Now on Jetstar A320/1s Auckland based . Jetstar is 100% Qantas owned [ their low cost arm ] , thus all a...

WelshD , whilst at Omarka , did you get the Argosy by cafe just NW of Blenheim a/p . Ex BEA series -200 . The wifes dad engineered on the 5 Argosies in BEA , so quite poignant that we stood where he had worked back in '60s .
Lovely shots , we were impressed with Omarka .

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Chris , Big Bad Beach had QOTS before Triples . Did some deadheading around the Carib with Cale Tristars , think 12 cc 'n 3 fd were on a 'Bandit ... crew baggage went ahead on a twin Cessna ! Likewise in Air BVI days as Mike says , US travellers did not have 1 small kit bag . Thus the ex Dan-Air Bud...

Chris , nice shots . Were you beach fleet on triples ?

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Just to confirm , the structures will soon be 4 new hangars . The food /drink picnic reqirement notices have been around since 2007 to my knowledge ..

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LE, thanks for some classics . One favorite caught my eye , as the reg. seemed a tad familiar .. Going to the Air Brit 'fotos virtually confimed it . Diving , not into the attic , they've been promoted to spare room wardrobe.... to retrieve the stack of logbooks . Into the first .. Yes , August 1971...

Mike , thanks for reply ... Only just caught up .. That was probably the last 744 to come off heavy maintenance in Cardiff . Due the last 18 months of mayhem , and all Ba 744s being retired / scrapped . Think every thing I flew on has been retired apart from some 75s and ATPs which have been freight...

Remember seeing Viscounts like this regularly , so I guess no probs with odds and even props .

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Uuoret , Bergen is about 60 degrees N , same as Shetland ... We used to get some fearsome winds up there . 100kts one night in LSI .... Must have caused the rocking .....! 'Wotever happens North of Glasgow , stays North of Glasgow .. Been off having a new knee , but now catching up on your posts . P...

PS , phat1 , nice shot with the grey background . Thanks .

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Mike , BA Cardiff does heavy maintenance on the widebodies , 744s especially . Most likely post a 'D' check . Very , very , unlikely crew training . The 744 sims are 'zero' flight time rated ... In practice that means the conversion course is..... Ground school to Technical exam . Sim training to ty...

Uuoret , Thank you for all your hard work in bringing alive fond memories of '70s EDI . Spent a lot of time there , even dating lovely BCAL local lass . Gee WiZZ brings back memories .. Was lucky enough to fly her last 3 flts . SUN ? Nov 4th 1984 LHR-EDI-LHR in the morning . My sector back from EDI ...

Comet nose built under licence ... Trident pod engine stubs were Caravelle design , built under licence by dH [ plate on them said so ]

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Thanks for poignant remembrance to all lost . Was on T1/2s at the time , deadheaded back to LHR that day . One of the 'gurls was in a right flurry trying to get hold of her hubby who was on T3s. [ no mobs then ] luckily on a different trip . Pax sat next to us , he should have been on that flt [ sho...

Plug ugly T3 nosing in ... Only good when empty , cold , low fuel and lit the 'Boost' for a great get away . Otherwise stopping was interesting on EDI's 13 and ABZ's 17 . Both had an interesting variety growing in respective cabbage fields a time or two . Never heard of a de havilland cabbage before...

Big like for Jimmy's kitchen and steaks ...No beer as were on Shuttle Back Up ... Standby to fly the back-up T1 if the the front runner T3 was full .... Then we had the Irish [ but really Iris , shuttle controller who invented the concept ] Back-up .... departed before the front runner when front ru...

Remember seeing her in early '90s . Thought it was a Jetstream , and still has that look , especially the nose .
Thx for ' larning ' me .

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Gives a very good flavour of the RWY 33 approach ... Descending past 500' leavitng the lighthouse on the Right wingtip [ 1st and last shot ] . Keep descending aiming at the quarry [ scallop shape on hill in both BCAL shots ] . roll on to final over the red light on Sumburgh House Hotel [ 1st and las...

''Bootiful Bor '' , Glad i got to go there , but a decade later with ATPS .

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Last one I suggest is , Sultan of Oman's Air Force .

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