Civilian Aviation

I managed to get all four on Wednesday (and finally got the Negus to complete my set), so here's a couple of each...

G-BNLY Landor
G-BNLY B.747 British Airways (retro - Landor scheme) Heathrow 18-09-2019 9281 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

GBNLY B.747 British Airways (Landor retro scheme) Heathrow 18-09-2019 9290 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-BGYC BOAC
G-BYGC B.747 British Airways (retro - BOAC scheme) Heathrow 18-09-2019 9573 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-BYGC B.747 British Airways (retro - BOAC scheme) Heathrow 18-09-2019 9588 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-CIVB Negus
G-CIVB B.747 British Airways (retro - Negus scheme) Heathrow 18-09-2019 0762 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-CIVB B.747 British Airways (retro - Negus scheme) Heathrow 18-09-2019 0775 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-EUPJ BEA
G-EUPJ A.319 British Airways (retro - BEA scheme) Heathrow 18-09-2019 9910 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-EUPJ A.319 British Airways (retro - BEA scheme) Heathrow 18-09-2019 9924 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

there are several more in my retro album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/125470545 ... 766330057/
C&C welcome

Andy

The obvious question is which of the four schemes is your favourite? There's only one way to find out - let's do a poll!

I've voted for Negus but that's a great set of pictures all round and you've done well to see them all in a day. I must get myself up to Heathrow in the autumn light to photograph a few.

Great pics.

Neil

thanks Neil, I was torn between the BOAC and Landor but went for the latter as my favourite of the BA schemes, at least they didn't paint any with the crazy tail designs of the mid 90s. I remember when the first BOAC ones arrived on delivery and they were parked over on the maintenance base for about a year because of as pilots' dispute over extra pay for flying them.

I saw 3 of the 4 when I was at Heathrow in June for 2 days, missed the Negus as from memory it was stuck somewhere with a problem

Andy

The smallest aircraft is still my favourite colourscheme. But they are all great to see.
Oh, yeah.... Nice shots Andy

Good idea for a post/poll Andy, and well caught as always. Have grown up with BA schemes but can recall seeing BOAC and BEA schemes when they were still operating as such, plus of course the odd one or two preserved. So my choice was the BOAC - it had to be a 747 so sorry BEA scheme!

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Wed Sep 25, 2019 6:30 pm

Good idea for a post/poll Andy, and well caught as always. Have grown up with BA schemes but can recall seeing BOAC and BEA schemes when they were still operating as such, plus of course the odd one or two preserved. So my choice was the BOAC - it had to be a 747 so sorry BEA scheme!

thanks, the pre amalgamation ones certainly seem most popular so far, BEA well ahead with BOAC second.
Andy

Stunning Set,hopefully the weather is as good for me on mon next week as it was for you.