Heathrow - As I remember it...

[za147vc10]

Hi all, First posting on the civil site, I sometimes post ' on the other side ' military
Had my first trip to LHR the other weekend, not been for about 4 years , sadly it's
not what I (or we ) remember..Infact from where I was at Hatton Cross 27L the place
looked like a building site with it's own airport.
So to revive a few memories, I've scanned in some old slides from the era when we took
it all for granted and in my case often never bothered to take a photo of things I thought I'd
get a better one next time.
Hope the post isn't to long, if so, apologies if you get bored easily ..


























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Well done if you made it this far...
Just for interest, the photo of the BOAC Land Rover, or should I say 747-100 (G-AWNB) was taken at what is now
BA Maintenance back in about 1971 or 2 when Ian Allan ran a trip for a 2 hour flight for the dizzy price of
£7 - took a lot of saving my pocket money for that , had to save even more as they did a follow up flight on a
Super Vc10 (G-ASGI) including a low approach at Jersey ...
The Jumbo was late arriving as there were only a few in service at the time, so while it was being serviced they
took us on a bus ride around the outside of the airfield , I've even got a cine film of the event...!
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Thanks - Paul

[Sussex to Devon]

Hi,

Nice pictures and thanks for a trip down memory lane. I used to go to Gatwick in the morning and catch the bus to Heathrow for the afternoon.

Happy days.

[Mike]

That's a wonderful set of shots - loads of excellent stuff there, even an American Airlines 747SP.

I'm just wondering why the BEA Trident 2, Balkan Tu-154, Icelandair DC-8 and the JAT 727 etc. have digits missing from their registrations - the photos must have been altered for some strange reason ?

Any more ?

[za147vc10]

Thanks for the replies so far ..
Firstly - Yes, I too used to do LGW then LHR (wasn't the M25 quiet in those days)
Secondly - Blame the scanner, when I scanned them I noticed the odd letter or figure was missing, it had the
same effect on some aircraft windows too , they were scanned quite a few years back on a flat bed scanner.
Keep saying I will re do them on a more modern one, but the thought of scanning over 2000 aircraft & railway slides again !!
So Thirdly - Yes there are more , but some suffer the same problem .
Thanks again - Paul

[Radleigh]

There brilliant! Wish it was still like that, and with the QB etc!

[blackdog]

Fabulous! Thanks for taking the time to put them up. It's amazing how much I've managed to forget!!

[uppergreen1]

fantastic, thats the heathrow i remember too!,id love to see more if you have them,thank you......... .

[Mike]

Blame the scanner, when I scanned them I noticed the odd letter or figure was missing, it had the
same effect on some aircraft windows too , they were scanned quite a few years back on a flat bed scanner.
Keep saying I will re do them on a more modern one, but the thought of scanning over 2000 aircraft & railway slides again !!
So Thirdly - Yes there are more , but some suffer the same problem .
Thanks again - Paul

That's a strange one Paul. If you look at the 3rd shot (the BA Tridents) - the nearest one has 2 digits missing from it's reg and the 3rd has a load of windows missing, that's not a scanner problem !

I'd love to see more though.

[ZZ330]

Ahhhhh... those really were the days, thanks for posting them. Nice to see some VC10s in there as well

ZZ