First (?) 757 at GLA

No, we’d still have been figuring out how to keep the 1-11’s flying a bit longer instead.

1L.

Or the 727’s?

Does anyone know of a modified pic of a Dan Air 757, or what about a BCAL 57, now that would look fantastic.

gd, when G-BIKB left the BA fleet for DHL in July 02, it still had it’s original Rolls-Royce RB211-535C-37 engines. BA’s latter 757’s (delivered 1990 onwards) had RB211-535E4-37 engines. BA’s TriStar -385’s had RB211-22B-02 engines, while the -500’s that went to the RAF as Tankers had RB211-524B-02’s.

So while they may look like Tristar engines, they’re still based on the same core engine, although were never the same model.

Incidentally, talking of RB211’s in the BA fleet, the 747-400’s use RB211-524G2-19’s, and the 767-300’s use RB211-524H-36’s.

if the likes of Dan Air were still around I wonder if we would see them operating these birds.

No, we’d still have been figuring out how to keep the 1-11’s flying a bit longer instead.

1L.

Do those old 757’s with the engines that resembled Tristar engines, still have those or were they updated with the Rollers that most 757’s have nowadays?

MoonDance , you have now upset the other half, 😮 Ive managed to drool over the pc yet again 😀 ,
Brilliant Pictures , that conjure up the old , but not forgotten sound of them on approach to 05 ,more of a wine ,but not a jet engine wine still ringing in my ears after 28 years, and I can stilll see the windows in my house rattling when the Old tridents passed over, all I need now is picture of the Old BA budgies and I can see a divorce on the way 😮 😮
Kevin

The thing that amazes me is how common a ‘glass’ two-man cockpit is now, when at the time it was a major revolution in modern airliner design and was featured heavily in the accompanying news footage shown locally when the 757 arrived back in ’83.

And only a couple of years earlier, when I was doing my ATPL course, the glass cockpit was science fiction…..much of the course was related to aircraft like, well, the Viscount, Trident and VC-10. Inertial Reference Systems (the heart of the 757 navigation system) were covered in about 60 minutes! (and hours and hours and hours spent on now obsolete systems like Decca, Omega, Loran, Consul!)

Brilliant stuff again there, I really miss those Viscounts in red tail livery, now how about a few budgies ??? :rolleyes:

Wonderful shots! It’s a little odd for me when I consider I was two years old when G-BIBK made that visit to GLA. Either my mental idea of the 757 as a young aircraft is wrong or I’m just slowly getting old. I think the former may be the truer of the two!

Paul

The thing that amazes me is how common a ‘glass’ two-man cockpit is now, when at the time it was a major revolution in modern airliner design and was featured heavily in the accompanying news footage shown locally when the 757 arrived back in ’83.

Any more pics there

Shed loads……how about the BA Viscount fleet, just as they retired March 1982

G-AOYL at Inverness…something about the light up north, exceptionally clear

And the fleet parked up after retirement

Well theres now over 20 ex BA machines with DHL- so I couldnt be sure

Most of BA’s first gen 757s are now at DHL, if I remember correctly G-BIKB’s last BA livery was ‘Chelsea Rose’ before going out of passenger service?

Wonderful shots! It’s a little odd for me when I consider I was two years old when G-BIBK made that visit to GLA. Either my mental idea of the 757 as a young aircraft is wrong or I’m just slowly getting old. I think the former may be the truer of the two!

Paul

The days where aeroplanes really were…I love nostalgia. Wish I was born 20 years earlier 😀

I think I know what you mean Murph, but don’t wish your life away mate!!

nice shots there

peter

A Dan-Air 757 – what a thought 🙂

Ohh my god was it really 20 years ago since the arrival of the BA 57’s, gees it makes me feel old.
I remember going to Man watching these along side the Tridents doing the shuttle runs, then I believe Monarch took delivery not so long after BA and they looked fantastic.
Boy if the likes of Dan Air were still around I wonder if we would see them operating these birds.

How times fly.
😀

Cheers mate. was she the DHL A/C that did some displays in the uk last year?

Hi luke it was this aircraft that did displays last year and year before G-BIKM

Hope BA do a retro livery of that colours on there B757.

James

Nice shots Moondance 😀 When you took these, were you saying to yourself ”That’s what I want to fly someday…’

mmmm the old tridents ooohaa the smell, the noise, im back in the eighties again,I seem to rember the Vanguards doing the frieght around the same time One memory from the eighties that will always be with me was the Space shuttle on its 747 doing a low approach and departing over East Kilbride ,I believe that it was rturning from the Paris airshow

Yeah I remember the space shuttle too, legend has it the Nasa pilot had to ask the control tower for visual directions to East Kilbride in order to perform the flypast over the Rolls Royce factory. Also recall a similar flypast by a C-5 Galaxy and a B-52 bomber, the pilot of which’s grandmother lived in the area and was promised a ‘visit’ by her grandson next time he was in town. 😀

Ah… the 80’s, fond memories of rich and varied op’s at GLA, funnily enough it’s a much busier airport now but just doesn’t seem as interesting…? Spantax DC-8’s, Aviaco DC-9’s, Iberia 747’s, various soviet and cargo types and of course those noisy Tridents. People who think Concorde was loud should have heard the sound of the ‘ground gripper’ getting airborne… :diablo:

Any more pics there ? 🙂

mmmm the old tridents ooohaa the smell, the noise, im back in the eighties again,I seem to rember the Vanguards doing the frieght around the same time One memory from the eighties that will always be with me was the Space shuttle on its 747 doing a low approach and departing over East Kilbride ,I believe that it was rturning from the Paris airshow

Fantastic stuff Moondance,

I remember that day in February 1983 when G-BIKB made the first 757 shuttle flight to GLA, I believe G-BIKA made the EDI run at the same time ?

I was in 1st year at high school and took the day off to go and see the first arrival of a 757 in Scotland, your pictures even include the BBC Scotland news crew filming the event for ‘Reporting Scotland’.

Nice to meet you last week too, and as Kevin says … ‘anytime’… 😀