Going on a 732 in a couple of weeks, could be a reunion ?

You know when you’re young, YOUNGER THAN ME!, and you dont really know much about planes, and there are certain planes that you have names for, like Virgin sun would be ‘the bananna plane’ and the Kilkenny pictured above was ‘the beer plane’.

I used to call it The Southpark 737… “Oh my god they Killkenny!” :rolleyes:

G-TREN was the first aircraft I ever flew as crew on when it was G-BRKG at Air Europe. I went to Funchal and back.

I then worked on it as G-TREN at Dan Air and British Airways before it was transferred to GB Airways. Shame it had to have the Blue Poole tail though, that was the only one I really disliked.

Nice to know she’s still around.

1L.

I think you’d be very disappointed with the state it is in now.

You know when you’re young, YOUNGER THAN ME!, and you dont really know much about planes, and there are certain planes that you have names for, like Virgin sun would be ‘the bananna plane’ and the Kilkenny pictured above was ‘the beer plane’.

[QUOTE=wannabe pilot]

Isn’t there some tale of one of the ex-Lufthansa 732’s being haunted by the ghost of a captain who committed suicide on board one dark eery night? Wooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhh!!!! :diablo:
QUOTE]

That would be the Kilkenny jet. I didn’t know that it was suicide, all i have been told is that the aircraft was hijacked when it belonged to Lufthansa and the captain happened to be shot by one of the hijackers. :confused:

Ah…. I often wondered if that was true or myth? I last saw the Kilkenny jet at the DUB meet in February.

[QUOTE=Ren Frew]Isn’t there some tale of one of the ex-Lufthansa 732’s being haunted by the ghost of a captain who committed suicide on board one dark eery night? Wooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhh!!!! :diablo:
QUOTE]

That would be the Kilkenny jet. I didn’t know that it was suicide, all i have been told is that the aircraft was hijacked when it belonged to Lufthansa and the captain happened to be shot by one of the hijackers. :confused:

G-TREN was the first aircraft I ever flew as crew on when it was G-BRKG at Air Europe. I went to Funchal and back.

I then worked on it as G-TREN at Dan Air and British Airways before it was transferred to GB Airways. Shame it had to have the Blue Poole tail though, that was the only one I really disliked.

Nice to know she’s still around.

1L.

Very sad to see EI-CJE parked up there, my 1st of only 2 732 flights was on that baby 🙁

Hope I get a 732 flight very soon before they go, wanted to book LBA-DUB-LBA in RYRs free flight sale, but by the time I checked all the dates I could have gone had gone! 🙁

Would be very ironic if you got the same 732 as all those years ago Allen.

Here’s another one being towed to “executioner’s row” at Prestwick last week.[/QUOTE]

Hi Ren

What is executioners row and where is it located at Prestwick?

Thanks[/QUOTE]

It’s on the northside beside HMS Gannet, basically where Ryanair store their mothballed 732’s.

[/QUOTE]Here’s another one being towed to “executioner’s row” at Prestwick last week.[/QUOTE]

Hi Ren

What is executioners row and where is it located at Prestwick?

Thanks

In the first picture of EI-CJG taking off whats the fuselage dumped in the background oppsite the Jaguar B732

Regards

Ian

A remnant from the Bae Jetstream 61/ATP project.It never got any further than being a fuselage as far as I know ?

In the first picture of EI-CJG taking off whats the fuselage dumped in the background oppsite the Jaguar B732

Regards

Ian

My last flight on a 732 was on an America West flight in 1997 from LAX to McCarran

I went on a Ryanair B732 from MAN to Dublin, my 1st ever flight and it was great! The take off felt like i was going to end up coming out the other end of my seat but landing was just nice!

The worst that could happen would be your flight suddenly bieng operated by an Islandsflug 737-400. Disgusting things.

I could hear you and Andy complaining as you passed overhead in Dublin in February. (lol) 😀 By the way T5, did you know that TF-ELV that you flew in was formerly G-TREN of GB Airways the subject of one of the recent Gemini 734 models ? 😉

I’ll be sure to take a picture if they do, Knowing my luck It’ll be changed to a 738 on the day or better still cancelled. 😮

The worst that could happen would be your flight suddenly bieng operated by an Islandsflug 737-400. Disgusting things.

The last 732 I flew on was in 1986, Don’t know the reg but it was a BY aircraft nicknamed “Sir Francis Chichester”. Be great to know if that birds still flying.

All the more interesting since the ex-Lufthansa and ex-Transavia ones never belonged to Britannia. 😉

Isn’t there some tale of one of the ex-Lufthansa 732’s being haunted by the ghost of a captain who committed suicide on board one dark eery night? Wooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhh!!!! :diablo:

Here’s another one being towed to “executioner’s row” at Prestwick last week.

I am told that the Ryanair Scuds still have Britannia seat belt buckles! Interesting to see if that is true.

I’ll be sure to take a picture if they do, Knowing my luck It’ll be changed to a 738 on the day or better still cancelled. 😮

All the more interesting since the ex-Lufthansa and ex-Transavia ones never belonged to Britannia. 😉

I am told that the Ryanair Scuds still have Britannia seat belt buckles! Interesting to see if that is true.