Heathrow Airport 1989

Thanks for that link Ren. Happy days and nice to see that JAT 727 in those colours, flew on those many times and was lucky enough to have a jump seat round trip STN-PMI-STN on a Dan Air 727 -100 some years ago.

What is the best way for me to get a shuttle service between Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
Should i arrange it in advance or can i find the service at the airport

Probably better to get your travel agent to do it if you’re not familiar with London. Otherwise you can go into London on the tube, have a look around there, and catch a bus to Gatwick. 🙂

Heathrow Airport 1989

What is the best way for me to get a shuttle service between Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
Should i arrange it in advance or can i find the service at the airport

Both videos are fantastic and of much interest.
At Heathrow, I enjoyed watching the L-1011’s, a type I flew in not long before it was retired in British airspace.
What is obvious, of course, is how much cleaner current aircraft are.

De video is zeer goed! :diablo:

What about some Schiphol nostalgia from the Fifties and seventies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHIcV7YmrcY&feature=rec-fresh+div-r-8

You don’t know what you missed…the thrust down the runway with those three rear mounted engines was spectacular

Not sure how it compares to more modern planes but takeoff at tire speed limiting weight at JNB (hot n high airport) 5 flaps was pretty exciting Vr was around 157 knots which translated into a pretty high groundspeed at that elevation and temperature. :diablo:

I wish I had had the chance to fly on a 727.
You still flying? What you on now if so?

You don’t know what you missed…the thrust down the runway with those three rear mounted engines was spectacular

Kinda agree with you on that one.

But I do like the current BA livery. Modern yet still flying the flag.
I loved their utopia tails too, showing off to the world how diverse our “empire”, or commonwealth as it is now called, is.

Very good. What a shame it wasn’t Air France that changed its livery & BA that stayed the same:diablo:

Wow thats excellent! Brings back some nice memories when I was little watching them all come in and go out from my bedroom window. 🙂

This isn’t quite 20 years ago but I think early 90s. Just a reminder of the view from the viewing area on Terminal Two. I remember moaning when they closed the viewing area on top of the Queens Building and saying that this was ‘all we had left now’….sigh

Where are the cranes and mechanical shovels?

This isn’t quite 20 years ago but I think early 90s. Just a reminder of the view from the viewing area on Terminal Two. I remember moaning when they closed the viewing area on top of the Queens Building and saying that this was ‘all we had left now’….sigh

I wish I had had the chance to fly on a 727.
You still flying? What you on now if so?

A 2 beer story. Will send you a pm.:)

I wish I had had the chance to fly on a 727.
You still flying? What you on now if so?

LOL.
Were/are you 727 driver then?
Would explain the 27vet username.

A pilot friend of mine once told me: “You ain’t a pilot till you’ve flown the 727 and greased the landing”

Yes, it is a great plane, we even operated it into gravel strips at night in Angola. Difficult to land if it was light, much easier when near to max landing weight. The ones that still had the nosewheel brakes fitted you could land on a sixpence. And having a flight engineer was a godsend.:) And oh yes, the most effective speed brake ever, was like sawing the wings off!

LOL.
Were/are you 727 driver then?
Would explain the 27vet username.

A pilot friend of mine once told me: “You ain’t a pilot till you’ve flown the 727 and greased the landing”

The world’s largest construction site with it’s own airport? Some of those Lufthansa 727s went to South Africa. The landing light and some other switches worked opposite to the American machines, ie you switched them up to turn on the landing lights instead of down. Switching between the American machines and the Lufthansa machines often, at night on short finals when the pilot flying would call for the landing lights, everything in world in front of the plane would turn to blackness. “Oops!”

Ah…. nostalgia.
It’s not too long ago but the scene has changed so much since then.
A lot of aircraft types and liveries no longer seen at uk airports.

Excellent video.

Despite being 20 years old, the British Airways 757s and the Lufthansa 737-300s make it feel much more recent. I just looked up D-AXBS, which is seen quite early in the video, and it still appears to be in service with Lufthansa.

Yes I’d forgotten just how old Lufthansa’s ‘new’ livery actually is. And it’s weird seeing a mix of BA’s fleet that includes early BOAC 747’s, 200’s and the first of it’s 400 series all mixing it for space on the stands.