My first ever aircraft photo

It looks like a Southwest Airlines plane!

nice to see planes then that had properlers then turbofan like now must of been noisy on the planes with proppllers.

Here ‘s my first aviation photo; Aer Lingus Viscount EI-AKL at Ringway in 1963.Starways D.C.4 G-APEZ in background.

be prepared for a deluge of 1960s (and later) nostalgia on this website!

Good! I like that black and white effect.

Here’s my offering, taken at Orly on a school trip to Paris in April 1965 when I was 13.
To be absolutely honest, it’s the best of a bunch of nine or so – two or three others are useful, the rest rubbish. It was my first 35mm camera, a very second-hand Wirgin Edixa which is still up in the loft.
Later that year I discovered colour. This year I bought a half-decent scanner – be prepared for a deluge of 1960s (and later) nostalgia on this website!

William

Ahhh! Court Line! Full of firsts……….
And the first to leave a bunch of tourists stranded someplace in the south when they went bankrupt because of the oil crises in summer of 1974.

They certainly weren’t the first to do that, I think the early 60’s were notorious for that sort of thing, the closure of Overseas Aviation being one of them.

My first photo is of a Channel Airways Comet. It’s in B & W & I cut the tail off 😮

I think that my first photo was a Tradair Viking taken at Southend in early 1963. I must try and dig it out!

Hmmm I probably do have my first picture I took.. must’ve been at Farnborough 1970-something…. I know I have still got the postcard that I was given on the first aircraft I flew in – a Swissair Cv990 Coronado 😮
Neil

Ahhh! Court Line! Full of firsts. The first cheap charter to the South from Britain. And also the first to use widebodies for that business. And the first to leave a bunch of tourists stranded someplace in the south when they went bankrupt because of the oil crises in summer of 1974.

You had to love those pastel liveries though.. :rolleyes:

AFAIK this was the first ever photo I took, from the Aviation Experiance at BHX with my very first Fuji!

I’m proud of that one :D.

Taken at Glasgow in March 1974, a Court Line Tristar, i was waiting to fly on a Court Line 1-11 to Munich on a school trip!!

Anyone else still have their first pics?

Ahhh! Court Line! Full of firsts. The first cheap charter to the South from Britain. And also the first to use widebodies for that business. And the first to leave a bunch of tourists stranded someplace in the south when they went bankrupt because of the oil crises in summer of 1974.

I’ve no idea what my first aircraft photo may have been ??? Possibly an F-4 Phantom of RAF Leuchars taking off at GLA, taken on a Kodak Instamatic 110 format camera ?

The first one I took having gone digital is this one though, a mere 2.5 years ago or so…