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UK Constellations

Having just seen the thread about the Dutch Connie, it takes me back to I think 1963. My Mother won £384 on the pools. The next thing the family knew she had booked us on a foreign holiday to Callela in Spain with I think Thompson! It was 34 Guinias each. (Guinia = 21 shillings = £1/ 5p.) We flew to Perpignan in France as no charters were allowed at that time into Spain.
The a/c were Euravia Constellations, I recall the scramble for seats (No Reservations, also the boiled sweets as the pressurisation was brutal)
As I was 13 no photos, but the memory is vivid, on start up flames from the exhaust, on landing stiffling heat in France.

Very Very Happy days!!!!!

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By: bravo24 - 30th December 2011 at 01:04

Happy days!!!!

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By: Newforest - 29th December 2011 at 21:53

Might have been this one? 🙂

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1298818/

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