By: ageorge - 10th July 2003 at 21:39
Originally posted by Ren Frew
Good job I’m from Paisley, we didn’t get windows til we were 21 !😀
I work over the other side of the great unwashed , in Bothwell , I have to drive through Viewpark , they still don’t have windows !!! , just steel shutters :p
By: Ren Frew - 10th July 2003 at 00:00
Originally posted by ageorge
Bloody hell , a ‘plane with a window in the bog floor , how would Glaswegians cope with that , they naturally think windows are for smashing !! , pop out for a quick turd and watch the ‘Weegies falling on France !!!
Good job I’m from Paisley, we didn’t get windows til we were 21 !
😀
By: ageorge - 9th July 2003 at 19:12
Originally posted by Ren Frew
I suppose if you’d been flying with the RAAF over France there’d have been no end of gags about the “Dunnie kirk spirit” !Cheers for the info folks 😀
Bloody hell , a ‘plane with a window in the bog floor , how would Glaswegians cope with that , they naturally think windows are for smashing !! , pop out for a quick turd and watch the ‘Weegies falling on France !!!
By: Ren Frew - 9th July 2003 at 19:09
Originally posted by Moggy C
It had a downward looking window in the bog. You could sit doing your business whilst watching the French countryside slide past your Y-fronts at about 180 knots.
Moggy
I suppose if you’d been flying with the RAAF over France there’d have been no end of gags about the “Dunnie kirk spirit” !
Cheers for the info folks 😀
By: ageorge - 9th July 2003 at 16:06
Originally posted by Moggy C
Two Loos?Moggy
Too Long !!!
By: Moggy C - 9th July 2003 at 15:06
Was there a specific target or was it a target of opportunity mission??
Two Loos?
Moggy
By: ageorge - 9th July 2003 at 14:59
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Moggy C
In my ATC days I flew in a Varsity.
My first ever trip abroad in an aircraft was a Viking which took me from somewhere in the UK to Perpignan in S France.
Long old haul at those speeds.
It had a downward looking window in the bog. You could sit doing your business whilst watching the French countryside slide past your Y-fronts at about 180 knots.
Moggy [/QUOTE
Was there a specific target or was it a target of opportunity mission??
By: anneorac - 9th July 2003 at 08:19
The Varsity at Glasgow was WJ903 which is the cockpit section at Firbeck. The rest of it got the chop back in the 80s’…I’m sure I’ve got a shot of it somewhere but I’ve not got a way of putting it onto the computer.
Ho-Hum
Anne
By: Moggy C - 8th July 2003 at 23:09
In my ATC days I flew in a Varsity.
My first ever trip abroad in an aircraft was a Viking which took me from somewhere in the UK to Perpignan in S France.
Long old haul at those speeds.
It had a downward looking window in the bog. You could sit doing your business whilst watching the French countryside slide past your Y-fronts at about 180 knots.
Moggy
By: Ant.H - 8th July 2003 at 22:42
WF369 is the example at Newark.She’s scheduled to go into the new display hangar which is being built on the site,which will make her the only Varsity indoors anywhere in the world.
By: ageorge - 8th July 2003 at 21:38
Bugger
By: Ren Frew - 8th July 2003 at 20:48
Not the same plane unfortunately.
I’ve e-mailed South Yorkshire and Dumfries for further info.
By: ageorge - 8th July 2003 at 19:25
Do they have the rest of the airframe stored or has it been scrapped ??? , looks in good nick in the second photo!!
By: Ren Frew - 8th July 2003 at 18:03
She looked a bit like this the last time I saw her…
By: Ren Frew - 8th July 2003 at 17:58
Actually… a little searching under “Varsity” and not “Viking” as I first thought, leads me to this picture of a nose taken at South Yorkshire Aviation Museum this month.
It says it came from Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum in 1997.
Not much left of the old bird then… I used to play in it as a kid 20 years back when my mate’s dad would get us airside at GLA in his yellow BAA landrover.
By: ageorge - 8th July 2003 at 17:35
On the same line , doe’s anybody have any photos of the ex-Ferranti Dakota when she was based at Edinburgh (Turnhouse ) and ended up being burnt there ??
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