Can anyone help me identify what plane I may have flew on on flights made back in the late 60s/early70s –
1. Pan Am – Scotland (Prestwick) to Canada (Toronto) – 1967
2. BOAC – Transatlantic – UK to N. America (unknown cities) – 1972
Bit obscure, I know, but they are the only flights I’ve been on where I can’t identify what I flew on. Driving me nuts lol
By: Newforest - 27th September 2011 at 16:41
Another useful post that may need editing. 😉
By: JASON221 - 27th September 2011 at 04:35
Yes it my be
By: Bager1968 - 27th September 2011 at 02:06
That sounds like the Strikemaster in my link.
By: tona - 26th September 2011 at 22:55
Thanks for the replies. As far as I could tell it was in camouflage. The JP’s I’ve seen have been white or silver.
By: Bager1968 - 25th September 2011 at 23:45
Can someone please tell me what plane was flying in and out of Lydd today (apart from the civilians). I was at the speedway training track with my son and heard, with brief glimpses, a jet flying around. To me it looked like a Strikemaster, could that be possible?
Yes, it could possibly be… as there is at least one civilian-owned Strikemaster flying airshow displays in the UK:
http://www.heritageaviation.co.uk/
Since a Strikemaster is a combat version of the Jet Provost, it could have been one of the many civilian-owned JPs flying in the UK.
By: ZRX61 - 25th September 2011 at 23:00
Also while travelling down I was passed by a French van and trailer carrying a wing. Light blue, damaged and with a wing tank. Any ideas?
Skyraider parts going home?
By: Consul - 1st March 2009 at 22:45
See:
http://www.regiamarina.net/arsenals/planes_it/idroplanes/idro_us.htm#CMASA%20RS.14
By: John Aeroclub - 1st March 2009 at 22:14
It is a floatplane and the thing sticking up is the counterbalance for the turret.
It’s Italian by the way.
John
By: John Aeroclub - 1st March 2009 at 22:07
I think that it’s a C.M.A.S.A RS14 series III
John
PS actually it’s not a Serie III it’s probably a B
By: Scouse - 1st March 2009 at 22:05
Are you absolutely sure it’s not German? Heinkel He-115C seems pretty close.
By: ollieholmes - 1st March 2009 at 21:36
My thought was floats actualy looking at the angle and size of the struts. It also seems to have some form of under slung area.
I also cant decide if the thing sticking out of the canopy is a MG or something like a pitot tube.
By: Scouse - 1st March 2009 at 20:45
Don’t think so. This one looks as if it’s got a fixed undercarriage, and the cockpit’s too far forward.
By: XN923 - 1st March 2009 at 20:04
Petlyakov Pe-8?
By: MSR777 - 12th August 2008 at 19:09
You are more than welcome, just happens to be my favourite era in aviation, hopefully its accurate info:)
By: gwrw1964 - 12th August 2008 at 16:34
Don’t know how much help this will be to you but I would expect that your Pan Am trip would have been on a Boeing 707-320 series although far less likely it may also have been a DC8. It was too early for the 747 and too late for the piston engine types.
Likewise the BOAC trip was more than likely either the 707-420 Rolls Royce Conway powered! A 707-320 type similar to Pan Am or even if you were very lucky, a Vickers VC10. By that time it could have been one of BOACs early 747-100s. Maybe others here can help:)
Thanks for this. It’s a lot more than I was expecting given the sparse details I supplied. You’re a gent.
By: gwrw1964 - 12th August 2008 at 16:31
Yes, it was definately Prestwick to Toronto on Pan am.
By: zoot horn rollo - 11th August 2008 at 13:16
Would you have flown Prestwick-Toronto on Pan Am?
By: MSR777 - 9th August 2008 at 18:46
Don’t know how much help this will be to you but I would expect that your Pan Am trip would have been on a Boeing 707-320 series although far less likely it may also have been a DC8. It was too early for the 747 and too late for the piston engine types.
Likewise the BOAC trip was more than likely either the 707-420 Rolls Royce Conway powered! A 707-320 type similar to Pan Am or even if you were very lucky, a Vickers VC10. By that time it could have been one of BOACs early 747-100s. Maybe others here can help:)
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