I have a few pics of Paraguayan Air Force MB336, Casa 212, DC3 etc on airliners.net but as the site is currently down I am unable to post them

BA 737 were names after Rivers, 747 after cities (with the odd person included) 757 Castles, 767 European Cities, L1011 were originally named after roses.

Laker DC10 were all named ‘something’ Belle

Olympic 720’s were also named after rivers (SX-DBI = Pinios River I only know this because I have flown on this aircraft)

I went to Malaga from SOU last year – did not find the leg room particularly bad (no I am not vertically challenged;) )

Sir Richard Todd who played an officer in a film about the capture of Pegasus bridge was involved in the actual D-Day operation and was interviewed about it during last weekend’s events.

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organised trip as part of a tour – very interesting day out – Tu134 flight was an experience ! particularly the take off and landings. (acceleration was not a feature) 😉
Cruise was ok although the interior was basic – had its own ice making facility or emergency exit (ice forming on inside screw heads etc) Flew well but seemed to have different techniques for approach / landings – flaps/gear left until quite late and then a bootful of power to reduce rate of plummet – in fact on return to Moscow DME I honestly thought we were going around because of the power levels but no we landed gently – did not fancy another 20 minutes in the storm we have just gone though (very bouncy)
(pics on the usual sites or if I can remember how I could post some here)

Primair (a Russian charter company) on a Tu134 (RA-65097) from Moscow to Ekaterinberg, returning the same day.

It made me cringe just watching it – yes it was good to see those involved but Ray Holmes did appear to be overwhelmed / confused by all the fuss and some of the presenters questions were just pathetic. A follow up programme after the artifacts have been cleaned etc might be a good idea with a brief recap of the event in question.

The Time Team programme came over as much more ‘professional’ even including ‘Baldrick’