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  • March 9, 2011 at 8:50 am in reply to: Are larger turboprops needed? #494845
    cockerhoop
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    ooooooh bring back the days when noice didn’t matter lol
    i can remember covering my ears as a child at the Ringway viewing areas (not the viewing park, but actually on the now terminal 1 arms) when a Dan Air comet or BEA trident would take off,
    great times!!!!!

    March 8, 2011 at 11:47 am in reply to: Aircraft you wish you could still go on #495256
    cockerhoop
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    sorry i was only 8, there is a good pic from jetphotos i have attached of a Aviogenex at Dubrovnic about same time

    March 8, 2011 at 8:37 am in reply to: Aircraft you wish you could still go on #495290
    cockerhoop
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    i did an aviogenex TU-134A in the 4th cockpit seat in 1972 fro Dubrovmnik to Manchester, i was 8 at the time.
    something else i remember is the first 8 rows of the plane were made up of groups of 4 seats facing each other with a table like on a train.
    Also Aviogenex made passengers identify their luggage on the tarmac prior to boarding, was it security?

    March 7, 2011 at 8:14 am in reply to: Aircraft you wish you could still go on #495523
    cockerhoop
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    for me it would be a trip from the past on a 707 to redo my 1976 Man-Palma flight with British Airtours, and also one 2 i never managed to get on as a child on package tours, a Britannia, and a Comet.

    February 11, 2011 at 11:51 am in reply to: Boeing boss green-lights all-new next generation narrowbody #501363
    cockerhoop
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    must be quite a risk to take
    as they will need to stop 737 production soon after i comes into service, and i am sure the cost of 7?7 will be a lot more than a 787-800.
    mr graphics man could you conjour up an image of a 737 with a 757 undercarrage, then they could fit any engine the like!!!!!
    imagine with a 787 engine they could market it as 737-GTI

    February 11, 2011 at 11:47 am in reply to: Geneva, 29JAN, 11 photos #501403
    cockerhoop
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    ski season makes geneva busy weekends
    flew there March 1989 with Air Uk Leisure, can’t remember getting off though!!! as were circling to land a light aircraft crashed and blocked runways for 2 hours, we were diverted eventually to Lyon i think, and remained on plane where crew plighed us with 3 drinks!!!! hence memory loss
    it was mentioned that we used one of the satelite stations and went on a really long moving walkway under the apron?

    February 9, 2011 at 8:08 am in reply to: Virgin signs for the A330 #502410
    cockerhoop
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    but like BA, Virgin appears to have ditched the Union Jack!!!!!!!

    February 3, 2011 at 8:09 am in reply to: Thai airline to recruit " third sex " flight attendants #503731
    cockerhoop
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    the beautiful hostess smiled and i a deep voice said ” nuts sir”

    January 14, 2011 at 8:13 am in reply to: Boeing Celebrates Final Assembly of 1,000th 767 #509072
    cockerhoop
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    i am sure a few years back Airbus won the tanker contract with A330, but due to congress it was re-opened again
    am i correct

    January 6, 2011 at 11:28 am in reply to: First Choice/Thomson flight review #512150
    cockerhoop
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    remember 1960/70s BOAC/Cunard painted VC-10s, and didn’t Laker do a job or 2 for cruises with a 707 Laker Carribean

    January 6, 2011 at 9:11 am in reply to: First Choice/Thomson flight review #512165
    cockerhoop
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    its like chalk and cheese
    you buy a P&O cruise where you spend 2 weeks in luxury on there ship
    but the ship you to and from it like cattle
    i really think its P&O who should be checking they are meeting there customers expectations.
    My Parents have done these trips a few times, and on the ones where it starts in Accapulco, there is often a refuelling stop in the middle of the night
    they spent 2 hours in Cuba airport with no facilities!

    January 5, 2011 at 1:14 pm in reply to: CIT, Boeing Announce Order for 38 Next-Gen 737 Airplanes #512535
    cockerhoop
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    with our nimrods being scrapped, the 737 will soon be the plane on the longest production run.
    i am guessing there will be replies saying nimrods are modified comets dating back to the 1950s?

    January 5, 2011 at 9:09 am in reply to: First Choice/Thomson flight review #512550
    cockerhoop
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    its the north south divide!! MAN get all the duff aircraft
    in 2002 we were on an Airtours holiday to Florida from MAN and the brochure stated a new A330 with seat back tv etc, but in reality we got an A330 they had chartered from Premier, with no seat back tv, and in our section of the plane the sound system was broken, so all you got was silent movies
    same plane same fault both directions

    December 16, 2010 at 8:16 am in reply to: Rotterdam Dec 15th 2010 #506066
    cockerhoop
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    the Fokker 50 looks strange with small windows compared to the old F27 and its viscount style, baring in mind there are probably about 12 rows of seats, its a lot of windows

    December 9, 2010 at 8:09 am in reply to: Dublin Airport 7th December 2010 #506905
    cockerhoop
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    are the Lingus A330 in the photos freight type? all the windows seem blacked out?

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