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  • in reply to: Yesterday’s TCX emergency landing in Belfast #554053
    cockerhoop
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    think it should have been G-DHJZ an ex MyTravel A320

    in reply to: Yesterday’s TCX emergency landing in Belfast #554061
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    G-DHL??
    Does this mean Thomas Cook have leased a freight A320 and rammed as many seats as possible in????????

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #466911
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    in 1978 i was on a boat crossing from Nissaki to Corfu town and a Dan Air comet did its final turn to approach the airport right above us
    its seemed so gracefull and then we never knew that just over 2 years later the last commercial flight would occur

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #467069
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    thanks longshot
    imagine that pod turned by 90 degrees and planted with red and yellow tulips

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #467085
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    when the Cosford BA 707 was scrapped a few years back i asked Alton company if i could get an RR intake from a Conway, and one of the jet pods from the rear, the reply was yes, but the price received serious eyebrow twitching from my wife, hence my garden aircraft museum has should we say never got off the ground!!!!!!

    in reply to: BA parent to buy BD! #554604
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    back in 2007 on our Antigua trip i was mightie releaved to see that our BMI flight was first to arrive, as Friday afternoons were busy there then
    as within half hour a fully laden Firch choice 767 would arrive and also the scheduled Virgin 747
    those passport girls in Antigua only had one speed (slow)
    luckily for us we were through and in the minibus to the hotel in 40 mins
    some of the Virgin lot took 2 hours to get through in the heat

    in reply to: Bristol Lulsgate #554816
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    slighty off at a tangent
    photo guys need to make the most of the last 11 months flying at Filton
    i know i will miss the BAE flights from Walney Island and been able to walk into the MoD head quarters at Abbeywood

    in reply to: BA parent to buy BD! #554818
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    the BMI A330s were quite hard worked on on Caribbean, Vegas and Chicago routes from Manchester originally, the closure of the Man long hual routes in 2009 was a great loss to our part of the country and the crews who flew the routes too!
    i did a Man to Antigua return flight and the service was second to none
    there was one incident where a main undercarriage strut was cracked and it took quite some time to get a replacement, this was put down to hard landings at Antigua and Barbados it was about 2006 i think.

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #467429
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    never mind the spey’s as a child of 6 its was frightening going up the rear steps with noise of the APU

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #467492
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    the courtline one brings back happy memories of me as a child aged 6 being taken on a Clarkson escorted tours of Austria in about 1970 and 1971
    we flew to Munich from Luton i think once and maybe Manchester another time.

    in reply to: Longest and shortest non-stop route out of LHR? #555291
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    read the question guys it said out of HEATHROW
    Plymouth may have been shortest but gone now

    in reply to: Overhead bin surprises #555813
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    this one’s a virgin i think

    in reply to: Avro 19 crash in Solent – August 1955 #556804
    cockerhoop
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    no mention of this crash in Aviation Safety Network database

    in reply to: Damaged Qantas A380 To Return To Service In March #557004
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    makes you think they didn’t want it flying? compared to how fast Thomson fixed their old 767 in situ at Bristol

    in reply to: Last days of Plymouth City Airport #558234
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    i agree but there was never any competition so never any really cheap fares

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