anhedral good word for downward pointing wings
always thought pilots of these planes must be more twitchy when landing as there is less role available to them
or more skilled!!!!!!

the offset nose wheel was a typical querk of 1950s UK design, bit like the Britannia beautiful looking aircraft spoilt by the cockpit window arranngement, really looked better after Canadair put their modifications on it. going back further the comet too, lovely plane futuristic for late 40s, but then they stick a 1930s tailplane on it!!!!!!!!!

Must agree with Lucas love the A340-600 hope to get on a Virgin one next year, guess its because really they are just overgrown DC8-60 series:rolleyes:
went on a BWIA a340 in 2005 and Lufthansa one in 2004.

its about time they started getting them for long haul too

when i used to fly weekly Exeter – Belfast with JEA in 1996, often on the Sunday afternoon leg there would be one jolly hostess, with a 1920s type jolly hockeysticks name that eludes me, i think from chatting she was related to the JEA owners, and just used to help out. Great fun and great service.
best momory of her was when we had boarded at Belfast one Friday evening and we seated, by the co-pilot, we had to wait for our hostess as she was on the delayed Cork flight, when it landed it was parked at the opposite end of the terminal, the captain came on the address system and said ” we will be getting under way shortly, just waiting for out hostess to join us, if passengers on the left of the plane look out their windows now they will see her running along the apron infront of the terminal”

the aviogenex takes me back to a 1972 Dubrovnik package tour

http://www.artistic.flyer.co.uk/bea.htm

see link above Vanguard painting

brilliant
have a pic somewhere of me toddling out to one (age 2) at Ringway in 1966
nostalgia!!!!!
have you ever seen that painting of Speke with a Vanguard on the apron
will look for link