VeeOne can you please stop posting all these images from the 80’s 😀 especially the ones from Gatwick.
seriously i am in danger of getting nostalgia overload here!!:)

Many thanks for posting all of them they bring back a lot of memories. i’ll take old B747’s and DC-10’s et al over any of this modern twin engined 7*7,Airbus lookylikey things

Me too, Stangman!
I was going to post some DC-10 photos next and I noticed when sorting them out there were nice BCAL ones, including BCAL Charter and also a Korean AL DC-10.

Here is a quick pic for you showing the wide-body Gatwick at its best (not the weather though!).

In the picture surrounding the Clipper Tristar is a Wardair DC-10, Air Florida DC-10, Braniff 747, BCAL DC-10s, Northwest Orient 747s, Philippines 747 and the Laker Airways DC-10s. Also is the Dan-Air Comet (training) and some Air UK Heralds.

Indeed it is, and I’m not even going to get into numbers:D

Sarah, having had an afternoon turn out in my ‘den’ I’ve actually got that Trident poster, as well as a similar one for a BEA Comet 4B. I hadn’t looked at them for ages. They are definitely products of their time.

I saw that poster on eBay a couple of months ago. It sold for a reasonable price. I have only seen the photo of the poster but it looks pretty detailed. The BEA Comet poster I had never heard of before. I wonder if they did one for the Vanguard? 🙂

Why is it that old photographs of aircraft seem to convey the action better? Modern photography is astonishing, but I think it’s the nostalgia that make these photos seem more real. May have answered my own question.

Great post VeeOne, I like the intro. Brilliant.

Thankyou sir!

There does seem to be a difference between 35mm film and modern digital images. It seems to me this is a similar difference to that of old records and their digital CD versions.

I found taking airliner photos difficult to get the exposure correct. The tops were usually white and I underexposed by 1/2 a stop for this. But there were times the photos were still either slightly too bright or too dark. Slides had almost no latitude for error and you had to wait until the film was processed to find if you’d missed a great picture. I ended up developing my own slide film so i could see the results more quickly and have some control over them.

Modern digital cameras are great despite the ‘digital’ effect of freezing the aeroplane in mid-air. No cost or waiting and immediately we can see the result. The people who are using dSLRs are getting amazing results.