I vaguely remember seeing Tridents at MAN in the very early 1980s – I must have only been 3 or 4 at the time. Very memorable aircraft and sadly missed.

I also found a short but informative article on the boost engine:

“BEA returned to Hawker-Siddeley and instead chose a stretched version of the basic Trident, the HS.121 or Trident 3. The 3 included a fuselage stretch of 16ft 5in for up to 180 passengers, raised the gross weight to 143,000lb, and made modifications to the wings to increase its chord. However the engines remained the same, and BEA rejected the design as being unable to get off the ground in hot-and-high conditions, given that the 2E was having so many problems already. Since the Spey 512 was the last of the Spey line extra power would be difficult to add. Instead of attempting to fit a new engine, which would be difficult given that one was buried in the tail, Hawker-Siddeley decided to add a fourth engine in the tail, the tiny RB.162 turbojet, fed from the same intake as the middle Spey. The engine added 15% more thrust for takeoff, while adding only 5% more weight, and would only be used when needed. BEA accepted this somewhat odd mixture as the Trident 3B. BEA ordered 26, the first flight was on December 11th, 1969, entering service on April 1st, 1971. A simple change resulted in the Super Trident 3B, 2 of which were sold to CAAC.”

Excellent pics! And even a Titan Airways 😉

The CO MAN-EWR service started out with a 752 in the mid-90s, then got upgraded to a DC10.

From a.net CO D10 at MAN: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/211697/L/ 😮

Well, the CO flight from MAN changes alot, dont think it’s ever been a B752, always either been a B767 or a B777. Better when the B777 comes in as it could well be the lovely Peter max!

The CO MAN-EWR service started out with a 752 in the mid-90s, then got upgraded to a DC10. You’re probably a bit too young to remember 😉

I found this site a while ago, brings back memories of cringeworthy commercials:

http://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/worstadvert.html

June 2002 – Yes Car Credit
July 2002 – DFS (Mamba No 5)
August 2002 – Songs for Worship
September 2002 – Halifax (Who gives you Extra?)
October 2002 – Halifax (Who gives you Extra?) – again!
November 2002 – Honda (The OK Factory)
December 2002 – DFS (Follow the Leader)
January 2003 – Halifax (Animated Who gives you Extra?)
February 2003 – Halifax (Animated Who gives you Extra?) – again!
March 2003 – Co-Op (Singing Sheep)
April 2003 – 11 88 88 (Directory Enquiries)
May 2003 – Halifax (Just a little bit…)
June 2003 – Halifax (Courtroom)
July 2003 – 118 118 (Directory Enquiries)
August 2003 – Halifax (New Current Account)
September 2003 – DFS (Linda Barker)
October 2003 – DFS (Linda Barker) – again
November 2003 – Currys (Linda Barker)
December 2003 – Currys (Linda Barker) – again!!
January 2004 – Otex Eardrops
February 2004 – Specsavers (Chatshow)
March 2004 – Halifax (We are Saving)
April 2004 – Norwich Union (Quote Me Happy)
May 2004 – Glade Toilet Freshener
June 2004 – Esure
July 2004 – First Alternative
August 2004 – Cadbury (Your happiness loves…)

The Glade ones with the annoying kid are pretty dire, as are any ‘starring’ Linda Barker (DFS, Currys) 😡

thanks. Yes this does help. Another airline has come into my head….Air Malta. Do Air Malta operate

Yes, Air Malta fly to LHR. Best time to catch a Qantas would be in the early morning. They use T4 rather than T3, but have a number of daily flights to LHR.

From memory…

Eva Air, – yes
Lithuanian Airlines, – no (flies to LGW)
LOT, – yes
Estonian, – no (flies to LGW)
US Airways, – no (flies to LGW)
Royal Brunei Airways. – yes.

Hope this is useful.

The new Sibir livery will be in various colours apparently (“a flying canvas of colors and silhouettes”). Here is the original article.