A ‘ground-to-ground’ shot of Dakota ZK-BBJ. I had a look round this long term resident at Mombasa/MBA earlier in the year.

Hi – anybody got any shots of B17’s in Bolivia at any period they were in service and any livery – will add one beauty of my own

Thanks Ron

You mean like this??

Don’t recall where I got hold of these, but it says 1970 on the back of both. Working warbirds – now those were the days..
Got a couple of B24 shots as well; somewhere.

John

Great picture! Any more retro MAN photos?

Retro enough? About 1990 – on one of those unusually sunny days at MAN….

What about some heavy metal in the shape of a P4Y Privateer? Almost a B-24 and there’s 4 of them still in airworthy condition; could have one over here by the end of the month….

The only B757s due for delivery are now the two ‘used’ examples. G-OOBI is undergoing maintenence at Abu Dhabi and G-OOBJ is with Monarch at Luton. Both will enter service when work is complete. G-OOBF/G were new off the line earlier in the year and will be the last received direct from Boeing.

The first of the ex Vietnamese B767s will go to AUH in September for overhaul and modifications before revenue ops next year.

The 7E7s will be in twin-class config, offering 33″ (thirty three) seat pitch in economy as per the 3 uprated 767s.

Dave

Just had to respond to this one…

Don’t think the Kermit Week’s aircraft was airworthy by the time CAF sadly lost their example in the 1995 crash. It flew over to Fantasy of Flight from California about 4 or 5 years ago, and is likely to remain the only operational example of WW2s best looking bomber (Oh yes it is!) for many years to come.

So far as I know, the only other complete airframes on public display are at the Musee de l’air in Paris and the USAF Museum in Dayton. Unsure of the progress with the record breaking ‘Flak-Bait’ at the Smithsonian in Washington. The nose has been on show for many years, with the fuselage stored ‘awaiting display’.

Would say that outside of the twins, the rest of Martins useful output from their own design stable would be in the form of flying boats. (?)

John

We know about G-OOOB and G-OOOG going, but we can’t be certain about the rest of the G-OOO* fleet.

G-OOOG’s lease has been extended, the aircraft will shortly be painted in the new livery and should be around for a while longer yet. The only other ‘Tapestry’ a/c remaining is ‘OB and she will indeed leave the fleet by the end of the summer 2004 season. The rest of the G-OOOx are all slated to stay for the time being.

As some have already mentioned, the fleet is mixed in regard to IFE fit – most have the traditional aisle type, but the newbuild a/c in the G-OOBx range are all fold down. The ‘used’ ‘Bx are aisle type.