Here are a couple of busy shot’s with plenty of scenery from the past at MAN 1977.
Pelican Cargo 707 with lot’s of divert’s behind.
BCal 707 and BA Super VC-10 at MAN 1977.
Great thread,i was lucky enough to fly with Pan Am three times ,twice on the airlines 747 and once on a 727 from LHR anyway here are a few from me…
N657PA at MAN..
Stored 727 in the US..
My 747 ride back to LHR..
B707 N433PA at MAN..
My 747 ride to MIA..
Here are some quite unique photo’s of the ACS aircraft,ACS bought five aircraft from BA from 1984-1986 at the cost of £1M they operated up to 1988 then scrapped…basically the aircraft were too technical and not really designed to complete freight work.The last aircraft delivered was 9Q-CTZ (ex G-AWZV) and left LHR on 17th May 1986.
Here we have 9Q-CT? at Kinshasha ….strange that the last letter is missing?.
9Q-CT?
9Q-CTZ at Heathrow being prepped for delivery.
9Q-CTM at Ostend.
9Q-CTI at Coventry.
I have some more photo’s but i will have to find them….
Hi Sarah…no problem re Trident’s as you can tell im a bit of a fan..lol
Love love love your Trident photos! Northeast Airlines is probably my favorite – do you have a BKS photo? I seem to have lost some of my photos including a lot of closeup BEA Trident 2 pics from one of their jets inside BEA base.
I do happen to have a couple of very nice BKS shot’s ..:):D
Trident 1E G-AVYD at Hatfield prior to delivery.
Trident 1E G-AVYC on air test.
Trident 1E G-AVYC in hybrid Northeast/BA 1977..
Some nice Tripod’s there btw the Trident 1C was known as the Gripper due to the very low powered Spey 505 engines (not fitted on the 1E,2E and 3B) the 3B also had the additional RB162 booster which added 5,250lb of thrust.
Also..
BEA was refused the Boeing jet so the Trident 3b was the cheap alternative
Incorrect,BEA were refused the 727 as they were told by the goverment to buy british.
I think some of the BA Tridents ended up at Cranfield and were scrapped there.
Most BA Trident’s were scrapped at LHR and three 2E’s were scrapped at Southend,G-AWZN went to Cranfield and was used for evac/smoke drills and was scrapped in September 1995.
Other operators included Cyprus,Northeast,Kuwait,PIA,Ceylon, CAAC,China United and the Chinese air force.
In total 117 aircraft were built, not bad really when compared to other British types.
Lets remeber that ACS Zaire bought 5 ex BA aircraft in 1984/85
Air Ceylon Trident 1E.
Kuwait Trident 1E.
PIA Trident 1E.
CAAC Trident 2E.
Cyprus Airways sole Trident 1E.
Northeast Trident 1E.
Air China Trident 2E.
Iraqi Airways Trident 1E.
I have some pics of the ACS aircraft somewhere i will post once i find it.
Update from works last wed,thur and friday…..both wings now removed and unlike the wingremoval on G-AWZK we have managed to keep the main gear attached,we will have to return to tidy up some edges and retract the gear..here are some photo’s by myself and Tony.
Stub.
Port wing away.
Overview.
Starboard wing break.
Starboard wing free.
Overview.
Head on.
Gear retraction by hand.
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