I have to take exception with this. I have flown allot to Europe/Ireland/Scotland from Stansted using Ryanair and many of those occasions I pad a total of 2p for a return flight. The 1p flights DO exist.

But any fuel surcharges / airport tax etc. ? I think that’s what people are getting at. There’s a great tendency for airlines to split ‘everything’ off the main package nowdays to hide the true cost of a flight.

Whilst I was doing a search for the point of departure of an ATR42 that sadly hit high ground today, I noticed these airframes at Merida in Venezuela;

Both these sets of satellite piccies are from Merida MEXICO not Venezuela right?

The big one is defintely a Douglas quad – from Google Earth I make the dimensions to be wingspan approx 118ft, length approx 104ft. This matches well with a Douglas DC-6B, span 117ft 6in, length 105ft 7in (from airliners.net). The DC-7’s range in length from 108ft 11in to 112ft 3in so this is probably a DC-6 rather than DC-7.
“OldProps” lists no less than 6 DC-6’s extant in Mexico – but non listed as at Merida.:confused:

This one looks promising if still extant:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Pescamex/Douglas-C-118…-Liftmaster/1041563/L/

Thanks Lindy’s Lad – followed this thread a while back but obviously hadn’t caught up with the latest posts – that’ll teach me 😮

Any update on the book, Patrick? – I’d love a copy too 🙂

There are some thoughts about those photos here: http://www.vc10.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=133 I think they are ZA142 (which is the one on the Airliners.net photo TobyV linked to) and XV103. The cockpit could be the remains of ZA144 of which the front section might still be around (see here for a photo).

Yes, I think you’ve nailed ’em – XV103, ZA142 & the cockpit of ZA144 🙂

was the VC10 really that bad condition wise though?

I remember reading about the prototype Super VC10 being flown into St Athan for scrapping. No public outcry over that one either?

Interesting… slightly off-topic, but looking at St. Athan with Google Earth at the north-east of the airfield there’s a VC-10 in the early stages of being broken up. It has roundals on the wings which would make it one of the transports rather than a tanker. These Google Earth images are usually a couple of years old – generally 2003ish, so any ideas which VC-10? If you look carefully there’s a cockpit from another one nearby. Also, in the north-west side there’s an engineless VC-10 tanker – awaiting the same fate ?

I haven’t 🙂