It was not until the early 1990s that Laker, by now living in the Bahamas, got off the ground again, moving his operations base to Nassau, from where the airline still flies. For those of a certain age Sir Freddie Laker remains the acceptable face of capitalism, a big man who took on big business, burned brightly for a time, and failed gloriously, as all heroes eventually must.

Laker is also famous for his famous quote to fellow airline entrepreneurs Richard Branson and Stelios Haji-Ioannou to “sue the *******s”; this being a reference to the bullish tactics of British Airways to try and force the no-frills upstarts out of business.

As a tribute to Laker Airways, Virgin Atlantic Airways later named one of its Boeing 747s The Spirit of Sir Freddie.

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Would that have been my Ryanair from Gothenburg by any chance? Not that I was on it this time.

P-38 in the EAA Museum

This was taken in August 2003 and is the P-38 “Marge”, 2103993.

I tested it on the Commercial Forum, Jochen, it’s great! Although the pix are a bit small, but better than nothing!

KLM Constellation

It works! Thanks for the link, tenthije!

Try contacting the aviation museum at Elvington (Yorkshire), they have a room full of restored gun turrets and who knows what else! I am sure my friend Bill Napier there could help you.

Pardon me if I am wrong, but isn’t it good netiquette to acknowledge sources when posting pictures or material taken from other Web sites? I always try to provide information about my sources, whether Web site addresses or literature such as books or magazines. Admittedly these pictures are probably out of copyright, but IMHO it would be polite to state where you got them from, anyway.