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  • in reply to: LEJ 05.10.2013 #439719
    widmeister
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    Nice one. It’s an airport I haven’t seen many pics from.

    Here’s the same IL18 during its working life. This particular pic was in 1988 at SXF. It’s a scan straight from a print so excuse the quality. Anybody want to give me a decent slide/neg scanner ? 🙂

    http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k169/widmeister/88----DDR-STAIL18atSXF.jpg

    in reply to: Moscow Vnukovo – September 2013 #439732
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    Nice selection. Some good schemes among the non Russian types too and great to see some Tu134s flying.
    I see someone mentioned Tu135. Hmmm. Tu135 was a supersonic bomber project of the late 50s. Like some sort of Gerry Anderson concoction but it was never built.

    in reply to: Rhodes Aug 2013 #439906
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    Very nice selection and it looks like a good spot for shots with the sun in the right place. Good to see the Greek C130s still have some colour on them. So many air forces now are grey with two tone grey national insignia. Nice Israir and I see the El Al has a ku-band antenna housing on top so you can use your phone via satellite comms.

    in reply to: Dresden Airport #440213
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    A wee change. In the old days of the DDR you would have been hung drawn and quartered for taking shots at Dresden as it was the base of the LSK AN26s . They subsequently went to the normal German AF when the dyke was ditched and things became happier.

    in reply to: Heathrow 380's & 787 Dreamliners #440418
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    Is that GIANT fence new or has it been there a long time already ?

    in reply to: Another European Runaround pt.3 France #441303
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    Some nice ones Scotty. I don’t like that Hop colour scheme. They could have done a lot better. It must have been commissioned by the bloke who selected the current JAT scheme.

    Le Touquet is a place you never hear much about. I flew from Glasgow to there in 1987 or there abouts but not in a spam can.

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #442948
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    Interflug flights to the “non aligned” countries in Europe were usually charters of one sort of the other. They could be bringing in a cultural orchestra or more often transporting folk to and from the fish processing ships off our shores. Interflug were quite common at Glasgow on fishing flights.

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #442974
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    Interflugs at night

    Here are three night shots of Interflug types for your enjoyment. Schönefeld, DDR in 1988. Scanned directly from the prints for now.

    http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k169/widmeister/88----DDR-STAIL18atSXF.jpg

    http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k169/widmeister/88----DDR-SCSatSXF.jpg

    http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k169/widmeister/88----IFIL62atSXFDDR-SEFIthink.jpg

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #443168
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    Teddy,

    The pink Court Line tristar was G-BAAB.

    in reply to: Tenerife South – Feb and March 2013 #443171
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    Nice selection with good backgrounds. Looking at that Dreamliner scheme again on the Jetair. I just think they could have extended the dark blue in a curving pattern onto the tail. As the scheme stands the old untouched tail is out of place having that straight border. Have a word with that TUI mob.

    in reply to: Tenerife South – Feb and March 2013 #443173
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    Some great pics. I’ve never liked the Niki livery, I think its the housefly motif that’s always put me off it.

    Yeah the housefly logo is a strange one. Anybody know the significance of it ?
    The tail is a KitKat logo 🙂

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #443957
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    I was put off posting much in the way of pics to here due to the fact that you had to use an image repository like photobucket and the fact that photobucket were pretty naff with their restrictions and the way they handled images (compressing with bad quality). Well I just had a look on photobucket just now and I see it has changed and the pics you upload remain as you uploaded them. So no more resizing automatically with /quality=duff

    So…. watch this space. I see there are some Interflug fans out there so I’ll get some SXF goodies looked out too.

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #443961
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    Glasgow 1989. During July Loganair used this BAC1-11 and Starair F27 while awaiting delivery of their ATPs.

    http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k169/widmeister/8907--bac1-11usedbyLoganair.jpg

    http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k169/widmeister/8907--starairf27usedbyLoganair.jpg

    And here’s the BA hangar in 1989 with ATPs, HS748 and BAC1-11
    http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k169/widmeister/890812bahangargla.jpg

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #443971
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    That Baade 152 is like some sort of Gerry Anderson concoction.

    in reply to: Couple of olduns #444559
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    Hmmm. I never did see any of the 747s in that very old scheme. The Finnair DC9 though… still in the same scheme I flew in it and many of its sisters to various places in Finland in 1982.

    The Fokker factory was always an added bonus at Schiphol. If you were lucky you’d get something fully ready with proper reg (instead of the repeated PH- ones) and of course there were also the F16s.

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