Love the Caravelle, especially the shape of the windows..

Toblerone windows! Only managed to fly in one caravelle but that’s much better than none! A Finnair one on domestic route.

Anyone have anymore of National Airways? Or of any EMB-110s flying around the UK in the 1980s

Thanks

Were National the chaps who used to fly Be90s and 200s on night freight runs out of Southend ?

Definitely a tripod or something solid needed for these types of shots. In wx like this as well as natural movement with hand help or nearly hand held you will be chittering in the cold.

If you are sitting the camera on a steady object when you don’t have a tripod it’s a good idea to use the time delay giving you a few seconds after you press the button and take your hands off.

Another thing I have often found myself doing if resting the camera on an area like a flat wall or balcony is ….. to make small adjustments and get the frame right put an appropriate number of coins wherever you need to to tilt the camera from how it naturally sits on the surface you are using.

Nice old selection. These were the days … when you could actually SEE planes from a comfortable place without having to brave the elements. It was all a great laugh back then and you would always meet up with everyone down the airport.

Amazing! I worked for Air Ecosse from 1980 to 83 and then from 83 for Monarch. This is one of the few times I have seen a pic of an Air Ecosse ‘Bandit’

IF62M… where were you based with EC ? They used to be my transport from Glasgow to Luton back in these days when they were doing the Datapost flights. Many a wee trip “down south” started with a night flight to Luton (then as it was late on, a few in the Luton Flying Club social club where there was always something happening on a Friday night).

Happy Days.

Morning FI departures to CPH, OSL and AMS depart at 10:40, 10:50 and 11:00

Make these departure times 09:40, 09:50, 10:00 !! They are on BAA Glasgow departures page.