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January 3, 2010 at 4:32 pm in reply to: EHAM YEAR 2009 MEGATOPIC Part 3 (20 pics) #447830

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Great Shots – I almost felt as if I was sitting there watching the action with you. I remember this Hotel used to put adverts in some avaition mags a few years back for a spotters stay and you got a certificate at the end of your stay! Out of interest where is the land in picture 41? Is it Teneriffe?
Thanks again for sharing the pics
OG

December 26, 2009 at 10:36 am in reply to: Classsic Trident pics in colour. #448404

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I think the Tu144 and Concorde may have been just a little faster.

A common enough mistake I have to say, I always correct myself by saying the fastest subsonic airliner. What a lovely aircraft though.

December 24, 2009 at 6:27 pm in reply to: Radom Air Show 2009 #463492

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Very nice pictures indeed.

December 24, 2009 at 6:23 pm in reply to: Bangkok Don Muang in 1992 #448548

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Fantastic shots – particularly the TU-134s. More please 😀

December 24, 2009 at 3:27 pm in reply to: Heathrow Airport 1989 #495623

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This isn’t quite 20 years ago but I think early 90s. Just a reminder of the view from the viewing area on Terminal Two. I remember moaning when they closed the viewing area on top of the Queens Building and saying that this was ‘all we had left now’….sigh

December 15, 2009 at 7:39 pm in reply to: ERFTS Info Sought #1108492

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Many thanks to everyone for all your kind replies – far more than I expected.
I would like to follow up a couple with PMs if that’s OK. I always feel that there is a treasure trove of knowledge on this forum and I am very rarely disappointed.

DH83 – Thanks for the heads up. I believe I might have that actual copy of Aviation News buried up in the attic as I think I had most of them in the early 80s.

Best Regards
Keith

December 15, 2009 at 5:03 am in reply to: ERFTS Info Sought #1109232

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Thank you Tom – certainly not one I had heard of.
Regards
Keith

December 14, 2009 at 8:19 pm in reply to: Fred Ballam And The Westland Archive #1109617

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Very sad news indeed – Fred very kindly helped me with some research for my book on Turnhouse a couple of years back – A gentleman.
RIP.

November 26, 2009 at 10:12 pm in reply to: Part 2 of 8 flights in 9 days #402791

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Lee – An excellent report and pictures. You made me wish I was there sampling it all. Just one complaint – no picture of the best looking Stewardess ever 😀
OG

November 18, 2009 at 6:17 pm in reply to: The last Caravelle at Manchester #508160

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I’ll start a separate thread about some other old Turnhouse Caravelle musings

Sounds good to me!

November 17, 2009 at 6:13 pm in reply to: The last Caravelle at Manchester #508572

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I think there were more than 3 flights because I saw EC-AVZ on the 12th July 1969 (I don’t have access to my full records for 1969)

It’s certainly possible, I have the main movements from the Scan archives and for June 1969, it mentions EC-AVZ seperately as well to the list I have already mentioned but gives the same date. For July 1969 it states “nothing of interest”. These things are not 100% accurate anyway. As a matter of interest it shows a Finnair Caravelle arriving from Brussels (OH-LSE) on 29th August 1969. I never knew about the Iberia service until I was walking through the terminal one day in June 1969 and saw an Iberia Poster advertising the service. How I wish I had tried to get hold of one of the posters.

Apologies to all for the thread drift but it was about Caravelles!! 😀

November 15, 2009 at 9:42 am in reply to: The last Caravelle at Manchester #509431

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http://www.airplane-pictures.net/image42275.html

One here and they were EC- registered

I would query the 1990 date on this picture. Apart from the fact that Hispania went bust the year before, the last flight into Edinburgh by EC-DCN was on 21st September 1985 (her first into Edinburgh was operating for Trans Europa on 18th October 1980) :confused:

November 15, 2009 at 9:24 am in reply to: The last Caravelle at Manchester #509441

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Hispania were flying Caravelle charters into Manchester towards the end of the caravelles lifespan.

I have a picture of a Hispania Caravelle at Glasgow in May 1986, the last ones operated into Glasgow in October 1986 with the 737s taking over the following year. They folded in 1989.

Iberia’s experiment with Caravelles out of Turnhouse to Barcelona was a bit of a disaster due to operational problems at Turnhouse. Only 3 services
were operated
EC-AVZ – 14th June 1969
EC-ARJ – 21st June 1969
EC-AVY – 28th June 1969
The remaining flights were diverted to Abbotsinch.

November 10, 2009 at 7:37 pm in reply to: 6 Sqn losses 1938 #1143292

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Alex, Please check your PMs.

Thanks
Keith

November 5, 2009 at 6:56 pm in reply to: HMS Tracker & her aircraft #1147699

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Well well, a couple of these look familiar Keith! Good to see the whole set.;)

I wasn’t aware they were part of a set. As I have said I found them in an old suitcase of photos which belonged to my late step-father Maxwell Turner who was on the Tracker and whose picture is above. Apart from the rockets being censored which implies an official source as I have said above, some of them have stamped on the back HMS Tracker – not to be sent through the post. Three of them have handwriting on the back with no official stamp.
From what I can ascertain most of them are a batch of pictures which must have been obtained by members of the crew as they seem to have appeared elsewhere including the U-Boat attack ones.
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