There’s a Breguet Deux Ponts restaurant at Fontenay-Tresigny airfield, east of Paris.

Another pic of JD in the correct scheme for you

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The 748 at Liverpool (G-BEJD) was delivered in the “classic” scheme, with a single black line below the red cheat line, separated by white. The scheme on the Comet in your photos is a later varinant, with extra black. This was very short-lived before the red white and blue livery came in. Not sure whether JD had the clasic “variant” livery – it may have done. It certainly ended up in RWB, but never had the “white tail” livery.

Duxford Aviation Society has recently painted the Ambassador in Dan-Air red, so they may be able to help. For the best “original” colour match, the Comet 4B at Wroughton is in teh classic livery (not the “variant” livery). It’s original paint, and it’s hangared – so it’s a good match.

Before it went to Scampton it was at Blackpool’s short-lived Reflectair museum. It lingered on at the airport for several years after the museum closed.

M

Those are Rapides, not Dragons. Similar, but not the same aircraft.

Alertken

Clearly there were a lot of Electras sold to US airlines – this was despite early problems – so the pool of available Electras was that much greater than Vanguards. A lot were converted to freighters – especially by Zantop, source of many of the surviving Electras. The engines were much more widely used than the RR Tynes, so it was easier to keep the fleet going.

Of the Vanguard fleet (just 44 a/c), only some of the V953s were converted to Merchantman standard for BEA, and only a small number of aircraft. Half the BEA fleet was effectievely scrapped after about a decade. The ex-Air Canada V952s ended up mainly on low-cost sharter operations (Invicta, EAS) so their days were numbered with the availability of cheap secondhand jets. By the mid-80s you had fewer than 10 operational Vanguards, and all gone by 1996. As for US protectionism, look at the way the 1-11 was treated for the full horror (two-crew operation bans until the DC-9 came, when the laws changed). Truly it is a “special” relationship!

Mark

Was still there about two weeks ago!

M

The images and thumbnails don’t show up. Is this something to do with the new look of the forum?

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