And 737-400s are not the most sprightly of performers either, if going any distance with a load!

William, I have searched the Internet for a Digital Ice scanner and come up with zilch. Could you give more information on it such as the make and/or a website please?

Bri :confused:

He may mean one like this: http://tinyurl.com/34ctla

I have been using a Nikon Coolscan V for several years and, while it takes a bit of getting used to and the task of post-processing needs some time too, the results are very good.

Not sure why I feel like bringing this up but I thought I’d mention this as it’s the 19th anniversary (21st December 1988) of the bombing of a Pan Am 741 over Lockerbie in the south of Scotland.

Good post. Not to nitpick, but the aircraft was N739PA; though of course the event is usually referred to as the loss of “Pan Am 103”. After Lockerbie the flight was renumbered to the wholly different PA 011, on which I flew to JFK in October 1989, on board a rather tired N737PA.

Conversely, I’ve always fancied seeing a DC-3 in contemporary BA livery…

If you look at this link, profile #37 depicts a Stratocruiser in the current BA livery – yuck! The FedEx and SAS Il-76s look better, I think!

http://www.madoc.us/profiles.html

So it seems the aicraft does only one sheduled flight, greenland to denmark,it may have been here in Dublin too on a football charter but it could have been their 757 i cant quite remember,anwways i’d certainly hang around in the cold to get a shot if it came in again,brilliant scheme.

It’s the 757 that has visited Dublin on a few occasions, operating for SAS when they have been short of aircraft.

Have you read Siobhan Creaton’s book?

http://www.bookshop.ie/book/1845130839//

You’ll find it in any good bookshop in Ireland.

Would be great too see this one restored to ground running at least or is it at this point staged for a move onwards to a country more favourable too flight for these beasts.

Weston aerodrome is very close to residential areas and has a fairly touchy relationship with the people living there, so I imagine there would be quite a rumpus if a couple of Speys were run up!