How about the Mustang crash in Easneye Wood, Stanstead Abbotts, that hasn’t been built on.

Hello Trident people!

I am looking for two pieces of information easily obtainable by anyone with some insight (which I lack – when it comes to the HS121).

First:
What is the actual fuselage diameter and hight?

Second:
Was a 7-abreast layout ever used in commercial service?

The latter is of special interest to me. I would really like to find out how they squeezed 7 people into an aircraft not wider than a B737. And to my knowledge such seating does not meet certification standards. However, maybe British rules in the 1970ies were different than FAA rules (they most likely were). Today FAA and EASA are pretty much the same except for some very small differences (ever noticed the funny “flotation devices” instead of the life wests when flying US domestic?).

My father put the interior in the Channel Airways machines and he says they were 7 abreast when they left Hatfield, just very narrow seats!

Hi

Would that be Panshanger near Welwyn Garden City then?

Anthony

Hi Tommy

I was at a cub camp at Colliers End, a couple of miles from you, and they went right over the top of us, just as the camp was finishing, couldnt really have been timed better.

It was 4 Tornado’s and I presume they were the Battle of Britain flypast returning home.

Anthony

The picture of XA129 looks like it was taken outside the flight test hangar at Hatfield, probably on a families day judging by the amount of people there, in fact I may even be in the picture somewhere, as I was most likely there that day.

BBC Essex story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/4955062.stm

Bruce

My first post here, dont know any of the rest of you but I would probably like to come along and bring my father as well (he worked at Hatfield), its years since we last went to Salisbury Hall.

Anthony