Well the quiet season is starting soon 🙁 🙁 🙁

End of the summer season – good! I love November, night flights have largely finished, weekend ski flights don’t start until December, 6-7 weeks before the Haj starts, only go to work once a week – time to catch up with all those domestic chores that Mrs. Moondance has been saving up for me – not so good!

Picture taken over a decade ago, when first flight was predicted within months.

Bent waters

With the blue misty mountains of East Anglia rising in the background! 🙂

Came across these – Caernarfon 1997, marked as XD599, is it the same one?

And another outdoor ‘survivor’, VV901 at Irton Holme about 1975 – now at Elvington.

Dear Moderator, please pull this if I’m breaking any copyright – scanned from David Watkins excellent book (well worth buying, as well as his companion volume on the Venom)

They were a proud airline who had a wonderfully varied fleet with the Comets operating into 1980, those 727s, 1-11s and 748s and A300s.

And sadly, at the end, a bankrupt airline, sold for a notional £1 (plus debts) to BA.

Correct!I miss those 732s, they could fly into airports that the present BY fleet wouldnt be able to get into or out of!

Here we go again, 732s could get IN to most places, but were absolutely stuffed on performance for getting OUT of performance limited places. The 757 knocks spots off the 732 in terms of take off performance.