Probably this one.

Abu Dhabi example, late eighties…

Sounds like a good deal to me. And I’m with WB, had a flight on a Connie once, many moons ago, and it was a thrill as it had always been one of my favourite airliners… those sexy curves, that lovely nose, that…. ooh stoppit!

Hmmmm… I’m heading over to my mother’s for lunch, must ‘borrow’ her shots of QEII and hubbie alighting from a Super VC10 in Khartoum and scan them.

Sweet memories of VC10 flights, thanks for the nostalgia, I loved the aircraft and was always disappointed if we were lumbered with a Sudan Airways Comet!

PaulR
The German aircraft which bombed the Co op at Campile on August 26 1940 was not lost, it was a quite deliberate attack. It was one of two which crossed the Wexford coast, one broke away and dropped bombs (which missed) at a Viaduct carrying the rail line to Rosslare. The Heinkel which bombed Campile circled the factory at “a leisurely pace” and then joined up with the other Heinkel and set course for France. The reference to stafing in the village is news to me. I am still trying to identify the unit involved.
Tony K

I would be interested to know your source for the “deliberate” attack, as all the indications point to a nav error. Which weren’t uncommon.

Ireland suffered a number of incidents of bombs being dropped by German aircraft who were lost, including the bombing of a plant in a village called Campile here in County Wexford on the South East coast in which two women were killed. Eyewitnesses reported that the plane strafed the village’s one and only street on its way to drop its ordnance.

Another time a Luftwaffe bomber strafed another village as it flew over although no bombs were dropped on that occasion.

Last registered to the Lloyd E. Beck Masonry Company and all four on board were killed in the crash.