The bit after the clip where they decide to turn for home has stuck with me since I was a young lad in the mid sixties.

The sight of the trails as posted above, then they sweep into the turn…very impressionable

I wonder how many latter day pilots got their first inspiration from this film.

Very much a compempory promotion, it does stand as a marvellous record of those days.

Odd thread title given that 12 o’Clock High was a different film as linked above. This was called “Strategic Air Command”

RE The OP

The Ghana DC 10 is 9G-ANB

All the talk about letter and number allocations but is there any reason not to mix

Apart from the countries mentioned earlier, (USA, China, Japan or former Soviet States) plus South Korea and many countries for microlights , there is also Saudi that uses a mixture and Latvia which uses a mixture for microlights and even the UK and France that used mixed on the Concordes.

Just because it’s not normally done doesn’t seem to mean it can’t be??.:confused:

Returning to Latvia, in the summer I was confused trying to identify a micolight. It was Profi YL-I11, that is “i” one one:stupid:

The NAMC YS-11 is basically a Japanese built HS.748

Early jet aircraft were noisy.

Reality…it was the engines not the aircraft, we hear how noisy the One-eleven, and Trident were for example, but, it was their RR Speys. No one ever seemed to complaining about RR disturbing their peace. The aircraft took all the blame.

They only used what was availiable at the time.

DH Comets also had similar, but they called them pinnion tanks

No, the Comet 4/4C had pinion tanks built into the wing

The Viscounts slipper tanks were easily removable tanks to be fitted or removed as and when needed. They were designed to be temporary.

Keeping something alive is the best form of preservation.

Machines soon deteriorate when not powered up.

Thanks for the comparison.

Looks like the nose gear is well compressed supporting the heavy loaded theory.

Even in what some might think a straight forwards shot there can always be something of interest or out of the ordinary.

Thanks for sharing all these pics