A wheels up landing:p

I saw a clip from the film and noticed that too. On looking more closely it is not a Bristol Freighter dorsal fin…it’s a different shape and not blended in.

It looks like a temp addition possibly because of the way they were throwing it about they needed an increase to the fin area for safety???

That was certainly a Srs.21 without a dorsal…normally

G-AIFV was damaged in the filming but repaired and returned to Silver City..minus the dorsal.

Garry

KLM use the MD-11 on some South American routes

Interesting pics Keith

It’s sort of displayed or was then.

An improvement on a pic I saw with a basic livery but stripped and looking hidden away.

They seem to have made it look presentable in it’s present form. At least it is preserved until the means to complete and re assemble are found.

Hi Rui

The last I heard of the Duxford Ambassador was that it was still in bits amd not very accessable, tucked up in the back of a hangar:(

Perhaps someone has an update??

Garry

I can remember an Argosy parked at Exeter airport in the 1980’s, was that broken up there?

Jeff

Sounds like ex Rolls-Royce G-APRM

That was BU at Exeter early-mid eighties

http://www.abpic.co.uk/popup.php?q=1158621

Garry

I remember an incident back in the 1980’2 where a Monarch (I think) flight had to leave some pax behind

On the previous flight a rugby team stole the life jackets

They manged to get a few from various sources but they were, I think it was 3 short, so they could not carry pax on the seats without life jackets and those passengers had to stay behind.

Not only did that inconvenience the pax but it cost the airline for the life jackets, to put up the stranded overnight and potentially the loss of revenue on pax occupying seats that had been allocated on an earlier flight.

This is pure theft and should be treated as such and also it is interfering with the safety equipment of an aeroplane

A jail term should be automatic.

Garry