I can offer G-AHAY at White Waltham, when owned by Westland Helicopters, but inherited from Fairey Aviation. I think it went to a museum in Israel.
Nice pics. I wish I took a ladder that high when I went to shows. Do you need special dispensation from the CAA and a red light on the top? 😀
Those damn seagulls get everywhere though…
Nice ones Jim. I was there that year and may be part of your “crowd scene”, so popular with young spotters! I see you also got a shot of the classic Blackdyne Rotoburn, as featured in Flight’s Straight & Level page, at that time.
Probably before my spotting days, my parents used to take me on the 90B bus to LAP south side and we sat in the beer garden of the Green Man pub. That was a good vantage point to see arriving aircraft. Does the Green Man still exist?
connie freak….if you click around in these GoogleLIFE archive links relating to the 1st Comet 4 service 26Oct1958 you catch glimpses of the Northside buildings and the features to the South of RWY 28R
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/2d328757f4d491f9.html
e.g… http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f2310564a66734c3.html
and http://images.google.com/hosted/life/263bc217bbee51cc.html
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/43a9ece3d918542e.html
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/5502e428f0b4e7ea.html
I saw it take-off! From the school playground at New Road Sec Mod School (Now demolished and replaced by a hotel car park!). I also saw the 1st Pan-Am 707 service take-off too. G-APDB and N709PA if my memory serves me correctly…:rolleyes:
Your Polish looks more polished than my Polish…
Saturday 8th December?
Now there’s a coincidence! I remember sitting, facing the rear, as was customary on RAF transports, watching several rivets in the engine nacelle gently rotating as we passed over Lincolnshire.
R-6 maybe, or shall we call it a Dragonfly? S-51? Your call.
Here’s how a proper spotter underlined etc. Featurning pages from the 1960 edition with loads of Prentices and the 1962 one, when they had mysteriously disappeared… Note tidy dating and location record. Next we have my “custom” cover for 1962. The Day-Glo doesn’t really scan that well, nor am I good enought to tweak it to bring the colours out, but you get the idea…
Did anyone mention the BOAC Junior Jet Club? Here’s my log book. Yes, I know there are no BOAC aircraft in it…
Of dear. Do you often regret starting something…lol.
Refering to my 1960 edition I see that I underlined in light blue ballpoint, but some of the owners are underlined in red. I think I did that when Air Pic notified of a change of ownership… However, by the G-AM series, I had mainly switched to pencil, leading me to deduce that the biro had run out!
Next thing was the Where & When Seen column. In the 1960 edition I only recorded the where, not the when. Yet in the 1962 edition its red biro, with dates for 1960 & 61.
This leads logically (?) on to abbreviations for the locations. I wondered if these were universal, or just mine? I have a small selection on page 3…CN = Croydon, BN = Bagington, EL = Eastleigh, BB = Blackbushe, BH = Biggin Hill, FO = Fairoaks, SM = Science Museum, HL = Hamble, ET = Elstree, SF = Stapleford, SE = Southend, WW = White Waltham and LAP obviously London Airport… For some reason FB, SM, RH, DH, KN, GW, & SK weren’t included in the chart, but were listed in the RH column (that’s right hand, not Redhill). That only covered spottings up to G-AH**.
I’m sorry, prizes only for Ian Allan versions, underlined at the time. :p
Here’s an S.1S, at an Airshow.
But did you religiously transfer all of the spotted items to the following years books? Perhaps we need a thread to see if, and when spotters gave up on this time consuming practice and got a life, or female company as we call it. Expecting those who did go on the cycling trips/camping with, was it the well spoken Arthur? 😉
Pencil? How dark ages. My 1960 one is emblazoned with underlining in red ballpoint, but with dates and notes in pale blue (turquiose?) fountain pen ink. Correction, that’s the 1962 edition that I alway keep in the drawer by my desk, just in case… Has anyone else use those new natty Humbrol Day-Glo paints to enhance their covers? The Argosy on mine has Day-Glo yellow wings, orange fuse top and green bottom. Oh yes, Civil Aircraft is in orange too… Seemed like a good idea at the time…:o