Red lanolin.

Chequered tail to chequered nose! Mark Jefferies in Yak mode. Little Gransden 1990s

So Laurence, are you going to admit which one is you?

At last some pics of Convair 440’s and Strats! When I was a spotter around 1960, most European airlines used Convairs, such as SAS, Iberia, Sabena, JAT, LOT, KLM, Finnair, Swissair, Lufthansa. All could be seen, and photographed, if you could afford film and the processing, from the Queens Building Roof Gardens at Heathrow. At that time, all of the transatlantic movements operated from “North Side”, next to the A4 Bath Road, using effectively, converted nissan huts. There was also a restaurant there for ground staff called The Green Dragon I think, where you could purchase a Coke or a portion of chips. Just outside and across the perimeter road was a viewing area, complete with very uncomfortable steel chairs. The Strats, DC-6s, DC-7s and Connies taxied right past with just a tubular barrier between you and the aircraft. The Queen also used North Side for her Heron. How things have changed!

Here’s another part of one, with associated PAX…

Have a feeling the fuselage of G-APIF did not move Croydon to Biggin, so maybe it went to Minworth earlier than Croydon closure!

I can recall a Prentice at Biggin around that time. It had the orange top transparancies that was popular with the type, but I can’t remember what its reg was. As a lad, I sneaked around Croydon just before the time of its closure, but am pretty sure it wasn’t there at that time.

There was one similar to that over the island of Meganissi, Greece in October last year…