There’s one shot
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=lebanese+savoia&hl=en&rlz=1W1IRFC_enGB355&biw=1440&bih=663&tbm=isch&tbnid=2Uw78V0wnfQjeM:&imgrefurl=http://www.ww2incolor.com/modern/WSsm79iraq.html&docid=qdiK_Xn9FqhNcM&imgurl=http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/625199-2/WSsm79iraq&w=500&h=327&ei=-kGsT52TBMm90QWIptS0Cw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=1025&vpy=320&dur=344&hovh=181&hovw=278&tx=150&ty=76&sig=112349241831838103321&page=1&tbnh=147&tbnw=196&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0,i:91

and there’s another shot in
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=87571&page=10

Plenty of history there, VeeOne! These Dassault Fan Jet Falcons are perhaps the most interesting of all bizjets…all with freight doors converted as the launch type for Federal Express nearly 40 years ago then purchased for Royal Navy support (shuttling crew and spares for the nuclear subs wasn’t it?) They were in the static at Culdrose displayed towable target which had actually been hit in exercises.
I flew on a European BAC-111 Manchester-Pisa in the nineties….cheap as chips, that trip (with a breakfast to match! :))

That’s a refreshingly tasteful colour scheme

Thanks for that link….the real event happened some months after the NBC broadcast in the first post so it must relate to another flight….my creaking brain recalls a flight from France in 1940? landed near Brighton?

Thanks for the tip. 🙂

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet_Flight

Not much into sport…just Googled ‘British Team 1952’….there isn’t much about the event online considering Britain did so well…possibly because it was behind the Iron Curtain…also I believe the British Cycling world was split into rival factions at that time

1952 might have been a bit early for a Scandia or Viscount?….Viking, perhaps. Was this for the British Cycling team led by Ian Steel who won the ‘Peace Race’ Warsaw-Berlin-Prague?

London-Heathrow to Copenhagen-Kastrup as a regular, commercial flight possibly by an SAS DC-4, DC-6 or even a Saab Scandia or a BEA Viscount.

Copenhagen-Kastrup to Warsaw possibly by a LOT Ilyushin IL-12 (there’s a picture on airliners.net of one in Copenhagen taken in 1952).

Sadly scrapped after a 2nd life as an admiral’s barge, according to potted history under this photo
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1214886/

I just signed the pledge , Stepwilk :)…..Re Ziff-Davis, I’ve just noted that Google books have fixed the gaps in their Online Archive of Flying Magazine…I’ve just broused the September 1942 RAF Special…Heavyweight stuff Colour photos by Charles E Brown ‘specially flown over in a Ferry Command aircraft’ writing by Flight Lieutenant H E Bates….that’s me occupied for the next six Months!http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Flying_Magazine.html?id=8BVI6sNpT4wC&redir_esc=y

I put a lot of hours on Flying Magazine’s Shrike Commander, all over the U. S., the Bahamas and the Caribbean. (Those were the days…)

Real BTO (Big Time Operator) airplane, great big yoke, fistful of throttles.

Ours was very handsomely outfitted, with four-leather-chair club seating and a small bar between the rear two seats, complete with an ice cabinet. Flying one day on a trip with a girlfriend (as I said, those were the days), she had to pee, but I’d gotten us up into a nice tailwind at 11.5 or so, maybe 13.5, and I didn’t want to give up the altitude to land, so I told her to just use the [empty] ice bucket, which she did.

Couldn’t help chuckling to myself thereafter whenever I was acting as the Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.’s quasi-corporate pilot with a quartet of suits in the back, and I’d hear one or another of them say, “Another drink, Ed? Scotch on the rocks, was it?”