Southend in the early Seventies

British Air Ferries were shifting their business somewhat towards passengers rather than vehicles, hence the use of aircraft like Viscounts and DC-4

G-AXAI BAF Carvair ‘Fat Albert’ 1973

G-BANP ex Spanish DC-4 operated by BAF 1973

G-AVIW BAF Viscount Ex Alidair 1973

F-BRPT T.A.R Carvair ‘Big Joe’ 1972

G-AREK BAF Carvair ‘Porky Pete’ 1973

G-ASHZ BAF Carvair ‘Maasbrug’ 1972…leftover Carvair nose from production by boundary…Moormanair DC-3 being scrapped after crash

I suspect that Boeing couldn’t make 757s at production rate that was really profitable and preferred to sell 737s which they could make money on (-900 had been launched)…they fetch a good price now for conversion to freighters apparently

KLM Tails

This is broadly the history from about 1959-1973, KLM tended to introduce a new scheme with a new type
RWB=red white blue rudder /diagonal stripes _horizontal stripes

Convair 340 RWB /

DC-6/A/B RWB /*

DC-7C RWB / _

Viscount RWB /

Electra / _

DC-8 shortbody / _

DC-8-63 _ then as 747/DC-10

DC-9 _ then as 747/DC-10

747 new white top scheme , crown on white tail

DC-10 new blue top scheme

NLM F-27 seem to have started with DC-10 based scheme

First 747 delivered in early 1971, first DC-10 delivered 1973
(* / Possibly only on PJ- DC-6s)
Corrections appreciated 🙂

A few DC-6s as promised, 4W-ABP at Shannon, F-BHVA at Dublin, OO-RVG just airborne from Southend, MM61965 at Northolt, MM61923 at Gatwick, TF-ISC at Heathrow and PJ-DPB at Amsterdam. Quality of scans a bit patchy but hope you like them.

Interesting set, Argonaut…is that TAI aircraft a DC-6 or a DC-6B with the forward windows blanked off?…I’ve just posted some Stansted fire-dump photos from 1973 on the Historic thread http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?p=1859836&posted=1#post1859836

Well the Argonaut was a bit more productive than the Lancastrian!, faster than the DC-4 and pressurized, and the rate at which Canadair cranked them out was a great relief to BOAC….I used to fancy I could tell the engine note of the Argonaut (a little smoother) from the York as a spotter in my schooldays.

I had to start with Argonauts an aircraft that looks like a DC-4 and sounds like a Lancaster, does it come any better ?

A DC-6? 🙂 Or compromising a Canadair C-5 🙂

[QUOTE=VeeOne;1858370]Wow! Caravelles across the oggin? That is a feat of faith in two little 1950s jet engines! I flew in a Caravelle once and it was a bit rickitty, the seats would have not looked out of place in an Auster (very similar, in fact, alluminium poles and leather).

I’m amazed, too, about transatlantic Caravelles with payloads! It seems they used the model 10B which had the P&W JT8D (DC-9/727/737) engine.
From the Alexandre Avrane Caravelle book p93….
‘In December 1971 a Sterling -10B became the first Caravelle to cross the Atlantic with a commercial payload, when it flew from Oslo to Gander (Newfoundland) with 99 passengers,a distance of 2650 miles(4,200km) in 5hr 33min, thus inaugurating a series of charter flights to North America.’
The Flight Global 1973 article on Sterling has a nice route map including New York, Toronto and Chicago and suggests around 50 transatlantic harters were flown by Caravelles in 1972 and intriguingly mentions Bradley Field being used for New York
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1973/1973%20-%201865.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1973/1973%20-%201866.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1973/1973%20-%201867.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1973/1973%20-%201868.html