Indian AF at Northolt

Apologies for the grumpy response re 707….this was the Indian Super Connie which got a bit close to a 727 approaching Heathrow RWY23 in early 1970

Yes, I think it was an Indian one that mistook it for Heathrow. They had to strip all the seats and just about everything else out so a Boeing test pilot could fly it out with minimal fuel.

SRH….#3 and#4 are Martin Baltimores …..they look more like official photos than amateur ones….thanks again

My father worked for KLM so naturally I flew KLM :)….10% fares when I was a student…..they leased a DC-8-63 to VIASA very early (1968?) and it was on my London -Amsterdam KLM flight one day….the Captain welcomed us to our flight to Caracas! No such sense of humour these days ,I imagine

Not Indian ….Pan Am 1960 (at least I don’t think the pilot was Native American) …read
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=114447&highlight=heathrow+northolt post#7

photo http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1001607/

There was an near-miss incident 9 Jan 1970 with an Indian Air Force Super Constellation and an Olympic 727 due to conflict between LHR RWY23L and NHT RWY26 approaches

Yes, I think it was an Indian one that mistook it for Heathrow. They had to strip all the seats and just about everything else out so a Boeing test pilot could fly it out with minimal fuel.

Yes…there were about 4 different stretch Eights from non-scheds at Stansted that afternoon, I’ll scan the others up soon….even Eastern flew stretch Eights into Mildenhall on charters round that time but I didn’t see them

That C46 is a gem! Back then, STN played host to many unusual visitors, in particular tha DC8s belonging to the US carriers such as, Saturn, ONA, AFA, TIA, and Airlift. An elderly friend of mine, used to clean the cabins on the turnarounds of those 8s. She told me that there were sometimes ‘soldiers’ on board, and sometimes ‘ordinary’ folk. During the mid 80s, we used to handle the DC8s of the US carrier Capitol.

Some dinosaurs from 1970 🙂

Stansted

Heathrow

The Soviet Air Force Antonovs marked as CCCP11110 and 11719 which shut Heathrow airspace for an hour in July 1970 on their way to Hullavington

Emirates A380 in the rain

Have you got that A380 braking in the rain up on Airliners.net?….thats a winner! refreshingly different

Amazing to think that once upon a time we made whole aeroplanes, and quite a lot of them too.

Now our whole aerospace industry makes Airbus wings, some missiles, and…….er….that’s it. 🙁

Don’t forget Rolls Royce engines!….It’s all still a very big business and now presumably makes money….better to be hooked up to a Franco-German determination to stay in manufacturing than the short-term view of successive British Governments

btw the Bristol 170 looked unusually fast and the AW Apollo raher slow….clockwork movie camera? 🙂