Early Seventies aerial ramp shots
Taking off from Stansted 1970 in Baron Air Charter Beech Baron
Overhead Southend Airport 1970 in Baron Air Charters Baron
Over Hatton Cross for 28L in a Cambrian BAC-111 1973
Early BOAC 747 1970, Air India 747 1971
BOAC 747 G-AWNC LHR taxying from crew-training session summer1970 before service entry with BOAC
Air India VT-EBE Emperor Sharjehan on delivery flight 1971
DC-8-63s…the ‘stretch’8
Trans International DC-8-63 in AeroMexico scheme Le Bourget 1973
Sterling DC-8-63 with Finnair DC-10-30 on runway Las Palmas 1986
Early DC-10s, 1970s
Thai International DC-10-30 ca.1974
Air Zaire DC-10-30 Le Bourget 1973
Pan Am Classic Tin Stratocruiser
These used to be on sale at airport departure lounge shops…this West German GAMA toy was later available with the Pan Am Globe scheme which did get onto the Stratocruisers
Pan American Stratocruiser by A30yoyo, on Flickr
Heathrow South Executive Ramp ca.1973

Good afternoon,
As the title of this topic doesn’t restrict the subject to UK airports, I have taken the liberty to post one of Schiphol airport. It was taken at August 27th, 1966 (OE-LHT in the foreground)
Kind regards,
Peter
That’s the old Schiphol East Terminal isn’t it?…Had KLM already moved into the present terminal before the other operators?
Early 737s
You’re right to raise your eyebrows :),I was wrong!….the Putnam’s Boeing book records Lufthansa as first to order the -100 and United Airlines first to order the -200, so I guess they were the launch customers…I think Britannia were the first European Charter Company to receive the -200, and as I remember it got them some months before Aer Lingus got theirs
Flight Global archive records the 737 was launched in February 1965 on the back of the Lufthansa order
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1965/1965%20-%200580.html?search=boeing launches 737
and the United order for 40 737-200s followed on Apr5 1965
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1965/1965%20-%201007.html?search=united orders 737
Flight 9Jun1966 records the Britannia order for3
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1966/1966%20-%201666.html?search=britannia orders 737
Early Britannia 737 scheme
Britannia was an early (corrected from launch :)) customer for the 737-200 note the stumpy little original engine pods which Boeing had to redesign
Wow. I had no idea so many early airliners did that!
By varying the search terms e.g. 5, 5-,five ,fifth….engines/engined/pod etc you can ferret them out…I just added this lot
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=747+5-engined&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=15&thumbnails=
I’ve got a grainy shot of a Lloyd Intl ex-PanAm 707-321 with 5 somewhere
Interesting that Qantas were doing 747 fifth engine ferries last winter….I think they were the first to do it with their 707 short-bodies 50-odd years ago
Also relevant (scroll a bit) http://www.aviationpics.de/tech/tech.htm
and http://www.pprune.org/questions/328584-747-5-engines.html
Spare engine logistics
747 with 5
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=747+fifth+engine&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=60&thumbnails=
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=747+5th+engine&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=60&thumbnails=
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=747+5th+pod&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=30&thumbnails=
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=747+five+engines&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=30&thumbnails=
http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Airways/Boeing-747-136/1823550/L/
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=747+5-engined&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=15&thumbnails=
TriStar with 4
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=tristar+spare+engine&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=15&thumbnails=
http://www.airliners.net/photo/AirLanka/Lockheed-L-1011-385-3-TriStar/1778245/L/
DC-10 with 4
Scroll down this… http://www.aviationpics.de/tech/tech.htm
VC-10 with 5
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=VC-10+5+engines&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=15&thumbnails=
http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Airways/Vickers-Super-VC10/1045619/L/
DC-8 with 5
http://www.airliners.net/photo/CP-Air/Douglas-DC-8-43/1447888/L/
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Alitalia/Douglas-DC-8-43/1785281/L/
TWA C-82 Packet ‘ONTOS’ (‘the thing’) spares carrier
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=TWA+Packet&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=15&thumbnails=
And a Pprune thread with relevant pics/links http://www.pprune.org/questions/328584-747-5-engines.html
Dad’s Army was so much better than the later ‘Hallo, Hallo’ WWII comedy series. Perhaps worth noting there was a movie made of ‘Dad’s Army’, too, same cast as I remember, in the cinemas in 1971.
Dad’s Army was so much better than the later ‘Hallo, Hallo’ WWII comedy series. Perhaps worth noting there was a movie made of ‘Dad’s Army’, too, same cast as I remember, in the cinemas in 1971.
Particularly smashing photos, VeeOne!…How did you get the low angles with the grass blades in foreground?…you shouldn’t let anoraks like myself prevent you from saying what you feel about the subject 🙂