This takes me back. Laker Airlines was big news at the time as the first low cost carrier. Sir Freddie Laker was a pioneer and to start with in the early days of building the Airline would conduct some business from a public phone box.

Sadly as his Airline business grew, the bigger carriers swooped down and took him out. BA Is the only survivor from that time. PANAM Went bust after Lockerbie disaster which finished them off. The others seem to have just disappeared probably merging with other carriers.

Don’t know if you may have seen BBC Bombers first broadcast in 1980, original film by Ilef cousins of Lancs at Scampton. Also the Memphis bell documentary at the same time. I have these on VHS But cannot find it on the net.

There is reference to cork screwing in the Lanc footage. I could transfer this to disc, only thing is its been played that many times its a bit worn now, like me.:)

Second post attempt.

Colerne. WOW! That brings back memories of the RAF. I was stationed there in the early 1970’s.

I found 3 pics of P7350 in my files. They were shot in the BBMF hangar in September 2010.

WOW! Great pics!

WOW! This takes me back a bit, remember it well, used to look forward to what happened next. The theme as I remember is of ex WW2 pilots starting their own airline business.

Sadly many failed before they got of the ground. But Ruskin was making it. They were going to hire a Lockheed Constellation as said in the thread. But the Aircraft needed maintenance, the main draw back was the cost of the fuel to fly the airoplane. Which the budget for the series would not allow.