3 more on a theme…

This thread seems to be drying up so I’ll post a final 3 shots – one from Stansted, the other 2 from Heathrow.

Thanks for your comments The Eh Team and Civilspotter. Nice shots yourself Civilspotter – the CAA HS748 takes me back.

The Caledonian DC10 was doing circuits that day and I just got lucky with the one approach I decided to take a photo. I can still remember the noise and the screeching as it hit the ground really hard.

Afraid photography isn’t my career The Eh Team, but there are plenty of projects in the can so to speak that are waiting for a bit of TLC (i.e. time) that will lead to a pot of gold!

As for the camera Civilspotter, at the time I used a Zenith E – the bottom of the range 100% manual camera – when you got everything right it came together really well, but there were plenty of occasions when one-off shots slipped through my fingers.

Anyway, here’s a few more photos.

This thread has got me going through my old boxes. here’s a few more from the 80s if anyone is interested.

Just for the record, here’s a photo I took back in 2004 of the only dry example of a Fw58.

There was an episode of Bergerac once where he was solving a crime in an aviation museum in Jersey.

In the museum there was an Avro 504, SE5a, Tutor, LVG CVI, Gladiator………sound familiar?

In 1980 Jackaroo G-AOIR succumbed to ‘The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb’ in the desert.

Also, the Transavia Airtruk in the Mad Max film is VH-TRQ, now in the museum in Madrid.