The last Vickers Vanguard flight was on October 17 1996 when G-APEP was ferried from Coventry to Weybridge.

A couple more deep-frozen Viscounts and a TriPacer from the same era. What on earth was my teenage self doing out and about with his camera in that weather? I must have been mad.

One of them was N9893Z used by Lufthansa. I’ve also got a vague idea that TWA were involved as well. Somewhere I’ve got a rather poor picture of it at Heathrow from about 1966/7, which I’ll try to dig it up later.
Come to think of it, it’s probably the only time I’ve ever seen one.

This cold enough? Liverpool feb 1969

Ah, that little-known tailwheel Liberator:D

Slight update to this story after a recent chat with an ex eagle/cambrian engineer. The siezed mainwheel brake might have been the official explanation but was NOT the actual reason. 😉

Jon

Well, don’t keep us in suspense, then.

I’ll probably go out for my usual Saturday night beer later this evening. Chances are my friend old Frank will be there, as likely as not wearing his parachute regiment tie.
It’ll cost me a pint, as Frank is one of that small band who were parachuted in to Normandy on d-day minus one. Not many of them left now, and if I had my way Frank and his surviving comrades would have free beer from now on, chargeable to the government. Fat chance, alas.
I’ll phone my one surviving aunt over the weekend, too. She’s another of a dwindling group, of those who can even remember the Great War. 97 now and with all her wits and health – she still does a bit of part time work just to help out at her daughter’s guest house.
And I’ll try and at least watch the remembrance parade. When I was a teenager there used to be a smattering of Boer War veterans each November, all of them long gone. But none of them forgotten.