That Syrianair Caravelle is a real gem. A shame to see CL44 ‘Golf Oscar’ in that state. I ‘ramped’ that one many times at STN on the livestock flights.

Well, from what it says here, it looks as though the last BA Tristar was retired in 1999. See link.

http://www.historicairlinegroup.com/

That Dan Air Ambassador looks quite out of place against the modern architecture at Gatwick. A handsome aircraft, none the less.

photos’ for the cyber albums 🙂
Enjoy!

And my two nominations for Outstanding Livery for 2012 😉

1 Suckling Airways (Scot Airways) op for Loganair

2 Eastern Airways

Any comments are always most welcomed.

And I can well understand why.:)

I used to work at Dyce back in 1980, for a company called Air Ecosse. In those days the Dyce ramp was full of our dark red and gold fleet of Embraer Bandeirante,or ‘Bandits’ as they were known, I believe that at one stage we operated 10 of them. We also had 2 Twin Otters. Our hangar from that time, looks as though it is occupied by a well known helicopter operator. Nice pics

Sarah/longshot, Evocative shots indeed! Thanks for taking the time to post them all. The ‘Red Square’ BEA livery and the Comet 4B=a match made in Heaven:) You can just imagine the warm sun and hear the GPUs purring away, in that busy SEN ramp shot. Just priceless.

VeeOne/Peter et al….The Channel ‘gold fin’ scheme was ‘lifted’ from Continental airlines in the USA ,wasn’t it, when Channel bought some of their Viscounts….the Tridents must have been painted with that scheme from the factory…… when did they go bust…1971?….Mick

I can remember an artist’s impression inside the front cover of a Tom Hills Holidays brochure in the early 70s, of a Comet in the full ‘gold fin’ Channel livery. My parents booked the holiday to Palma from Stansted. However, we actually flew on a Transeuropa Caravelle. Perhaps Channel folded after the brochures had been printed.

The whole stop/minimise the climate control regime, practiced by western countries, and some others, is IMO meaningless. Without the likes of the US, China, and the ’emerging countries’ onboard, its a waste of time and money, and it penalises financially those states that are genuinely trying to implement suitable policies. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for any measures that will not only help to ‘clean up’ the environment, and thereby enable us to leave a decent world for the unborn generations to inherit. But without the majority of the worlds countries on board, it all means diddly squat.

I’m assuming that they are returning to the lessors. They are all flight planned to SNN. Could it be they are using SNN as a tech stop before heading onwards? Still 7 on ‘the scope’ at present