Any idea which mark of Caravelle had the Comet type cockpit?
The Caravelle 6R was the first variant to sport the modified nose.
Nice to see the Transeuropa pics, especially at STN!
How about almost all of a photo of a very good model of an F-28, in a display case at, City of Norwich Aviation Museum …. I think you can guess which colour scheme it may be in ??
Keith.
Nice one Keith, I wouldn’t mind giving that a home! Somewhere, I’ve got an Air Anglia flight bag which has an F28 on it. There used to be a nice Air UK F28 model in a large Perspex ball on display in the airside shopping area at Schiphol
Interesting comparison on these large prop liners:
Bristol Britannia 300: L:41.75m/136′ 11″ W:43.37m/142′ 4″
Vickers Vanguard: L:37.45m/123′ 10″ W:36.14m/119′ 7″
Ilyushin IL18: L:35.9m/117′ 9: W:37.4m/122′ 9″
Electra: L:31.85m/105′ 6″ W:30.18m/99′ 0″
Nice ones Keith.
I’ll second that!
They did indeed work with DH to utilise a slightly modified Comet nose section. Later Caravelles featured a very different flight deck glazing configuration, to greatly improve the field of vision for the crew. I believe that Sud took the opportunity to modernise the flight deck layout at the same time
Very interesting STN and SEN airborne shots. Could anyone tell me if the aviation museum at SEN is still there?
Another nice couple of snaps there. You can see where the Nord 262s lineage comes from.
Along with the Ariana, my favourite liveries on the 727 are, Libyan Arab, Olympic, JAT, Iraqi, Sterling, and the original Icelandair, as per their -100.
A lovely looking jet. I was always amazed when I was working the Linjeflyg examples, how much room there seemed to be in the cabin, and on the flight deck come to that. The crews always said that it was a delight to fly.
Kaman made a very similar looking helicopter, known as the ‘Huskie’.
http://www.military-aircraft.org.uk/helicopters/kaman-hh-43-huskie.htm
Note that the twin rotors on the Huskie, are twin intermeshing types.
I really like that Maersk livery on the -200.
Both our company and the competition used this aircraft for our air bridge training at STN. She was also utilised for towing practice by our ramp crews. Glad that something of her survives.
Hi Sarah, The Ka26 in your pic was made by the Kamov helicopter enterprise, founded by Nikolai Kamov, in the then Soviet Union. His enterprise was responsible for producing mainly military craft featuring his trademark central twin axial rotor principle. I have seen this actual Ka26 in many pics operating within the old DDR. Interflug operated the type in many roles, including air ambulance and arial survey duties. Some of these machines were also operated by the Volkspolizei (Peoples Police), in the old DDR, and I would assume that this example will, at some time, have been flown by them. I always thought that the registration was very appropriate!
Great images! I’ve always had a soft spot for the Busy Bee:) Sadly, like the airline, the aircraft is no longer with us, as it perished in an accident in India, sometime in the mid 90s. It was the only 737 I ever ramped with the integral stairs at the aft door, with no integral steps fwd.