Classic British Flight Sim

Of course I could start a discussion about the Comet's little (and off-set) red square as well....maybe not!!

Here's a pic from January 1964... http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1003619/ 'Echo Lima' is visible in the foreground with the large red square and an unidentified 951 is visible with the small square. I'm inclined to agree Garry, I think the picture of 'Echo Charlie' is more likely to be from '64 than '...

Hello Garry, Thanks again for the info. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Vanguard_BEA_Heathrow.jpg Found this on Wikipedia. It's dated as 1965 which, with the Trident in the background, I would imagine would be about right. The surprising thing (for me at least) is that both the Va...

Hello Garry,

Thanks for the link. I was looking for a book and I end up with a newsreel...what a bonus!

Cheers!

Dave

Any article of book on the Vanguard history and introduction into service will usually contain pics of G-APEE...

Hello Garry,

Can you give me some examples?

Dave

G-APEE was the first Vanguard in service and in fact pics of it are quite common You guys must have better photograph access than I do. The only photograph on the net that I can find of 'Double Echo' is the one on the BAmuseum.com 1960-70 photograph gallery, and even then you'd have to take their w...

Hi, Bought 'HISTORY OF BRITISH EUROPEAN AIRWAYS 1946-1972' by Charles Woodley the other day. It's an excellent book with some very good rare photographs in it (even has a picture of G-APEE coming into land at Heathrow). On page 40 there is a photograph of Viscount 701 G-ALWE and I couldn't help noti...