Lufthansa Freight flights

[Garry Russell]

Hi Tim

I mentioned it above ....the Kar Air DC 6 finished in 1981 a few months after I heard it droning out in the early hours.

It was the last scheduled four engined piston into LHR and there was an article in Aircraft Illustrated about it called 'The Finnish of Pistons"

Garry

[Garry Russell]

Hi Tim

25 Sep 1981 according to this caption

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0219974/L/

Garry

[St.Paddy]

Hi Garry,

Thanks for the poke - I saw what you wrote about 1981.

But you did not say when in 1981 you stayed with family in Putney. If you had stayed in Putney in December 1981 then it might well have been 1982 when it finished! :roll:



Got anything on the Olsen stuff then??

ATB

Tim

[Garry Russell]

:huf: .in which case I would have said the following year

Anyway.....got it sorted now

Fred Olsen............ :think: .....no

The only thing I really know about them is they operated Viscounts and Electras........I did see a couple of their Electras once.

But sorry no details on them.
They tended not to operate in their own right but for other carriers in one form or another.

They did have their own services with the Viscounts at one early point but found they could make them pay better by leasing them out.

Sorry not much help :sad:

Ian may know more

Garry

[St.Paddy]

Thanks Garry

They operated both Electras and C-46's into LHR on occasion - I saw both there.

I may well be wrong but the Electras may have taken over from the Kar-Air DC-6's as they were fairly regular in the early '80's

Anyway - all this has NOTHING to do with 1967!!

[Garry Russell]

Cheers Tim

Quiet an interesting little thread this. The smaller freight operators seem largely forgotten.

The Kar Air were doing Finnair flights so I guess with Fred Olsen working for others rather than themselve it would be just the sort of things they would do.

Given that it was a night operation a prop would be suitable over Jets..the reason Kar Air was doing it in the first place.

So it would seem to all make sense.....especially then when noise was becoming a serious issue.

Garry

[Wildbillkelso]

Quiet an interesting little thread this.

And it still is!
Browsing along the web looking out for references on my upcoming next repaint, I stumbled across this thread.
Want to make an educated guess what will be next?

Just cleaning up the paint booth...

Cheers,
Markus.

[Garry Russell]

OH-KDA??

[Wildbillkelso]

That's a nice livery for sure, Garry:

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... rch=OH-KDA

Creating the correct font for the fuselage lettering will be a challenge...
It's always a pleasure to paint this marvellous "Six"!

But I'm heading for this one:



It's going to become N9891Z, the only Capitol-leased Commando in Lufthansa colours, today's Buffalo C-FAVO.
I was surprised to see it hasn't been done before.

Cheers,
Markus.

[Garry Russell]

The Kar Air is nice....but if you were going to do that I was going to point out that no model exists for it as it was a swing -tail

The Lufthansa titles are like most titles of the classic age..they have to be re created as they are true fonts in the modern sense of the word .