When Air Travel Was Still Fun!

[Techy111]

Gotta be EGJJ then.....And i worked Seaford sector and LUS..... :goodman:

Bet i am still wrong...?

Tony

[PeteP]

Gotta be EGJJ then.....And i worked Seaford sector and LUS..... :goodman:

Bet i am still wrong...?Tony

No, you're right - you did work SFD and LUS!

And yes, it is Jersey - well done. Quite what those BOAC Lancastrians are doing there I've no idea, though.
Pete

[Garry Russell]

Hi Pete

I know Jersey well

That's not Jersey

Must be mislabelled

Garry

[PeteP]

Wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility that it's been mislabelled and it is an odd collection of aircraft to find there, I agree.
PP

[Garry Russell]

Hi Pete

The shadow of the tower is all wrong :think:

The terminal is facing north by the look of it

Jersey faces west

If that was Jersey the parking area would be smaller and there would be barracks above the tail to tail Daks and sandunes to the right of them with the sea behind

The Lancastrians as you pointed out are wrong :think:

Perhaps it is a trip some one was on that Jersey was one end or perhaps the aeroplane it the Jersey flight and that has been misunderstood.

Garry

[PeteP]

OK, you've convinced me!
PP

[Garry Russell]

Entertaining thread nonetheless

Regards

Garry

[PeteP]

Indeed. But as it's not Jersey, that reopens the question of where it really is/was. :think: :think: :think:
PP

[Garry Russell]

If that Freighter was a Jersey flight with BOAC Lancastrians in the backround and a flat topgraphy I would say Hurn

But I don't know what kind of tower Hurn had

This one has a distict aeriel mast :think:

[DaveB]

I'm still thinking Hurn too.. even moreso now the phot was labelled Jersey. Makes complete sense which is a rarity round here

EDIT.. this is what Wickie has to say..
From November 1944 the airfield took over from Bristol's Whitchurch aerodrome[1] as the main operating base for British Overseas Airways Corporation until Heathrow fully opened in 1948.[2] It was the starting point of the first England-Australia service, which took three days in Avro Lancastrians (modified Lancaster bombers).
I'll try and find a phot now which is what I was looooking for in the first place

ATB

DaveB :tab: