Pictures from Teeside

[Garry Russell]

Some interesting pics......including some Tridents making their last landings http://www.dtvmovements.co.uk/images/2008/Imagemain.htm

[TSR2]

Great find Garry...and theres even a 1-11 you haven't painted! BAC 1-11-401AK G-AXCP in a Dan Air - BM Hybrid scheme

[DaveB]

Some lovely shots on there Garry.. great find

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Bugger....That was a new one on me Ben and I hoped you wouldn't notice

[DaveB]

It seems Belfasts are older than I thought too. That picture of XR363 says it was transferred to HeavyLift at Southend in 1896! Note.. I always look at Belfast pics, not because I like the aircraft but because I see them as a source of spares!

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

I think they used up some of the Belfast left overs on the Titanic

Interesting the Tridents were flown in with the livery aleady neautralised

I was surprised as when thinking of places to go to see things, Teeside doesn't jump to the fore.

Seems to be a bit of a Prestwick........very few but some of the best and most varied you are likely to see

[DaveB]

Yup.. seeing Tridents neutralised is pretty common (in the grand scale of things) and the last Trident flight by a BA crew was done in an aircraft thus painted (got a shot here somewhere but can't find it!). Shame so many ended up on fire dumps but I guess they were still current enough to be of use to fire fighters

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

I've seen the pics of the ones for Zaire like that but not still with BA..not active ones at least

Sad to think what was to befall them

[DispatchDragon]

That certainly is a great find Garry

Gorgeous shot of G-ANCF's "little door" with the jury strut in place

Also HB-IEN - alot dirtier than I ever remembers her.


The shot of CK and G-ASPL bring back happy memories - although I never saw the Hybrid paints either. Dan Air Teeside usually had Comets and 748s based there with the 1-11s doing inside turns to
places like Ibiza and Palma out of Luton --- we had about a dozen hosties who transferred down from MME to LTN in the early 70s, Speaking of which I just made contact with the son of one of my favorite 1-11
Captains (Jim Perry) small world isn't it.

Leif

[Garry Russell]

One Dan Air Comet........G-APDE has been reported a few times as Teeside based for training,
I came across a pic recently of the aircraft after retirement at Lasham and it had small flight training titles by the forward crew door.

Wheather or not it ever did Teeside pax charters I can't say buut there is no evindence of it being a part of the main fleet and certainly I never recorded that one in our area

BEA did smilar with Trident G-ARPM at Shannon for a long time and BA with VC 10 G-ARVM at Prestwick and as such removed from the pax fleet for the duration of the intensive training