EGLL London Heathrow 1966/67

[Garry Russell]

Tony

Thanks again

The top pic of the second lot...is that the Air France Convair 990??

Peter

Progress I often not progress for some

[speedbird591]

Thanks for sharing these wonderful shots, Tony. The quality brings back the feeling of being there in those days which you rarely get from the lesser quality b&w shots.

I was a frequent visitor in those days on my Triumph Bonneville, killing two birds with one stone. A great bike ride combined with a great destination.

Ian

[Tomliner]

Hi Tony.Welcome to the site,I'm sure you will enjoy it here.Your pics are very interesting and very good quality for the time.
I have a few very similar shots from in 1968/69 taken on KodachromeX (awful film) on a very basic Kodak Instamatic camera which I posted here some time ago.They are nothing like the quality of yours,but since they were posted I have cleaned them up a bit.If you have no objection,I would like to repost a few of them purely for nostalgic reasons.
I'll wait for your reply before I do anything.I really wouldn't want you to think that I was treading on your toes,so to speak.
Best wishes EricT

[NigelC]

This one Garry??

http://www.plane-mad.com/aviation-photo ... 43016.html

[Garry Russell]

Hi Nigel

If it is that, then yes as AFIK they only had that one

[tones6789]

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.

Peter, Nigel and Garry,

The full size scan of my photo is no clearer, but it is certaianly Air France and has four jet engines! I think I can just about make out the distince nose band of the Covair as seen in this photo...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7269/6925 ... 4427_h.jpg

EricT

I'd love to see more photos from this era. Mine were scanned in from 35mm slides - my Epson scanner has something called Digital ICE that removes dust and scratches from the final image - the camera was (probably) a Petri 7s.

Tony
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[simondix]

Reminds me of all the happy hours spent at the Queens Building and my dad taking us to the end of the runway on the perimeter road to watch aircraft taking off(can't do that nowadays] in particular Connies and various DC's with my dad. The era of the photos when used to go by bus from Wembley as a schoolboy. The boy living opposite us father worked for ATC and we got a trip once up the control tower.

[cstorey]

Definitely the Convair . The fin is much more shark's fin like than that of the DC8, and tapers less

[Garry Russell]

That what I was thinking and in addition, the plain tube like engines.

Certainly struck me straight off as the CV990

[VEGAS]

Wonderful shots. Thanks for posting.