Comet.... 02?!

Callum · Post by **Callum** » 29 Sep 2006, 23:28

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1104901/L/

Look in the background.. that looks like a white comet to me. Any information on which it is and what it was doing there? :k:

Post by **MALTBY D** » 29 Sep 2006, 23:31

That's the wingless 4B that was sat at Gatwick for years.
Don't know the full history off hand, but you can be pretty sure someone is typing it right now!

DM

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 29 Sep 2006, 23:37

All I know is it was ex-DAN Air and there since the early eighties until my associate Mr "Trident Man" scrapped it along with Trident 3B, G-AWZX a year or two ago whilst working with some contractors.

Post by **MALTBY D** » 29 Sep 2006, 23:50

You mean I've not been beaten to the full history yet!? :shock:

Just had a peek in my Ladybird book of Comets...

G-APMB Comet 4B s/n 06422
Delivered to BEA in 1959 named 'Walter Gale'.
It flew the first BEA jet service.
Did stints with Olympic, Channel & Dan-Air.
Last flight 1978 & was at Gatwick ever after.

It's a very involved book is this...

Flights made 19,185
Hours flown 33,454

Bought by Gatwick Handling in 1978 as a training aircraft.
Outer wings removed & painted white in 1982.

Blimey, it even says who painted it!!...

Dave Osbourne & Jim Terry.

Says it was used for towing training.

DM

Post by **Garry Russell** » 29 Sep 2006, 23:51

That was G-APMB ex BEA, Channel, Dan Air

Garry

***EDIT you slipped in while I was posting

It belonged to Gatwick handling

G-APDM was kept at Gatwick as a ground trainer for a while as well.

Garry

Post by **MALTBY D** » 29 Sep 2006, 23:53

ha, beat you!

Post by **Garry Russell** » 29 Sep 2006, 23:53

:nahnah:

Garry

Tom Everitt AFG · Post by **Tom Everitt AFG** » 30 Sep 2006, 00:29

The DC10 in the foreground has also been reduced to tin cans. A damn shame too as DA was the better of the four 10's Airtours/My Travel operated. Still the cause of many a headache though during my time at Manchester.

Tom.