Classic British Flight Sim

Hi Jon

Yep.. I have several references from posters of the day to the 'Speedbird Service' but have not come across the Stratocruiser Speedbird before Doesn't mean to say it didn't happen though

It was common for BOAC to 'name' individual aircraft as classes (BEA too for that matter) and all the Hermes were named..
ALDA - Hecuba
ALDB - Hebe
ALDC - Hermione
ALDD - Horatius
ALDE - Hanno
ALDF - Hadrian
ALDG - Horsa
ALDH - Heracles
ALDI - Hannibal
ALDJ - Hengist
ALDK - Helena
ALDL - Hector
ALDM - Hero
ALDN - Horus
ALDO - Heron
ALDP - Homer
ALDR - Herodotus
ALDS - Hesperides
ALDT - Hestia
ALDU - Halcyone
ALDV - Hera
ALDW - Helios
ALDX - Hyperion
ALDY - Honor


ATB

DaveB

Thanks Dave,

I didn't know how many Hermes (Hermeses, Hermi ) there were. Obviously more than the eight HP42s/45s.

H.P.42
G-AAGX Hannibal
G-AAUC Horsa
G-AAUD Hanno
G-AAUE Hadrian
H.P.45
G-AAXC Heracles
G-AAXD Horatius
G-AAXE Hengist
G-AAXF Helena

Jon

Another converted bomb carrying a/c was the Sunderland - and it's too early in the morning to remember whether they became the Solents. My father was sitting in India waiting to come home on leave after three years straight in the jungle in '45, when a civilianised Sunderland arrived with some government highbrow on board, and the first six to the plane got a quick trip home. He was that deck of cards!

Mind you he had hardly got home to Dundee when he got an urgent recall to join in the planning for Zipper. That's military intelligence for you.