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A very sad pic
Posted: 25 Sep 2007, 22:20
by Garry Russell
Re: A very sad pic
Posted: 25 Sep 2007, 22:23
by DispatchDragon
Very Sad Garry
Dumb question - were the 748s HS or HAL built???
leif
Re: A very sad pic
Posted: 25 Sep 2007, 22:28
by Garry Russell
They will be HS.probably 2B's
Shows the power of the Sun
The almost bleached off light blue was in fact a bold green.
Bouraq was one of the last customers in the final years of the production run. The 2B demonstator at Farborough in about 84 ish........off the top of my head ......was in a Bouraq basic that gave the apearance of green version of the earlier Dan Air livery.........one that wasn't ripe yet :roll:
Garry
Re: A very sad pic
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 15:34
by Nigel H-J
Well, there is one small consolation.............They are all still in one piece in the photo....Sadly, that may not now be the case. :-(
Nigel.
Re: A very sad pic
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 15:47
by Garry Russell
I think those were the Viscounts scrapped a couple of years ago.
There was some move to acquire one of them for preservation elsewhere but nothing could be done before the axe fell :-(
Garry
Re: A very sad pic
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 15:51
by TSR2
Yep, just checked google earth and there is no sign of them. :-(
Re: A very sad pic
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 16:02
by Garry Russell
Out there they seem to accumilate their 'junk' over a period of time and them have a mass clear out .
Once they get going there is soon nothimg at all left.
SOme aircraft like the eax MNA Vanguards are not even recorded as a demise.
They were in sevice then stored.....then gone... no firm dates and nothing at all recorded about the break ups of some:-(
Garry
Re: A very sad pic
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 17:13
by Hot_Charlie
Very sad sight, but a nice link to
this at the bottom of the page