Classic British Flight Sim

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

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

Some lovely shots on there Garry.. great find

ATB

DaveB

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

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

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

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

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

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

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