You know what this means, don't you?
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- Garry Russell
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Re: You know what this means, don't you?
Maybe a secret will come out.
But as I mentioned so did VC10's
Garry
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Re: You know what this means, don't you?
I remember flying in a Dan Dare Elizabethan from Newcastle to Heathrow and while taxiing in, passed one which had crashed the previous day
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707???...G-ARWE?
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Re: You know what this means, don't you?
TSR2 wrote:I don't think Ian's that old that he'd have been on the Argonauts, but you never know
Argo ... what's?
Not saying that VC10s didn't go to AMS, just that I never went there in my six years on them. I can't remember what the hijacked one was doing there. I've just checked my logbook and I've got non stop flights to London from Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, but Dar's at sea level anyway. I think it was just the hot and high thing at NBO that meant more fuel or less freight. Sometimes the Captain was known to offload a pallet so that the crew could take their baskets of fresh fruit home from the market.
I've just found a trip in December 1972. We used G-ARVE off standby to take a 747 crew to Zurich to pick up a 747 that had diverted and the crew were out of hours. We then deadheaded back to London on the 747 except that it diverted to Prestwick and we had to get the train from Glasgow to Euston
Anyway, Ben - I've got another nice little route to HKG for you. We had a route 2 or 3 times a week from Jo'burg to Tokyo. A VC10 calling at Mauritius, Seychelles, Colombo, Kai Tak and Haneda and back. I've just found an 18 day trip that I did in 1977. London - Doha - Colombo - Hong Kong - Colombo - Hong Kong - Tokyo - Hong Kong - Tokyo - Hong Kong - Bombay -passenger back to London. I'd probably spend money to do that nowadays
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Re: You know what this means, don't you?
AIFP coming out as I type... I have got any VC10's going to Japan yet, and that looks like a good excuse
Ta muchly Ian
Ta muchly Ian
Ben.
Re: You know what this means, don't you?
Ian, can you confirm if those were Supers or Standards?
Also, anyone any ideas where the BCAL VC10's went from Gatwick (I'm sure I asked before but can find it for the life of me)
Also, anyone any ideas where the BCAL VC10's went from Gatwick (I'm sure I asked before but can find it for the life of me)
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I'd stopped recording the registrations by that time. I never would make a spotter! I'm pretty certain they were usually Supers. The timetable didn't specify but it usually said on our roster. But they would often be substituted when necessary. In 1977 there weren't many standards around anyway.
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Rio was one route and they used to go down Africa to Lagos etc...not much help I'm afraid.
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Re: You know what this means, don't you?
speedbird591 wrote:I'd stopped recording the registrations by that time. I never would make a spotter! I'm pretty certain they were usually Supers. The timetable didn't specify but it usually said on our roster. But they would often be substituted when necessary. In 1977 there weren't many standards around anyway.
Ian
I'll have a Super one day and a standard the next
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Re: You know what this means, don't you?
Cheers Garry... Any idea where they would have stopped en route to Rio?Garry Russell wrote:Rio was one route and they used to go down Africa to Lagos etc...not much help I'm afraid.
Ben.