Very OT - Lockheed Constellation

You would wonder how we all managed to get higher degrees with all that lead in the air....

Coming back from the Gambia around 1991 I was allowed to fly one!.

Pilot was most obliging and didn't mind a bit whilst we were over African airspace that was;!..

It was well loaded, just managed to clear the road at the end of the runway if there'd been an artic using that at the same time I'm sure it would have walloped it!...

Amazing olde bus all the same, this one was very old too presume as it was flying into Gatwick it must have had the right cert's!..

There was one at Duxford a week or two back now...

Sorry that relates to the constellation not a 707;!...

Come to that are there any left flying?...

Good luck to you if you can still understand your thesis, some of us dribble, drool, drool, nurseeeeeeee......

Thank f*ck for that. Was a gnats c*ck away from a runway overrun into a ravine in one a few years ago although most of that was down to commercial pressures, a s***ty pilot who couldn't fuel plan to save his life, a bunch of terrorists and a DIY mortar launcher

Flew from Exeter to London Heathrow on one 50 years ago this month with Mother and Brother who at 10 days old was the reason we flew rather than rail as it was an hour as compared to about 4 or 5 back then. Internal flying was seen as quite an exotic a thing to do then and I was looked on with much envy by my school chums. Heathrow was full of shiny new VC10's and Tridents with their passengers being whisked away in buses,in contrast we walked across the apron after arrival. I was too young to be bothered by things like registration numbers which is a shame as of the 3 Dakotas/C47s operated by British Westpoint one survives as the memorial plane for the Berlin Airlift at Rhein-Main Airbase Frankfurt and it would be nice to know if was the one we flew on .

G.Harman

Once I discovered that I got a 25% age discount, making the air fare from London to Glasgow £7/10/-, as compared to £7/-/- for the train, I flew to and from university, until I spent £15 on buying a car.

Some years earlier, I would have been one of those going to or from a Trident. I flew to Glasgow with BEA, so booked in at the West London Air Terminal and went to Heathrow by BEA bus (with luggage in a trailer). I don't now recall whether they took us right up to the aircraft in the same bus.

Make that around the same time. For some reason, I had it in my head that 50 years ago was 1974, not 1964. ...

/The Natural Philosopher

- show quoted text - You would wonder how we all managed to get higher degrees with all that lead in the air.... /q

Awww you feeling left out ? :-):-):-)

Jim K

I'll let you know.

My son bought me a flight in one for my birthday :)

And incidentally the Vulcan is on its last legs, if you try hard you can see it and both Lancs at the same show.

Andy

Enjoy

Although I have sat in one, when they were still on active service, my most vivid memory of a Vulcan is one doing a climbing turn after a pass at Shoreham airshow, giving me a perfect view of its profile as I drove along the A23.

Certainly, look up N707JT.

The last scheduled 707 operator was Saha Airlines of Iran, who have suspended flights since April 2013. It seems doubtful they will resume.

Theo

When I was a kid playing in my Grandfather's builders yard one came over at low level with the bomb doors open. Scared the *** out of me!

Andy

The Constellation was one of the first pressurised airliners. Unquestionably the most beautiful.

The Constellation was one of the first pressurised airliners. Unquestionably the most beautiful.