Modern civil aircraft *yawn*
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Great thread, these old airliners are so appealing, suppose nowadays, boring as the new ones are they tend to have less in the way of incidents.
Don't know why I am so into old airliners, ended up last week getting escorted from Mojave airport as I was trying to get a mosey at the boneyard, saw my favourite, a 747 SP though.
Don't know why I am so into old airliners, ended up last week getting escorted from Mojave airport as I was trying to get a mosey at the boneyard, saw my favourite, a 747 SP though.
I thought you might like to see this; In the 60's my father worked for the Board of Trade or the Civil Aviation Authority (?). Every summer he somehow managed to get us holiday accomodation in a building adjacent to the runway at Bournemouth Hurn Airport. This was when the Bristol Superfreighter car ferries ( I think it was British United Airways )were operating the cross channel service about every half hour. I would watch every one take off and land. There was no security at all in those days. I seem to remember also that there were occasionally Fleet Air Arm Sea Vixens and Buccaneers coming and going....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxKh5P8HF9c&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxKh5P8HF9c&fea...
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