On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:07:57 +0100, "Dingo"
wrote:


First thought it was a DC 7 ....

This may have been the bird you saw:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?i...t_id=10 64601

Search on Airliners.net for DC-6, then change the order to: year (most
recent first) and this is on the 3rd page along with a couple of other
shots of this aricraft. Quite a few on subsequent pages - seems to
show up all over the UK.

J. W. Alger