uk Belfast -Malta 1974

Yet more nostalgia. Almost too much!

I did a lot of flying in Brits too, starting with the long haul to
Singapore when I was a teenager. That was in 1963 with British United
Airways, though, not BOAC. I pinched a stainless steel fork from my
meal tray with its BUA badge - my early life of crime. That fork is
still giving sterling service in my kitchen drawer even now!

Later on in the RAF I learned that, beautiful aircraft
notwithstanding, when they went wrong, they went very wrong indeed,
necessitating at least a 4 day delay. Normally somewhere like Nassau!

andy

On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:11:54 GMT, ®i©ardo wrote:

Richard Brooks wrote:
AWem said the following on 22/05/07 01:58:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:59:26 GMT, "BILL"
wrote:

There is a very good chance that I was actually flying in that Belfast
- I just can't make out the frame number to be sure, but the place and
the time are right for me (and yes, it was Luqa - the side opposite
the civil terminal)

andy

You can actually buy a cockpit flight DVD and relive some moments!

What a lovely aircraft and the one I became fond of is now thankfully in
the museum. There was talk of Brize having either a Belfast or Brit' as
a gate guardian but that came to nothing of course.

Richard.


I assume that "Brit'" is a Britannia. There's one at RAF Cosford, not
quite a gate guardian, that's left to the Hawker Hunter.

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