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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AWem said the following on 26/05/07 03:47:
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

Were most of the bits that had fallen off, photographed then printed out
big scale and hung on the wall in Air Cargo mostly Brit ? :-)


Richard.

--
"Initiative is punishable."
Russian business saying.

hi andy ive had a look with a mag glass and i belive its number is 364
regards bill

I must dig out my old b&w photos of the time and check. Thanks :-)

andy
On Fri, 25 May 2007 19:55:13 GMT, "BILL"
wrote:

hi andy ive had a look with a mag glass and i belive its number is 364
regards bill


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