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civilservant

Feb 17th 2019 5:14 pm

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Not a fan of BOAC. Now if they painted one in Landor.... that's still my favorite and 'cleanest' BA livery.

materialcontroller

Feb 17th 2019 5:16 pm

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Originally Posted by markonline1 (Post 12638416)

This is pretty cool. As BA celebrates it’s 100th year, it’s repainted one of its 747’s in old BOAC colors. Arrives freshly painted into LHR tomorrow morning. Not sure what routes it’ll be flying though.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...998e7e47b.jpeg

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...5dbc97198.jpeg

They have hinted on Facebook that it will fly to New York first. I think it's due to leave Dublin around 0825 and arrive at Heathrow 0955.

spouse of scouse

Feb 18th 2019 12:59 am

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Originally Posted by materialcontroller (Post 12638406)

:yawn:

Still adverse to learning, I see :lol:

materialcontroller

Feb 18th 2019 9:05 am

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SultanOfSwing

Feb 19th 2019 1:57 pm

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Originally Posted by civilservant (Post 12638419)

Not a fan of BOAC. Now if they painted one in Landor.... that's still my favorite and 'cleanest' BA livery.

This. A 747 in the Landor livery is about as classic as it gets.

markonline1

Feb 19th 2019 9:59 pm

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One for the true “spotters”
An interesting visitor earlier today

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...e647aae2b.jpeg
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...9fc982b38.jpeg

civilservant

Feb 19th 2019 10:01 pm

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I wasn't even aware U2s were still in service until a few seconds ago :rofl:

Pulaski

Feb 19th 2019 10:04 pm

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Originally Posted by markonline1 (Post 12639830)

One for the true “spotters”
An interesting visitor earlier today ...

They're watching you! ;)

markonline1

Feb 19th 2019 10:17 pm

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Originally Posted by civilservant (Post 12639835)

I wasn't even aware U2s were still in service until a few seconds ago :rofl:

I don’t think I can post videos here like I can photos. It done a nice slow pass just above the runway then gave it a bit of welly as it climbed back out over the bay. Very impressive. Funnily enough, I just watching a YouTube video where James May went up in one last night.

Pulaski

Feb 19th 2019 10:37 pm

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Which reminds me, last December I took Little Miss P back to the UK, through LHR. We landed, hurried through immigration, picked up our rental car, and headed down the M4 and an early stop for food after some truly terrible airline food. We stopped at the Reading services and as we walked across the car park I heard an unmistakable crackle of a Merlin engine and looked up to see Hurricane wheeling a loop in the sky! :thumbsup:

scrubbedexpat091

Feb 20th 2019 10:49 pm

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I am pretty loyal to certain airlines Delta being one, I really like their Comfort plus section. While it has a slight premium the extra leg room is so worth it.

First row of coach on the A319 on Delta has more leg room them any row of first class.

Flying Air Canada next week, 737 Max not sure which version. Also first time flying AC.

scrubbedexpat091

Feb 24th 2019 1:00 am

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Sad news. Atlas Air Flight 3591 a Boeing 767 operating for Amazon crashed today in Texas. 3 onboard presumed dead.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl...223-story.html

materialcontroller

Feb 24th 2019 6:57 pm

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Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12642650)

Sad news. Atlas Air Flight 3591 a Boeing 767 operating for Amazon crashed today in Texas. 3 onboard presumed dead.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl...223-story.html

Pretty terrifying final moments on that flight. RIP to all onboard.

Pulaski

Feb 25th 2019 1:48 pm

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Originally Posted by materialcontroller (Post 12643075)

Pretty terrifying final moments on that flight.

Isn't it always. The idea of knowing that you're going to die just a few minutes, or seconds just terrifies me! Germanwings 9525 was a nightmare scenario as the plane lost altitude over the mountains.

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RIP to all onboard.

Seconded.

civilservant

Feb 25th 2019 2:36 pm

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Germanwings 9525 was a nightmare scenario as the plane lost altitude over the mountains.

That's nothing compared to Alaska 261.

To suffer like that and then die in an accident all for some grease on a jackscrew,

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RIP to all onboard.

Completely agree.