Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2020 17:38:49 GMT 1
A few photos from a separate trip, featuring Rotterdam and Amsterdam airports.
PH-VIH parked alongside a Bristol 170 Mk 32 (aka Superfreighter), with the slightly longer nose, at Rotterdam. The Bristol 170 is probably G-AMWA, since this was the only one of the type they had. This Viscount 803 series was sold on to Aer Lingus and would have been a regular visitor to Speke as EI-AOI.
Also at Rotterdam, this Ambassador was owned by Shell, who even at this time were heavily involved in The Netherlands and the aircraft was no doubt used for transporting personnel. The dispatcher lady is wisely holding onto her hat, because she knows full well that if she doesn't, once the aircraft swings around, that hat will be at the other end of the apron in no time! They had two, and this one was G-AMAG, which of course wore Dan-Air colours later in its life and was also a regular visitor to Speke.
...and taxies out to the runway.
PH-PBA in her much earlier Dutch Government colours, before being restored by the DDA. I think the car in the foreground is a dreaded DAF, which was about as reliable (and looks a bit like) the Ukrainian Zaporozhets. I remember one of the hosties at Blackpool having a DAF and nine times out of ten it had to be push-started and it wasn't always a flat battery that was the problem!
A Martin's Air Charter DC-3 and DC-4, together with what was most likely a KLM Connie in the other side of the hangar. Judging by the human activity, it must have been knocking-off time when this was taken.
Even for me, it's amazing to think that Amsterdam was once as quiet as this A lone KLM DC-8 with just a taxying Electra for company. PH-DCA started life as a -32, but was later converted to a -33. I think something had gone wrong with the processing of the film, hence the marking. Thankfully it's a problem we no longer have to worry about.
From another angle...
That's more like it! An interesting selection of aircraft on view there.
For those familiar with Schiphol, this would have been what is now Apron B, which for a long time was where the incoming flights from the UK used to park.
And finally, something a little lighter. This is a Hollandair Libel. Strange name for an aircraft and it came to a strange end a couple of years later when its owner failed to tie it down prior to a storm.
PH-VIH parked alongside a Bristol 170 Mk 32 (aka Superfreighter), with the slightly longer nose, at Rotterdam. The Bristol 170 is probably G-AMWA, since this was the only one of the type they had. This Viscount 803 series was sold on to Aer Lingus and would have been a regular visitor to Speke as EI-AOI.
Also at Rotterdam, this Ambassador was owned by Shell, who even at this time were heavily involved in The Netherlands and the aircraft was no doubt used for transporting personnel. The dispatcher lady is wisely holding onto her hat, because she knows full well that if she doesn't, once the aircraft swings around, that hat will be at the other end of the apron in no time! They had two, and this one was G-AMAG, which of course wore Dan-Air colours later in its life and was also a regular visitor to Speke.
...and taxies out to the runway.
PH-PBA in her much earlier Dutch Government colours, before being restored by the DDA. I think the car in the foreground is a dreaded DAF, which was about as reliable (and looks a bit like) the Ukrainian Zaporozhets. I remember one of the hosties at Blackpool having a DAF and nine times out of ten it had to be push-started and it wasn't always a flat battery that was the problem!
A Martin's Air Charter DC-3 and DC-4, together with what was most likely a KLM Connie in the other side of the hangar. Judging by the human activity, it must have been knocking-off time when this was taken.
Even for me, it's amazing to think that Amsterdam was once as quiet as this A lone KLM DC-8 with just a taxying Electra for company. PH-DCA started life as a -32, but was later converted to a -33. I think something had gone wrong with the processing of the film, hence the marking. Thankfully it's a problem we no longer have to worry about.
From another angle...
That's more like it! An interesting selection of aircraft on view there.
For those familiar with Schiphol, this would have been what is now Apron B, which for a long time was where the incoming flights from the UK used to park.
And finally, something a little lighter. This is a Hollandair Libel. Strange name for an aircraft and it came to a strange end a couple of years later when its owner failed to tie it down prior to a storm.