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Post by exaviator49 on Apr 14, 2023 9:52:16 GMT 1
REV992 G-REXB BE20 1010 / 1100 RVR12JE G-ISJE PC12 1020 / 1045 HYP040 9H-WIN C25B ETA 1330 How Grand National weekends have changed. I remember the 60/70's. Concorde, B747's, to name just a couple. Now, just a few biz jets/ props. |
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Post by robaero on Apr 14, 2023 11:06:04 GMT 1
Don't recall 747's attending for the Grand National. I recall a British Caledonian Charter DC-10 visiting in 1983 though.
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Post by Airbus A346 on Apr 14, 2023 11:20:28 GMT 1
Don't recall 747's attending for the Grand National. I recall a British Caledonian Charter DC-10 visiting in 1983 though. Those of us, of a certain age will remember the French Handley Page Herald that turned up most years. F-BLOY of Europe Air Services. |
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Post by md69 on Apr 14, 2023 11:33:09 GMT 1
REV992 G-REXB BE20 1010 / 1100 RVR12JE G-ISJE PC12 1020 / 1045 HYP040 9H-WIN C25B ETA 1330 How Grand National weekends have changed. I remember the 60/70's. Concorde, B747's, to name just a couple. Now, just a few biz jets/ props. Was thinking the same thing only yesterday. We'd be parked down Banks Road from early in the morning. |
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Post by vanguard on Apr 14, 2023 12:10:44 GMT 1
At least on Banks Rd. every one could see and photograph the visiting aircraft with space to move around,you can't do it now!!
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Post by bulldog on Apr 14, 2023 14:18:17 GMT 1
Used to be a constant stream of light a/c arrivals all morning if my memory serves. Banks road was the place to be , happy days
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Post by md69 on Apr 14, 2023 15:21:59 GMT 1
Used to be a constant stream of light a/c arrivals all morning if my memory serves. Banks road was the place to be , happy days Indeed Bulldog! |
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Post by Beemer on Apr 14, 2023 18:40:56 GMT 1
Re-calls from the 80's
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Post by John Jones on Apr 14, 2023 21:44:48 GMT 1
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Post by vanguard on Apr 14, 2023 23:10:19 GMT 1
Can't remember if I was working or not that day but I did take my son over to it for a look around inc.a photo of him sitting in the first officer's seat,not the line up on the old 26/08 Rwy,nice shots John👍
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Post by md69 on Apr 14, 2023 23:50:33 GMT 1
That is the best looking colour scheme ever to be worn on a DC-10.
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Post by ronturner on Apr 15, 2023 8:18:46 GMT 1
I remember those days very well, and in the years before. I remember just about visible, in the mid sixties an Apache breaking cloud and flying on to Aintree with a very bad result. I suspect that was the last year fixed wing stuff landed on the race course.
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Post by ronturner on Apr 15, 2023 8:21:02 GMT 1
If those two Caledonians were operating for the same group of pax, I wonder what was the criterion for getting the short straw of a trip on the Skyvan?
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Post by acklington on Apr 15, 2023 10:21:15 GMT 1
If those two Caledonians were operating for the same group of pax, I wonder what was the criterion for getting the short straw of a trip on the Skyvan? I'd lay odds on the SD330 arriving first, nipping under the airways at 8,000 feet with a direct routing!  |
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Post by andyh on Apr 15, 2023 23:09:50 GMT 1
The SD3.30 would have been our own Genair Gatwick service, surely?
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