Re: Crazy world. RSPB, Woodland Trust etc banned, or just wishfulthinking by BAA dickheads.


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In article <5hgva3d1md1lg0abg8538q4oe1b2ju908d@xxxxxxx>,
amacmil304@xxxxxxx writes
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:04:45 GMT, "Alan Holmes"
<alan_holmes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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The planes were almost certainly Vickers Viscounts. They also used to
fly
from Glasgow to Islay for a short while in the 1960s. I can remember
being
one of three passengers in a plane which seated about 70!


Most probably Viscounts, on domestic routes, but an outside chance of it
being the slightly larger Bristol Britannia, perhaps, (most originally
went
into BOAC service, but were being flogged off to European/domestic
operators
in the 60s, e.g. Britannia Airlines started with them in 1964/5) fitting
in
with Angus's recollection of the name commencing with 'B'.



I think you're right "Britiannia" rings a bell. I think I was also
on "Vanguards" around that time.

I couldn't believe the difference when I first flew in a Trident That
might have been about 1963/64 IIRC.


The first Tridents entered service with BEA in 1964. I'm surprised you
were
impressed, because they (the very first ones) were underpowered and had
poor
take off performance, some aircrew saying they only took off because of
the
curvature of the Earth!


I can't remember how quick they were along the runway but they seemed
to climb at a much steeper angle and a lot quicker after take-off.


I'm sure you're right about that. Aircrew were probably comparing with the
Boeing 727.


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