Dazbo5 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2005, 1010 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 849 times:
I've stumbled across some old family photo's and wondered if anyone could help me out with identifying what the aircraft types are. The first one dates back to the 1980's. I can't say where it was taken as I'd be aged 4 or 5 at the time, but it would be somewhere on the Spanish Costas or the Ballerics flying back to Manchester. Is this a BAC 1-11?
This was taken while boarding our flight back home to Manchester in Summer 1991 (I think) at PMI. Since it looks like we're boarding from the rear, I premume this will a Boeing 727? I remember how noisey it was walking up the rear steps surronded by the 3 engines!
Skidmarks From United Kingdom (England), joined Dec 2004, 6985 posts, RR: 69 Reply 1, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 841 times:
Yes inded Daz, BAC 1-11 is the first shot, and I think also the second. The 1-11 also had a rear airstair so it is quite feasible that you boarded up this.
Dazbo5 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2005, 1010 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 838 times:
Thanks Andy. Having looked through the 727 photo's on the DB, I think you're right that the 2nd one is also a 1-11. Going off the orange paint on the wing tips, some of the 1-11's had it but I've not seen a 727 with it. I do remember flying on a 727 though because of the distinctive 3 engines and rear air-stairs. I don't remember boarding a 1-11 in that way, but it looks like I did in the photo! These photo's bring back some happy memories!
Thanks again,
Darren
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Dazbo5 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2005, 1010 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 823 times:
Thanks guys, that pretty much confirms it, both are BAC 1-11's. It would have been nice to have had a photo of us boarding a 727 as well as a 1-11, but never mind.
This is another one I've found. Me aged about 4 years before we boarded the short flight from Penzance to the Scilly Isles on a Sikorsky S-61N MkII. I'll never forget that flight!
Looking at the DB, its still opperating the service 25 years later!
Skidmarks From United Kingdom (England), joined Dec 2004, 6985 posts, RR: 69 Reply 6, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 794 times:
Quoting AJ (Reply 3): The second shot is also definately a BAC 1-11, the 'Airbus' style forward door is a dead giveaway!
Andy - it was the flap fairings that were the first thing that gave it away for me too. As a Mancunian I was brought up on BEA/BA 1-11s, as so many were based here, so there's no mistaking them!
The Boeing's are recognisable by their 'eyebrow' little flightdeck windows above the main windows (though some of the latest 737s have dropped them), which is another dead giveaway that the first shot is not a 727. In the days when you could stand on the terraces at MAN, you often watched people boarding the 1-11s via the integral airstairs at the back.
Though I have now seen you at 4 years old, Darren, I am still not sure I would recognise you if I walked past you on the southside one day .
Dazbo5 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2005, 1010 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 734 times:
Quoting Psych (Reply 7): Though I have now seen you at 4 years old, Darren, I am still not sure I would recognise you if I walked past you on the southside one day
I don't look much different these days, still short and tubby!! There's one a bit more recent in my FCA Cuba trip report:
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