MainMAN From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2005, 2064 posts, RR: 6 Reply 1, posted (4 years 2 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 2137 times:
cheers Leezyjet.....that's the stuff my childhood was made of. I remember the first Wardair flights; it was quite something that LBA had a direct Toronto service, but such a shame there are none today! You'd think that a weekly summer TCX 757 would make a good job of it.
LHRjc From Netherlands, joined Apr 2006, 1961 posts, RR: 23 Reply 2, posted (4 years 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 2018 times:
Nice find Lee, thanks for sharing these classics. How things have changed though - seeing some of these exotic airlines at LBA back in the day and they can't even keep an LHR feeder any longer. It's such a shame really, although at least the PIA service has restored an admittedly small long haul addition to the airport.
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GDB From United Kingdom, joined exactly 12 years ago today! , 12713 posts, RR: 80 Reply 3, posted (4 years 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1869 times:
Nice stuff Lee, even with the 'unmentionable'!
You-Tube is a lethal 'where did those hours go' when it comes to aviation.
Leezyjet From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 4041 posts, RR: 55 Reply 4, posted (4 years 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1854 times:
Graham,
Not sure if you want to link those Concorde videos on ConcordeSST.com, but I think the Late landing one might be of interest. I'm sure the chap won't mind.
I read over on pprune that after that landing, spare parts had to be driven up from LHR and the a/c fixed overnight as the nosegear was damaged by the very high speed turn into the loop. The flight crew also had a large dry cleaning bill !!!!. Can you shed any more light on it ?.
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GDB From United Kingdom, joined exactly 12 years ago today! , 12713 posts, RR: 80 Reply 5, posted (4 years 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1740 times:
The 'late landing' at LBA, happened 10 months before I was in Concorde Engineering, I did not hear of it at the time within BA Engineering generally.
Later, I got to hear basically what you've mentioned, less any mention of a cleaning bill!
There is a guy on Concordesst.com who is a mine of info on landing gears, I'll link this there and see what emerges.
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