BOAC Historic Flight

[speedbird591]

Many of the older members will remember the BOAC Historic Flight of 1975. The last three aircraft in the gold speedbird livery spent several months visiting all the worldwide stations from BOAC days as a thank you to loyal staff. Seats were much sought after and as one of the aircraft was a freighter it carried all the baggage leaving plenty of room for caviar and champagne on the passenger aircraft. Photographs of the historic flight are unusually rare, but I have recently unearthed this handful of archive shots in an old trunk. I think it shows the three aircraft on a flight from Manchester to Hong Kong and I believe they refuelled at Bahrain and Calcutta, but sadly no photos of that part of the journey survived.







Oh, well ... they should have done

Ian :roll:

[Garry Russell]

:think: :think:

Can't have been that famous.......I've never heard of the BOAC Historicl Fight

Anyways nice little picture story Ian

Garry

[DanKH]

I think it's called humour Garry ... :think:

Nice pics Ian .... the 747 which is it? Posky, RFP or ...?

[Garry Russell]

Dunno Dan

Read the first sentence :think:

Garry

[DanKH]

... and the last ;-)

[speedbird591]

Read the first sentence :think:

Ha - gotcha! That doesn't happen often! (The clue is in the last sentence, Garry - sorry )

Dan - the 747 is AI Aardvark with a texture I found on Avsim. They are all working as AI and I have done a Peter McLeland project. They are flightplanned to fly from MAN to HKG every Monday via BAH and CCU and fly back on Thursday without any further input from me. None of them are 'user' aircraft and I track them using MS Traffic Explorer like Peter does. I know what time they are expected at an airport so I set the time a bit ahead and wait for them to appear. Peter is a real diamond with his advice!

Ian

[DanKH]

I know the trick Ian, an as it happens I have the exact same liveries in my "stock" painted by Christian Page... great paints. But my AI are all RetroAI, no "fictives" here ;-)

Btw. There IS a BOAC livery for the Posky 747-100v4 available at avsim as well, migth give it a try one day.... not that they have just updated their FDE's ... :think:

[Garry Russell]

:doho:

It is though quite feasable that had it happen at that time it could well have been unknown outside the circle and London

In those days what we found out was only what was reported in the monthly mags and the odd TV mention

I am only finding out about things now, like two years agao I had never heard of BEA Malta and was un aware that 3 V.806 Viscounts wore the FJ livery because they wer based in Germany.

So it is possible that it could have been real and me not know anything about it

On the other hand mybe I am sufferring from svere senior blonde syndrome

Garry

[speedbird591]

So it is possible that it could have been real and me not know anything about it

If it makes you feel any better, by the time I'd finished putting it together, I believed it myself

[Garry Russell]

Nice one Ian

Garry