One-Eleven Back To Brum

[steveuk]

Took the one of the 510's out for a quick spin!

Cheers,
Steve

[Kevin Farnell]

Very nice, Steve.

A Manchester based aircraft, but they did make occasional visits to Brum (where I spent far too much time).
Can I ask which scenery and EGBB software you are using?

Cheers

Kevin

[Garry Russell]

It was the 400 BA plus the three 539 that were Brum based and forming the main visitors of the type. Later the ex BCAL 500 and Maersk UK/BA liveried fleet and were based.

The 400's go back to the early BA days when Brum was one of the bases of the Channel Islands division of BEA, and the base of the one and only BEA Trident 1E

Garry

[DaveB]

Nice shots Steve ;-) The 'Landor' blue looks a bit dark on my monitor.. almost black but I guess that's the lighting

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

Same on mine Dave :think:

Garry

[Kevin Farnell]

It was the 400 BA plus the three 539 that were Brum based and forming the main visitors of the type. Later the ex BCAL 500 and Maersk UK/BA liveried fleet and were based.

The 400's go back to the early BA days when Brum was one of the bases of the Channel Islands division of BEA, and the base of the one and only BEA Trident 1E

Garry

There were also One-Elevens based by Birmingham European / Brymon European which became Mearsk UK.
I was there the evening that the BCal One-Elevens were delivered to EGBB. Quite a sight, and listening to them all calling up Approach one after the other.
Can't say I remember a based Trident, 'though I did see them there occasionally. I started spending (too much) time at brum around the time the G-BGK* One-Elevens were delivered, so maybe I missed the based Trident. I can however remember the BOAC New York VC-10 service

Regards

Kevin

[Garry Russell]

BEA bought the two Channel Tridents. YB went straight to Northeast and YE in full BEA livery was based at Brum and did the Paris but only for a short time before it too went to Northeast. While with BEA it was Channel Islands division but had the big BEA and no suffix.

In the Brymon days the One-Elevens weren't in BA livery which is why I didn't mention them

The G-BGK's were the 539 and were standard type aircraft with forward airstairs and normal flightdecks

Does anyone remeber BA Birmuigham and BA Manchester???........only lasted weeks or even days in the early 90's. They were supposed to have their own fleets and I saw one 737 in each title at Heathrow. The Manchester or Birmingham was in script right after the BA titles on an otherwise standard livery. Both these aircraft were in the BA pan and may never even have flown like that :think:

It was announced in a short burst of publicity and then quickly and quietly forgotten.

Garry

[Kevin Farnell]

Does anyone remeber BA Birmuigham and BA Manchester???........
Garry

Certainly do!
I recall most of the Brum based B737-200's carrying the 'Birmingham' titles and for some considerable time. It was also common for a 'Manchester' titled aircraft to stage through Birmingham on a daily basis. The city titling was in italics.
There was a competition in the Birmingham Evening Mail, to come up with Shakespearian names for the aircraft, Apparently, 'Bottom' was the most popular suggestion , yet this never made it onto an aircraft.

Kevin

[steveuk]

I use Gary Summons new Birmingham scenery.

The blue is very dark...I colour matched to other Landor paints so it fitted in.

Steve

[Garry Russell]

A lot of landor paints on the net are the wrong colour.

The real colout is midnight blue.......it's not a good idea to match other paints so they 'fit in'

Garry