Why would that scare you? The Gagandvomit was one of the most comfortable aeroplanes I ever flew in - Now riding on the jumpseat was a whole nother matter
Leif
<--Still has the scars in his forehead
What scared me was how many years ago that flight was!! Yep, a very comfortable aircraft, certainly a lot better than the 707 we took on the outward journey; the only aircraft I have ever been in that was more comfortable was on a BOAC transatlantic Super VC-10 - now that's got to be my definition of luxurious
I flew out to Khormaksar in an R.A.F. Comet in January 1959...We left from Lyneham...It had overnight billets at a nearby place on top of a hill called Clyffe Pypard...I remember we spent the night there before the flight and there was a special telephone number that you used to order a Hot Water Bottle
I also flew home again briefly, later that year to visit my Mother in hospital...This was also in a Comet and then back again via the Hot Water Bottle thing I'm pretty sure they were my only three flights in the Comet.
Garry Russell wrote:
I think that came from the RAF
It was originally Air France..I think
Certainly it was never BOAC
Garry
I'm not sure about this, but: could it have come from the RAE? There were a couple of Comet 1 fuselages sitting in the SW corner of the Farnborough airfield for many years. Could it be one of those?
There is also a Comet 1 fuselage (Air France markings) at the Mosquito/de Havilland/Salisbury Hall Museum.
G-APAS has always been complete it just was not a BOAC.
It is the only complete Comet 1
Built for Air France as F-BGNZ it was returned and passed to the Ministry of Supply and was an active test research aircraft until retirement and preservation at Cosford where it was repainted in BOAC livery
There were some fuses at Farnborough one of which was converted to a mobile Nimrod exhibit.
I think that may have been G-ALYW.
But the point of my post was that is was not a part of the BA collection and had not come from BA and never been in their or BOAC's service.
Garry
Garry
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