Classic British Flight Sim

In the 1960's, BOAC and QANTAS used 707's on alternate days of the week from LHR to NYC, San Fransisco, Honolulu, Fiji, Sydney. I think they left Heathrow at 12-30pm. I wonder if anyone has the timetable or at least timings for this route ? thanks,

Just checked my october 1960 official airline guide. Back then, BOAC 707s didn't fly the transpacific route to Sydney, they were ending their route in SFO. From there, Britannias were flying to Hong Kong via Honolulu and Tokyo.
Here's a typical flight
FL BA 583 (Th or Sa) 707-436
London 16:00-New York 18:50/19:50-San Francisco 23:00
FL BA 581 (Su or Tu) Bristol Britannia
San Francisco 17:00-Honolulu 22:50/23:59-Tokyo 09:50/10:45-Hong Kong 17:35

Comet 4s were used to fly to Australia on the Eastern Route
Ex:
FL BA 708 (Mo) Comet 4
London 15:30-Frankfurt 18:05/18:50-Beirut 00:15/01:00-Karachi 08:25/09:10-Calcutta 12:45/13:30-Rangoon 16:15/17:00-Singapore 21:05/22:05-Darwin 05:10/05:55-Sydney 11:00

Now Qantas on the transpacific route
Ex:
FL EM 773 (Mo or Fr) 707-138
London 11:00-New York 16:00/17:00-San Francisco 19:15/20:45-Honolulu 23:59/00:45-Nandi 05:45/06:40-Sydney 09:20

Hope that it helps, and I hope that you will enjoy these great flights with the great aircrafts that we owe to David Maltby and all the lads at HJG.

Best

Olivier

Welcome to the forum Olivier and many thanks for that info

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Welcome Olliver

Thanks for that


I must add as well that in 1960 QANTAS Boeing 707's were being modified and they could not get replacement so BOAC Comets were leased to cover for the missing 707's

And I did a paint of the C4 with QANTAS titles

Garry

Speaking of old routes:

"Wings across the world" by Harald Penrose, An illustrated history of British Airways, has some very good illustrations of the British Airways route-net, covering the history from 1918 to 1980 starting off with the 1924 Imperial airways route-net:

Daimler Airway: Manchester - London - Ostend - Amsterdam - Hamburg - Berlin - Hanover - Amsterdam. Or
Instone Airline: London - Brussels - Cologne, or
Handley Page Transport: London - Paris - Basle - Zurich and last British Marine: Southampton - Channel Islands - Le Havre

covering virtually every year or so up till the worldwide route-net of the 80-s, too complex to sketch up here.

A real pearl for the lovers of British Aviation history.

This may be of interest -
All times local.
April 1961 schedules:

QF773 : Days 1 and 5
Dep LHR 1100 - Arr/Dep NYC 1400/1500 - Arr/Dep SFO 1805/2045 - Arr/Dep HNL 2359/0045 - Arr/Dep NAN 0535/0625 - Arr SYD 0900.

BA did not operate to Australia via this route, the nearest was the “round the worldâ€

Thank you for the warm welcome ! Looking forward to being of any help.

And a big big thank you for David Maltby and his wonderful jets. I don't think I'd do any flightsimming without him and his terrific work.

Olivier

(pardon me for my english, I'm just a french-speaking swiss man) :-({|=

Welcome aboard lads.

I'm just getting into the long-haul game of the late '60's using HJG's BOAC 707 and DM's VC10.

I have some other 1960's flight plan info for BOAC that was sent ot me by one of the other members a few weeks back.

If you'd like this then pm me your e-mail addresses and I'll gladly pass it on to you too.

Mark :-({|=

Olivier wrote:

(pardon me for my english, I'm just a french-speaking swiss man)

Worry not Olivier.. Your english is easier to understand than that used by many to whom it's their native tongue

ATB

DaveB :tab:

olihawks wrote: Now Qantas on the transpacific route
Ex:
FL EM 773 (Mo or Fr) 707-138
London 11:00-New York 16:00/17:00-San Francisco 19:15/20:45-Honolulu 23:59/00:45-Nandi 05:45/06:40-Sydney 09:20

Would the Nandi referred to here actually be Nadi, Fiji Islands (NFFN)?

I'm just putting together some AI flightplans for my amusement and wanted to confirm that name.

Thanks for the information.

Keith.