Vintage Heathrow..................

Post by **Trev Clark** » 22 Jan 2007, 13:14

Some of the older members (in terms of membership), may have seen these before, but with the AI scenery available, I thought they were relevant..............

All taken by my father on a trip (for my benifit), to the viewing platform on top of the Queens building, I guess about 1967ish.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 22 Jan 2007, 13:24

Thanks Trev

The Air Inter were comparatively rare in the UK...although they did pop up now and then almost anywhere.

So many different shapes and sounds to be had then :think:

No that it matters now..you can't see much anyway :sad:

Garry

jab · Post by **jab** » 22 Jan 2007, 13:46

Nice shots there I was never born to see these great classic planes at LHR :sad: :huf: WOW can a QF 707 fly from Oz to LHR or did it stop?

James

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 22 Jan 2007, 14:10

Some of the older members (in terms of membership), may have seen these before,

Not just in photos!

July 1965 was a good month for Air Inter Viscounts

Post by **Trev Clark** » 22 Jan 2007, 15:56

WOW can a QF 707 fly from Oz to LHR or did it stop?

Two stops normally, I think. One in the middle East, another in the far east.

Effoh · Post by **Effoh** » 22 Jan 2007, 16:23

Thanks for posting these Trev - they look great!

Rgds,

Colin

cstorey · Post by **cstorey** » 22 Jan 2007, 16:29

I think the original Quantas 707 s were turbojet engined and this rather limited their range. So IIRC a typical routing would be something like London - Zurich or Rome - Teheran - Bombay - Singapore - Sydney . It was the advent of the Fanjets and the big increase in numbers travelling which cut down the stops in the mid to late 60s

gevers1 · Post by **gevers1** » 24 Jan 2007, 13:17

Great pictures. It must have been one heck of a noisy airport though!

Reheat · Post by **Reheat** » 24 Jan 2007, 13:31

gevers1 wrote:Great pictures. It must have been one heck of a noisy airport though!

Welcome to the forum Gevers1!

Yes it might have been noisy but imagine the beauty of all those different noises and engine notes...these days its either a CFM56 or a Trent! (well...perhaps just generalising a little bit there

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speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 24 Jan 2007, 20:01

Thanks for posting those, Trev. Brought back a few memories. Good quality photos too.

Ian