First (?) 757 at GLA

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Request from Ren....not sure to post this here or in Historic.........over 23 years ago, on 8 Feb 1983, possibly the first 757 to visit GLA. G-BIKB on a publicity flight.

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/G-BIKB-1.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/G-BIKB-2.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/G-BIKB-3.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/G-BIKB-4.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/G-BIKB-5.jpg

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thats very welcome mate, i love Pics like that, The BA colours are awesome!!

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And the first (?) 757 departure from GLA....

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/b0cd41dc.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/25006053.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/e61b440e.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/ef83cded.jpg

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Fantastic there!

Older style MCP looks cool!

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Hi Moondance
Really bringing back the memoies there, Grate meeting you to,If ever stuck in Glasgow again let me know
Kevin

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And to prove that I am truly an old fart, some other pics taken around the same date.

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/G-AVFE.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/G-AWZEa.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/DDR-SCT.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/EI-ANG.jpg

And finally.........the Red Shed!

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/G-RMSS.jpg

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The days where aeroplanes really were...I love nostalgia. Wish I was born 20 years earlier :D

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:O Stunning quality for 1983. That BA livery sure does look good.

Gaz

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:O Stunning quality for 1983. That BA livery sure does look good.

Gaz

We did have quite good cameras back in the Dark Ages of film!! Fuji and Kodak slide film seems to be ageing very well...Agfa would seem to be rubbish, looking very washed out, with a strange colour cast developing.

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Fantastic shots mate!! wish id been born 20 years earlyer to see a BA tristar and a vc-10.

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Magic ! My dad got a little BA 757 model momento of the first Shuttle flight. Still got it somewhere. Infact...

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Any one have any idea what this 757 is upto now?

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Absolutely wonderful pix, takes me back to my "main" aircraft watching period!

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Any one have any idea what this 757 is upto now?
Now belongs to DHL as OO-DPF

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Now belongs to DHL as OO-DPF

Cheers mate. was she the DHL A/C that did some displays in the uk last year?

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That 757 looks stunning, really awesome work :).

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Cheers mate. was she the DHL A/C that did some displays in the uk last year?

Well theres now over 20 ex BA machines with DHL- so I couldnt be sure

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Well theres now over 20 ex BA machines with DHL- so I couldnt be sure

Ah i wasn't aware of that cheers mate.

Just ran a check on her shes decked out with the dark red dhl scheme so at least she dont look like a banana.

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It's amazing seeing a 757 in the 80's when it was very rare to see it at airports like Glasgow, now they are everywhere! xx

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Fantastic stuff Moondance,

I remember that day in February 1983 when G-BIKB made the first 757 shuttle flight to GLA, I believe G-BIKA made the EDI run at the same time ?

I was in 1st year at high school and took the day off to go and see the first arrival of a 757 in Scotland, your pictures even include the BBC Scotland news crew filming the event for 'Reporting Scotland'.

Nice to meet you last week too, and as Kevin says ... 'anytime'... :D

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mmmm the old tridents ooohaa the smell, the noise, im back in the eighties again,I seem to rember the Vanguards doing the frieght around the same time One memory from the eighties that will always be with me was the Space shuttle on its 747 doing a low approach and departing over East Kilbride ,I believe that it was rturning from the Paris airshow