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By: - 17th May 2007 at 22:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Oh, consider yourself asked! :D
By: - 17th May 2007 at 22:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Fantastic.......more please!
Si
By: - 17th May 2007 at 22:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Ok chaps now youve done it.:D
enjoy.
Trident 2E G-AZFT on test.
Trident 2E sweet FA (as she was known to crews)
Very rare pic,the only two super 3B's built for CAAC both aircraft are in storage at Anshan air force base in China.By the was this pic was taken at HTF in 1975
Trident 2E G-AVFI on test.
By: - 18th May 2007 at 13:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Neil,
Fantastic............just love the last shot! Have you any BEA 3B's at Belfast?
Cheers and keep em commin!
Si
By: - 18th May 2007 at 18:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Indeed - more!! Particularly like the North East one:D
By: - 19th May 2007 at 08:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
good stuff fella, some great shots
By: - 19th May 2007 at 08:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Correct me if i'm wrong but weren't those CAAC tridents assembled in China??
By: - 25th May 2007 at 22:26 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Correct me if i'm wrong but weren't those CAAC tridents assembled in China??
Definately not Steve, they were put together and flight tested at the bottom of my Aunts garden in Hatfield! well, over the fence at the HS airfield there anyway. I remember well one of the CAAC 3s having a very dramatic "hot start" one day:)
By: - 25th May 2007 at 23:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Spot on IL62M the two Chinese super 3B's were built and tested from HTF.Im gonna add a few more piccy's:D
Just to get started one of the quasi super 3B's 50058
sweet FA again,but in the 1974 Negus+Negus BA livery.
another shot of the Channel 1E 140
That's all for now,bed is calling.:o
By: - 26th May 2007 at 09:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Great images, thanks for sharing them. Favourite livery on a Trident for me is still the "Red Square" with Channel a close second ( the square would have looked great on a T3) I was told many years ago by an ex HS employee that there was a huge model of a Trident 2 in Olympic livery at the plant...hope someone kept it safe. Neil, have just visited the ZK website-brilliant. Reminds me very much of the 10yrs or so I spent involved with the restoration at Duxford of Britannia G-AOVT. Very well done with the Trident...almost as pretty as a Tu154:)
By: - 31st January 2008 at 16:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
trident 1e's
Hi all here are a few "Classic" shots of me old favorite aircraft in various liverys from the past,enjoy.:)
Northeast 1E
Air Ceylon 1E
Kuwait Airways 1E
Iraqi Airways 1E
Channel Airways 1E-140
BKS 1E
PIA 1E
I think thats the 1E's covered.i will add more if asked.:)
thanks for the 1e pics they r great,
i flew many times on BKS, CHANNEL, NORTHEAST, and BA the on 1e's
i worked in 1974 onwards to charter northeast tridents to swans tours london from LHR to fly to sunny med places mostly at weekends,
we had 117 seats in them.
channel put 139 in theirs lol!
i flew on all 4 tridents g-avya/b/c/d often and g-aswu
i flew LGW-DBV on a northeast 1e in summer 1972 as BCAL had lost a 1-11 g-awsy at corfu in an overun (it was repaired) then i flew the wardair 727 on the return flight which was a hoot!
subcharters were always fun!
likewise when g-avyd was w/o at bilbao in a bad landing BA gave us some VC10's to play with and we flew them down to alicante and malaga which i rode on a few times...std and super VC10's were used and i was lucky to go on both!
the tower guy at malaga had never seen a VC10 before when we arrived !
aaaaaah those were the days eh?:)
my first BIG jet was on a 707-399C of caledonian from LGW to palma and back in summer 1969 g-awwd out and g-avka back flagship bonnie scotland,
the flying time was 1hr 35 mins... erm no fuel issues then lol!
i remember getting off at PMI and we were surrounded by UK holiday jets,
BKS and channel tridents, autair 1-11's which were all new and very posh!
comets galore and britannias and viscounts as well
plus loadsa foreign jets from scandinavia holland and germany
i was in heaven lol
oh and the 707 had 189 huge thick comfy economy seats with lotsa legroom,
so wot happened ? how come i am now cramped in like a battery chicken when i fly steerage now??:mad:
By: - 31st January 2008 at 18:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thanks for posting there Neil fantastic pictures of one of the best jet ever made and its British make you proud:cool: Never knew Iraqi Airways had Trident's.
Regards
James
By: - 31st January 2008 at 19:03 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Cracking photo's Thanks for sharing!
H
By: - 1st February 2008 at 13:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Lovely, just lovely....
I was lucky enough to fly on the Tridents just before they finally phased them out - on one of the "Glasgow Shuttle" flights as was. Some people said they were noisy, I said they had character ;). One of my work colleague at the time was lucky enough to be on board a Trident which had to do a "worst condition" autoland (sorry, I can't remember the old autoland categorisation) at Heathrow and all pax aboard were offerred commemorative "Autoland" ties as a result.
Of course, autoland is nothing very special these days..... but it isn't so long ago that Tridents were pretty much the only type that could operate (into suitably equipped airports) while everything else was fog-bound.
Paul F
By: - 2nd February 2008 at 21:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
This is spooky.....
I have a picture somewhere, almost exactly the same as your first Channel Islands one...at the old Manchester...when it was still truly called Ringway.
Taken in the days when you could walk along the top of the piers, that one being the International pier.
Nowthen if that's a CL44 in the overnight bay it is highly likely to be one of Loftleider's. If it's a Britt, highly likely to be one of Monarch's.
I suspect the picture was 1971 or 72?
I also suspect that on the South Side there, that's a Heron. I can't remember who's, but it was a white livery with a blue cheat line.
By: - 2nd February 2008 at 22:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Wonderful shots, Neil. I'm sure you'll find lots of appreciative people if you post more!
Paul
By: - 23rd February 2008 at 10:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Mr Trident Man,
Great Shots, but if you carry on like this I'll have to retaliate with my 1-11 shots!!!
Mr BAC 1-11 Man!!!:p
By: - 23rd February 2008 at 16:10 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I'll have to retaliate with my 1-11 shots!!!
I think most of us would approve.
1L.
By: - 18th October 2008 at 22:29 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Was there any reason why BEA tridents had there wings painted in red? Was this just part of the livery and did BEA do this to any other a/c type?
By: - 18th October 2008 at 23:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
It was the livery of the time and most, if not all, types in the fleet had it - 1-11s. Vanguards, Viscounts and Comets among others.
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By: TRIDENT MAN - 17th May 2007 at 20:08
Hi all here are a few "Classic" shots of me old favorite aircraft in various liverys from the past,enjoy.:)
Northeast 1E
Air Ceylon 1E
Kuwait Airways 1E
Iraqi Airways 1E
Channel Airways 1E-140
BKS 1E
PIA 1E
I think thats the 1E's covered.
i will add more if asked.:)