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By: - 16th March 2011 at 11:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Fantastic pictures again DCW, do you know if there are any in the collection that show more of the early Heathrow buildings and control tower?
Thanks.
By: - 16th March 2011 at 11:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
...and still they keep coming. Magnificent.
Mark
By: - 16th March 2011 at 11:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Just a delight - they get better and better, if that's possible. And I so well recall the scene of the first picture and 1950 was the year of my third Rapide pleasure flight.:D Little did I know that a few years later I would be aboard a BOAC Strat.
Oh, to lean against a paling fence today and watch the planes!!
By: - 16th March 2011 at 15:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Excellent shots. Particularly like the building site that was Heathrow in that era. I worked there late '49 to July '50.
By: - 16th March 2011 at 16:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Marvellous stuff. I particularly like propliners but all the photo's from this collection are interesting & evocative.:)
By: - 16th March 2011 at 20:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Superb, one of the best photo runs I've seen, anymore?
By: - 17th March 2011 at 02:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
These are marvellous photo's and really bring back memories. I probably viewed most of these through my dads binocs in the early fifties as they passed over our house near Brighton. en route to the far and middle East. Could not read the registrations of course, but certainly the type, airline and livery.
By: - 17th March 2011 at 07:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The picture of the Stratacruiser across the hangar mouth is interesting, its on dollies that ran in tracks set in the ground to enable it to be towed in/out sideways. The fin would be lowered by folding it sideways.
Richard
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By: DCW - 16th March 2011 at 11:19
Here's a selection of pictures showing the varied fleet of BOAC around the 1950's. Photos by the late Gerald Lawrence, digitised and made available by Tony Clarke. Comments and more info welcome.
G-ALSD Boeing 377 Stratocruiser (BOAC 1949-1958). Seems to have been parked within the Heathrow North-side viewing area. Behind is surviving G-AGJG DH89A Dragon Rapide, operating pleasure flights. Heathrow 1950.
G-ALDX HP Hermes IV (BOAC 1950-1954). Heathrow 6-4-53:
G-ALAL Lockheed L-749A Constellation (BOAC 1948-1959). Heathrow 6-4-53:
G-AGNV Avro York C.1 (BOAC 1945-1955). Later with Skyways and Skyfame Museum as LV633, now preserved Cosford as TS798. Heathrow Pre 1950:
G-ALHC Canadair Argonaut (BOAC 1949-1960).First Argonaut for BOAC, later with Rhodesian AF and scrapped Redhill 1965. Heathrow 1950:
G-ALHH Canadair Argonaut (BOAC 1949-1960). Also to Rhodesian AF and scrapped Redhill 1965. Heathrow date unknown:
G-ALHJ Canadair Argonaut (BOAC 1949-1961). Survived until 1982 with Heathrow Fire Service. Heathrow 6-4-53:
G-ALHY Canadair Argonaut (BOAC 1949-1960). Scrapped East Midlands 1970. Heathrow date unknown:
I wonder if they have finished the building work yet.
G-AMUR Lockheed L-049E Constellation (BOAC 1953-1955). Ex PanAm, to Capital and scrapped 1966. Heathrow date unknown:
G-AKGI Boeing 377 Stratocruiser (BOAC 1950-1959) Heathrow date unknown:
G-ALSD Boeing 377 Stratocruiser (BOAC 1949-1958). Heathrow 31-5-53:
G-ALSD again, note larger titles. Heathrow date unknown:
G-AGRH Avro Tudor 1 (BOAC 1948-1953). Early photo, aircraft used on Berlin Airlift. Later to Air Charter and W/O Turkey 23-4-59. Hurn Pre 1950:
G-AOIA Douglas DC-7C (BOAC 1956-1964). Ended career with Columbian AF. Heathrow date unknown:
G-AOII Douglas DC-7C (BOAC 1957-1965). Heathrow date unknown:
G-ANBA Bristol Britannia 102 (BOAC 1957-1961). Later with Britannia and scrapped Luton 1970. Heathrow date unknown:
G-AOVC Bristol Britannia 312 (BOAC 1957-1964). Later with British Eagle and Donaldson, ended with Fire School at Stansted. Cambridge date unknown:
G-AOVR Bristol Britannia 312 (BOAC 1958-1965). To British Eagle, then Air Spain as EC-BFJ, scrapped Biggin Hill 1975. Heathrow date unknown:
G-ALYW DH.106 Comet 1 (BOAC 1952-1955). Scrapped 1955, but fuselage in use for many years as travelling Nimrod exhibit. Heathrow 24-8-52: