Aviation Nostalgia Thread

[Seasider]

And her's one of FD988 used in the filming of "Airline" in 1981

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[BarnsleyHolidays]

It seems a good while since we had a regular Ronaldsway service.

A couple of examples from 2008 are Let 410 OK-RDA on 08 May and Dornier 228 D-IFLM on 25 July.

BH

 

[LBA4EVER]

Any photos of air south west who flew to Newquay I believe it was? nice colours on their aircraft!

 

[LBA8098]

Think it was an LBA Plymouth service via BRS ???

 

[BarnsleyHolidays]

Any photos of air south west who flew to Newquay I believe it was? nice colours on their aircraft!

Dash 8 300 G-WOWE taken on 11 May 2006. The two principal routes were Leeds to Newquay via Bristol, and Manchester to Plymouth via Bristol. These flights were on the ground together at Lulsgate to facilitate passenger interchange, eg LBA-BRS-PLH or MAN-BRS-NQY.

BH

Dash

 

[LBAYORKIE]

I flew from Leeds to Plymouth via Bristol as well. Saved me a ton of time.

 

[White Heather]

We definitely did have LBA to Plymouth via Bristol until Plymouth airport closed.

 

[lbaspotter]

If i remember correctly the Air Southwest morning rotation WOW482/483 use to work Newuqay-Bristol-Leeds-Bristol-Plymouth whilst the evening rotation WOW486/487 worked the opposite Plymouth-Bristol-Leeds-Bristol-Newquay.
As has been previously mentioned passengers could connect at Bristol onto Newquay in the morning or onto Plymouth in the evening vis-versa by getting onto or off the aircraft that did the Manchester service.

 

[BarnsleyHolidays]

Nobody is going bonkers as we all have good memories, just that things were changed sometime through Air Southwest's operation at LBA. I've just unearthed a couple of their timetables from my collection and in the Summer of 2006 LBA-BRS-PLH either way in the morning or LBA-BRS-NQY either way in the latter half of the day were listed. In the 2007/8 winter however, all flights from Yorkshire read LBA-BRS-NQY with a change down route if you required PLH. The cheery Cornwall based crews were a regular sight at LBA.

BH

 

[LBA4EVER]

If i remember correctly the Air Southwest morning rotation WOW482/483 use to work Newuqay-Bristol-Leeds-Bristol-Plymouth whilst the evening rotation WOW486/487 worked the opposite Plymouth-Bristol-Leeds-Bristol-Newquay.
As has been previously mentioned passengers could connect at Bristol onto Newquay in the morning or onto Plymouth in the evening vis-versa by getting onto or off the aircraft that did the Manchester service.View attachment 16038

I was a fan of that colour scheme, what happened to air southwest?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I was a fan of that colour scheme, what happened to air southwest?

Air South West was sold by its owners Sutton Harbour Holdings to Eastern Airways in 2010. Eastern carried on with most of the routes for the next ten months before closing the airline and transferring the remaining aircraft to its own airline. Three months later Plymouth Airport, operated by Sutton Harbour Holdings under a very long lease from Plymouth City Council, was closed using a so-called 'Armageddon clause' in their agreement that few people reportedly knew about. PLH remains closed to this day although there is a group in being that still hopes to reopen it one day.

 

[oldendays]

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[oldendays]

The above three pictures are of the control tower, a lot of years ago. Mick Kane posted these on Facebook and has kindly allowed me to post them here.

 

[rmac]

These pictures remind me of the time, probably in the mid 80's, when I wrote to the airport and asked if they did tours of the airport.
They kindly replied back saying generally no however if I could go early evening someone would give me a tour round. I readily responded and made arrangements. An airport employee took me 'everywhere', the main terminal building, check in areas etc, even the Fire Station, but also and a great highlight a visit to the Control Tower. I watched as the controllers monitored the arrival of a few aircraft but especially when someone announced that the BM DC9 was entering the radar somewhere nearish Manchester and then pointed it out when about 30 miles away. When it came nearer I was able to put on Headphones and listen in as they brought it in to land. So the pictures brought back that interesting LBA visit. Many thanks. Years earlier I knew someone who worked at Heathrow and he arranged for 3 of us to visit the CT at Heathrow. Again another fascinating visit.

 

[stars&sids]

Great shots, thanks for sharing these. Control tower visits are rare, but always good. Being an active members an interest group often gets you in to places that you might not expect. I have organised quite a few visits over the last 10 years or so, and have a couple on the back burner for this year (when things get back to normal).

 

[Seasider]

No news to post about so a few piccies from the past.

Air 2000 B737

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Odyssey Intl B757

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Titan A/W EMB110

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Ryanair Europe BAC 1-11

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Capital A/LBAe 146

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All were taken in the summer of 1990.

 

[oldendays]

I remember seeing the Odyssey 757 (later Nationair) and Air 2000 737 several times. I think the latter was only with A2K for one season - British Midland took it eventually.

 

[Aviador]

It's nice to see this thread alive and kicking once again. That's for sharing the photos all.

Does anybody remember the name of the air traffic controller in the tower pictures?

 

[hugharmstrong]

Is it Andy Rackham?

 

[Dave 1959]

It's nice to see this thread alive and kicking once again. That's for sharing the photos all.

Does anybody remember the name of the air traffic controller in the tower pictures?

Isn't that side where the ATC assistant sits with the controller on the left?