Nostalgia at BHX

[Nethercote2019]

As there is little up to date news going on here is a bit of nostalgia

 

[Aviador]

It's a lovely picture you have.

 

[CL44]

I have the exact same picture in my living room. It brings back memories of my Father who used to work in hangar 3!

 

[rollo]

As there is little up to date news going on here is a bit of nostalgia

Superb brings back memories of when I'd walk along the Coventry Rd to Elmdon to see the latest arrivals and it would just be a BEA Viscount or if it was busy two.

 

[Nethercote2019]

I have the exact same picture in my living room. It brings back memories of my Father who used to work in hangar 3!

Harry by any chance ?

 

[58terminus]

Superb brings back memories of when I'd walk along the Coventry Rd to Elmdon to see the latest arrivals and it would just be a BEA Viscount or if it was busy two.

I remember that walk. Always seem to have just missed something more exotic (a Vanguard maybe) but hey ho their was always tomorrow.

 

[CL44]

Harry by any chance ?

No not Harry. He was one of the warehouse supervisors who transferred to the new cargo centre when it opened. Certain followers on this site know his name (some knew him when he was still with us)! So many of the old hands have gone and those who are left would not recognise the place.

 

[Nethercote2019]

CL-44
Harry lived by me when I was young & remember chatting to him about merchantman & the like

 

[jfy1999]

From a family photo album - BHX in summer 2002 with a couple of rare heavies on the apron!

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[thunderchild]

Looks like an A310 at the front, don’t recognise the tail though - Air Transat?

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Looks like an A310 at the front, don’t recognise the tail though - Air Transat?

Yes, Air Transat!

Kevin

 

[Creguk]

Air 2000, Britannia, Airtours... Those were the days for me!

 

[rollo]

Air 2000, Britannia, Airtours... Those were the days for me!

Cricky , can go back to the Jurassic era of the likes of Euravia ( then Britannia), Air Spain, Spantax with the Coronado, British Eagle, Bavarian, Court Line and I vaguely remember Air Algeria operating Caravelles not to mention Derby Airways Dc3s to Jersey and BMA Argonoughts.

 

[IanFarquharson]

Visit my site at

https://bhxovertheyears.blogspot.com/

 

[Creguk]

Brilliant Ian thanks. Great site.

 

[58terminus]

Cricky , can go back to the Jurassic era of the likes of Euravia ( then Britannia), Air Spain, Spantax with the Coronado, British Eagle, Bavarian, Court Line and I vaguely remember Air Algeria operating Caravelles not to mention Derby Airways Dc3s to Jersey and BMA Argonoughts.

Channel airways Comet 4s. Alidair Viscounts.Aviogenex tu134 occasional Laker 1-11. Didn't have the quantity but i am not sure my interest
in aviation would have stayed if all i was seeing was conveyor belt of lookalike aircraft and liveries back then,

 

[Derwent Dale]

I think I go further back than 58terminus remembering SAM DC-6Bs, Spantax DC-7Cs, Trans Europa DC-7Cs, Invicta Vikings and DC-4s and Air Spain Britannia, Aer Lingus Carvair and Aer Turas Bristol 170 and DC-4s - a time when less was more ! Kept my interest going until I discovered football, girls and the pub ….. in that order and then I started a career in aviation and that was my hobby gone forever.

 

[rollo]

Yes I remember the Aer Lingus Carvairs strange looking things but interesting all the same, happy days indeed.

Much later we had Alitalia and SAS DC9s operating regular freight flights for a year or so when hanger three was used.

 

[Scottie Dog]

I can almost smell the nostalgia - I flew in a SAM DC-6B from Linate to Rimini and return and then later in an Aer lingus carvair between Liverpool & Dublin.

Those were the days when flying was something that was not taken for granted but where you were all treated with respect.

 

[58terminus]

Love it. You guys make me feel young.. What we have not mentioned was back then you could get close to the aircraft,the noise and smell,and all the other operations without standing in some windy field or car park a mile from the terminal..