Aviation Nostalgia Thread

[Aviador]

A Marjorie Wood of Baildon in Bradford has kindly donated some images to Forums4airports from her late husband who has sadly passed away. She wanted her husband's pictures to be shared with people who had a similar interest in aviation.

At Forums4airports, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Marjorie for giving us these photos to share, thank you.

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Marjorie & Gordon Wood Concorde Experience Trip from Leeds Bradford Airport to London Heathrow.
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Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 Leeds Bradford Airport to London Gatwick.
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Yorkshire Light Aircraft Fly In
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[Ray Finkle]

What fantastic photo's.

A big thank you to Marjorie for sharing them with us at what must be a very difficult time.

I'd like to offer my sincere condolences to her. Hopefully she has some great memories of their time together that will help see her through.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I would like to associate myself with Aviador's and Ray's sentiments.

 

[lbaspotter]

Same me, Thankyou for sharing Gordon pictures on here.

I'd also like to offer my sincere condolences to Marjorie and both her family and friends as well.

 

[Jerry]

Thank you for sharing those photos and my condolences to her and her family!

 

[armadillomaster]

Some wonderful pictures there. Condolences to the family.

Ah the little blue cessna's of the flying club. Memories!

 

[wolfheze]

Re: Nostalgia Thread

Does anyone else remember the nights of the "Big Diverts" the most spectacular of which I think was in January 1987, when LBA was the only airport open in mainland UK (I think).

I have memories of BA 737's and 111's, Dan Air 727s, 737's and 111's, SAS DC9's and many others (was it 50 + inbounds) including a Swissair A310 which had to park on the 14 Loop - much to the incredulity of it's captain, and Suckling Dorniers parking on the Northair Hangar Aprons.

Runway 28, The north-south taxiway (now Delta), the pan and even the taxiway from the firestaiotn to 14/32 were all full with planes. Amazing night.

Bob

Nice to hear someone else as enthusiastic as myself about the days or nights when your airport would be inundated with diversions of types and airlines you never usually saw unless you ventured down to Heathrow or Gatwick. I visited Heathrow several times as a 14 /15 year old and although it was an enjoyable experience it was never as exciting as having different stuff at your local airport

 

[Seasider]

I have come across some timetables that I put together "a few years ago". I hope it brings back memories for some and added knowledge for others.

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[oldendays]

Very interesting stuff Seasider, makes fascinating reading. I noted particularly how busy British Airways were at the time and that BIA were using 'UK' for their two-letter designator. They used 'KD' in their later incarnation.

Thirty-eight years later we've regained British Airways, regained Aer Lingus twice, still have Air Anglia and BIA in KLM form and hung on to Britannia for most of the time ! Everyone has, of course, lost Dan Air.

 

[White Heather]

Love that Seasider and it certainly brings back memories for me, especially as I used to do exactly the same thing as you. My first holiday abroad was on the BY117A to Ibiza which even in 1980 was still only operating every 10 days. Nice to see you writing with a fountain pen too - your writing is remarkably like mine at the time - must be the way we were taught at school back then?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Many thanks for that Seasider. Evokes a long-passed era.

As for your handwriting, it puts mine to shame. My wife is always complaining that she can't read it. Mind you, neither can I at times.

 

[Seasider]

Thank you for all the complements, I'm afraid my handwriting isn't as good today.

 

[wolfheze]

75 to 78 was my era albeit at Elmdon. Seeing the Air Anglia flight numbers reminded me of the inaugural flight into Birmingham. In those days we had no way of knowing what type an airline would be using on a particular flight (if they used various aircraft ) and so we waited in anticipation for the F27 to land. The announcement came over the tannoy 'airport information announces the arrival of Air Anglia flight @@@### from Norwich' and then we saw it, a Navajo chieftain! .

 

[Bigman]

Oh yes, the good old days before Excel Spreadsheets were invented. I would have flown on the BA Viscount round about then as we went to Bordeaux on a school exchange trip. We interlined at Heathrow for a BAC111 outward and a HS Trident III coming back. It was the first time I had ever flown.

 

[Aviador]

I always liked the original terminal extension plans. On the whole they were accurately reproduced although the images always looked a lot more spacious than the terminal was in reality. Also the departure lounge ended up with about a hundred seats in the same area it shows those rather swish looking circular seats. Another thing I recall is the spiral staircase to the first floor of the Duty Free shop never materialised in the end for whatever reason.

I often thought the terminal exterior design was far better then than it is now and it could have easily been extended sympathetically but then the council made the mistake of creating the sloping glass curtain wall to the east side of the terminal which I think was a huge blunder with respects to future development and extensions of the terminal.

 

[Seasider]

A comment by White Heather about the night flying ban made me remember that during the early 70's, BMA used to fly Viscounts to the Spannish Costas overnight. Dep 10pm, arr 7am following morning.
Am I dreaming or can anyone else remember?

 

[MCOflyer]

Yes, I flew on one. The aircraft went via EMA then onto BCN.
If I remember correctly it was 1967 or 1968 and was operating for Arrowsmith Holidays.
The planned operator was Trefield Aviation also with Viscounts but they went bust and BM operated instead.
A very long ride.

 

[northsouth]

Hi Thought i will share these photos i came across recently now i have found time to upload these the Air Atlanta B 747 on 14 was from may 2000 and Tristar was Feb 1998 photos credit Dougie Todd & Tony FosterView attachment 5190 credit Dougie Todd & Tony FosterView attachment 5185 View attachment 5186 View attachment 5187 View attachment 5187 View attachment 5188 View attachment 5188 View attachment 5189

 

[Aviador]

Great pictures. I didn't know we'd ever had Air Atlanta 747 using LBA. Where did they operate to?

 

[White Heather]

Aviador, wasn't it Air Atlanta that were chartered by Leeds United to take their fans down to Barcelona for the European Cup match? I seem to recall it was, and there were 2 of them. Both left LBA after bringing the fans back at around 4.00am, on runway 14. Impossible to miss!