Leeds Bradford: Aviation Nostalgia Thread

[Seasider]

Apologies for the double photo - senior moment.

 

[oldendays]

I remember seeing this one. Sometimes at the weekend it would operate Teesside-Leeds-Heathrow and return. The leg between the two northern airports can't have been much more than about ten minutes; straight over the Cleveland Hills, North York Moors and the Vale of Mowbray.

 

[White Heather]

I remember OO-TEH and have this photo. Nostalgia photo for today though is Odyssey International Boeing 757 200 C-GAWB. Odyssey International replaced Wardair on the Toronto route from 1990 and were one of around six airlines to operate the route from LBA (others being Worldways, (Tristar and DC8), Air Transat (Tristar and B757), Nationair (B757) and Caledonian (B757).







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[Len Fish]

Always think the 757 is how an airliner should look, sleek, smooth lines with none of this wide-bodied pregnant whale look!

 

[DH106]

Always think the 757 is how an airliner should look, sleek, smooth lines with none of this wide-bodied pregnant whale look!

Ahmen! Best looking Boeing by far

 

[White Heather]

Today's nostalgic photos are a selection of Britannia Airways photos, including Boeing 767 200, Boeing 757 200 and Boeing 737 200.





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[White Heather]

A selection of photos from the days of Yugotours - Aviogenex Boeing 737 200, used on the flights to Dubrovnik , JAT Boeing 727 200 & 707 351C (both used on flights to Pula) and DC9 32, used on flights to Ljubliana. Apologies, my photo of Adria Airways' Airbus A320, used on flights to Split appears to have vanished so it will need to be scanned again, one day, when I can be bothered.

 

[LBA8098]

I seem to recall a JAT 727 and an Iberia A300 used to arrive in quick succession on either a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Those were the days. I also recall the Iberia A300 once asking ATC of 10/28 was available!!!!

 

[oldendays]

I remember the first time a JAT 707 visited us; it was the Sunday of the snooker final at Sheffield and it was the aircraft pictured, YU-AGI. For the first few weeks of the service it parked in front of the terminal on about stand 4, thereafter it parked on the newly-extended apron to the east. Apparently, Yugotours had programmed a JAT 727 for the LBA-PUY service but it turned out to be a 707 on every rotation, YU-AGI alternating weekly with AGJ.

 

[White Heather]

The A300 of Iberia was operating on Sundays. It was a Thomson charter flight to and from Palma. As you point out, the JAT 707 (later 727) was also on Sunday afternoons.

 

[oldendays]

I've said it before but I won't hesitate to repeat what handsome aeroplanes the 707 and 727 are. It's always intrigued me how JAT came to operate their long haul aircraft on European IT routes. I suppose that once their DC10s were in service, the 707s would have been comfortably bought and paid for and were ideal for moving 737-plus loads throughout Europe and earning plenty of £. Mind, they and the other Yugoslav charter machines would have needed to work hard, as Yugotours was at the less expensive end of the market back in the day.

 

[LBA4EVER]

Wow the Britannia colour scheme is jus

A selection of photos from the days of Yugotours - Aviogenex Boeing 737 200, used on the flights to Dubrovnik , JAT Boeing 727 200 & 707 351C (both used on flights to Pula) and DC9 32, used on flights to Ljubliana. Apologies, my photo of Adria Airways' Airbus A320, used on flights to Split appears to have vanished so it will need to be scanned again, one day, when I can be bothered.




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I've said it before but I won't hesitate to repeat what handsome aeroplanes the 707 and 727 are. It's always intrigued me how JAT came to operate their long haul aircraft on European IT routes. I suppose that once their DC10s were in service, the 707s would have been comfortably bought and paid for and were ideal for moving 737-plus loads throughout Europe and earning plenty of £. Mind, they and the other Yugoslav charter machines would have needed to work hard, as Yugotours was at the less expensive end of the market back in the day.

I agree with you there the 707 and 727 are a beautiful aircraft. You have the beautiful nose and cockpit front of the 737 followed by an extended fuselage body each with there own unique tail and engine set up.i think the 737-200 is the most well proportioned 737 that looks so complete. Who finds some of these new aircraft, a380,787,a350 abit bulbus and outta shape?

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Personally I think the 737's look fat and squat. The best looking aircraft in my book are generally the rear engined ones, 272, BAC1-11, DC9, VC10 and our course the biz jets.

 

[oldendays]

The only airliner that isn't pretty to look at, IMO, is the A380. I wasn't sold on the 757 to begin with but I've become used to it.

If you look at the early Boeing jets nose on, you'll see that the 707 and 737 share the same double bubble fuselage whereas the 727 is circular.

 

[White Heather]

Time for a few Tupolevs seen at LBA over the years. Balkan and Air VIA of course operating the flights to Bourgas (and in the early days, Varna), with the Baltic International doing a charter from and to Riga in Latvia. On its first flight in, it was wearing Aeroflot titles but before returning it lost these in favour of its new operator, Baltic International, although retaining its USSR registration of CCCP85546. This was around the time the USSR broke up and Latvia became an independent country.View attachment 14804

 

[oldendays]

I once loaded some baggage on to a Balkan Holidays Tupolev. Stacking the cases was easy because of the large, square compartments. The difficult part was said compartments reeking of cattle's business !

 

[rollo]

The only airliner that isn't pretty to look at, IMO, is the A380. I wasn't sold on the 757 to begin with but I've become used to it.

If you look at the early Boeing jets nose on, you'll see that the 707 and 737 share the same double bubble fuselage whereas the 727 is circular.

Had a quick Google and according to Flight Global and others the 707,727 ,737 and 757 all had the same fuselage cross section and the joke at the time was Boeing had a special machine that could produce the aluminium tube to any required length. Also the article states with the exception of the 757 they all had the same nose but the 757s was modified to accommodate the instrumentation of the 767 to allow duel certification for the pilots.

All of the Boeing narrowbodies looked good but not as good as the Comet or VC10 in my opinion, showing my age.

 

[White Heather]

It is amazing to think that current 737s are using the same basic fuselage and nose, and cockpit window design, introduced on the 707, which made its maiden flight in 1954 - just like me! It's design started in the late 40's. Just shows that if you get it right first time, you don't need to change it. I bet they wish they hadn't changed the wing and engine position on the 737 MAX now over at Boeing!

 

[Scottie Dog]

And neither show any sign of aging......

 

[LBA4EVER]

Had a quick Google and according to Flight Global and others the 707,727 ,737 and 757 all had the same fuselage cross section and the joke at the time was Boeing had a special machine that could produce the aluminium tube to any required length. Also the article states with the exception of the 757 they all had the same nose but the 757s was modified to accommodate the instrumentation of the 767 to allow duel certification for the pilots.

All of the Boeing narrowbodies looked good but not as good as the Comet or VC10 in my opinion, showing my age.

Yes the 727,737,707 are all the same fuselages but obviously different lengths. How did the 727 and 707 perform from the LBA runway? Even though the 727 is an amazing aircraft you can't beat the tu154!